The Cannonball Kid - cor look at those shin pads ....
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Never mind them, look at the ball. Do you think the players of today would be able to head a Leather, lace bound casey?
Brendan Janus
Player Valuation: £40m
They are newspapers not shin pads !
They are shin pads I wore the in the mid 1960s like the cork studded boots, and case ball - awful
Especially if the ball came over and you headed the laces on the ball .....you had lines all over your forehead ......they were like medicine balls compared to the balllons they use today ......
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Do not forget if it was wet as well, they just seemed to soak up wet.
The Trinity.
Player Valuation: £10m
those Shin pads must have slipped a little. Real ankle breakers . No wonder the likes of Dave Thomas never used them. Even in his era ,lighter shin pads would have struggled his game.
But that one on Hickson doesn't just look right.
Joe Royal famous debut at Blackpool aged 16 - The GV dropped HC hustled in the car park - a certain Alan Ball ran the game that day ..... we got beat , but that season onwards we won the FA Cup in 1966 .......
10th January 1970 Joe Royle out-jumps Ipswich defender, Derek Jefferson, to meet an Alan Ball free kick and head his first - in a 3-0 win for the Blues - 4 years later Joe had established himself as a young top goalscorer, & we had purchased Bally from Blackpool -
27th September 1969 John Hurst meets a free kick from Alan Ball to crash a header into the Southampton net via the underside of the Southampton crossbar - in a 4-2 win for the Blues -
11th March 1970. Everton centre forward Joe Royle in action against Spurs home in a 3-2 win -
