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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jan 16, 2017 22:06:18 GMT
I don't think i've seen in my years watching stoke (80 onwards) a player have such a wonderful rapport with the crowd. What a legend. Used to step up in front of the boothen every time. The love shown to him was given back big time. My favourite stoke player of all time. Just for being him. A 100 percenter and gave lots of respect of the fans. Oooh georgie berry!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 22:08:50 GMT
I don't think i've seen in my years watching stoke (80 onwards) a player have such a wonderful rapport with the crowd. What a legend. Used to step up in front of the boothen every time. The love shown to him was given back big time. My favourite stoke player of all time. Just for being him. A 100 percenter and gave lots of respect of the fans. Oooh georgie berry!! Shit hot penalty taker as well fella. Use to love him as a kid, gave every ounce of effort he possibly could have for the cause, week in week out..... |
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jan 16, 2017 22:13:14 GMT
I don't think i've seen in my years watching stoke (80 onwards) a player have such a wonderful rapport with the crowd. What a legend. Used to step up in front of the boothen every time. The love shown to him was given back big time. My favourite stoke player of all time. Just for being him. A 100 percenter and gave lots of respect of the fans. Oooh georgie berry!! Shit hot penalty taker as well fella. Use to love him as a kid, gave every ounce of effort he possibly could have for the cause, week in week out..... Yeah too right. I don't think individual players get enough love nowadays but then back then 'theres only one.....insert player name' wasn't such a crime and used as a way to get behind a player. Nowadays if it aint a lyrical masterpiece. The simplicity of the terrace crowds. I miss it |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 22:15:35 GMT
Shit hot penalty taker as well fella. Use to love him as a kid, gave every ounce of effort he possibly could have for the cause, week in week out..... Yeah too right. I don't think individual players get enough love nowadays but then back then 'theres only one.....insert player name' wasn't such a crime and used as a way to get behind a player. Nowadays if it aint a lyrical masterpiece. The simplicity of the terrace crowds. I miss it My first Stoke City hero, with Tony Ford a close second..... |
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 16, 2017 22:16:03 GMT
He said he wanted to come back as a forward in his next life! 😀
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Post by elystokie on Jan 16, 2017 22:19:09 GMT
Still goes the games and takes his kid/s sometimes according to a Sentinel article I read before the Wolves game.
Stoke legend.
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Jan 16, 2017 22:20:06 GMT
Yeah too right. I don't think individual players get enough love nowadays but then back then 'theres only one.....insert player name' wasn't such a crime and used as a way to get behind a player. Nowadays if it aint a lyrical masterpiece. The simplicity of the terrace crowds. I miss it My first Stoke City hero, with Tony Ford a close second..... Chambo was one of mine but i really liked zico. A right scruffy fucker on the pitch but a peach of a free kick. But yeah georgie berry. Just a top guy all round! |
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Post by stantheman on Jan 16, 2017 22:22:29 GMT
Yeah too right. I don't think individual players get enough love nowadays but then back then 'theres only one.....insert player name' wasn't such a crime and used as a way to get behind a player. Nowadays if it aint a lyrical masterpiece. The simplicity of the terrace crowds. I miss it My first Stoke City hero, with Tony Ford a close second..... I couldn't agree more. That era of Tony Ford & Co was when I really started to go home and away. Anyone remember a match (away at Sheffield United, I think) when the game was stopped and the ref and several players were searching the penalty area for George's contact lens! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 22:22:55 GMT
The Mick Mills era was quality. Yes it ran its course but was never dull, we'd play like Brazil one week and Botswana the next.....good times
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 16, 2017 22:23:21 GMT
My first Stoke City hero, with Tony Ford a close second..... Chambo was one of mine but i really liked zico. A right scruffy fucker on the pitch but a peach of a free kick. But yeah georgie berry. Just a top guy all round! Zico was at his best in winter on heavy pitches because everyone else was slowed down and his lack of pace was less crucial. |
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Post by lagwafis on Jan 16, 2017 22:31:47 GMT
Plenty of very good players throughout the 80s, including a couple from the youth team.
How we managed to top the decade off with a relegation to Division Three was impressive, even by our standards.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 22:31:57 GMT
When we went about 13 games unbeaten in 86/87 and spanked Leeds 7-2, Sheff Utd 5-2, scoring 4 and winning away at the likes of Bradford and Hull I thought we'd never lose again.....
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Post by stantheman on Jan 16, 2017 22:36:22 GMT
The Mick Mills era was quality. Yes it ran its course but was never dull, we'd play like Brazil one week and Botswana the next.....good times Remember the Christmas 1986 period of 7 past Leeds, then won 2-0 at Barnsley, then 5 past Sheff Utd and then we played Shrewsbury at home and Saunders scored and we won 1-0 in front of a bumper gate of 19,382. Then Coventry in the FA cup - 31,255. Was this a Vic sell out? George scored 8 goals that season. |
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Post by mcf on Jan 16, 2017 22:37:02 GMT
When we went about 13 games unbeaten in 86/87 and spanked Leeds 7-2, Sheff Utd 5-2, scoring 4 and winning away at the likes of Bradford and Hull I thought we'd never lose again..... I think it was a few more than 13 - I always thought 16ish  Carl Saunders up front |
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Post by muglump on Jan 16, 2017 22:37:55 GMT
ooh georgie berry! At the same time the best and worst centre half in the world, at times unplayable and at others well, we all saw. Top top bloke and a hero of mine
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Post by muglump on Jan 16, 2017 22:39:16 GMT
The Mick Mills era was quality. Yes it ran its course but was never dull, we'd play like Brazil one week and Botswana the next.....good times Remember the Christmas 1986 period of 7 past Leeds, then won 2-0 at Barnsley, then 5 past Sheff Utd and then we played Shrewsbury at home and Saunders scored and we won 1-0 in front of a bumper gate of 19,382. Then Coventry in the FA cup - 31,255. Was this a Vic sell out?George scored 8 goals that season. I don't know if it was a sell out but I couldn't move... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 22:51:08 GMT
Remember the Christmas 1986 period of 7 past Leeds, then won 2-0 at Barnsley, then 5 past Sheff Utd and then we played Shrewsbury at home and Saunders scored and we won 1-0 in front of a bumper gate of 19,382. Then Coventry in the FA cup - 31,255. Was this a Vic sell out?George scored 8 goals that season. I don't know if it was a sell out but I couldn't move... The crowd for the Liverpool tie the season afterwards was 31,979 so pretty much..... |
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Post by johnnypotter on Jan 16, 2017 23:06:06 GMT
A great asset to Stoke City, on and off the pitch, a cult hero.
