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Post by Staffsoatcake on Aug 10, 2017 6:56:31 GMT
When did our players stop living in the local area?
Long gone are the days when they lived local, Sir Stan in Penkhull, Smith, Bloor, Marsh,Ritchie etc lived in the area, did Alan Hudson live locally whilst playing for us?
So when was it our players decide living in and around Stoke-on-Trent wasn't trendy and live in places like Cheshire?
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Aug 10, 2017 6:59:10 GMT
When did our players stop living in the local area? Long gone are the days when they lived local, Sir Stan in Penkhull, Smith, Bloor, Marsh,Ritchie etc lived in the area, did Alan Hudson live locally whilst playing for us? So when was it our players decide living in and around Stoke-on-Trent wasn't trendy and live in places like Cheshire? When they started getting paid enough to live in those trendy places like Cheshire. |
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Post by pyrus on Aug 10, 2017 7:01:49 GMT
When did our players stop living in the local area? Long gone are the days when they lived local, Sir Stan in Penkhull, Smith, Bloor, Marsh,Ritchie etc lived in the area, did Alan Hudson live locally whilst playing for us? So when was it our players decide living in and around Stoke-on-Trent wasn't trendy and live in places like Cheshire? Hudson lived in Barlaston. I went round to house house once to ask for an autograph, he said "I haven't got a pen" and shut the door. |
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Post by huuuuuth on Aug 10, 2017 7:05:21 GMT
When did our players stop living in the local area? Long gone are the days when they lived local, Sir Stan in Penkhull, Smith, Bloor, Marsh,Ritchie etc lived in the area, did Alan Hudson live locally whilst playing for us? So when was it our players decide living in and around Stoke-on-Trent wasn't trendy and live in places like Cheshire? Hudson lived in Barlaston. I went round to house house once to ask for an autograph, he said "I haven't got a pen" and shut the door. When Andy Griffin came back, his house was literally 50 yards from Huddys old house in Barlaston. |
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Post by Cast no shadow on Aug 10, 2017 7:10:08 GMT
Wilko lives in barlaston dunt he?
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Post by stokiesteve on Aug 10, 2017 7:17:23 GMT
In the 80's they all lived on Westbury Park.
Nicky Morgan, Graham Shaw et all
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 10, 2017 7:18:24 GMT
The last ones were Mama, Wilko and Bego weren't they?
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Post by pyrus on Aug 10, 2017 7:27:32 GMT
I don't know how important it really is. If we can get better players because we are within commuting distance from the footballing enclave of Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Prestbury then that's got to be helpful. Where you go to work during the week doesn't really matter. They show up, train, do some community work in the local area and get back home in time for Countdown.
I can understand why Sunderland were apparently thinking of moving their training HQ to London. It's not like they have a community of multi-millionaire footballers living in Whitley Bay. I remember that Roy Keane, when he managed Sunderland, moaned about players not wanting to move to the area because their wives wanted to live in London - in fairness, he moaned about a lot, but he probably had a point.
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Post by norters on Aug 10, 2017 7:40:02 GMT
Joe Allen is local.. and Staffordshire..
Slindon towards Eccleshall..
And his kids go to the local school.. a top man by all accounts
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Post by callas12 on Aug 10, 2017 8:03:10 GMT
Guessing it was mid to late 90's when they started to move further a field. Peter Beagrie & Gary Hackett lived next door to each other on an estate in Queensville, Stafford during their time with us. Cliff Carr also based himself in Stafford after his move up from the South and still lives and works locally now. Ian Cranson & Peter Handyside lived in Stone, sure Cranson still does.
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Post by steino72 on Aug 10, 2017 8:08:38 GMT
I washed Peter Beagries car as a kid, he lived in Stafford!!!
Mick Kennedy I think lived in Kingsley, may even live now in Lower Tean?
Georgie Berry used to live in Tean, I saw on another thread he may reside in Penkhull way now? Dicko another Planet Tean resident.
I'm not really sure it's 'fashionable' enough for modern footballers to live in Staffs anymore, other than perhaps west of the county.
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Post by RAF on Aug 10, 2017 8:10:18 GMT
Jimmy Greenhoff lived in Alsager for 20 odd years.
