Originally Posted by
upthemaggies
I got to see him play at the end of his career when Leeds was our opening fixture after we'd got relegated out of the top flight in 1984.
I'd earned myself the nickname "Lorimer" at school for a while as, despite being generally useless, I did have the ability to strike the ball harder than anybody else. Problem was, with no net and just the 'jumpers for goalposts', if the keeper didn't save it, the ball would travel for miles and somebody would have to go and fetch it and often scramble under a hedge to retrieve it, so it wasn't a skill that made me particularly popular.