Pat Van den Hauwe

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Best defensive left back I've ever seen at Everton. I'm not including Baines in that assessment as todays left backs play a totally different game as an attacking option, but he was a better defender than Baines and would get a red card most weeks in the modern game.
 
Showing my age here !

Met him once in the Conti on a Tuesday night, which was when the players went out then. My mates elder brother who owned an investment firm at the time put on a big bash for the team in the hope of getting business off them. To say he is strange is an understatement. He even scared the girls that had gone in to bag themselves a player. Didn't really speak at all just stared at people as though he was deciding whether to kill them or not !
 
His autobiography came out in 2010. He did signings for it at the Royal Oak; I went and got it signed and had my photo taken with him. He was a nice guy.

What's being brought out now is a paperback version of the same book.

It's a good book by the way. Don't know whether much of it is true but there's some crazy tales in there.

Makes Balotelli look like James Milner. One mad fella was Pat.
 
COYBL25 said:
Showing my age here !

Met him once in the Conti on a Tuesday night, which was when the players went out then. My mates elder brother who owned an investment firm at the time put on a big bash for the team in the hope of getting business off them. To say he is strange is an understatement. He even scared the girls that had gone in to bag themselves a player. Didn't really speak at all just stared at people as though he was deciding whether to kill them or not !
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I saw him all the time when I used to knock around Southport in my youth,yes I concur mate,great player but a real oddball,I think he'd only been with us a couple of weeks,I was in a bar called the West End in Southport,Old Psycho is stood next to me,knowing he was a Londoner(I know he's Welsh/Belgiquelol)and being worse for wear,young and foolish I say,"Alrite Pat Lad,which cockney team do you follow?""Facking' Millwall,now fack off"came the reply................so I didlol
 

League cup tie at Anfield we won 1 nil....apparently spent the couple of minutes in the tunnel before the game just staring out/repeating to Craig Johnstone "I'm going to break your leg"...."I'm going to break your leg".

We miss this sort of leadership.
 
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His autobiography came out in 2010. He did signings for it at the Royal Oak; I went and got it signed and had my photo taken with him. He was a nice guy.

What's being brought out now is a paperback version of the same book.

It's a good book by the way. Don't know whether much of it is true but there's some crazy tales in there.

Makes Balotelli look like James Milner. One mad fella was Pat.
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Read it on t'Kindle for tuppence ha'ppeny a couple of years ago. Bloody good read.
 

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