Tommy Lawrence dies

[Rabscallion]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42634388

Sad to see the passing of Tommy Lawrence. Hard not to like someone who went by the name 'The Flying Pig.' Love the fact that the reporter bumped into him accidentally. I like his reply to the interviewer, "Great game, Alan ball scored the winner."

 

[Joey66]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42634388

Sad to see the passing of Tommy Lawrence. Hard not to like someone who went by the name 'The Flying Pig.' I like his reply to the interviewer, "Great game, Alan ball scored the winner."

Rip a good memorandum on the old picture thread by @Eggs and @degsy - he must have hated th sight of Alan Ball also in the early 1960,s when we could win at the pit 4-0 - a steady portly keeper hence. His nickname, but a gentleman- RIP!

 

[Big Neville Southall]

Tommy Lawrence he never saw
Where Alan Ball he put the ball
He put the ball into the net
Tommy Lawrence he did regret


RIP Tommy Lawrence you can play 3 and in with Bally now.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Like many of that era, he seemed like a genuinely decent bloke, with no airs and graces.
How times have changed.

RIP Tommy.

 

[sixtynineseventy]

Fond memories of him in the 60's derbies. Sad news indeed and one of the few reds I can say I ever liked.

 

[Seathestars]

RIP, a good guy by all accounts

 

[degsy]

RIP The Flying Pig indeed. A scholar and a gentleman as is said.

As time marches on, our guys, their guys, everybody including me n thee fall off the perch, some won't be missed (as footballing opponents)
But some will.

The 60's were pre rs and I was one of those that went, sometimes, to 1 one week and 1 the other...not every week I hasten to add, but if the game was a big one and looked interesting you'd go with your red mates.

Oh we hate bill shankly and we hate st john, but most of all we hate big ron.
Apart from the obvious, why?

Because we, well me, we recognised that despite the red shirt they were very, very, good at what they did.

I go through that team in my head and apart from smith who was later one of the first to embrace the rs dark side like a goodun
Yes blue specs off; even the saint gets a pass - just - when he wasn't playing us.

I know it will upset some but just suppose st john only ever wore a blue shirt, he'd be up there as a player with Young and
Ball...If you can't or won't see a decent player on the other side just because he's on the other side, well that says more about you than...well just sayin like.

So, Smith apart, going through that early 60s team I can't find anybody I couldn't grudgingly like as a player
and some of them as people too.
You couldnt say a bad work against the flyjng pig, he was just what it said on the tin...before what it says below became true.
As I said before - not a bad bloke for a wool.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Sad. Nice guy and all that and respect to his family. But not an Everton legend and we have a dead thread for paying respects. Just saying.

 

[Major Gowen]

RIP The Flying Pig indeed. A scholar and a gentleman as is said.

As time marches on, our guys, their guys, everybody including me n thee fall off the perch, some won't be missed (as footballing opponents)
But some will.

The 60's were pre rs and I was one of those that went, sometimes, to 1 one week and 1 the other...not every week I hasten to add, but if the game was a big one and looked interesting you'd go with your red mates.

Oh we hate bill shankly and we hate st john, but most of all we hate big ron.
Apart from the obvious, why?

Because we, well me, we recognised that despite the red shirt they were very, very, good at what they did.

I go through that team in my head and apart from smith who was later one of the first to embrace the rs dark side like a goodun
Yes blue specs off; even the saint gets a pass - just - when he wasn't playing us.

I know it will upset some but just suppose st john only ever wore a blue shirt, he'd be up there as a player with Young and
Ball...If you can't or won't see a decent player on the other side just because he's on the other side, well that says more about you than...well just sayin like.

So, Smith apart, going through that early 60s team I can't find anybody I couldn't grudgingly like as a player
and some of them as people too.
You couldnt say a bad work against the flyjng pig, he was just what it said on the tin...before what it says below became true.
As I said before - not a bad bloke for a wool.

Great post.

 

[MarkK1988]

genuinely heart warming that clip isnt it, i was gutted when i read on twitter that he'd passed away.

 

[Khalekan]

I can just add to what others have said, particularly @degsy

He played in an era when they were "Liverpudlians", not the despicable RS they started morphing into the night Emlyn Hughes opened his gob on the steps of St. George's.

RIP The Flying Pig.

 

[blue61]

RIP The Flying Pig indeed. A scholar and a gentleman as is said.

As time marches on, our guys, their guys, everybody including me n thee fall off the perch, some won't be missed (as footballing opponents)
But some will.

The 60's were pre rs and I was one of those that went, sometimes, to 1 one week and 1 the other...not every week I hasten to add, but if the game was a big one and looked interesting you'd go with your red mates.

Oh we hate bill shankly and we hate st john, but most of all we hate big ron.
Apart from the obvious, why?

Because we, well me, we recognised that despite the red shirt they were very, very, good at what they did.

I go through that team in my head and apart from smith who was later one of the first to embrace the rs dark side like a goodun
Yes blue specs off; even the saint gets a pass - just - when he wasn't playing us.

I know it will upset some but just suppose st john only ever wore a blue shirt, he'd be up there as a player with Young and
Ball...If you can't or won't see a decent player on the other side just because he's on the other side, well that says more about you than...well just sayin like.

So, Smith apart, going through that early 60s team I can't find anybody I couldn't grudgingly like as a player
and some of them as people too.
You couldnt say a bad work against the flyjng pig, he was just what it said on the tin...before what it says below became true.
As I said before - not a bad bloke for a wool.

Superb post for a bit of perspective. RIP to one from a different generation.

 

[LEONARD]

I met him once, a nice bloke who had total respect for Everton FC.

Another footballer gone, from a different era where you could be a passionate red and still retain some decency and class.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

RIP The Flying Pig indeed. A scholar and a gentleman as is said.

As time marches on, our guys, their guys, everybody including me n thee fall off the perch, some won't be missed (as footballing opponents)
But some will.

The 60's were pre rs and I was one of those that went, sometimes, to 1 one week and 1 the other...not every week I hasten to add, but if the game was a big one and looked interesting you'd go with your red mates.

Oh we hate bill shankly and we hate st john, but most of all we hate big ron.
Apart from the obvious, why?

Because we, well me, we recognised that despite the red shirt they were very, very, good at what they did.

I go through that team in my head and apart from smith who was later one of the first to embrace the rs dark side like a goodun
Yes blue specs off; even the saint gets a pass - just - when he wasn't playing us.

I know it will upset some but just suppose st john only ever wore a blue shirt, he'd be up there as a player with Young and
Ball...If you can't or won't see a decent player on the other side just because he's on the other side, well that says more about you than...well just sayin like.

So, Smith apart, going through that early 60s team I can't find anybody I couldn't grudgingly like as a player
and some of them as people too.
You couldnt say a bad work against the flyjng pig, he was just what it said on the tin...before what it says below became true.
As I said before - not a bad bloke for a wool.

Great post.

 

[Bazlar]

Nothing to add after what @degsy has already said. RIP the Flying Pig