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Post by chell_rosey on Jan 16, 2017 23:18:04 GMT
Yeah too right. I don't think individual players get enough love nowadays but then back then 'theres only one.....insert player name' wasn't such a crime and used as a way to get behind a player. Nowadays if it aint a lyrical masterpiece. The simplicity of the terrace crowds. I miss it My first Stoke City hero, with Tony Ford a close second..... Used to babysit for Mr Ford. Lovely bloke. His wife was extremely nice too. |
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Post by Squeekster on Jan 16, 2017 23:22:58 GMT
Never forget the boxing day Man citeh game they had the bananas we had the pink panthers,they were all in the Butler street paddock some one threw a real banana at Judda and he peeled it, ate it, and threw the skin back into the crowd great effort from the afro.
Dave Bamber and John Butler on debut think Bamber scored, Judda scored a peno can't think who got the other but was it Ian Scott who opened the scoring and we signed him next season along with Biggins who may of also played, then again it could also of been Gleghorn.
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Post by tijuanabrass on Jan 16, 2017 23:37:52 GMT
Living abroad I am unable to get to games regularly, managing one or two a season if I'm lucky. I'm happy to say that when I do make it I invariably see Oo-Georgie outside the Q-Railings stand on his way to the match. Last time at this season's drubbing by Spuds I spotted him having a crafty fag. He has a slightly different hairdo now When we went to Wembley for the final and they took that 360 high def photo, I was scanning for people I knew and spotted him on there. What a true club Ledge. I wonder which players in the current team will be forking out their own cash to enjoy a pre-match Bensons and watch the Stoke of the future? |
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Post by mickstupp on Jan 17, 2017 1:26:41 GMT
Chambo was one of mine but i really liked zico. A right scruffy fucker on the pitch but a peach of a free kick. But yeah georgie berry. Just a top guy all round! Zico was at his best in winter on heavy pitches because everyone else was slowed down and his lack of pace was less crucial. Letting Kelly leave was the beginning of the end for Mills. He was brilliant for us in 86/87 but problematic off the field and Mick couldn't handle him. I remember Kelly playing for Shrewsbury at Stoke in 1990 when Ball was manager and he ran the show....we should have got him back, he was a class act at that level. |
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Post by gonk on Jan 17, 2017 6:31:59 GMT
Still goes the games and takes his kid/s sometimes according to a Sentinel article I read before the Wolves game. Stoke legend. He sits in block 9 most games with is lad. |
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Post by wherty on Jan 17, 2017 8:02:57 GMT
See him most sat nights in penkhull chippy.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 17, 2017 8:12:56 GMT
See him most sat nights in penkhull chippy. Does he go for a pint in The Greyhound? |
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Post by huuuuuth on Jan 17, 2017 8:13:03 GMT
Never forget the boxing day Man citeh game they had the bananas we had the pink panthers,they were all in the Butler street paddock some one threw a real banana at Judda and he peeled it, ate it, and threw the skin back into the crowd great effort from the afro. Dave Bamber and John Butler on debut think Bamber scored, Judda scored a peno can't think who got the other but was it Ian Scott who opened the scoring and we signed him next season along with Biggins who may of also played, then again it could also of been Gleghorn. If I remember correctly, Gleghorn scored for Citeh and Bamber scored with his arse |
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Post by kentpotter on Jan 17, 2017 8:15:54 GMT
Will never forget the rousing chorus of "Ooooh Georgie Berry" when he turned up in the seats behind us at one of our Autoglass Finals (can't remember which one, we've won it two time you know!)
And coming on to the Boothen at his testimonial.
Legend.
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Post by Waggy on Jan 17, 2017 8:28:07 GMT
The Mick Mills era was quality. Yes it ran its course but was never dull, we'd play like Brazil one week and Botswana the next.....good times Remember the Christmas 1986 period of 7 past Leeds, then won 2-0 at Barnsley, then 5 past Sheff Utd and then we played Shrewsbury at home and Saunders scored and we won 1-0 in front of a bumper gate of 19,382. Then Coventry in the FA cup - 31,255. Was this a Vic sell out? George scored 8 goals that season. Yes great game that coventry one ( the buggers won the cup that year) father and i took Grandad Albert - who introduced me to the brown stuff that day and have had bovril ever since |
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Post by eddyclamp on Jan 17, 2017 10:13:17 GMT
See him most sat nights in penkhull chippy. Does he go for a pint in The Greyhound? Now and again he does but not that often , he only lives down the road from the Dog. |
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jan 17, 2017 10:18:37 GMT
Not far from my mum & dad and not far from where Sir Stan used to live.
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