cwright75
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have to take 1 this week i aint got 1
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Your Memories Of Your Favourite Football Hardman `Bernie The Bolt Wright`
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Brett Angell managed one goal in his 18 Everton appearances, failed to score in 10 Sunderland appearances and was similarly unsuccessful in front of goal for Queens Park Rangers.
But in the lower leagues he was prolific – and nowhere more so than at Whaddon Road.
Angell burst onto the scene in 1987-88 with 24 goals in 37 appearances for Cheltenham – a flurry which earned him a move to Stockport County where he made his name as a reliable marksman.
Bernie Wright took the opposite path to Cheltenham,
After a league career which embraced Walsall, Port Vale, Bradford City – and a short-lived but memorable spell at Everton in the 1970s, Sought after Bernie had already told Spanish club Athletico Madrid and Dutch giants Ajax that he had no interest in a move abroad and opted for Everton – Bernie The Bolt wound his career down in non-League football, including a spell at Whaddon Road.
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David Prentice: Sex, booze and pills – the Andy van der ...
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk › ... › Football › David Moyes
2 Nov 2012 - ... week with the enigmatic former footballer that is Andy van der Meyde. ... Expand; Special Features ... The bad news for British fans is that there are no plans to sell in the UK ... the pitch during his Everton career – a short-corner routine he clipped in ... Now when is Bernie Wright going to pen his memoirs.
Would anyone buy it and read it ?
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk › ... › Football › David Moyes
2 Nov 2012 - ... week with the enigmatic former footballer that is Andy van der Meyde. ... Expand; Special Features ... The bad news for British fans is that there are no plans to sell in the UK ... the pitch during his Everton career – a short-corner routine he clipped in ... Now when is Bernie Wright going to pen his memoirs.
Would anyone buy it and read it ?
Sure quite a few would, i would
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GURROLES: 2015-2016 SEASON, UNCATEGORIZEDJust the Ticket? Port vale Away.
MAY 9, 2016BEESEEKERBERNIE WRIGHT, DONCASTER, FANCY DRESS, FOOTBALL, KEITH MOON, LEAGUE ONE, LEMON MERINGUE PIES, PORT VALE, PROMOTION, SOCCER, THUNDER, TOM BRADSHAW, WALSALL F.C., WEMBLEYLEAVE A COMMENTBack in 1971, a friend and I stared at some strapping, side-burned man in a too-tight jacket having his photo taken on the pitch at Fellows park (Walsall’s previous home ground). He was physically impressive and had an air of real thuggish menace about him.
“He’s havin’ his photo taken,” my mate explained, “’cos he’s been banned from the ground and all the entrances need to know what he looks like …”
That massive hulking figure was none other than Bernie “the Bolt” Wright. A giant, uncompromising old-fashioned centre forward who terrorised defences with his ask-no-mercy, expect-no-mercy brand of play. He moved on to Everton, was involved in a very unsavoury incident there when he floored a coach but left a mark as he created an impression on the Everton fans, who, Wikipedia has it, remember him for using his head to accidentally break the toe of Sheffield Utd defender Eddie Colquhon during an attempted diving header.
He came back to Saddlers, played with us for a further four years and ended his league career at Port Vale. This weekend’s last-scheduled game of the season.
Travelling to away games, concerts or work back in those days we imbued him with supernatural powers – if there was thunder we’d say it was Bernie’s temper. Either that or Keith Moon playing Heaven’s drums.
Saturday and I’m driving back from my mother’s. She wasn’t in and it was unseasonably hot. I was thinking of getting out the fire-pit and sitting outside later in the evening with a beer. But the sky grew dark – and memories of associating thunder with Bernie came flooding back.
Here was a behemoth who plied his trade at both grounds. Was the long lasting thunder – and seriously heavy downpour some kind of omen? For whom?
I’d reminded my brother that I had the tickets for the Vale game … and that it was a 12.30 kick off. Arranged to get him at ten o’clockish. A steady drive I’m thinking; I can find the Vale ground with my eyes closed (actually incorrect and rather risky). But then – help – I could only find one ticket for the match – an all-ticket occasion, local derby!
Then it dawned on me – he had bought the tickets and kept his own. Panic over – at least for the moment.
Saddlers Widow had baked some lemon meringue pies – courtesy of passing through Bakewell on the route home from Sheffield United – https://saddlersfan.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/sheffield-united-away – for each and every one of us (that’ll be seven then).
