JAYMULL
Player Valuation: £6m
Remember this game well, FA Cup 3rd Round 4-1 v Villa Clive Thomas was the referee boos all round Andy Gray played for Villa. I used to love kits when I was a kid, Villa's was my favorite one1978.
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..I remember that as if it was yesterday. I also remember Roger Hunts 25 yard thunderbolt winner in the Gwladys Street because he usually only scored tap ins.
..I remember the curse of the hamstring caused me to miss a Pyke Cup Final. Fine old competition.
Wasn't it just called a leg injury in your day and your team mates thought you were a wus cos you didn't play with an injury lol
Major Gowen
Player Valuation: £6m
I had this image - or a very similar one - transferred onto a sweat-shirt for Gowen Snr a few years back.
One summer morning he took the dog out for its morning constitutional & was accosted by an even older dog-walker he had been on nodding terms with for years. The conversation went something along the lines of "I didn't know you were a blue - that's Tommy Lawton, isn't it?" And so began a friendship broken only by death. Turned out they'd both started going the match in the same year - 1937.
Tommy was a great player who some say had more attributes than Dean, but the game got tougher with the stopper being introduced he still thrived even then! My great uncle seen both play Lawton was sold to Chelsea for personal reasons he divorced his wife - then regretted the move away from Everton FC never really settled in London my great uncle a permanent season ticket holder was at the Dixie record hattrick game v Arsenal - the stories he told me about former players was remarkable - I raved about Alex Young - he threw Sandy Young at me a marvellous old man who's stories were mesmerising as a 8 year old avid young blue!
Major Gowen
Player Valuation: £6m
Imagine supporting a team that replaced Dean with Lawton...you could almost fall in love with a club like that!
But that level of not just quality, but genuine greatness, brings its own price. What was that line from the song by James...."If I hadn't seen such riches/I could live with being poor"?
Ditto for the supporters of the 1960s. From Vernon and Young to, in a few short seasons, Ball and Royle.
And some wonder why us old farts find our current predicament so painful!
Great image of Lawton, Joey, keep 'em coming!
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Poulton Vics by any chance?
..no, I played plenty against PVs in those days. Smashing little set up, decent pitch and little club down by the docks.
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Lairds and Vics used to generally share the league and cups.
As a strapping seventeen year old, I was playing for the works first team most Saturdays and was asked to go training with the Vics which in my opinion was a compliment. To get right to the point, I never got a game with them because I went awol every other Saturday to go and watch the boys in blue.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £70m
...yep, Lairds was a good set up. Managed to score a couple of goals against them at their place but i’m talking 40 years ago. Frightening how time flies.