Ray Wilson

[tommypotts]

Don't know if it's been posted before, but I've just found this,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/football_legends/11916.shtml

 

[mutley]

enjoyed listening to that,
me dad used to say if a winger put the ball through Ray Wilsons legs, by the time the winger reached the ball Ray would be ready waiting to tackle him again.

 

[Ludlow st]

Legend

 

[Stutheblue]

My dad said he was our best ever left back

 

[Eggs]

My dad said he was our best ever left back

...I'd say your Dad was right. I was fortunate enough to watch a lot of him and he was a class act. Widely recognised as the best LB in the world at his peak (ahead of West Germany's Karl Schnellinger). My memory is that he would often trap a ball, take a step or two back and then run up and strike as though he was hitting a free kick. Like all those special players, they seem to have more time than mere mortals.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I think he spent the majority of his career at Huddersfield,we signed him when he was about 29/30,four great years with us though,my old man reckoned he was the mutts nuts as well,our world cup winner,legend!!

 

[peteblue]

My dad said he was our best ever left back

Your dad is spot on. I remember him putting in a 5 yard leaping tackle on one poor winger, won the ball, tidied up and back to attack. A pure class act.......we'll be very lucky if we, and England, ever see his like again.......

 

[sixtynineseventy]

Ray Wilson fell on top of me at West Bromwich Albion. It was my first away game and my dad had taken me, think I was about 12 or so and Ray flew into a tackle and slid off the pitch, on to the track and on to me and my dad - we were sat in the first row. Once Everton (or in my case Ray Wilson) touches you...

 

[youngblue66]

He never took his eye off the ball. As soon as the winger touched it he was tackled. Best left back I've ever seen. World Class.

 

[HuddersfieldToffee]

I think he spent the majority of his career at Huddersfield,we signed him when he was about 29/30,four great years with us though,my old man reckoned he was the mutts nuts as well,our world cup winner,legend!!

Works at a funeral parlour here in Yarkshire - he drinks at my local and you see him every so often, good man.

 

[No8Bally]

If people think Leighton Baines is good in that position, (Which he undoubtably is), Ray was probably a fair few street way ahead of him. He was cultured. I was priveleged to have seen him play.

 

[jaycee]

ill have a listen to that later along with a good few others on there

 

[paultheblue]

I watched Ray Wilson play for us through all his 5 years and for me I have never seen a better left back at Goodison the man oozed class it is only a shame that he never won the league with us.

 

[peteblue]

Works at a funeral parlour here in Yarkshire - he drinks at my local and you see him every so often, good man.

I thought he'd packed work up ages ago. You are very lucky if you see him, buy him a pint and tell him we all still love him.............

 

[Khalekan]

Works at a funeral parlour here in Yarkshire - he drinks at my local and you see him every so often, good man.

I thought he owned the funeral parlour.

Does he just work there?