Got, Not Got: Damned Utd. vs. Cinderella McKenzie - You Shall Be First to the Ball
Soon after the events of The Damned United, things were all smiles again at Elland Road with Jimmy Armfield in charge and Cloughie’s 44 days little more than a nightmarish memory. Why, just last week we posted up a previously unseen teamgroup off the cover of Got Not Got , showing joker Duncan McKenzie toppling over all the legendary bad-tempered hackers and horrors amid a barrage of gruff chuckles...
True, there was some suggestion that the likes of Bremner, Giles, Hunter, McQueen, Yorath (we could go on) would exact a terrible revenge on the golfball-throwing, Mini-jumping flair player, quite possibly by duffing him up in the shower.
In fact, the Leeds boys went one worse, as we can see from this photo we’ve ripped out of 1976’s ‘Topical Times Football Book’. Oh lordie, those Damned United terrors have only dressed poor Duncan up as a pantomime dame for their own perverse and evil pleasure...
This rehearsal photo shows (l to r) Johnny Giles (the Evil Baron), Jimmy Armfield (Bloke in a Topper), Duncan McKenzie (Cinderella) and Norman Hunter (Prince Charming). Just be grateful there were no photos of Billy Bremner (Buttons) or Gordon McQueen (Good Fairy)... never mind (we’re guessing) Joe Jordan and David Harvey as the Ugly Sisters.
It’s all extremely alarming, a genuinely disturbing scene... not least because Duncan McKenzie looks so beguiling in his white nylon frock!
Have a Happy Christmas!
There’s 224 pages, 80,000 words and over 1,000 more images of heartstring-tugging football tat in 'Got, Not Got – The A-Z of Lost Football Culture, Treasures & Pleasures' by Derek Hammond & Gary Silke.
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