Silent Blade
Well-Known Member
I read that the season was extended by 3 weeks because of the Big Freeze causing all the postponements so maybe the Orient game was scheduled to be the last game of the season when the 1962-63 season fixtures came out?There was presumably a mix of reasons. A feeling that the future looked good, with the new ‘Busby Babes’ feel; the glimpse of the passing of an era - for some of us that back 6, who played virtually every game each season, was all we had known, and to see 2 young kids come in and replace Coldwell and Graham Shaw so professionally was amazing; they were clearly welcomed by the senior players, and that suggested a strong dressing room; to see Mick Jones scoring goals around his 18th birthday suggested that there could be life after Pace. There was a feel good factor that evening. And to be honest, until I started preparing recent posts for this thread, I had thought for years that the Leyton match was the last game of the season, everything was so relaxed.