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Nicholls595 Jul 2023 9:12am, 21 Jul 2023 30,670 posts	0 Nicholls595 You want old? I’m old enough that I twice babysat for Derek Randall - he was a very lovely man He was my hero. I had a poster of him on my bedroom wall.
GregP Jul 2023 9:14am, 21 Jul 2023 146,966 posts	0 GregP Cheap northern imitation Ray East.
HellsBells Jul 2023 9:14am, 21 Jul 2023 31,507 posts	0 HellsBells Reading your lost postNicholls595, we are the same vintage. I was also 8 in 1973
GregP Jul 2023 9:15am, 21 Jul 2023 146,967 posts	0 GregP Child.
GregP Jul 2023 9:16am, 21 Jul 2023 146,968 posts	0 GregP [I thought you were both about three years younger FWIW]
Diogenes Jul 2023 9:19am, 21 Jul 2023 80,411 posts	0 Diogenes You old gits, I was only 6.
lammo Jul 2023 9:20am, 21 Jul 2023 12,147 posts	0 lammo polishes M45 halo
ThorntonRunner Jul 2023 9:24am, 21 Jul 2023 6,882 posts	0 ThorntonRunner I once got David Gower's autograph down at Grace Rd when he was still a 2nd XI player
ThorntonRunner Jul 2023 9:27am, 21 Jul 2023 6,883 posts	0 ThorntonRunner First game I really remember attending was 1975 Benson and Hedges semi final when Leics beat Hampshire, but I'd been a junior member for a couple of years by then. Used to go down after school for the last couple of hours of championship days - they weent as memorable as a loud full house (sitting on the outfield outside the boundary rope) cup semi
GregP Jul 2023 9:31am, 21 Jul 2023 146,969 posts	0 GregP Not that long ago nor an autograph but... I was one of a tiny handful of people in front of the pavilion when The ORB got awarded his county cap on a drizzly midweek morning c.2007.