The Dead Thread

[BlueAmigo]

Be rather odd using racist chelsea chants as an incentive whilst mourning some one with racist views

Howard Gayle: I needed mental resilience to survive as Liverpool’s first black player

In an exclusive extract from his new book, 61 Minutes In Munich, the former forward outlines the problems he suffered being a trailblazer at his boyhood club

www.theguardian.com

 

[jaycee]

Howard Gayle: I needed mental resilience to survive as Liverpool’s first black player

In an exclusive extract from his new book, 61 Minutes In Munich, the former forward outlines the problems he suffered being a trailblazer at his boyhood club

www.theguardian.com

Good old Tommy loved John Barnes as well

 

[gonetomorrow]

Back in the 1990's I attended a Reading Football Club Sportsman's Dinner. The guest speaker was Tommy Smith. Sadly, he struggled to walk in spite of having two walking sticks. He was very funny, gave an excellent speech. He said that all the Liverpool players didn't like the Liverpool captain, Emlyn Hughes. He said that one game against Chelsea, Ron (chopper) Harris clogged Emlyn Hughes who had to have the trainer on. While he was being treated, Tommy Smith said that several Liverpool players sidled up to Ron Harris and shook his hand. RIP Tommy Smith.
In 1949 I had a trial for Liverpool boys, played at Penny Lane. I was only 13 and all the other players were a couple of years older, it was like playing against men!
Never heard any more.

The game's gone soft!

 

[PhilM]

Back in the 1990's I attended a Reading Football Club Sportsman's Dinner. The guest speaker was Tommy Smith. Sadly, he struggled to walk in spite of having two walking sticks. He was very funny, gave an excellent speech. He said that all the Liverpool players didn't like the Liverpool captain, Emlyn Hughes. He said that one game against Chelsea, Ron (chopper) Harris clogged Emlyn Hughes who had to have the trainer on. While he was being treated, Tommy Smith said that several Liverpool players sidled up to Ron Harris and shook his hand. RIP Tommy Smith.
In 1949 I had a trial for Liverpool boys, played at Penny Lane. I was only 13 and all the other players were a couple of years older, it was like playing against men!
Never heard any more.

From what I've been told, I think that's just his fanciful (deluded) take on reality as he was the disliked individual - not just in the dressing room, but all round.

Obviously Hughes wasn't universally liked but he certainly had more fans than Smith!

 

[degsy]

Tommy Smith. Meh. Used to listen to his phone in in the 90s. Never liked him. For sure he won't get the same respect at death from football fans as Ronnie Moran did or what Ian St John will.

He's like an old version of Aldridge, really

This,
sad for his close family, but in essence I agree.

 

[davids]

Howard Gayle: I needed mental resilience to survive as Liverpool’s first black player

In an exclusive extract from his new book, 61 Minutes In Munich, the former forward outlines the problems he suffered being a trailblazer at his boyhood club

www.theguardian.com

Poor deluded Howard.
"He was replaced by Emlyn Hughes, who was a great Liverpool captain and one of the characters inside Liverpool’s dressing room whom I trusted"
I went to a company diner where my boss put me on Hughes's table as a joke,for about an hour or so he came across as a fairly decent bloke,stories about A Question of Sport and It's a Royal Knockout,until he made an outrageously racist comment about Cyrille Regis. Suffice to say the RS at the table thought it hilarious.

 

[4737carlin]

RIP Paul Raymond, died aged 73, played guitar and keyboards in Plastic Penny, Chicken Shack, Savoy Brown, UFO ....etc

 

[The binman chronicles]

Joey Barton's managerial career. Rest in pieces.

I for one never saw this coming...

...after this many games. Thought he would have done it ages ago.

 

[blue61]

Joey Barton's managerial career. Rest in pieces.

I for one never saw this coming...

...after this many games. Thought he would have done it ages ago.

Give that man a cigar.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Give that man a cigar.

Oh no don't. He'll only stub it out on some minor's face.

 

[Dan Tanner]

Oh he will for sure. No-one else cares though

I thought that but then I got the Mirror yesterday, full front page headlines, massive picture, then another full page 9 story with pictures, also full back page headlines followed by the 2 full page insides, with only a tiny tiny reference to any of his myopic views buried in a corner and then just skirting the issue at the very least.
You'd have to get exterminators in and move out for a month if your house had an infestation like the rat-red media that plague what's touted as journalism these days...

 

[PITA]

I thought that but then I got the Mirror yesterday, full front page headlines, massive picture, then another full page 9 story with pictures, also full back page headlines followed by the 2 full page insides, with only a tiny tiny reference to any of his myopic views buried in a corner and then just skirting the issue at the very least.
You'd have to get exterminators in and move out for a month if your house had an infestation like the rat-red media that plague what's touted as journalism these days...

Really?

 

[Bluesaint]

Poor deluded Howard.
"He was replaced by Emlyn Hughes, who was a great Liverpool captain and one of the characters inside Liverpool’s dressing room whom I trusted"
I went to a company diner where my boss put me on Hughes's table as a joke,for about an hour or so he came across as a fairly decent bloke,stories about A Question of Sport and It's a Royal Knockout,until he made an outrageously racist comment about Cyrille Regis. Suffice to say the RS at the table thought it hilarious.

Bet he wouldn’t have squeaked a breath of that within twenty feet of Cyrille.

 

[RomanReigns]

Sad about that 16 year old cbbc girl that died

 

[jaycee]

Billy McNeill,former Celtic player