I was lucky when, for the final match against Arsenal I was able to procure 2 tickets in the West stand for myself and my father who had taken me to that first match, back in 1963. Although a diehard fan he was never particularly demonstrative when Saints scored but when MLT swivelled to hit that shot into the Arsenal net, in the dying minutes of The Dell’s existence, he was on his feet with the rest of us. We lingered in the stand as the crowd slowly dispersed both of us reluctant to finally leave a place that had given us so many memories and provided much emotion. With lumps in our throats through the elation of witnessing one of The Dell’s greatest sons giving us probably the most emotional moment of all we walked down the steps that led from the seats and I turned to take one last photograph - our last view!
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