A typical boys childhood obsession with all things football, with dad standing under the Baseball Ground floodlight pylon on the Popside.
There was Shoot Magazine, with a lot of fun moving clubs around in their divisions on the cardboard league ladders.
And of course players like Alan Hinton – the first player to wear white boots and Captain Dave Mackay who became manager after Brian Clough left
Derby were (one of?) the first to publish a newspaper rather than a programme, and it was the time that you were given a ‘Football League Review’ magazine with the matchday programme.
It was the time when football hooliganism was at it’s worst, particularly the rivalry with Leeds United, so after getting hit in the face by coins thrown by some fans gave up going. But there were the European Nights 1972-73 against Spartak Trnava, Benfica & Real Madrid
