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Post by billc on Oct 4, 2015 20:13:55 GMT
On the 21st January 1994 Tony Waddington died. He had been in declining health for some time and only after a few days before Alan Hudson contrasted the careers of Waddington and another great manager who passed on that winter Matt Busby. I guess Hudson in this article was posting a warning of the former Stoke City manager’s imminent death.
When it did eventually come the Sentinel printed several pages in eulogy of his passing.
The editorial served as an encomium reflecting on his style as a manager
“Throughout the 60s and 70s he strode the stage like a Colossus imposing his thoughts, his ideals and his principles on an astonished game.
For a brief period the place to be was not Old Trafford or Anfield or Highbury. The repository of skill was the Victoria Ground
The present generation of fans weaned on a diet of hard men, 100 mph runners and the back room tacticians will not comprehend what Tony Waddington achieved for Stoke City and the game in general”.
The letters pages in the Sentinel joined in the praise linking the deaths of Busby and Waddington
“Tony Waddington was to Stoke City what Matt Busby was to Manchester United. They were both charming gentlemen and modest too” wrote A Smith of Cheadle.
The last time I had seen Waddington was 2 years before as we were on a train from Crewe to Stoke. He sat alone and looked very forlorn. I wished in retrospect that I had plucked up enough courage to have a chat with him. I still hold to the view that he was Stoke’s greatest manager. I gather talking to an old player that Waddington was not particularly treated well by the Stoke City hierarchy after he left. In that way his experience seems to echo the way that Shankly was treated at Anfield after he left the manager post in 1974.
There was no echo of that in the reporting of the time and the first opportunity for Stoke fans to play their respect was at the home game against Wolves on the 5th February. It was a lachrymose day with leaden skies and driving rain.
I was standing in the Boothen End with the son of a former girlfriend. The process of indoctrination seems to have worked as he remains a Stoke City supporter. ( I gather he had the Stoke City scarf on the wall in his rooms at Cambridge)
The minute silence was well respected on the whole by both sets of supporters. Both Wolves and Stoke were unbeaten in the early months of 1994. Joe Jordan had given a home debut to Grahame Potter while injury had ruled out Steve Bull for the Wolves.
Wolves’ midfield began to dominate and after 36 minutes they scored a well crafted goal when Blades ran on to a through ball from Keen and lobbed a sprawling Prudhoe.
Örlygsson produced one or two penetrating runs and Carruthers missed an opportunity to equalise by hooking over from close range. Cranson went close when a header was cleared off the line.
A partial failure of the floodlights added to the gloom as the rain came down in torrents.
The equaliser came in the second half when an impressive Gleghorn sent in a flighted free kick which Carruthers headed on for Cranson to lash into the room of the net.
Stoke finished the stronger and Carruthers again came close after a timely intervention from Venus and at the other end Prudhoe was called to make a full stretch save from Cyril Regis in the 77th minute.
22, 579 attended the game
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Oct 4, 2015 20:16:54 GMT
Well respected by both sets of supporters. I remember that differently!
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Post by werrington on Oct 4, 2015 20:17:21 GMT
The wolves didn't respect the silence at all
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 20:21:46 GMT
Nor the scarf's and flags at the Stoke end , I recall it kicking off big time.
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Post by billc on Oct 4, 2015 20:26:30 GMT
i recall one or two shouts and hushing but on the whole I think it was respected
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Oct 4, 2015 21:14:23 GMT
i recall one or two shouts and hushing but on the whole I think it was respected No I recall it well. The Wolves fans disrespected on mass from the moment they arrived at the Vic. One of several reasons I hate the yellow (old gold my ass) tossers. |
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Post by mickstupp on Oct 4, 2015 22:00:59 GMT
Vince Overson scored for us, not Cranson.
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Post by billc on Oct 4, 2015 22:05:21 GMT
I did check the newspaper account that also did not mention any mass disrespect which is my own memory. I guess people will have to differ on this.
There was a reference a few weeks before of some Stoke fans not respecting a minutes silence for Matt Busby a few weeks before which led to some letters from Stoke fans ( Monica Hartland among them) criticising the actions of a minority of Stoke fans who were disrespectful at the minute silence for Busby.
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Post by dutchpeter72 on Oct 4, 2015 22:08:03 GMT
Vince Overson scored for us, not Cranson. I thought it was Overson, he wasn't playing much at the time. I seem to recall it was a toe poke in the Boothen End goal. Regarding the silence, the Wolves support didn't respect it at all. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 5:48:51 GMT
Can't remember the minutes silence but outside before the game Wolves fans were removing scarves and banners left in tribute to Waddo and taking the piss.
It wasn't well received and that was the catalyst for some serious disorder around the ground before and after the game. Quite a lively afternoon as I recall...
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Post by shawi on Oct 5, 2015 9:09:37 GMT
I remember it kicking off big time when the Yam Yams tried to remove scarves & other tributes to Waddo before the game & definitely did not respect the minutes' silence.
Can't stand Wolves on any account.
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Post by mickstupp on Oct 5, 2015 10:04:32 GMT
The vast majority of the 6000 or so Wolves fans present that day respected the minutes silence. I remember it clearly. They had a couple of idiots who chanted something, lots of theirs told them to "shut the fuck up", lots of ours told them the same thing, and before long the whole thing became a farce.
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Post by JoeinOz on Oct 5, 2015 12:31:05 GMT
Bleak cold game.
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Post by bristolpotter on Oct 5, 2015 14:45:55 GMT
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Post by potterblade on Oct 5, 2015 16:13:28 GMT
Do I remember rightly someone on the Boothen breaking the silence too with a heartfelt SHUT UP, SCUM!! because Wolves fans wouldn't be quiet? That definitely happened around that time during a silence not sure it was that game though.
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Post by bigcashprizes on Oct 5, 2015 17:54:36 GMT
Do I remember rightly someone on the Boothen breaking the silence too with a heartfelt SHUT UP, SCUM!! because Wolves fans wouldn't be quiet? That definitely happened around that time during a silence not sure it was that game though. My immediate thought when I saw this thread was that someone shouted "shut it scum" fuckin hate Wolves |
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