Ian Porterfield

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John Ryan scored the goal, the goals are on You Tube unfortunately I don't know how to put on here.
 
Was the Bob Hatton goal in the 1 0 League Cup win against Arsenal?
 
1973Blade said:
Was the Bob Hatton goal in the 1 0 League Cup win against Arsenal?
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Yes in the first leg, Keith Waugh caught an Arsenal corner at the Lane End, took a quick kick in whick Bob Hatton controlled on the left and beat two Arsenal defenders on a diagonal run to just outside the right of the penalty box before firing in a low shot past Pat Jennings.
 
1973Blade said:
Today would have been Ian Porterfield's 70th birthday. He is not considered to be one of our greatest managers, but I think I'm right in saying he is the only manager who left the club two divisions higher than when he arrived.
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oldblade said:
Also during every season that he was here, the club finished in a higher league position than the preceding season. In other words he improved the club's league position in every single season that he was here.
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Came across this thread after finding out that Porterfield was Chelsea's first manager in the Premier League era.

I do believe Mr Porterfield can be joined in the two categories above by Chris Wilder. Shows just how remarkable the job done over the last three years has been.
 
1973Blade said:
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I’ve explained before I pulled in that car park to write a shopping list down. I dropped my pen, bent into the back of the car to pick it up and my trousers caught on the gearstick pulling them down when that backed woman opened my car door and started thrashing me with a branch while all those people just stood and watched. Not one tried to help they just Stood and used their camera phones.
 
6.42, my favourite goal ever. If I remember correctly it was lifted off the floor with a pass, took another 2 passes never touching the ground before Quinn volleyed it home.
 
1985 opening game of Season away at the old Victoria ground, had finished work that saturday morning, went home grabbed a bit of lunch, said ta ra to mum and dad, jumped in mi ford fiesta, drove down to stoke, parked up and went to Game, I know Withe got one poss 2, we won 3-1. Came out of ground had forgotten where i had parked car and spent 1/2 hr trying to remember where it was, found came back home the scenic route through the derbyshire dales and peak district, fantactic sat evening drive along with the result.
 
oldblade said:
From memory, I think Dooley's biography suggests that his contract was that long, but I think he seemed to feel that Porterfield started treating Brealey with a certain amount of contempt and this also played a part in his undoing.

Added to that our attendances were almost at a post war low (reached their lowest point in the season after he left) and the crowds were getting restless. At that time it seemed that the higher up the league we went, the lower our attendances went.
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Almost all Football was dying on its Arse in the mid 80s to be fair. Our massive Neighbours we’re getting about 15k in the top flight, Man U were rarely getting above 30k
 



northsomersetblade said:
You young whippersnappers...what you have to remember is that the team that got relegated to the 4th were dire, but in horrid parallels to today the individual players seemed better than the feeble performances they turned in (Conroy, Casey, Garner, Houston, Tibbott, Trusson, Matthews, Givens, Charles, Hatton, Ryan, Neville, I've got the Walsall program in front of me). There was more than a hint of Martin Peters doing a David Weir, but there we were, in the basement. Porterfield was the bright young up and coming at Rotherham, we promptly nicked him off them over the summer, when he bought Edwards, Morris and Stan the man. That next season was the best to be a Blade that I've ever had. Sure he lost the plot a bit after a few years but I have no idea what might have become of us without his brilliant handling of the situation. Big respect and RIP clubfoot.
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Old enough to have been there in 4th division. Whilst clearly the lowest ebb in league position i strangely still have happy memories of the promotion year, seem to remember we hardly lost a game whilst playing attractive football. For me Porterfield did well for us, it’s a long time ago but one thing’s clear in my mind it was definitely a lot more enjoyable than the season we we’ve had in the Prem
 
1973Blade said:
I once walked past Steve Charles at Limb Valley, near Whirlow Park. Not relevant to your discussion I know but a chance for me to name drop!
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I once sae Steve Charles play for us at Exeter. We lost 3-1. All that way down there only for our inspirational left back Tony Moore to score an own goal after three minutes.
 
He was the the stereotypical Scot. Too stubborn for his own good.

I seem to remember he only brought Edwards back that day after he had dropped him for a number of games after Edwards had told him a few home truths about the squad. Brought King Edwards back for that match and he bagged twice. Porters was sacked after the match. I liked Porterfield though. Got us back on track. Bearing in mind I had only known Happy Harry and Martin Peters, IP was a level above. I joined the army in 85 and had a poster of Ian Porterfield's boys up in the barracks. Boys of steel. Us and them.
 
1973Blade said:
Today would have been Ian Porterfield's 70th birthday. He is not considered to be one of our greatest managers, but I think I'm right in saying he is the only manager who left the club two divisions higher than when he arrived.
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I was going to say Wilder's done it as well but then noticed how old this post was!
 
I remember when Porterfield joined us, he was given a 10 year contract, unheard of for a football manager. He lasted 4 so left with a decent pay off.

In Edwards' book, he says that when we were in the 4th Division the club had a 1st Division mentality, but when we got to the 2nd Division the club had a 4th Division mentality. Around 1985, Porterfield wanted to sign players like Ray Houghton and Peter Nicholas, I think the fee for Houghton would have been about £250k at the time, but the club, Brealey, wouldn't sanction the moves, so I think as a way of sticking two fingers up, he signed what became known as 'Dad's Army', with Thompson, Withe, McNaught, Mel Eves and Dennis Mortimer, who was actually really good until he got injured, all joining the club. Eves was decent too to be fair and scored a cracking winning goal against Leeds at Bramall Lane. That was the game when the Leeds fans ripped up the seats in the Bramall Lane end and threw them on the pitch.

The fact that this all happened nearly 40 years ago seems incredible to me.
 
1973Blade said:
Today would have been Ian Porterfield's 80th birthday, very sad that he died at the young age of 62. In the end the football we played under him wasn't great, but he gave me some of my happiest United memories watching our fourth division season finishing top.
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Signed my sons jr blades card the morning he was born
 
1973Blade said:
Today would have been Ian Porterfield's 80th birthday, very sad that he died at the young age of 62. In the end the football we played under him wasn't great, but he gave me some of my happiest United memories watching our fourth division season finishing top.
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I always felt that he did have us playing good football, when teams allowed us to, but we had a soft underbelly and often got bullied by bigger more physical teams at the time, such as Wimbledon, Oxford and Millwall.
 



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