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John Kay

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Marty Moose said:
That was proper football. As shite as we were then (and we were shite) I'd go back in an instant. Cheap tickets, reasonably priced pies, that old boy selling pin bages on a match day, players driving shit cars with their names emblazoned on the side in cursive writing, the electronic scoreboard being fucked for years, abusing Roger themes as he froze his bollocks off on the roof in gale force winds. Halcyon days.
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me too

Stevie Freestein II said:
What was the shite car brand that the players had? Not skoda but from Eastern Europe.
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Thought they were always getting Citroens
 

Maximus said:
Said it many times, he (and Bob Murray) saved the club as I think it was imperative we got out of there first time. On a personal level, we seen some dumps travelling that season but 13 away wins in the league made a memorable one.
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Denis Smith - top man. Bob 5 relegations Murray?...
 
Cheesy Feet said:
Wasn't it that mag bastard Peter Haddock who broke his leg,might be getting mixed up like.
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I don't know who broke his leg, or who he was tackling when he broke his own leg. Haddock was the Leeds player who Kay tackled and it led to Howard Wilkinson saying it looked like somebody had gone over him in a tractor. As I remember it, the tackle was fair in that Kay got the ball first but very hard.

My old History teacher at (Fyndoune, Sacriston) school used to teach PE and he always said "the only person I have seen run faster than John Kay was somebody he was chasing." As well as being nails he was also the district running champion.
 
My Boy Harry said:
He was living in the bungalows in Bournmoor right on the front opposite the church.
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Aye St Barnabus, used to deliver his paper way way back.
Sure he played for Burnmoor football club for a spell?

becs said:
This just popped up on Facebook. John Kay rowing the stretcher off the pitch after trying to run off a double break in his leg. I was there and remember thinking it was something minor and then being shocked when I found out the extent of his injury.

It was a different world back then compared to the rolling around in agony they do over a minor knock these days. Eeeeh I'm showing my age now like :D

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Great photo that:cool:
 
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Kent_Mackem said:
I don't know who broke his leg, or who he was tackling when he broke his own leg. Haddock was the Leeds player who Kay tackled and it led to Howard Wilkinson saying it looked like somebody had gone over him in a tractor. As I remember it, the tackle was fair in that Kay got the ball first but very hard.

My old History teacher at (Fyndoune, Sacriston) school used to teach PE and he always said "the only person I have seen run faster than John Kay was somebody he was chasing." As well as being nails he was also the district running champion.
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That's right,memory letting me down,i can remember Haddock coming out with some shite afterwards about how he 'hated Sunderland' and hoped we'd be relegated.
 
Wierd Valley Mackem said:
If my memory serves me i was at another game where he broke his leg again, think it might have been a reserve game?
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I was there at ressies too mate and at the league game. Slid in for a tackle infront of clockstand on a really wet pitch. Probably only 300 or so there. Maybe @My Boy Harry will know but I seem to recall that this reserve game was part of his comeback from injury. Does that mean that the pic at the top of this thread was his last appearance for us or has the fog of time mixed up my memories
 
Was from lumley wasn't he? Remember me granda used to get the a signed squad photo every yr off one of Kay's relatives for me down the clurb
 
Crook Mackem said:
Was from lumley wasn't he? Remember me granda used to get the a signed squad photo every yr off one of Kay's relatives for me down the clurb
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Hails from Lumley, school at Segga, lived in Bournmoor for ages.

JKs canoe said:
Aye St Barnabus, used to deliver his paper way way back.
Sure he played for Burnmoor football club for a spell?
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Used to go out with a lass who lives in Church Vlose straight opposite the cricket club. Often saw Kaysie in there. Gordon Armstrong was in there at the bar once the week after he and Phil Gray (was it?) were both sent off against Wolves. I asked him what he'd said to the linesman to get sent off. What he told me made my eyes water. I can't possibly even write it on here, there aren't enough asterisks.
 
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