It was 40 years ago today......

Its not often that you can remember exactly where you were at a given time, but I can today !
It was 40 years ago tonight that I was at Wembley Stadium, The old one that is, for England's world cup qualifier against Poland.

The game is infamous for the fact that failed to beat our opponents, only drawing 1-1 and so only eight years after winning the World Cup we were unable to qualify for the finals in West Germany. The late Brian Clough named the Polish goalkeeper 'The Clown' but it was Jan Tomaszewski who managed to somehow keep England at bay and deny us the win we needed. My memories of the night are surprisingly clear, I was sat near the half way line and had a good view of the game, including the moment when Norman 'bites yer legs' Hunter lost the ball to Lato who rushed on and passed to Domarski who hit a low shot under Peter Shilton and the last minute shot by Kevin Hector which was cleared off the line,although at the time I thought he'd skied over the bar.
Fortunately history did not repeat it self this week and England duly beat Poland 2-0 to qualify for Rio next year.