Focus on... Geoff Salmons

[coaxingstar71]

Found this on google images - great photo and some interesting answers, especially "Biggest Drag"

 

[Blade for Sale]

Ah yes that wonderful country of South America

 

[Bert]

Ah yes that wonderful country of South America

We didn't win promotion either when we beat Cardiff.

 

[I should coco]

We didn't win promotion either when we beat Cardiff.

He hates steak and chips.....

 

[Paisley Blade]

Plus Cassius Clay had changed his name well before this interview.

More holes than a cheese grater this one Geoff.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Look at that shirt, shorts and socks combo, United kit perfection.

 

[cahill]

Always though Geoff Salmons was a bit unsung, it was alwaysTC and Woody

 

[fatpat]

adored Sir Geoff as a kid. Flash git with his Triumph 2000, bet he never drove that into the country of south america

 

[LondonBlade89]

"I have many friends"

 

[Swannyblade]

Hard to argue with Claudia Cardinale though

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Get the feeling that as he was working his way down that list of questions, he was thinking “why doesn’t this journalist just sod off and leave me in peace?”

Very good player in a great team, ran Tommy Smith into an absolute froth at the Lane...

 

[YES Blade]

Biggest Drag in Soccer?!? Did people talk like that in the 70s?

 

[Newbury Blade]

One of the fastest we’ve had down the left wing, thrilling to watch on his day. John Harris confused the opposition by putting him in the No 8 shirt.

 

[haich1889]

Thought he was better than Currie at one point. My first experience as a kid of Blades selling their best players. Broke my heart when they sold him to Stoke. Another in the category 'Best not to play for England'.

By the way when he was sold my dad uttered his immortal & much repeated since phrase 'ugh ... what do you expect from a team that sold Jones & Birchenhall in the same year?'.

 

[Newbury Blade]

That forward line actually had three wingers (Woodward, Salmons, Scullion/Reece), plus a converted winger (Dearden) at No 9. With TC pulling the strings, plenty of pace and lots of options. Devastating when they all clicked, eg 7-0 v Ipswich.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

A quality player who would have been perfect for our current Left Wingback role .

I met him after he retired when he was running a pub - somewhere near Wath I seem to remember . I also remember he served a superb pint of Tetley's and I thought it would be rude to leave without having several .

 

[I should coco]

I met him after he retired when he was running a pub - somewhere near Wath I seem to remember

Mexboro IIRC and I think he co-owned it.

 

[pommpey]

Miscellaneous Likes: Having a drink on a Saturday night

Transl: "Getting fucking bladdered, telling the landlord to fuck off and getting pie and hips on t'way ooerm."

pommpey

 

[TaipeiBlade]

"I have many friends"

I've got more friends than you've got cows.

 

[BushBlade]

Plus Cassius Clay had changed his name well before this interview.

More holes than a cheese grater this one Geoff.

If you’d have called him Cassius he’d have chinned you.

 

[BushBlade]

Hard to argue with Claudia Cardinale though

Not if she’s telling you to get out of the tree and stop spying on her. It’s a public road and I’ve got every right to climb the trees.

 

[Silent Blade]

Plus Cassius Clay had changed his name well before this interview.

More holes than a cheese grater this one Geoff.

As a confused young lad, I thought Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali were two different boxers that looked like each other

 

[Bert]

As a confused young lad, I thought Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali were two different boxers that looked like each other

Clay would have beaten Ali.

 

[Silent Blade]

Clay would have beaten Ali.

I read that he was at his best before he got banned.

 

[Blend-it-like-Harris]

If you’d have called him Cassius he’d have chinned you.

Most folks did though

 

[Snowman]

Biggest Drag in Soccer?!? Did people talk like that in the 70s?

Oh yeah man! Like it was such a drag to do anything because there was so much pot smoking going down.

 

[Cassius Kray]

Sadly for Geoff he's still never met me.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Geoff used to have the Manvers Arms pub, somewhere out Wath direction. I chatted to him a few times.

(Did he mean me?)

 

[flashinblade1889]

I've got more friends than you've got cows.

You feed beef burgers to swans..........

 

[shorehamkid]

Geoff had gate pub at Swinton for years