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Joey66 said:
T.G.’s impact as manager of Bangor in the 1950s and 1960s. In the North Walian university city he ended a six-decade barren spell in the Welsh Cup and led the Cheshire League part-timers into three epic European Cup Winners' Cup encounters with Italian giants Napoli.

I was hooked and, armed with Dafydd’s collection of press cuttings, I set out to document T.G.’s life and times. My research led me to Connah’s Quay – a short hop across the Dee estuary from England. His legacy in, this, his hometown, was the formation of the football club now known as Connah’s Quay Nomads. With the Welshman not having kicked a ball competitively for well over 50 years, I raced against time to collect first-hand memories of seeing T.G. play. My late father’s recollections of T.G. were corroborated by Toffeeweb contributors such as the Harold Matthews who dubbed T.G. “Like Pirlo in a number 5 shirt.” Evertonians of a certain vintage (and contemporary match reports) were almost unanimous in their opinion that T.G. was the ultimate ball playing centre-half –
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Why are you highlighting the bit that I keep telling you about?
 
Stevie Nicks Bootleg said:
I read the full post, it talks about him as a player, not a manager. His managerial career was spent at much lower levels.
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Not as low as Ian Buchan the Manager we appointed if you know your history a Scottish PE instructor who was sacked - we overlooked a great former player with European pedigree - you just dont get that point - Please look up Ian Buchan's record with us, he was a fitness instructor not a football manager who ever played the game at any level ... a recipe for disaster & it was.....

One article I read we were playing Leeds away the coach hit a bit of traffic - he ordered the players to get the kit out of the boot of the coach & ran them miles away to Elland road - to improve fitness half time 4-0 down our captain stated "is that why we are super fit boss" ..... his general record was poor - sacked .....
 

Joey66 said:
Not as low as Ian Buchan the Manager we appointed if you know your history a Scottish PE instructor who was sacked - we overlooked a great former player with European pedigree - you just dont get that point - Please look up Ian Buchan's record with us, he was a fitness instructor not a football manager who ever played the game at any level ... a recipe for disaster & it was.....

One article I read we were playing Leeds away the coach hit a bit of traffic - he ordered the players to get the kit out of the boot of the coach & ran them miles away to Elland road - to improve fitness half time 4-0 down our captain stated "is that why we are super fit boss" ..... his general record was poor - sacked .....
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Two wrongs don’t make a right. Both would have been poor choices.
 
Stevie Nicks Bootleg said:
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Both would have been poor choices
Stevie Nicks Bootleg said:
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Both would have been poor choices.
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An EFC legend - end of -try reading that book ... ;)
 


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