WHAT a brilliant night we had at the launch of the Former Bantams Association.

It was superb to see so many of the old boys back from all the different eras, especially the guys from years and years ago like Bruce Bannister, John Hall and Joe Cooke.

I got the short straw and was sitting next to Bobby Campbell – and it was for the whole night. By the time I escaped and got home, it was 4am – and I left a few well-known faces still at it!

I felt for Peter Litchfield because he had me and Bobby with him. I'm not sure who of the two of us is the harder to understand!

I turned up with a giant bottle of whisky I got for being man of the match against Burnley a few weeks before the fire.

It shows how football has changed over the years. It was a three-litre bottle, the equivalent of six normal ones.

It's been sitting in my cupboard for 31 years ever since, so I thought we'd get the boys in that team to sign it and we put it up for auction.

Somebody bid a few quid so it's gone towards the club funds – and I can assure the winner it was the genuine stuff in there, not cold tea like Gordon Strachan used to leave when I roomed with him!

But I had a fight to stop Campbell trying to nick it as soon as he saw it.

The whole evening was a laugh a minute.

Terry Dolan was up on the floor on the microphone and he maybe did a minute or two too long, as he does.

From the back of the room, you hear this shout "taxi for Dolan". Surprise, surprise, it was Campbell.

Roll on two hours later and Bobby is up doing the raffle at the end of the night. Halfway through his speech and there's a "taxi for Campbell" from Barry Gallagher.

It was great fun and I'm sure that will be the first of many. You'll have plenty of different events for former players and it will just grow.