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Post by boothenender on Jul 1, 2009 15:24:51 GMT
john farmer was good top quality keeper,unlucky to have been kept in peter shiltons shadow. he would have made it as number one choice except at stoke.
shilton was a good keeper but i think that he was overated.
shilton never enjoyed his time at stoke,he thought that he was too big for us.....?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 16:38:37 GMT
Farmer deserved better, didnt he end up writing poetry?
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Jul 1, 2009 21:34:58 GMT
Farmer made one of the best saves I have ever seen ,again Jimmy Greaves was involved, he shot from about 15 yds. at the Boothen end Farmer was going to his right to cover the shot when it was deflected towards the left , Farmer somehow twisted in mid air and tipped it round the post ,an incredible save even Greaves applauded him.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jul 1, 2009 22:12:12 GMT
Yes he did write some poetry. One poem was about when SCFC got rid of him. Depressing as I seem to recall.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 22:40:24 GMT
I saw him play quite a lot in the late 60s early 70s and I don't remember him being good or bad - he was just John Farmer. But I have an enduring picture of him in my head. Stoke were beaten at home 5-0 by someone (can't remember who now) and Farmer was lying face down on the ground as the last one went in. He was utterly motionless and deflated as (I think) Mahoney went into the net to get the ball out, completely ignoring him as he did so. I'm sure he was quite good, but sadly that's all I can remember of him
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Post by deliasmith on Jul 2, 2009 10:59:51 GMT
John Farmer was a naturally gifted goalie – as good a beginner as I have ever seen or heard of. In his early days we thought we had a home-grown phenomenon, the very best local product in the modern era.
Unfortunately, he fell away, by making occasional careless errors which invariably led not just to goals conceded but actual defeats (I don’t know about Maurice Setters ruining his confidence, I think it was just John’s youth that was the problem).
John was always very scruffy – I think that used to irritate Waddington – and too nice to be a successful pro. The Sentinel football correspondent often referred to him as ‘the Biddulph lad’, and there was a bit of the hayseed about him.
The Spurs match of two penalties was right at the end of the season. There had been a lot of rain falling on the infamous Vic paddy field and the match would not have been played had it counted for anything. Oddly enough, the match programme that day had a long detailed analysis of the science of taking penalties, based on some tests that had been done years before at Newcastle United with Ronnie Simpson, later a Celtic immortal.
The end for John came at Stamford Bridge. We were in with a chance of winning but the young lad dropped a shocking clanger. The TV report on Sunday Soccer showed Tony Waddington in the dugout displaying real anger at his goalie, and the writing was on the wall.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2009 12:34:04 GMT
Funny enough I was watching that game against chelsea last night on the classic youtube thread, and it was an awful mistake.Also they have a game on against Leeds in 1967 and he looked at fault for the goal on that too.
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Post by gzirastokie on Jul 2, 2009 14:25:41 GMT
John Farmer ............remember him well should not have bought Shilton stuck with J.F. and bought a centre forward and would have won the league Went to school with him Wolstanton grammar, he was a few years older than me and the school frowned on football it wa all about rugby in those days, though we played football inn the yard with the bike shed as one ghoal if iremember correctly he played in goal even then would love to know whata happened to him over the yaers a good Stokie!!
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Post by mermaidsal on Jul 3, 2009 22:06:23 GMT
delia, you have mail
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