Late Tackle

Story of the Blues

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
5 January 2012

MICK RATHBONE spent 35 years as a player and physio at Birmingham, Blackburn and Everton. This extract from ‘The Smell Of Football’ takes us back to St Andrew’s

Some things stay with you for life. Events so momentous that time can neither diminish nor distort them.
They remain burnt into the psyche, available for precise instant recall, no matter where, no matter when. So vivid are these memories that 35 years can melt away in a split-second.
One such experience is indelibly etched into my memory and survives as an instant focal point to summarise a particularly signi...

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