The M6 is apparently closed so we slip along the A34, miss the Longton turning and end up going the long way round via the A500. Stuck in traffic, there will be three thousand three hundred Walsall fans on the roads, rails and pavements. We dodge in and out of the rabbit warren side streets and end up with a near perfect spot on top of the hill. Long, warm walk down the Hamil Road, carrying the pies in a carrier bag. Half way down, compulsively checking I realize that I no longer have my ticket.
Rude words!
I send my brother onwards and go and check the car. Phew! There it is, down the side of the hand-brake! The rest of the “team” are inside, the pavements are crowded, flashing lights, police motor bikes, searched before we go in: fortunately there is no problem with the bag of desserts; though we have to take off our hats and have them rousted.
Once inside we have to queue to get through to a wonderfully crowded away end. Behind the goals. Seats are scarce but Cully has some saved for us: good spot. Quick nods and we stand and watch. It is noisy: the Saddlers fans are giving it the twelfth man business!
We know what we have to do; win by two clear goals at a team with one of the best home records this season … and a mean defence too. Then we depend on Doncaster beating Burton Albion, who start the day three points ahead of us.
There is tremendous energy about those pre-kick off moments: the pitch, the skies hot and clear. Just around the corner from “our end” are the Port Vale “choir”; strange that the two opposing fans are so close together: this is not normal … but, seriously? The Walsall fans are there to support their team, egg ‘em on, drive the team on. And the songs and encouragement is spinal Tap eleven. There are beach balls, inflatable crocodiles, killer whales, balloons, and bananas bobbling about. People in fancy dress. Big smiles, handshakes, and a will to win!
…oh and a killer Lemmy track to get the blood stirred up (Lemmy Kilminster born in Stoke on Trent: citizen of rock and roll excesses, bless ‘im).
We kick off defending “our “ end. Because that is the second part of the job: don’t concede goals!
Oh and did I mention we had to win by two goals?
Former Walsall full back ben Purkiss is pushing up forwards. He’s against the flying-all-season Rico henry, so is, we guess trying to deny him room to run. God luck with that then. Lalkovic is really fired up, he is so passionate and inclined to get carried away, but is a good ball carrier – and unpredictable. Perhaps we need that today?
Non-stop noise – and people all around with smart phones to get the news from Doncaster.
Vale are a physical team, bit rough in some of the challenges. We have the players to go toe-to-toe with this, but, when one of our runners is fouled we all want a free kick. The referee waves play on. We have the ball, the advantage – and Downing is running in to put the ball. Into. The. Net.
The away end, crammed and crowded goes bouncing crazy. One nil up? So early! Wonderful. Just what the doctor ordered! And Downing? Pushing up so far forwards?
Well, don’t knock it, if it works.
Soon we are pushing up again. Using the wings – and Forde is a revelation – again. Chambers using his energy and experience. Everybody standing up – off the pitch as well as on it. Another sweeping attack and the ball is in the net again. Tom Bradshaw has got his twentieth goal of the season! Tanking through in a way that Bernie Wright would have recognised.
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Anyone attend these games
04/03/72 away @ liverpool
08/03/72 away @ man.utd
11/03/72 home to man.city
18/03/72 away @ sheff utd
21/03/72 home to c.palace
25/03/72 home to wolves
01/04/72 away @ huddersfield
04/04/72 away @ coventry
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25/11/72 home to west ham
02/12/72 away @coventry
09/12/72 home to wolves
Apps 10 + 1 as sub ,, 2 goals
04/03/72 away @ liverpool
08/03/72 away @ man.utd
11/03/72 home to man.city
18/03/72 away @ sheff utd
21/03/72 home to c.palace
25/03/72 home to wolves
01/04/72 away @ huddersfield
04/04/72 away @ coventry
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25/11/72 home to west ham
02/12/72 away @coventry
09/12/72 home to wolves
Apps 10 + 1 as sub ,, 2 goals
Went to all of them except huddersfield
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enjoyable games im guessing
I would have been at all or most of those games
I very rarely missed in the 70s, before marriage and kids intervened
This is the best thread ever.
Bernie Wright’s name has endured down the Everton decades.
To achieve cult status on the back of a mere ten appearances is testament to that fact.
Bernie, if you get to read this post please know this thread, which I just discovered tonight, has brought a smile to my arl face.
Vying for a place in the team with George Telfer and Rod Belfitt among others,
Little Joe Harper as well.
Thanks for starting it, cw
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I never saw him play but at the moment it sounds like we could do with more characters like this in the team.
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