El Matador - Tony Currie?

[Silent Blade]

Remember how he used to flick the ball up the side of his leg and catch it when he was taking a throw-in. probably because he couldn't be arsed to bend down and pick it up. Whatever, but I still don't know how he did that.

It was stamping on the ball rather than flicking it up. In the warm up at Tony Kenworthy's testimonial, Simon Stainrod asked TC to demonstrate that trick, TC did it with ease. Stainrod tried to do it but kept failing in about three attempts!

 

[Tunstall Fred]

TC,would be playing for Real Madrid or Barcelona if he was playing today

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Look at the poise,look at the balance,Sir Leonard in the background i reckon,Silent Blade would this be the afternoon game in 72,we won 3-0?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

TC,would be playing for Real Madrid or Barcelona if he was playing today

..only if chocolate digestives were available locally

 

[snootyfenooty]

He was very strong at shielding the ball and could look after himself

He could dish it out as well. He used to get particularly miffed when Woody got chopped and was usually first in at the ensuing argy-bargy. I would say quite a few miscreants got his stud prints up the side of their legs.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

He could dish it out as well. He used to get particularly miffed when Woody got chopped and was usually first in at the ensuing argy-bargy. I would say quite a few miscreants got his stud prints up the side of their legs.

He did just that in a clip of a game somebody put on recently,had a pop at the Coventry centre half after the big lump had kicked Woody

 

[Robby Blade]

The players of today could ride a tackle if they wished. Unfortunatly now it is easier just to go down and win a free kick. Im sure TC would be doing the same if he was playing today. He would be on 30 goals a season from them.

 

[Silent Blade]

Look at the poise,look at the balance,Sir Leonard in the background i reckon,Silent Blade would this be the afternoon game in 72,we won 3-0?

0-0 in March 1973. Woody had a penalty saved by Bobby Ferguson. Ref ordered a re-take, Woody's 2nd attempt was to blast it to the middle but it was blocked by Ferguson's legs and the ball flew high in the air and it was cleared when the ball came down. Highlights of the match was shown on YTV in the next day. There was a photo of me with Ted Hemsley and two other Blades fans (in the Leagueliner train coming back from Arsenal the previous Saturday) in the middle pages of the programme for that match!

 

[Tunstall Fred]

0-0 in March 1973. Woody had a penalty saved by Bobby Ferguson. Ref ordered a re-take, Woody's 2nd attempt was to blast it to the middle but it was blocked by Ferguson's legs and the ball flew high in the air and it was cleared when the ball came down. Highlights of the match was shown on YTV in the next day. There was a photo of me with Ted Hemsley and two other Blades fans (in the Leagueliner train coming back from Arsenal the previous Saturday) in the middle pages of the programme for that match!

I remember that photo on the leagueliner,i know the lad who is in the background,remember me telling you?

 

[Silent Blade]

He could dish it out as well. He used to get particularly miffed when Woody got chopped and was usually first in at the ensuing argy-bargy. I would say quite a few miscreants got his stud prints up the side of their legs.

Shalalalafenoughty described his tackle on Liverpool's hard man Tommy Smith in this forum. Will look for this

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember that photo on the leagueliner,i know the lad who is in the background,remember me telling you?

Yes you did. Does he look the same now?

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Yes you did. Does he look the same now?

I reckon you would be able to recognise him,so yes

 

[Silent Blade]

He could dish it out as well. He used to get particularly miffed when Woody got chopped and was usually first in at the ensuing argy-bargy. I would say quite a few miscreants got his stud prints up the side of their legs.

Found it!

I agree.

I posted this a while back on another thread involving memories of Currie:

"A tackle on Tommy Smith, probably in the home game against Liverpool in October 1974 which we won 1-0. Liverpool had a corner at the Kop end and it was partially cleared, the ball kicked up in the air and dropping to Smith who was coming in at a rate of knots about thirty yards out, eye on the ball and intending to meet it on the volley. As usual, Smith had been dishing it out in his usual hard-man style and TC had obviously had enough. He ran out towards Smith but instead of just charging the shot down, he flew in two-footed and took him out about knee-high. Smith went down in agony and all the Liverpool players played hell up with TC, Keegan prominent among them. I think Currie was booked. He was a fantastic, creative player but he had a hard side to him, a characteristic I believe he shared with Jimmy Hagan."

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Found it!

I was at that game, on John St. If memory serves, the tackle looked like he caught him waist high rather than the knee, double red card in a game today . I think Ray Clemence also left with a massive shiner as well.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

What about this exocet from 45 yards from TC,against possibly the best club side in the world at the time

 

[snootyfenooty]

The players of today could ride a tackle if they wished. Unfortunatly now it is easier just to go down and win a free kick. Im sure TC would be doing the same if he was playing today. He would be on 30 goals a season from them.

