Billy Tightshirt

[Bruce Wayne]

Enjoyed reading this, we could do with a Whitehurst upfront today.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...d-love-fighting-spirit-relegation-battle.html

 

[Silent Blade]

Enjoyed reading this, we could do with a Whitehurst upfront today.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...d-love-fighting-spirit-relegation-battle.html

Read that in FB this evening and agree it was a good read

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Lent him my Star Blades double over the Pigs to frame in The Cricks when he ran it. Never got them back. Tell him if you see him.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Lent him my Star Blades double over the Pigs to frame in The Cricks when he ran it. Never got them back. Tell him if you see him.

If Razor Ruddock was shit scared of him I ain't asking him LOL

 

[Roygbiv]

Remember once reading a story on him in some online newspaper and the most liked comment below was "just a bully, nothing on Jones and Keane"

 

[Sheffsteel]

Some players were famous for being tough on the pitch, Souness, Stuart Pearce and the infamous Vinny Jones but most of the time it was just bravado and competitiveness.

The thing with Whitehurst was it wasn't bravado.
He was a bit of an idiot who genuinely loved a scrap on or off the pitch.
He also loved to search out the hard men of the opposition team, those with reputations and intimidate them.
There were several stories that he offered players out and arranged to meet them after the match for a scrap but of course they never turned up. The guy in his later years didn't seem bothered about disciplinary action or getting the sack,- bit of a loose cannon really.

When he played for us there was often the cries from the stands "Knock him out Billy".
He certainly had a madman reputation within the game and someone you stay well clear of.

 

[The Fox]

The funniest part of the article are the comments from PL supporters obviously in their 20,s

...Not as hard as Costa !!
... someone has replied that he would have actually killed Costa

Bloke was / is a nutcase but knew what it meant to wear the shirt

 

[Sheffsteel]

You know the question they sometimes ask footballers

"If you weren't a pro footballer then what do you think you'd be?"

Billy would have probably replied "if I wasn't a pro footballer then I'd have been a football hooligan, bouncer or bare knuckle fighter". Basically he was a thug and many players in the game knew he wasn't normal.

 

[spongebobblade]

At a recent "Evening with Dave Bassett" he told the story of a pre-season trip abroad (Spain I think) when Billy and Vinnie were room sharing. As a stunt, Vinnie came down to reception and got Bassett to go up to there rooming the pretence that Billy needed to see him.
On entering the room Bassett copped Billy in bed with two blondes busying there mouths on his pecker while Billy laid there with a huge grin and puffing away on a big cigar.
After making his apologies Bassett headed for the door.
"Gaffer" said Billy
"Yes" said Harry
"You won't say anything to the Mrs will ya" replied Billy
""Only she doesn't know I've started smoking again"

 

[Keen Blade]

Enjoyed reading this, we could do with a Whitehurst upfront today.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...d-love-fighting-spirit-relegation-battle.html

Billy tightshirt ?
What about that tightshirt on your avatar Bruce ?
Can you please change it for the sake of my health ?
Every time there's a post from you I end up on the tit sites which distracts me from the Blades.
And I must be going blind , coz by the time I get back I can hardly read the threads.

 

[JJ Sefton]

At the risk of a kicking, he wasn't that good for us.

 

[vorpal blade]

Edlo

 

[Revolution]

I fondly remember Billy's two goals for us, the header against Wolves and the well placed shot after the mazy dribble against Watford (well, that's how I remember it - I didn't believe he had it in him!).

Plus his emergency display at the back against QPR when we were struggling in our 1-0 win on New Years Day 1991.

He was not popular at the time though, that's true.

 

[Jesus_was_a_Blade]

Enjoyed reading this, we could do with a Whitehurst upfront today.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...d-love-fighting-spirit-relegation-battle.html

Brilliant read that!

Might not be Blades related but still think a few of you will enjoy this one too, Brian Clough story well worth a listen;

https://www.facebook.com/talkSPORT/

They don't make 'em like they used to

 

[Grappler]

You have only got to look at the size of Billy's fists to know that he would have made a great boxer!

And it is not just the fact that he had a cracking knockout punch, but also (from reading all the stories about him) he seemed impervious to pain.

 

[BushBlade]

You have only got to look at the size of Billy's fists to know that he would have made a great boxer!

And it is not just the fact that he had a cracking knockout punch, but also (from reading all the stories about him) he seemed impervious to pain.

No sense, no feeling.

He once got nicked for drink driving after driving over a mile with a traffic cone stuck under his car. He legged it when he got pulled but the coppers recognised him.

 

[LSF]

Played against Billy twice before he turned pro. He was playing for Hickleton Colliery and only 17, he was fuckin huge and everybody just bounced off him.
I asked one of their blokes who the big lad was and he said Whitehurst, and told us a tale about him flattening the hard man of Thurnscoe when he was just 15, this hard man being in his 30's. Said nobody fucked with Billy after that.

 

[georgethecat]

Big Billy came on a short term deal for 1 month to play at glentoran when I was a youngster trying to break into the first team around about 1992/3. It quickly became apparent that he wasn't as mobile as had been hoped and after a very public ( and physical) altercation with the manager his deal was quickly paid up. Quite a character.

