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They met as youngsters at the Catholic Youth Club in Beeston.

Christine Kay, 15, was born in Cardiff, and Terry Yorath, 16, was an apprentice at Leeds United.

Their romance bloomed after he began talking to her while she waited for the bus home. She missed the bus.

Their passion led to a life of travel, parties, VIP access to clubs, trips to Wembley Stadium, gorgeous children, and celebrations as Leeds United had a golden era of English football.

But in the early days it was far removed from the jaw-dropping £44,000 weekly wage that the average footballer in

the Premier League now gets.

By the time they were engaged, two years after that meeting at that bus stop, Terry was earning £39 a week playing

in the top flight of English football and Christine was “raking it in” at £2 an hour as a mobile beauty therapist.

It was long before the age of ‘career’ footballer’s wives.

Christine, 68, oozes glamour, class, and understated sophistication as we meet at her opulent mansion in Shadwell,

which has been her family’s home since Terry’s return to Leeds permanently in 1984 following stints in Vancouver

and Lebanon.

She recounts, however, how it all began in Beeston, a working-class neigh bourhood just a few blocks from Leeds

United’s Elland Road stadium.

Her parents began their marriage in a two-up, two-down home before moving to a three-bedroom semi-detached in

Beeston in 1956, where her mother now lives.

She added, “I was waiting for the bus to take me home when he approached my stop. I missed the final bus, so we

strolled around town until 3 a.m. and took a taxi home; he left me off.

“My mother was bolt upright asking ‘where have you been?’ I told them I had been with Terry Yorath. She said ‘

alright darling, night night’.

“My mother was bolt upright, asking ‘Where have you been?'” I told them I’d been with Terry Yorath. She said, “All

right, darling, night night.”

Terry in 1970. Credit: Getty Images.

Terry was already well-known to her parents.

Her mother had a bistro near the ground when she was young.

Players would go for meals after training, and her father was a well-known bookie who lived in the shadows of Elland

Road.

When word spread about his connection to a Leeds United player, he was constantly approached for tickets, which

Terry gladly provided.

And the demand for huge games was tremendous, as Leeds United dominated English football and Europe.

Players were treated as local heroes. Under Don Revie, Leeds won two First Division titles, one FA Cup, one League

Cup, two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, the old Second Division title, and one Charity Shield.