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Post by roosterscomb on Nov 27, 2014 10:23:06 GMT
Excerpts from a brilliant match report when Stoke played Liverpool at Anfield in 1902.Goalkeeper Dickie Roose ran off to go to the toilet after five minutes and became so delirious he ran out of the ground and thought he was still playing. Only seven started the second half and six of those were violently sick. “The dressing room at half-time was like the deck of a cross-channel steamer in rough weather, only the smell was worse.” And the ref still diddled us.
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Post by metalhead on Nov 27, 2014 10:56:40 GMT
Imagine if this was the other way round, we'd have documentaries and candlelight vigils about it now  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 11:20:45 GMT
Excerpts from a brilliant match report when Stoke played Liverpool at Anfield in 1902.Goalkeeper Dickie Roose ran off to go to the toilet after five minutes and became so delirious he ran out of the ground and thought he was still playing. Only seven started the second half and six of those were violently sick.“The dressing room at half-time was like the deck of a cross-channel steamer in rough weather, only the smell was worse.” And the ref still diddled us. The one standing man turned out midweek against West Brom and we won 1-0 |
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Post by 2004 on Nov 27, 2014 15:52:09 GMT
I fhink they have poisoned something else at Clayton Woods this week  |
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Post by thestatusquo on Nov 27, 2014 15:55:53 GMT
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Post by liamo on Nov 27, 2014 16:07:30 GMT
Moses was at Liverpool last season, he's poisoned the lettuce and buggered off back to Chelsea  |
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Post by stantheman on Nov 27, 2014 18:22:35 GMT
I read that report in the Sentinel.
Loved the bit about our delirious food poisoned keeper (a doctor) leaving the ground who 'imagined he was still keeping goal, fisting out shots with the energy of a steam engine and repeated time after time that it wasn't a goal'. We lost 7-0.
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Post by onionman on Nov 27, 2014 18:30:01 GMT
I read that report in the Sentinel. Loved the bit about our delirious food poisoned keeper (a doctor) leaving the ground who 'imagined he was still keeping goal, fisting out shots with the energy of a steam engine and repeated time after time that it wasn't a goal'. We lost 7-0. Carl Muggleton re-enacted the entire scene to perfection in our home match with Birmingham in the 1997/98 season. |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 28, 2014 7:25:34 GMT
Leigh Roose was a bit if a legend apparently. In the early 1900s a goalie could carry the ball in his hands to the half way line and throw it from there if he wanted to. Leigh perfected this to such an extent that other clubs complained to the FA that it wasn't in the spirit of the game and so the law regarding only handling in the peno box was introduced. Leigh Roose was killed in WWI fighting for the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded a Military Medal for bravery. Apparently he was noted for his grenade throwing prowess.
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Post by whereami on Nov 28, 2014 18:48:50 GMT
Leigh Roose was a bit if a legend apparently. In the early 1900s a goalie could carry the ball in his hands to the half way line and throw it from there if he wanted to. Leigh perfected this to such an extent that other clubs complained to the FA that it wasn't in the spirit of the game and so the law regarding only handling in the peno box was introduced. Leigh Roose was killed in WWI fighting for the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded a Military Medal for bravery. Apparently he was noted for his grenade throwing prowess. I've just read his his wiki page cause of this, its fucking brilliant. "Roose not only insisted on playing against his former club while wearing his old Stoke shirt, but aroused the ire of the 7,000 strong crowd with his breathtaking play. He "saved every shot with such arrogant ease that the furious crowd spilled onto the field, only the brave intervention of the local constabulary saving him from a ducking in the River Trent." In the course of the same fracas, Stoke's chairman, the Reverend A.E. Hurst, ran onto the pitch to appeal for calm and was knocked out by one of his own forwards". |
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Post by roosterscomb on Nov 28, 2014 19:55:27 GMT
Leigh Roose was a bit if a legend apparently. In the early 1900s a goalie could carry the ball in his hands to the half way line and throw it from there if he wanted to. Leigh perfected this to such an extent that other clubs complained to the FA that it wasn't in the spirit of the game and so the law regarding only handling in the peno box was introduced. Leigh Roose was killed in WWI fighting for the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded a Military Medal for bravery. Apparently he was noted for his grenade throwing prowess. I've just read his his wiki page cause of this, its fucking brilliant. "Roose not only insisted on playing against his former club while wearing his old Stoke shirt, but aroused the ire of the 7,000 strong crowd with his breathtaking play. He "saved every shot with such arrogant ease that the furious crowd spilled onto the field, only the brave intervention of the local constabulary saving him from a ducking in the River Trent." In the course of the same fracas, Stoke's chairman, the Reverend A.E. Hurst, ran onto the pitch to appeal for calm and was knocked out by one of his own forwards". I thoroughly recommend the Roose biography Lost in France: link |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Nov 29, 2014 7:56:47 GMT
I've just read his his wiki page cause of this, its fucking brilliant. "Roose not only insisted on playing against his former club while wearing his old Stoke shirt, but aroused the ire of the 7,000 strong crowd with his breathtaking play. He "saved every shot with such arrogant ease that the furious crowd spilled onto the field, only the brave intervention of the local constabulary saving him from a ducking in the River Trent." In the course of the same fracas, Stoke's chairman, the Reverend A.E. Hurst, ran onto the pitch to appeal for calm and was knocked out by one of his own forwards". I thoroughly recommend the Roose biography Lost in France: linkThanks for that Rooster just placed an order. |
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Post by harryburrows on Nov 29, 2014 11:42:06 GMT
Leigh Roose was a bit if a legend apparently. In the early 1900s a goalie could carry the ball in his hands to the half way line and throw it from there if he wanted to. Leigh perfected this to such an extent that other clubs complained to the FA that it wasn't in the spirit of the game and so the law regarding only handling in the peno box was introduced. Leigh Roose was killed in WWI fighting for the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded a Military Medal for bravery. Apparently he was noted for his grenade throwing prowess. Recently read his biography, available on Amazon |
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