Good link
grafikhaus although I never had you down as a Daily Hate reader.
GT News in Crosspool this morning had sold out of
Völkischer Beobachter. I've taken out a subscription.
The bit with Don Revie should make everybody's blood boil:
Don Revie, however, did not care to notice, which goes some way to explaining why Currie’s international career became a source of frustration, both to him and those who knew him.
‘One day, after a training session, he got me, Alan Hudson, Charlie George, Rodney Marsh, Frank Worthington and Stan Bowles together at Bisham Abbey. There was no game, it was just a get-together,’ Currie recalls.
‘And he told the six of us we didn’t figure in his plans. No explanation. We looked at each other and walked off. I was in most of his squads but he only played me once in three years, Switzerland away.
‘It might have been different had Alf Ramsey kept his job. It was a big mistake getting rid of him. I think they realised that in the end. It set us back 10 years. We never qualified for the World Cup in ’74 and ’78, and they were my year
Our best gifted players were cast away by the bingo loving, match fixing DirtyLeeds wanker!
Agree. I went to the England v West Germany friendly at Wembley on 12th March 1975. I'd had a T-shirt made with 'Currie for England - Revie Out!'. Most people who saw it said 'I agree with the first bit, but not the second.' If only they'd had my unfailing footballing insight... TC didn't play in that match but, TBF, the midfield was Alan Ball, Colin Bell and Alan Hudson.
Revie's 'achievements' at Leeds were entirely down to gamesmanship, clogging, cheating and intimidating the ref. Why the old duffers at the FA didn't realise this, I don't know - but it makes the later appointment of Allardyce more understandable. At one time, useless managers used to get the England job based on their ability to look good in a blazer, but now it's changed. Nowadays, it's a waistcoat. But back to TC.
"Moreover, it cements his status as the club’s greatest ever player.." Many older fans - including my dad - may disagree and think it was Jimmy Hagan. But different times etc.
I was at Currie's debut at home to Spurs on 26th Feb. 1968 where we won 3-2 and Currie got the second. I was also at his last game for the Blades on May 4, 1976 where an already (massively) relegated Blades drew 1-1 at home to Birmingham in front of 30,782. A month later he was gone. To fucking Leeds. I was at Old Trafford on April 23rd 1973 (Bobby Charlton's last home game):
Two absolute legends - BC and TC
I was at the night game v Arsenal on Sept. 4, 1973 where we won 5-0 and TC sat on the ball. I was on the kop on March 22, 1975 where TC scored a couple in a 3-2 win over West Ham ('A quality goal by a quality player' - I ended up about 20 steps down from where I'd started!) and I was there on April 26th 1975 where Currie scored in a 4-0 win over Leicester and the world-famous 'Kiss'
Finally, I was at Wembley on 17th October 1973 when a 1-1 draw with Poland saw England fail to qualify for the 1974 World Cup in Germany (I went anyway). In an incredibly one-sided match that saw England take 36 shots to Poland's two, force 26 corners, hit the woodwork twice and have four efforts cleared off the line.
Here, TC, Martin Chivers, Martin Peters, Mick Shannon and Roy McFarland trudge off
Food for thought? The great TC was capped 17 times for England. Carlton Palmer got 18 caps.