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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 8, 2024 7:00:02 GMT
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Post by deeside2 on Mar 8, 2024 7:15:43 GMT
Great game, I was in the Boothen End. Hudson really was fantastic wasn't he ?
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Post by Northy on Mar 8, 2024 7:25:28 GMT
Front of the Stoke end for me, getting the train from Kidsgrove to Stoke and they were full of Man City fans.
Moores, Hurst, Greenoff, with Hudson behind, what a team.
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Post by Clayton Wood on Mar 8, 2024 7:58:18 GMT
Great game, I was in the Boothen End. Hudson really was fantastic wasn't he ? #me too😄 |
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Mar 8, 2024 8:37:44 GMT
Great game, I was in the Boothen End. Hudson really was fantastic wasn't he ? #me too😄 Me three....brilliant performance...Hudson at the absolute peak of his powers. |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 8, 2024 9:07:53 GMT
Epic. Loved the way Hudson calmly passed the ball into the corner for the 2nd goal. The pitch state was typical, Waddington had the pitch deliberately soaked by the local fire brigade prior to games because it slowed the game which suited our play makers. Managers would complain but were told it was a natural phenomenon caused by the high water table from the nearby River Trent. 🤥🤥🤥🤥
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 8, 2024 13:35:57 GMT
Epic. Loved the way Hudson calmly passed the ball into the corner for the 2nd goal. The pitch state was typical, Waddington had the pitch deliberately soaked by the local fire brigade prior to games because it slowed the game which suited our play makers. Managers would complain but were told it was a natural phenomenon caused by the high water table from the nearby River Trent. 🤥🤥🤥🤥 Love anecdotes like this. I still have to pinch myself when I think how lucky I was to see a player like Hudson play in the red and white stripes. He just seemed to be able to control everything going on on the pitch. Can’t get bored watching this, though I’ve watched it so many times. It’s just masterclass. I love how just he just stands over the ball for the first goal before he leaves Asa Hartford for dead, and wasn’t John Mahoney a bloody good player! |
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Post by chad on Mar 8, 2024 14:30:45 GMT
Footballs to sanitised today
Give me winter pitches like farmers fields and hard as fuck centre half’s any day
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Post by chell_rosey on Mar 8, 2024 14:53:29 GMT
Me three....brilliant performance...Hudson at the absolute peak of his powers. Me too. Halcyon days... |
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Mar 8, 2024 16:17:06 GMT
Hudson best Stoke player I’ve ever seen by some way
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Post by anchorman on Mar 8, 2024 18:43:10 GMT
Halcyon days indeed…I would go as far to say that Alan Hudson is the best player that I have ever seen live. Pure genius. What a team that was and if hadn’t been for 4/5 broken legs down the spine of the team we would have romped the league in 75.
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Post by Gods on Mar 8, 2024 19:16:01 GMT
Hudson best Stoke player I’ve ever seen by some way No one else even close. So good he looked bored by the mediocrity around him. |
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Post by suck_the_mop. on Mar 8, 2024 20:04:03 GMT
Yes was there, apart from Matthews and steele etc i can say at the moment i have seen the great s of stoke including modern day Arnie shaq crouch etc👍👍
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Post by greystokie on Mar 8, 2024 20:09:43 GMT
I was in the Boothen End as well.
Ian Moores and I got pissed in the Placemate on more than one occasion!
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Mar 8, 2024 20:24:59 GMT
Hudson best Stoke player I’ve ever seen by some way No one else even close. So good he looked bored by the mediocrity around him. Not a thought to be shared with pej allegedly |
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Post by roylandstoke on Mar 8, 2024 20:30:27 GMT
Hudson was the best player in Britain for a season and a half.
Head and shoulders better than anyone I’ve ever seen in a Dtoke shirt.
Hudson, Salmons, Mahoney!
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Post by greenhoff on Mar 8, 2024 20:48:29 GMT
Epic. Loved the way Hudson calmly passed the ball into the corner for the 2nd goal. The pitch state was typical, Waddington had the pitch deliberately soaked by the local fire brigade prior to games because it slowed the game which suited our play makers. Managers would complain but were told it was a natural phenomenon caused by the high water table from the nearby River Trent. 🤥🤥🤥🤥 Soaking the pitch was to protect Hudsons dodgy ankle. He did exactly the same before the Liverpool home game at Easter. The Liverpool players couldn’t believe it as it hadn’t rained for days! |
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Post by Marc01 on Mar 8, 2024 20:49:54 GMT
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 8, 2024 22:42:31 GMT
Epic. Loved the way Hudson calmly passed the ball into the corner for the 2nd goal. The pitch state was typical, Waddington had the pitch deliberately soaked by the local fire brigade prior to games because it slowed the game which suited our play makers. Managers would complain but were told it was a natural phenomenon caused by the high water table from the nearby River Trent. 🤥🤥🤥🤥 Love anecdotes like this. I still have to pinch myself when I think how lucky I was to see a player like Hudson play in the red and white stripes. He just seemed to be able to control everything going on on the pitch. Can’t get bored watching this, though I’ve watched it so many times. It’s just masterclass. I love how just he just stands over the ball for the first goal before he leaves Asa Hartford for dead, and wasn’t John Mahoney a bloody good player! It would make your neck hairs stand on end when Hudson had the ball at his feet. You just knew something good would happen. |
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Post by blackpoolred on Mar 8, 2024 23:10:33 GMT
Hudson had one of his rare cameos for England around that time - when we beat Germany 2-0 at Wembley - I am sure the Germany manager, post game, called him a wonder player or something like that.
Looking back that Stoke side were good enough to win the title that year - they were better than Derby
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Post by senojbor on Mar 9, 2024 0:24:02 GMT
I was in the Boothen End as well. Ian Moores and I got pissed in the Placemate on more than one occasion! Are you from the Dale? I played against Ian and Garth Crooks in my time. Adrian Heath was from Knutton or Silverdale as well |
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Post by greystokie on Mar 9, 2024 10:29:22 GMT
I was in the Boothen End as well. Ian Moores and I got pissed in the Placemate on more than one occasion! Are you from the Dale? I played against Ian and Garth Crooks in my time. Adrian Heath was from Knutton or Silverdale as well No, I'm from Clayton but I got to know him, in my twenties, through some mates who had been at school with him. |
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Post by jestershat on Mar 9, 2024 11:50:29 GMT
I moved from Clayton to Silverdale aged 11. I played against Crooks at Trubshaw Cross LadsnDads and he easily the best player I'd come across at the time. I played against Adrian Heath after moving to Silverdale and he wasn't as technically gifted as Crooks but was a great runner. Cross country champion as I recall.
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Post by nottinghamstokie on Mar 9, 2024 12:25:37 GMT
It was a sensational day, I had to borrow money off my Mum to go to the game and agree to a list of household duties completed before I could leave the house.
I was standing in the Boothen Paddock next to where Huddy took the throw before his goal.
I remember he and Asa Hartford continually going for each other and every time it was given as a foul they shook hands and then clattered each other again. Staggering to think how long ago it was
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