I attended that re-arranged fixture after the tragedy. I never did a game at Highgate, I attended a few but never had the pleasure. The thoughts of that original game never left me. As a referee, the first game I officiated on the Midland Combination was at Bolehall Swifts and was in the August of the season, midway through the game came a heavy thunderstorm, uppermost in my mind was that Highgate game, I abandoned mine with the full agreement of both clubs.
