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Post by donaldingleton on Jan 8, 2008 15:32:02 GMT
Across various boards, articles etc on Stoke players of the past, very little, if anything at all, appears about "arry, `arry, `arry. On the Wikipaedia site under Stoke City F C Players even Peter Beagrie gets a mention that could lead the uninitiated to think that he was the best left-winger we had since Harry Oscroft. Come on, you old-timers, lets hear it for HB - after all, most of the goals coming from Greenhoff and Ritchie were "assists" from Burrows!
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 8, 2008 15:38:54 GMT
Before my time, I'm afraid, but "'ARRY! 'ARRY! 'ARRY!"
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Post by youareallwrong on Jan 8, 2008 15:39:27 GMT
One of my favourite players of all time. Mad as a box of frogs, but he couldn't half shift down the wing. Funniest thing I ever saw was at a night match. For some reason I used to go in the Boothen paddock just for night games, and Harry was steaming up and down in front of us. I can't remember who we were playing, but their right back couldn't handle H and kept chopping him down. Finally, Harry had enough and when they both went down in a heap, he was first up and while the guy was on his knees, he gave him a back elbow right on the top of the head and walked off down the tunnel without waiting for the ref to send him off. Absolute pisser! For a little bloke, he wasn't half up for a fight.
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Post by GeoffT on Jan 8, 2008 15:41:56 GMT
I seem to remember him winning some sort of "hardest shot" competition on the telly? Didn't he run a pub in Tittensor?
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Post by knowles on Jan 8, 2008 15:44:48 GMT
There was a nice piece in the Plymouth programme about him
I believe we signed him from Villa before he went down to Home Park.
Seemed to score a fair few goals too!
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Post by spitthedog on Jan 8, 2008 15:45:48 GMT
How I crave for the days when we had a real authentic quality left winger. We would have hammered the Toons with an 'Harry Burrows' type player on Sunday. Great memories.....
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Post by broadwayroundabout on Jan 8, 2008 15:47:25 GMT
I might be wrong but i seem to remember seeing his name painted on one of the walls around the vic somewhere...just a vague recollection....but of a nonsense post by me but its doing me head in now !
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 8, 2008 15:53:48 GMT
Hehehehe!
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Post by heathen on Jan 8, 2008 16:05:08 GMT
This man was a god. Unbelievable ball control and a shot like a bullet. I think he came second in the hardest shot competition behind Lorrimer of Leeds. Last seen running the post office in Abbots Bromley.
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Post by stokieforever2008 on Jan 8, 2008 16:12:56 GMT
used to go in the rising sun the pub that harry burrows used to run in scholar green he was a really nice and friendly guy and my mum and dad were real good friends with him and his wife last thing i knew he moved away from the area and was running a post office my parents have been to see them a few times
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Jan 8, 2008 16:45:25 GMT
Harry Harry Burrows Harry Burrows on the wing
Harry Harry Burrows Harry Burrows on the wing
We've got Harry Harry Burrows on the wing
We've got Harry Harry Burrows on the wing
We've got Harry Harry Harry Burrows
Harry Harry Harry Burrows
Harry Harry Harry Burrows
On the wing
Sung to the tune of I can't remember????
Any other old fogies remember It?????
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Post by chessie on Jan 8, 2008 16:52:11 GMT
I'm sure it's to the tune gin gan goolie
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Jan 8, 2008 16:56:40 GMT
Just remembered it
She'll be coming round the mountain
etc
Thanks Chessie also gin gan goolie tune
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Post by smigchop on Jan 8, 2008 17:08:18 GMT
I seem to remember him winning some sort of "hardest shot" competition on the telly? Didn't he run a pub in Tittensor? The winghouse?
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Post by Dallas Cowboy on Jan 8, 2008 17:20:13 GMT
I seem to remember
Harry. Harry. I'd walk a million miles for one of your goals. Harry.
To the tune of "Mammy."
Great player and, as others have commented, had a fierce left foot shot.
He got two of the goals in that famous comeback against West Ham in 1967. Trailing 3-0 at half-time, Stoke stormed back in the second half to win 4-3. Two goals apiece to Burrows and Dobing.
Happy Days!
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Post by utcheter on Jan 8, 2008 17:31:00 GMT
Harry Burrows was at the game on Sunday, looking very well. He does run the Post Office at Abbots Bromley,and I think he is about to retire. Watched him many times,he never let us down. Legend
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Post by RAF on Jan 8, 2008 17:37:01 GMT
I went to school with his youngest son Chris. Really nice bloke, used to run the Rising Sun near Mow Cop. I saw him recently at Rode Heath village Hall at our Golf Society charity doo, spoke to him for a bit, and he actually remembered playing footy with me and Chris in his back garden in Alsager, whether he was humouring me or not I don't know, but really nice family.
