Ex-Dons

[57vintage]

Gordon Marshall senior, whose loon of the same name was our 'keeper coach not so long, but many managers, ago, has died aged 85.

I remember him playing for us on the day Joe Harper was sold to Everton. A home 0-0 draw with Arbroath, as commemorated in the song. A match where the mood was leavened slightly by bumping into a student English teacher who was on teaching practice at Keith Grammar School at the time, and who impressed with his profanity skills in finding a dozen different ways of obscenely haranguing Bertie Miller who was having his usual effete 'mare on the left wing. We never talked of it again in class.

[SparkyFaeStoney]

Gordon Marshall senior, whose loon of the same name was our 'keeper coach not so long, but many managers, ago, has died aged 85.

I remember him playing for us on the day Joe Harper was sold to Everton. A home 0-0 draw with Arbroath, as commemorated in the song. A match where the mood was leavened slightly by bumping into a student English teacher who was on teaching practice at Keith Grammar School at the time, and who impressed with his profanity skills in finding a dozen different ways of obscenely haranguing Bertie Miller who was having his usual effete 'mare on the left wing. We never talked of it again in class.

Scarred into my memory, is me & my Dad, reaching the newsagents at the top of Merkland Road, and there was the news that the King had been sold.