Yeah, maybe, but you had to be able to ride a tackle in those days, it wasn't optional or you would have gone off on a stretcher. We're not talking about a Robbie Savage-type dirty player, we're talking about the likes of Bremner and Harris who wouldn't have batted an eyelid if they'd have crippled you for life.

 

[BushBlade]

What about this exocet from 45 yards from TC,against possibly the best club side in the world at the time

I thought it was a slow motion replay until I saw the slow motion replay. More like 35 yards and if an Exocet travelled that slow the HMS Sheffield would still be sailing. And WTF was Hockey doing for the equaliser? Looks like he neshed it.

 

[snootyfenooty]

I thought it was a slow motion replay until I saw the slow motion replay. More like 35 yards and if an Exocet travelled that slow the HMS Sheffield would still be sailing. And WTF was Hockey doing for the equaliser? Looks like he neshed it.

Spoken like a true Blade!

 

[Tunstall Fred]

I thought it was a slow motion replay until I saw the slow motion replay. More like 35 yards and if an Exocet travelled that slow the HMS Sheffield would still be sailing. And WTF was Hockey doing for the equaliser? Looks like he neshed it.

I was never any good at distances,and with United and goals scored from distance i am prone to exaggerate,the 50 yarder Sir Keith scored at Port Vale confirms this,even so to beat one of the best goalkeepers n the world at the time from 35 yards is not a bad effort,wouldn't you agree?

 

[BushBlade]

I was never any good at distances,and with United and goals scored from distance i am prone to exaggerate,the 50 yarder Sir Keith scored at Port Vale confirms this,even so to beat one of the best goalkeepers n the world at the time from 35 yards is not a bad effort,wouldn't you agree?

Seen worse.

I estimated it to be about the same distance from the 18 yard line as the distance between the 18 yard line to the goal line, maybe a touch less so roughly 18 + 18 = 36ish.

As I said in a previous post, imagine him with a modern ball. That would have flown in like Jaggi's against Leeds or Brownie's against them.

 

[georgethecat]

Forget about the nostalgia. On Sunday morning as we waited outside bdtbl prior to the game I spotted TC and hastily asked him for a photo with my young lad (aged 7). TC was very obliging so afterwards I explained to the kid who the man was (united's greatest ever player). The kids response 'when can we get Leon Clarkes autograph?' The youth of today

 

[BushBlade]

Forget about the nostalgia. On Sunday morning as we waited outside bdtbl prior to the game I spotted TC and hastily asked him for a photo with my young lad (aged 7). TC was very obliging so afterwards I explained to the kid who the man was (united's greatest ever player). The kids response 'when can we get Leon Clarkes autograph?' The youth of today

At his age it's disappointing he didn't say 'what about Jimmy Hagan, Dad. Or Billy Gillespie, Nudger or Harry Johnson?' They know nowt these days.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Remember how he used to flick the ball up the side of his leg and catch it when he was taking a throw-in. probably because he couldn't be arsed to bend down and pick it up. Whatever, but I still don't know how he did that.

He did it........







...because he could.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Was great when he fucked off to Leeds for more money
What a ledge

 

[snootyfenooty]

Was great when he fucked off to Leeds for more money
What a ledge

He got fucked off to Leeds for more money.........for the club. His knees were going by then anyway.

 

[Yewsman]

cant resist

Still remember that game so well. What's not on the video is when TC was running down the John Street touchline beating WH defenders and blowing kisses to the crowd as he did it. If I remember rightly this was just after the "quality goal" when he just went on to give a cameo performance. "He can do magic".

UTB

 

[super_pig]

I thought it was a slow motion replay until I saw the slow motion replay. More like 35 yards and if an Exocet travelled that slow the HMS Sheffield would still be sailing. And WTF was Hockey doing for the equaliser? Looks like he neshed it.

old ball

 

[Terry Poole]

Anyone seen the new Tony Currie biography and know if it's a rehash of the 'Quality Player' one of a few years ago? It is the same author but not seen the new one yet to check.

Great memries....... But as op asked - is 'Matador' the same as 'Quality Player' .. I suspect it is as the same author but would good to have it confirmed. Otherwise I will have to take my copy of 'Quality Player' into WH Smith's and compare pages !

 

[Silent Blade]

Great memries....... But as op asked - is 'Matador' the same as 'Quality Player' .. I suspect it is as the same author but would good to have it confirmed. Otherwise I will have to take my copy of 'Quality Player' into WH Smith's and compare pages !

I have read the two books. When I was reading "Matador" I think there were some material in it that I hadnt read in "Quality Player"

 

[Snowman]

I think they'd have been far more inclined to kick him off the pitch .

Many tried. It was a different game. There was the ever present fear of a Chopper Harris though the ankles from the rear, but you were brought up to anticipate that. If you played in that era you moved or you were doomed. It's not like today when the clever thing is to stop/stand and draw the foul. Then if you stood still you got injured.