WHILE watching his championship winning cribbage side slump to a seventh defeat in nine, Reg Tulett’s mind wandered to Terry Paine, cakes and the Busby Babes.
The 75-year-old captain of Woolston Trades & Labour Club’s cribbage team, who won Division 1 last year and went on to lift the Jerry Lovegrove Bowl for the Champion of Champions at Warren Social, is a life-long Saints supporter.
Reg recalled wartime football at The Dell when players who were in the forces and stationed nearby would guest for the Saints.
And how he and a friend would walk halfway to the old ground in Milton Road before catching a tram and buying a cake with the money saved.
Reg worked in the trimming shop at the British Railways carriage works in Eastleigh where soon-to-be Saints legend Terry Paine was an apprentice body maker.
He remembers watching the Busby Babes and in particular Duncan Edwards.
Soon after the Munich air disaster in 1958, which wiped out half the team, Reg was at Fratton Park as Portsmouth took on a patched up Manchester United side.
Now just an armchair supporter, he listens to every game on the radio as he finds St Mary’s a tad cold.
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