When Nigel Johnson first started commentating on Stoke City, there was a Labour government in power... Harold Wilson's Labour government.
It was late August 1970. The UK had not yet entered Europe. The Beatles were still together. Just. Stevie Wonder was number one in the charts with 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours', decimalisation was yet to occur and a pint of beer cost two shillings and 11 pence.
Nigel was a teacher and a keen cricketer who had first started with the still fairly newly-formed Radio Stoke in 1969, sending over local league cricket reports.
In those days Stoke City had a team forged around one of English football's all time greats, goalkeeper Gordon Banks.