Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Great find?
Great find?
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Count me amongst them. Mancs queuing up to batter us within the perimeter of the stadium.
Dario Terracotta
Player Valuation: £70m
Weren’t they in the second division that season?
I was at that game in the scoreboard end ,
Went in a BR van with uncle and my cousin.
They were a dirty team that lot.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Now you mention it I think they were.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
There were a couple of ex-Tranmere players in that side including a certain Gerry Casey who never took amy prisoners.
klingklang
Player Valuation: £1.5m
John Connelly broke his leg in the 1st game at Goodison in a very bad tackle by a player called Jon Davidson. Fast forward a couple of days and I'm back at school after the Christmas holidays. Had our morning assembly and the headmaster introduced a new member of staff to our P.E. department, step forward Mr Jon Davidson !!
All the Blues who remembered him starting booing ! He was an ok bloke as it turned out.
All the Blues who remembered him starting booing ! He was an ok bloke as it turned out.
Stevie Nicks Bootleg
Player Valuation: £8m
Gerry played against Everton in the cup games of 1968 too (FA Cup and League Cup). He was a massive blue but told me he enjoyed kicking Alan Ball, even though he loved him ("a total wind-up merchant") but felt bad kicking Colin Harvey, who he liked even more. But his role was 'enforcer' so there was a job to do.
They were animals Altrincham - I was right in front of the double leg break incident not even a booking, yet I heard the crack a disgusting tackle it should have been a straight red ....
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Just reading up on Gerry and saddened to see he's no longer with us. One of his pals was Joey Pritchard and they came regularly to my local in Rock Ferry. A couple of weeks after the replay they came in and I was well oiled and armed with Dutch Courage I thought I'd give him down the banks over his foul play. As I went over I saw him sporting a fresh black eye and I'm sure he was missing a tooth or two. I gave matters a second thought and ended up buying them both a pint.
Stevie Nicks Bootleg
Player Valuation: £8m
Nice story Tommy. Yes, Gerry sadly died of Dementia like too many footballers of his era. I was honoured to carry his coffin at his funeral- entering the crematorium to the sound of Z Cars. ?
He'll always have that stat of being the very first post-war player to be sent off on his league debut...for flattening John Bond!!!
Preki
Player Valuation: £10m
Great day that personally. Hat trick for my school (reserve team) in the morning then went to the match. Haven't seen the goals since. Sighs.....
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Back in the sixties one of the presenters on Sports Report on BBC radio was Bill Bothwell who was also a Rovers director. He actually revelled in mentioning this on the programme .
