Rugby League Challenge Cup Final Leeds v Wakefield Trinity 1968,
Sunday 1 -15 on BBC 2 ,
Am looking forrard to watching this ageeun , " not fo faint heartud "
Good owd Eddie Waring , classic match , classic commentary , gerrit watched
Not a game we Trinity lads like to talk about .
Fantastic documentary but the needle between the two sets of players who played that day still exists all these years later .
And little wonder ......
Well I'm not a Wakefield lad Chop and my route to Belle Vue started very differently .
One sunday lunch time the bell rang for last orders under the old licencing laws , 2pm or what ever it was back then in the early 80's .
We all moaned and groaned as young lads do and a bloke stood at the bar says why don't you go to the Rugby League at Wakefield Trinity , the bars there are open all afternoon , in fact I'm going myself so I'll give you lads a lift .
It was a Challenge Cup game against Oldham and Trinity won comfortably and we all had a good afternoon on the lash .
We started going to every home after that and the local away games , Leeds , Cas , Fev etc etc and it wasn't long before the results started to mean something .
Unfortunately our first season supporting Trinity saw us relegated to the second division for the very first time in its proud history .
We watched us bounce straight back at the first time of asking but the next few years we were a real Yo- yo club , not good enough for the first division but far too good for the second , sound familiar ??
The early 90's were a real struggle until that great night at the John Smiths stadium when we beat Fev in the Grand Final to claim our Super League spot which we've somehow never relinquished .
My ambition is to see us at Wembley in the Challenge Cup Final , it's 41 years since we last made it and just before my time .
We live in hope Chop .
Some great comments Animal, for me loved playing rugby union (no choice at school) went on to play at reasonable level including proudly wearing a Yorkshire shirt but Barnsley FC and Wakefield Trinity are embedded into me. Just hoping to see both teams get to Wembley again in my lifetime.