My Favourite Game

[Flaming Pie]

Here's one for Pete ' s Picture Palace and Five and in, who said the Forum is getting a bit sleepy. A little bit of nostalgia.You tube has got very grainy footage of Tranmere v Chelsea FA Cup Jan 1963, one of the coldest winters on record. Most of the third round cup games that day were postponed. The TV cameras turned up at Prenton Park to see 4th Division Tranmere take on Tommy Docherty's ' impressive young Chelsea team, who were riding high in the 2nd Division. To me , these were real stars. We are talking about Venables, Bonetti, Tambling, Bridges . All would become big names in the game. l was a kid standing on the touchline. I swear l was on tele that night!. The game was played in the snow.Chelsea ran out wearing yellow gloves .l had never seen a team wearing gloves before .Tranmere had a few tough guys in their line-up, the hardest of them all was Dave Hickson. The gloves must have tickled them! At one stage in the game Hickson fouls Mortimer and then proceeds to drag him off the pitch, so that Rovers can get on with the game. I remember Johnny King scored early on for Tranmere and then picked up a bad injury. No subs in those days, so he played on.Tambling equalised for Chelsea. Tranmere scored again through Jones, before Bridges made it all square. Chelsea hammered Rovers in the replay.Take a look at this match played in the snow and marvel at the tackles flying in.Looking back ,it is probably my favourite game of all time.