14/01/96 v Coventry (a) 1-0 Premiership
Highfield Road was covered in sand for this SKY-televised Sunday game and a nervous United took the points thanks to a Watson effort.
"I was in the middle of my divorce when we played this one - a Sunday game, I think. Earlier that week I'd met someone in a nightclub and they'd given me their number. I rang it the next day but couldn't get a reply and so left a message on their answer machine. I heard nothing for a few days and so just put it down to experience.
Not long before the game I was with Rob Lee and suddenly got a call. There was a bloke ranting and raving on the other end of the phone. He was hurling abuse and threatening me and and after I'd put the phone down Rob looked at me with astonishment and said "Who the hell was that?". "You know that lass I met at the nightclub the other night?" I said, "Well, she forget to mention something." "What?" Rob asked. "She was married...".
Luckily that was the last I heard......
All quotes are taken from John Beresford's interviews for NUFC.com
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