Every single point Leeds got came from the ref. People talk about bias in favour of the big clubs now but it was unbelievable back then in game after game regarding Leeds.

I'm just not old enough to "feel" it.
I've got a lot of empathy for the thing but the story to me is a human one, not necessarily a Wakefield Trinity one.
Yeah, Wakey are involved but I don't think I'd feel any different about it were it Hull, Dewsbury, Halifax or anybody else.
For me its about Don Fox, the fact he played for Wakey is kinda moot.
Its a good piece by the beeb on its 50th anniversary...

Just watched it again love the heritage of our great club. Great documentary emotional inspiring and informative.

Up the Trin

You need to be of a certain age Upandunder. Are you saying that you'd have had the same sentiment if it had happened to Sam Tomkins, Kevin Sinfield or Luke Gale? I wasn't there myself as I was married two months later and the money was needed, but it still touches a raw nerve and I still feel great compassion for DF. Nice to see the old newsreel film of the city as it used to be before it was ruined.

I hadn't intended going myself till I went into the George Hotel on the moor Friday night, the landlord and 3 others were going down in the car Sat morning and one of them could not make it so I went instead, my only real concern apart from Neil not playing was Hebblethaite from York the referee, I knew a lot depended on him from the clubs past experiences' with him and how well he proved us right, as for Don Fox human nature being what it is I'm ashamed to say for a day or two after I had very little sympathy just a numbness at being cheated.

Well I was thinking more along the lines of a game before my time, substitute Halifax for Wakey, or Leeds even, but if I'm gonna be honest, I wouldn't want any player to be effected by an event like Don was, Sinfield, Gale or Tomkins, they're just blokes like me and you underneath it all.
It would be unkind to say if you're tough enough to take the kick you ought to be tough enough to accept the consequence of missing it, which is true, but we're not all made the same, I dunno how an event like that would effect Sinfield, Gale or Tomkins.
Don couldn't get over it that's for sure, 22 years later back at Wembly taking the kick for that interview in 1990, the torture was etched in his face..
I dunno how it could have been different though, apart from not missing of course, and there's always the thought that mebbe if it wasn't that event that broke him, it would have been something else, such was his nature/disposition.