 

[BushBlade]

Played against Billy twice before he turned pro. He was playing for Hickleton Colliery and only 17, he was fuckin huge and everybody just bounced off him.
I asked one of their blokes who the big lad was and he said Whitehurst, and told us a tale about him flattening the hard man of Thurnscoe when he was just 15, this hard man being in his 30's. Said nobody fucked with Billy after that.

The hard man of Thurnscoe must have been reight hard having a go at a fifteen year old.

 

[LSF]

I should have explained better, Billy sought the hard man out and piled into him.

 

[Ecco1889]

 

[Bert]

In that article was this photo. More interesting than Whitehurst, who was crap, is the player in the background.

Tony Cunningham who started at Lincoln and played for Wednesday and Man City as well as Newcastle.
Bert often sees him around these days, after football he qualified as a solicitor. It's hard to think of any other ex-footballer who has followed a similar career route.

 

[Revolution]

In that article was this photo. More interesting than Whitehurst, who was crap, is the player in the background.

Tony Cunningham who started at Lincoln and played for Wednesday and Man City as well as Newcastle.
Bert often sees him around these days, after football he qualified as a solicitor. It's hard to think of any other ex-footballer who has followed a similar career route.

Stuart Ripley, who was on the wing for Blackburn in their Jack Walker days, also qualified as a solicitor after retiring. He does sports related work and has done some agency work too.

 

[Sheffsteel]

At the risk of a kicking, he wasn't that good for us.

Apart from at Hull City he wasn't that good at any club her went to.
He admits it himself he was basically a parks player with great physical attributes giving 100%.

At Newcastle he was subbed and their fans booed his poor display.
As he was walking off the pitch he stood on the centre of the pitch and gave the Geordies a clear wanker hand sign. He never played for them again. Imagine Hammond doing that to us last season?

Oxford fans say he almost always seems to have black eyes when he played for them. It later came out that he was having bare knuckle fights with the local gypsy community.
Their manager Ray Graydon had an altercation swearing at Billy and raising his voice during 1 match so Billy punched him and was promptly released from Oxford.

Even his own team mates (and some managers) were scared of him and whenever he went to a new club he made sure everyone knew who was boss. He is probably more famous for his off field scrapes/ antics than his toughness on the pitch.

Keith Curle tells a story where SU played Crystal Palace and Billy offered one of their players a scrap after the match which he agreed. Billy saw him in the post match players lounge and challenged him to a fight. There was about 5 Palace players backing their lad up and Billy was prepared to scrap with all 5 of their players. They eventually backed down and walked off.

Apparently he started writing an autobiography about 10 years ago called "footballs hardest man" but for some reason I still don't think it's ever been published or maybe it's not been completed yet?

 

[BushBlade]

Apart from at Hull City he wasn't that good at any club her went to.
He admits it himself he was basically a parks player with great physical attributes giving 100%.

At Newcastle he was subbed and their fans booed his poor display.
As he was walking off the pitch he stood on the centre of the pitch and gave the Geordies a clear wanker" sign.
He never played for them again. Imagine Hammond doing that to us last season?

Oxford fans say he almost always seems to have black eyes when he played for them. It later came out that he was having bare knuckle fights with the local gypsy community.
Their manager Ray Graydon had an altercation with Billy swearing at him and raising his voice during 1 match so Billy punched him and was promptly released from Oxford.

Even his own team mates (and some managers) were scared of him and whenever he went to a new club he made sure everyone knew who was boss. He is probably more famous for his off field scrapes/ antics than his toughness on the pitch.

Keith Curle tells a story where SU played Crystal Palace and Billy offered one of their players a scrap after the match which he agreed. Billy saw him in the post match players lounge and challenged him to a fight. There was about 5 Palace players backing their lad up and Billy was prepared to scrap with all 5 of their players. They eventually backed down and walked off.

Apparently he started writing an autobiography about 10 years ago called "footballs hardest man" but for some reason I still don't think it's ever been published or maybe it's not been completed yet?

Probably punched his ghost writer too.

 

[Grappler]

Back in the old days, every team had an "enforcer", like Johnny Giles, or Francis Lee. Jack Charlton tells some great stories about Nobby Stiles, all 5ft 6 of him, but scared of nothing on the pitch. If an opposition player was giving someone a hard time, they would tell Nobby and the next minute a crunching tackle would go in.

It's a different game now.

As for Big Bad Billy, the game does need characters and he certainly is one. Not sure why he never went in for boxing.

 

[BushBlade]

Back in the old days, every team had an "enforcer", like Johnny Giles, or Francis Lee. Jack Charlton tells some great stories about Nobby Stiles, all 5ft 6 of him, but scared of nothing on the pitch. If an opposition player was giving someone a hard time, they would tell Nobby and the next minute a crunching tackle would go in.

It's a different game now.

As for Big Bad Billy, the game does need characters and he certainly is one. Not sure why he never went in for boxing.

Lack of self control? I imagine once he'd been punched a couple of times he'd lose it and stick the nut on or something.

I'm not sure you can learn that as an adult, it needs to be drilled in when you're a kid.

 

[Grappler]

Lack of self control? I imagine once he'd been punched a couple of times he'd lose it and stick the nut on or something.

I'm not sure you can learn that as an adult, it needs to be drilled in when you're a kid.

Could be that.