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A well-earned tribute from the Bolton News:

18th March 2016
Welcome home: Peter Reid's Wanderers story

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/14365811.Welcome_home__Peter_Reid_s_Wanderers_story/

Extract:

He returned to the team only to suffer another dose of bad fortune, when a collision with Everton keeper George Wood on a snowbound pitch at Burnden left him with a broken leg. The game would later be abandoned.

Reid would spend nearly 12 months out of action, and his return to the side arrived too late to prevent them finishing 22nd and slipping out of the top flight altogether for more than a decade.

When Wanderers struggled the next season, it wasn't long before the big clubs came calling, and with Everton, Arsenal and Wolves all offering £600,000 for the midfielder's services it seemed only a matter of time before he moved back into the top tier.

But personal terms were never agreed, and the situation limped on with Reid on a week-to-week contract with Wanderers until tragedy struck again four games into the 1981/2 season at Barnsley, keeping him out until the April when he made his playing return against Shrewsbury Town.

After his dream appeared to have collapsed. Reid played in 15 of the club's first 18 games of the 1982/3 season before Everton came knocking again, this time settling his signature for just £60,000 – ten times less than had been offered the season before.

Reid would go on to great things at Goodison Park, winning two league titles, appearing in three FA Cup finals - winning one – and lifting the the European Cup Winners' Cup and being voted PFA players' player in 1985.

He also earned 13 caps for England, playing in the World Cup in 1986.

Hands up all who cheered when he was stretchered off in the snow at Burnden...
 
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I'm a red who went with me mates to Goodison to watch you play Birmingham. There was an offside against Brum and the ball then ended up in Brum's half by the time the whistle went. Reidy tried to take the free kick from inside Brum's half and then kicked off on the ref for pulling it back to the correct position. Would tackle his nan if it had to be done. Clever footballing brain as well as hard as nails.
 
I loved him when he pkayed for Bolton, but was gutted when we signed him (and Andy Gray) as they were both widely known to be finished, to many injuries, not what we need! Inhave never in my life been so wrong, or so happy to be proven wrong! That side had many, many great players, but Reidy was its beating heart! Happy birthday to the old grey fox!
 
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Remember Ron Atkinson once saying that if you hurt any of the Everton playmakers you would have to answer to their big brothers. Inspirational and dogged. Never saw Captain Fantastic - Bryan Robson - get the better of him when we played ManUre.
Many happy returns, Reidy.
 
Happy Birthday Peter, I was at the game you broke your leg, but thankfully it did not affect you becoming an Evertonian GREAT.
 
Loved Reidy even more when he took a fine for not getting on that ridiculous shared bus tour of the city in 1986,all the best Reidy mate!!
 
The best Everton player I have ever seen. I remember a 1-0 win against Forest (after the glory years) where he was a class above everyone else on the pitch (think he might've scored the goal too). Without him we would've won nothing.
 
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