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It seems that you and me need to start a thread on ‘Where I went for my summer holidays’!21/8/1970
The Star revealed that Colin Addison had been dropped from our team to play the home game against Swindon in the next day after he had an argument with coach John Short at training during the week. In those days on Fridays the Star would reveal the local teams line ups for the matches in the next day and it revealed that Bill Dearden would be making his league debut in place of Addison. Geoff Salmons was recalled to the team in place of John Flynn.
Having read the news, I knew I would not be able to see the match at Bramall Lane in the next day as my family along with my maternal grandmother made an overnight car journey to Hopton on Sea, near Great Yarmouth. The journey there at that time took much longer than it would have been now. On the way my dad found somewhere to park so he could have a few hours sleep before resuming the journey.