Turnip's in the Gallowgate!

[Guest pricedoutoftoon]

I never knew this. Is it an old story?

 

Graham Taylor coming to watch matches off his own back!

 

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-utd/newcastle-utd-news/2010/08/22/graham-taylor-i-turned-down-newcastle-job-79310-27111093/

 

I wonder how many others have done this!

 

“In fact, it was on the Gallowgate that I learned never to under-estimate the knowledge of the average football fan.

 

“When I was a young manager at Watford and we didn’t have a midweek game I used to go to Newcastle a lot if they were playing.

 

“I would park my car up at Kings Cross after training, catch the 2 o’clock to Newcastle and walk up to the stadium and pay to get in.

 

“It probably sounds crazy now because you wouldn’t be able to do it these days, but I loved standing on the terraces and I didn’t get noticed once, I don’t think.

 

“It was a fantastic trip and one that I used to love to make. I would stand on the Gallowgate and watch whoever it was that I wanted to watch, then afterwards have a tot of whiskey in the station and catch the sleeper train back to London in time for training at 9am the following day.

 

“One that sticks in my memory is a derby game between Newcastle and Sunderland that ended 2-2.

 

“I spotted Wilf Rostron, a Sunderland defender, that day and actually ended up signing him for Watford.

 

“I used to love listening to the supporters talking about the players and it amazed me how knowledgeable they were.”

[Chris_R]

That's pretty good. Always quite liked Taylor, even more so now.

[80]

Either a similar article has been done with him in the past or someone else has told a very similar story a few years back... can't think who.

[TRon]

Thank god he turned us down.