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Post by tijuanabrass on Aug 10, 2017 8:14:43 GMT
When did our players stop living in the local area? Long gone are the days when they lived local, Sir Stan in Penkhull, Smith, Bloor, Marsh,Ritchie etc lived in the area, did Alan Hudson live locally whilst playing for us? So when was it our players decide living in and around Stoke-on-Trent wasn't trendy and live in places like Cheshire? Hudson lived in Barlaston. I went round to house house once to ask for an autograph, he said "I haven't got a pen" and shut the door. I'll bet you could get it now... if you bought a book off him. |
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Post by pyrus on Aug 10, 2017 8:34:28 GMT
Hudson lived in Barlaston. I went round to house house once to ask for an autograph, he said "I haven't got a pen" and shut the door. I'll bet you could get it now... if you bought a book off him. I met him at a pre match lunch in the Waddington Suite a few seasons back. I told him about the incident. He was very gracious and apologetic and said there was a point when he would get about twenty kids a day knocking on his door looking for autographs and he didn't handle it as well as he he might have done. |
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Post by E1 Potter on Aug 10, 2017 8:40:27 GMT
Carl Beeston lived in trentham. After we played derby away at the old baseball ground, our coach broke down on the A50. Lou saw us in the layby, asked the team coach to go back and picked some of us up. The coach turned down new inn lane and dropped Carl, me and my mate off at the Man In Space pub!
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Post by madnellie on Aug 10, 2017 8:44:29 GMT
Peter Fox lived in Leek for a while, just up the road from me.
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Post by stayingupfor Sexualchocolate on Aug 10, 2017 8:51:57 GMT
Big Bren used to live near my dad's work colleague. Bumped into him a few times when we visited him, remember thinking he was huge!!!
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Aug 10, 2017 9:01:40 GMT
Higginbottom , Pulis , Lawrence , fuller , soares . Huth , all bought or rented on. Wychwood park only a few hundred yards from Staffordshire , indeed the night after the Leicester game they were all in the local pub
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Post by lawrieleslie on Aug 10, 2017 9:27:41 GMT
Higginbottom , Pulis , Lawrence , fuller , soares . Huth , all bought or rented on. Wychwood park only a few hundred yards from Staffordshire , indeed the night after the Leicester game they were all in the local pub Unless you are referring to the team in general, neither Soares nor Huth were Stoke City players at that point. |
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Aug 10, 2017 9:36:27 GMT
A few used to live out Loggerheads way including Banks!
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Post by holdmedelilah on Aug 10, 2017 9:49:08 GMT
Geoff Hurst lived on Manor Road between Baldwins Gate and Madeley
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Post by mrmojorisin on Aug 10, 2017 9:54:37 GMT
Super David Rowson lived in Cheddleton 🤡
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Post by mrmojorisin on Aug 10, 2017 10:00:30 GMT
Peter Fox lived in Leek for a while, just up the road from me. Yes Davenport close. |
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Post by marcofstoke on Aug 10, 2017 10:03:14 GMT
Jimmy Greenhoff lived in Alsager for 20 odd years. H Still does, the Greenhoff's are approaching 40 years of living in Alsager and T.C. now lives a few doors away from him. |
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Post by madnellie on Aug 10, 2017 10:05:56 GMT
Peter Fox lived in Leek for a while, just up the road from me. Yes Davenport close. Thanks  I knew it was one of the roads off Wetenhall Drive but I couldn't remember which one out of Davenport Close or Adams Grove. He used to have a kickabout sometimes on that little grassy area with the postbox on it. I remember being quite in awe at the time! |
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Post by mrcoke on Aug 10, 2017 10:26:25 GMT
Thanks I knew it was one of the roads off Wetenhall Drive but I couldn't remember which one out of Davenport Close or Adams Grove. He used to have a kickabout sometimes on that little grassy area with the postbox on it. I remember being quite in awe at the time! Small world, my sister lives in Adam's Grove! |
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Post by RAF on Aug 10, 2017 10:28:36 GMT
Jimmy Greenhoff lived in Alsager for 20 odd years. H Still does, the Greenhoff's are approaching 40 years of living in Alsager and T.C. now lives a few doors away from him. Righto. He doesn't live on the Mere anymore. I heard he moved away after his business went bump. I haven't seen him around for a good 20 years. I see his daughter occasionally. I've never seen Terry Conroy in the village. H |
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Post by march4 on Aug 10, 2017 10:30:56 GMT
Denis still lives in Meir Heath doesn't he?
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Post by madnellie on Aug 10, 2017 10:33:10 GMT
Thanks I knew it was one of the roads off Wetenhall Drive but I couldn't remember which one out of Davenport Close or Adams Grove. He used to have a kickabout sometimes on that little grassy area with the postbox on it. I remember being quite in awe at the time! Small world, my sister lives in Adam's Grove! It really is! I grew up in Tatton Close. |
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Post by thevoid on Aug 10, 2017 10:37:46 GMT
The real reason Arnie left was the ongoing mould and spores issue at his pad in Norris Road, Stanfields.
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I knew it was one of the roads off Wetenhall Drive but I couldn't remember which one out of Davenport Close or Adams Grove. He used to have a kickabout sometimes on that little grassy area with the postbox on it. I remember being quite in awe at the time!
