Keetch gets the better over Best - great atmospheric photo of yesteryear...

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Ron, amazing. I was at that game too. I was standing very close to where it happened. I vaguelly recall, Pearson had clattered st. john a couple fo times and following a foul st. john decked him. Some punch :58: 'enery wold have been proud of it.

By the way, I met St. John once. Went to Glasgow with a couple of scottish mates to watch an international. At breakfast in the hotel, St. John was on the next table (also travelled up for the game). We had a brief chat, he was an absolute gentleman. I didn't think it appropriate to bring up the Pearson incident. :005:

Jarv, we may have been rubbing shoulders! The incident was right in front of me, just a few yards in from the touchline in front of the Riverside Terrace, about a third of the pitch from the Hammersmith End. The pictures brought it all back.....Pearson had indeed been paying close attention to St John.....but what about St John's chopping tackle from behind which started the hair pulling? A straight red today in itself.