Ball Inn ground March 1971

[Silent Blade]

 

[Paisley Blade]

Mackenzie (?) Hockey and Speight. Not sure re back of head man !

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[INTAKE BLADE]

I thought it was Freddie Starr RIP
Great pic

 

[Silent Blade]

Mackenzie (?) Hockey and Speight. Not sure re back of head man !

Not MacKenzie. He is a celebrity who passed away yesterday!

 

[Silent Blade]

I thought it was Freddie Starr RIP
Great pic

Correct

 

[Paisley Blade]

Bloody hell, so it is.

 

[BerksBlade]

Any idea of the story behind that Silent? I'm guessing he was booked at the Fiesta and fancied an impromptu training session with the Blades?

 

[finlaytheblade]

Any idea of the story behind that Silent? I'm guessing he was booked at the Fiesta and fancied an impromptu training session with the Blades?

Can't remember the story behind it but he did spend a few days with the blades squad

 

[blademark]

I thought it was Freddie Starr RIP
Great pic

So did I mate.

 

[Silent Blade]

Any idea of the story behind that Silent? I'm guessing he was booked at the Fiesta and fancied an impromptu training session with the Blades?

Yes, it was said in the programme against Blackburn that he was doing shows at Sheffield nitespots at the time.

Not sure if the club or the players invited him to training or that he asked the club if he would join in a training session or two.

 

[Silent Blade]

Not sure re back of head man !

Looks like Ian Holmes?

 

[BerksBlade]

Looks like Ian Holmes?

It does. Or possibly Goulding?

 

[vorpal blade]

Was Freddie Starr quite a good footballer in his youth? .... I thought he might have been, I know that other Scouse comedian .... y'know the one who Mum's chip shop got bombed in the War was ......?

(Stan Boardman, I looked it up)

 

[Ceasefire]

Alan Ogden ?

 

[Silent Blade]

Alan Ogden ?

You mean the one next to Speight? Ogden didnt have sideburns.

 

[Bert]

Look like Hope on the right

 

[Silent Blade]

Look like Hope on the right

Hope is a lot taller than Speight. Looks like Ian Holmes to me.

 

[Bert]

Hope is a lot taller than Speight. Looks like Ian Holmes to me.

Was silent, was.

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Hope is a lot taller than Speight. Looks like Ian Holmes to me.

It looks like a bird (feathered variety) wearing a tracksuit to me. But then I'm on a weird trip today.

 

[Linz]

And the state of the Ball Inn pub now...