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Post by nott1 on Dec 1, 2019 12:12:10 GMT
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Post by loosestools on Dec 1, 2019 12:50:13 GMT
Great player, one of my boyhood heroes. I'm sure he used to arrive at the game straight from Mr Smiths club in Longton, and stubbed a fag out on his boots in the tunnel.
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Post by kustokie on Dec 1, 2019 13:49:53 GMT
Great player, one of my boyhood heroes. I'm sure he used to arrive at the game straight from Mr Smiths club in Longton, and stubbed a fag out on his boots in the tunnel. He did and then threw the fag-end in the paddock. |
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Post by pavel on Dec 1, 2019 15:09:56 GMT
Very under-rated but a clinical finisher, he was at the start of something very special for Stoke in the Waddington years, which I was lucky enough to see. The team and the manager must have kept the pubs and off-licenses afloat for miles around in those days, yet you wouldn't know it on the pitch. Having said that, wasn't it Setters that arrived pissed on match day, had a blinder first half but didn't appear for the 2nd!
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Post by tcdobinghoff on Dec 1, 2019 15:50:26 GMT
Like many of the signings at that time he had been a top player at a higher profile club than Stoke and would have been considered “past their best”, however in most cases class showed and we got more than our money’s worth out of the deals. We also , as fans, got to see a lot of great players week in and week out at the Victoria Ground. Jimmy McIlroy, Dennis Violet, George Eastham, Eddie Clamp, Dennis Wilshaw to name only a few. Whatever the results it was a pleasure to see these players.
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Post by raythesailor on Dec 1, 2019 18:41:54 GMT
I loved Eddie Clamp.
If he had been playing yesterday half of the Blackburn team would have been in row 3 of the paddocks, and he would have been sent off after15/20 mins. 😤
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Post by Gifton on Dec 1, 2019 20:25:41 GMT
I'm really jealous of you lot when you reminisce about players and games from the 60's, 70's etc. I got the Macari years and I'm grateful for that.
Football is so sterile nowadays. There's no characters, just media trained, millionaire mercenaries. It has no soul.
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Post by iglugluk on Dec 1, 2019 20:32:21 GMT
I'm really jealous of you lot when you reminisce about players and games from the 60's, 70's etc. I got the Macari years and I'm grateful for that. Football is so sterile nowadays. There's no characters, just media trained, millionaire mercenaries. It has no soul. Unfortunately, I fear that, you have just provided a summation of the general dynamic contained within modern society as a whole  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2019 20:33:13 GMT
Like many of the signings at that time he had been a top player at a higher profile club than Stoke and would have been considered “past their best”, however in most cases class showed and we got more than our money’s worth out of the deals. We also , as fans, got to see a lot of great players week in and week out at the Victoria Ground. Jimmy McIlroy, Dennis Violet, George Eastham, Eddie Clamp, Dennis Wilshaw to name only a few. Whatever the results it was a pleasure to see these players. The first four names ... McIlroy violet eastham clamp ...all are massively better footballers than anyone in today's squad What a drop in standards !! If it wasn't for his wages ,I would pity MoN But he is paid loads , so I don't |
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Post by tpholloway1 on Dec 1, 2019 20:35:37 GMT
Great player, one of my boyhood heroes. I'm sure he used to arrive at the game straight from Mr Smiths club in Longton, and stubbed a fag out on his boots in the tunnel. Where was Mr Smiths club in Longton? |
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Post by smallthorner on Dec 1, 2019 20:41:19 GMT
Roy Vernon actually was a bit of a terrace boo boy.
He never quite produced his former form and had a very mixed run of performances.
Not a patch on the likes of Violett and Eastham for example.
When you think of the inside forwards Stoke had in the mid-late sixties and early seventies. Wow.
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Post by chad on Dec 1, 2019 20:57:17 GMT
He was never a popular player with supporters
The Boothen End quite often chanted
“ send Roy Vernon to Vietnam “
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Post by future100 on Dec 2, 2019 10:06:39 GMT
Great player, one of my boyhood heroes. I'm sure he used to arrive at the game straight from Mr Smiths club in Longton, and stubbed a fag out on his boots in the tunnel. Allegedly he could smoke a cigarette in the shower without it getting wet, also Eddie Clamp would run out of the tunnel and stop to stub his fag out. |
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Post by Gods on Dec 2, 2019 10:25:08 GMT
Before my time but what a character!
'Taffy' Vernon. Not sure you'd get away with that these day, I mean can you imagine 'Taffy' Bale ! :-)
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Post by spitthedog on Dec 2, 2019 10:34:48 GMT
Roy Vernon actually was a bit of a terrace boo boy. He never quite produced his former form and had a very mixed run of performances. Not a patch on the likes of Violett and Eastham for example. When you think of the inside forwards Stoke had in the mid-late sixties and early seventies. Wow. This is how I remember it too. He wasn't that old when he came here, he was 27 I think. He definitely had ability and a bit of class but was quite inconsistent. He never produced the form for Stoke that he had shown at Everton where he was prolific. He started quite well here but I think his form went downhill after we sold John Ritchie. Waddo shipped him out for a season to a USA team after getting frustrated with him. Our fans, quite rightly, wanted our beloved John Ritchie back! |
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Post by loosestools on Dec 2, 2019 16:57:26 GMT
Great player, one of my boyhood heroes. I'm sure he used to arrive at the game straight from Mr Smiths club in Longton, and stubbed a fag out on his boots in the tunnel. Where was Mr Smiths club in Longton? Sorry, it was in Glass St Hanley. Didn't go there myself as I was just a bit too young and didn't have any money to gamble with anyway. I think it burnt down. |
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Post by PotterLog on Dec 2, 2019 17:24:14 GMT
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