The slipped disc issue didn’t register with me in 1972, and like Haj I only discovered it when I read the obituary in today’s online news. In 1972, discs were Telegram Sam and Rory Gallagher Live! In Europe.

He wasn’t the last bad back in a red shirt though. Memories of Steve Ritchie and Richie Byrne have the potential to drive me to a psychiatry appointment.