H
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Post by mikeyc on Jan 8, 2008 17:42:25 GMT
First Stoke game I saw was against Fulham in, I think, 1968. Stoke won 2-0, sending Fulham down. All I can remember is Harry scoring a scorcher from the wing.
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Post by Kewstokie on Jan 8, 2008 17:45:29 GMT
I might be wrong but i seem to remember seeing his name painted on one of the walls around the vic somewhere...just a vague recollection....but of a nonsense post by me but its doing me head in now ! Broadway's right. Wasn't it a white sheet with 'Harry' 'Harry' writ large in red letters that was hung at the back of the Boothen Paddock towards the Boothen end before each match ?
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Post by Anto1962 on Jan 8, 2008 17:57:17 GMT
Thats the one I remember dallas, the other song was for Terry conroy.
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Post by stayingupforbigbazza on Jan 8, 2008 18:04:10 GMT
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Post by boppa74 on Jan 8, 2008 19:47:24 GMT
I happen to play 5-a-side on Saturday afternoons with both his sons Andy and Chris. I'll let 'em know about this post, should cheer 'em both up from the tonking we keep giving their side week in week out ;D
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Post by breretonbert on Jan 8, 2008 20:07:30 GMT
Harry runs, (or did 18 months ago when I was last in there) the post office in Abbotts Bromley, which is in the triangle between Rugeley/Uttoxeter/Burton. Top bloke. Only went in for some parcel tape and it took me 40 minutes having had a chat with the great man. Must call in next time I pass and see if he still runs it.
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Post by armitagestokie on Jan 8, 2008 20:10:18 GMT
Pop in the post office in Bromley he's always pleased to see Stokies!!Remember once at WBA I think, he was just about to take a corner when a fan took a cauliflower out of his wifes shopping bag and rolled it to him to kick instead!!
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Post by deliasmith on Jan 8, 2008 21:19:41 GMT
Harry Burrows was my favourite player. Always 100 per cent for the team, and always played better towards the Boothen End. We signed him on the same day as Roy Vernon.
Harry scored a hat-trick against his old club, one of them a header: Stoke 6 Villa 2, those were the days.
I saw him at The Hawthorns once: he hit one of his special shots - 80 mph never rising more than one inch above the ground - but straight at the goalie. The home crowd went dead silent for a moment, then there was respectful awed buzz: genuinely impressed.
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Post by richardparker on Jan 8, 2008 21:45:32 GMT
A Stoke City Legend. Definitely the 'Mammy' song was the one sung for 'Arry. Remember playing Derby one boxing day at the Vic (early 70s). Decent crowd and we won 1-0. H. Burrows blasted in a pen. Think Derby came as league champions at the time (though could be mistaken). Being a fellow 'left-footer' Harry was always one of my heroes. Great player!
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Post by AlliG on Jan 8, 2008 22:38:30 GMT
A "proper" footballer. (C) Tony Pulis.
Even as a relatively young player, he always looked a bit out his time with his short back and sides while everyone else had long hair. He always seemed to look better in black and white photos.
I remember us winning 2-0 at Newcastle in Jan 1971.
Harry scored and The Sentinel printed one of my favourite ever action football pictures. Harry head down, both feet off the ground having just thumped the ball home.
There was a cold, snowy game against Wolves at The Vic where Harry took a freekick about 25 yards out which thumped against the post and flew back past him. Boy could he shoot!
Before the arrival of Jimmy Greenhoff, his was the best technique of any player I had seen at Stoke when it came to shooting. Some of our modern players could learn a lesson or two from Harry about striking the ball cleanly and keeping it down.
It is a shame that his career was before the age of video or we would have a fantastic collection of spectacular goals to watch over and over again.
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Post by bogus on Jan 8, 2008 22:43:27 GMT
Wasn't it Harry who got a Hat-trick in the 4-3 win at West Ham, 3-0 down at half time? One of my early/first SCFC heroes, along with Dobing, although I was just a youngster at the time.
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Post by Alvechurch Assassin on Jan 8, 2008 22:45:33 GMT
I wasn't around when he played, but remember him teaching me "domestic economics" at cauldon back in the late eighties.
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Post by Dallas Cowboy on Jan 8, 2008 23:15:59 GMT
bogus, Write 100 lines: I must read all the posts on a thread. My earlier post referenced that victory at Upton Park and the TWO goals H scored. AlliG, There is video footage of that West Ham game in 1967. I have got it on a DVD I picked up on e-bay. Classic stuff.
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