All sounds a bit strange if you ask me.

However, I do remember going to a premiership/play off final there a few years after that against Warrington I think with my dad. There were thousands of us in a horrendous crush outside the ground trying to get in and the police eventually just opened the huge wooden gates and let everyone surge in. Fortunately there were no Hillsborough type consequences. It was a warm sunny day and when we got in we could see there was a pitched battle going on at the far end of the ground on a big sort of slag heap that passed as the stand. You could see bottles glinting in the sun as they flew back and forth between the battling sets of fans. Not RL's finest hour but not uncommon with Wire fans at the time.

Definitely not my favourite game.

I've watched this match on dvd recently (2nd half only).The camera angle isn't good but Benyon looked level when the ball was kicked.Anyways some of us remember Ellery's grid iron pass at Old Trafford in 1990 so you could say one each.

It's interesting that you tell us that Tyrer was limping heavily, but omit to mention that Benyon had been playing with a serious shoulder injury for over an hour and that John Mantle had been sent off with the score 12-6 to Wigan. If you cant beat 11 men, you don't deserve to win!

I love debate and thanks for your slant on events. However you slated Saints no 1 fan for having the audacity to question the selectors of a test team but you are quite happy to question match officials, and Billy Benyon by the way told me it was well onside. Thanks for the point about Johnny in the midst of time I thought Kel had launched it. It is funny perception I always loved Station Road with the railway station and big car parks it seemed huge to at the time a ten year old.

Old Rogues is expert at biased views