Pat Van den Hauwe

[TippEverton]

Interesting reading him and Nev's books, absolute polar opposite characters, didn't stop from then, imagine the spirit in the squad was brilliant then.

 

[The Equaliser]

The original Psycho.

There should be a motel named after him.

 

[GBH73]

Even Snods is taking it a bit far. PVDH, Hinchcliffe, Wilson, Stevens, Coleman, Baines. Even Michael Ball was better than Naysmith.

Dunno about that. Snods had at least one season at right back when he was usually the best player on the park (IMO). Naysmith was pants though. Turned slower than the QE2.

 

[degsy]

He was a nutter, but he was our nutter, mixed with some dodgey characters around dovecot eh Graham McD.

I had season tickets for me and the kids in the (then) new family enclosure ( don't think I could afford it now, thanks sky and inflation ) He enjoyed it so much It made me go back to playing the amateur game.
He bundled a Norwich player and the ball over the line right in front of us...in a manner that would be a red now and laughed like a drain to the crowd ( us ) as the reff gave him the throw
He then ( I think) intercepted the throw turned and volleyed it into the reffs nuts from 3 yds which set him and us off again.


mandy smith...just the icing on the cake

legend.

 

[kithnou]

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 !

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.

He was a nutter, but he was our nutter, mixed with some dodgey characters around dovecot eh Graham McD.

I had season tickets for me and the kids in the (then) new family enclosure ( don't think I could afford it now, thanks sky and inflation ) He enjoyed it so much It made me go back to playing the amateur game.
He bundled a Norwich player and the ball over the line right in front of us...in a manner that would be a red now and laughed like a drain to the crowd ( us ) as the reff gave him the throw
He then ( I think) intercepted the throw turned and volleyed it into the reffs nuts from 3 yds which set him and us off again.


mandy smith...just the icing on the cake

legend.

Brilliant!

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Went to a Legends night a couple of years ago at Aintree Racecourse and he was there, he'd come straight from the airport, was wrecked before he'd got there and got more smashed as the night went on.

He wouldn't take his Sprayway jacket off all night either!!

 

[summerisle]

Brilliant!

GOT should bring out a special 'Private Eye' edition detailing all the shenanigans of present and past players, managers and staff.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

I remember a story from the 80s, clearly nothing but salicious gossip with no foundation, that when he was still a Birmingham City player he had got himself banned from the trains by BR after single-handedly wrecking one of their compartments!

 

[royalblue66]

Heard he was a beach comber after he stopped playing,anyone else hear that ?

 

[Eggs]

Yeah I loved him hard as nails

....I think that hard man and psycho tag is unfair. On the pitch he was a rolls Royce defender, great with both feet and versatile enough to win us a title covering at CB. I remember him as a class act, vastly underrated.

 

[daz4matty]

....I think that hard man and psycho tag is unfair. On the pitch he was a rolls Royce defender, great with both feet and versatile enough to win us a title covering at CB. I remember him as a class act, vastly underrated.

He was a great player your right.
But he was hard and nobody would mess with him.

 

[royalblue66]

He was a great player your right.
But he was hard and nobody would mess with him.

I was in the Bullens rd bottom tier,we were playing QPR,psycho ran past the QPR player and swiped him across the Adams apple,real snide was Physco,but a great player.and loved by the Evertonians.

 

[Eggs]

He was a great player your right.
But he was hard and nobody would mess with him.

....according to Sharp he was more crazy than hard. I don't remember him having to be dirty on the pitch, he didn't have to be. Saying that I was at Hawthorns for cup game where he put one of their players over the running track. The Birmingham keeper (Tony Coten?) said he was weird to share a room with because he slept with his eyes open.

The girls liked him. I was a regular at Bellefield in those days and there were plenty of lovelies seeking him out. He moved in with that model (Mandy Smith?) after he went to Spurs. No doubt an oddball but a very good player.

 

[alibongo]

FA Cup semi final against Luton, Pat takes out one of their players with a tackle above the waist and John Motson uttered the immortal line, "that was Van Den Hauwe, he was high, he was late and he must be booked!"

Pat gave the Luton player a look as he was on the ground that was as good as saying "You won't try getting past me again again you f****r!"

Great player and tough as old boots.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

I loved him me.