Poshest player ever to play for United

[Nick Jansky]

Don’t know about United but back in the 70s when all lads collected football cards (yes cards not stickers) I remember having one with a Norwich player called Forbes Phillipson-Masters. Now for all I know he might have been as common as muck but surely he has to have the poshest name ever of any professional footballer!

He ended up playing for Plymouth when I was living down there. His full name was actually Ernest Forbes Phillipson-Masters. Which actually sounds like a Back 4!

He was a big, uncompromising centre half, took no prisoners.

 

[Grappler]

Admiral Lord Sir Nicholas Montague Montgomery Esq.

 

[bornablade]

In terms of education, Steve Charles studied at University while he was playing for us and I believe became a teacher after his playing days were over. He was also an excellent badminton player and played in the Sheffield Leagues.

I'm sure Steve Charles went to Jordanthorpe.

 

[Blade for Sale]

I have it on good authority that Christopher B' Asham belies his North East roots and gets out of the bath to have a piss. The very definition of 'lah di dah' up there.

 

[sitwell]

He was my tutor at college and DEFINITELY wasn't posh in the slightest!

Last I heard he was a counsellor

 

[JohnDenver]

Low bar for poshness emerging here.

 

[spongebobblade]

How many packs of cigarettes did you have to smoke a day to collect that card?

Topps trading cards. Always came with a bazooka Joe bubbly. Them were the days.....

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Ted Hemsley went to a grammar school, I think Frank Barlow and Tom Fenoughty too?

All the Fenoughtys went to my Alma Mater, De La Salle, including Michael and Nick

 

[XM657]

It's a fact his football shirts were never soiled with any sweat.

Perspiration old bean, don't you know. Yes your dead right in your assessment.

 

[Davalon]

I reckon David Tuttle was pretty posh

Spoke to him on the phone once completely unrelated to football and whilst very polite, I'm not sure I'd call him posh

 

[You Fill Up My Senses]

Hard to say cos compared with me even Egan in full drunken alez alez alez mode is a bit posh

 

[DifferentClass]

We briefly had a lad called Horatio Hirst on our books not too long back... got into Oxford and ended up moving to their academy.

 

[coaxingstar71]

bettsyblade86 WalkelyFan bornablade

Re. Steve Charles....

Someone suggested a player based on their education so I was merely pointing out that Steve went to Uni, cuz yeah all the others suggested ARE posh aren't they????

I KNOW he wasn't, met him a number of times, although he's a bit older than me and really nice bloke but not posh.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Maybe Jack Almond who played in the 1899 FA Cup final. He was one of the scorers in the 4-1 win against Derby.

Almond was the son of a wealthy Yorkshire brewer and was reported to have inherited between £6,000 and £12,000 when his father died in 1897 - a huge sum of money for the time. After he finished playing it was reported that he was working in the Doncaster locomotive works in 1910 but there is little evidence of what happened to him after that. It was initially reported that he had died in Liverpool in 1912 but there were two reports in the Sheffield press of him attending a game in Leeds in 1931, stating that he was the assistant manager of the Griffin Hotel in the city and was set to move to run a hotel in Bangor.

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Heroes from the past. Lost to the world without trace.

 

[Stevo]

Chrissy morgan

 

[woody_7]

Lord Lundstram ????

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

Billy Whitehurst.

Sorry, I misread it as the punchiest player to play for us.

 

[Old Programme seller]

I was thinking Billy Whitehurst that shows how low down I must be

 

[corner_flag]

Well, Ben Osborn reads books

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Well, Ben Osborn reads books

And that makes him very intelligent as related by Callum Robinson on YouTube.

 

[Kev Gee]

I reckon David Tuttle was pretty posh

Were-as Andy Scott was basically a shoe shiner when we picked him up.

 

[mattbianco1]

Only 2 that spring to my mind are Dave Kitson and James Wilson (the Man U one). But both already mentioned

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Always thought Brian Deane was posh , Well spoken /Dressed smart , never aggressive and a gentleman.

 

[St Albans Blade]

OK, I admit its an international break type question! The only one that I can think of is Dave Kitson, who sounded posher than I thought he would!

Simple. John Cutbush!

 

[bladesmanluke]

Only 2 that spring to my mind are Dave Kitson and James Wilson (the Man U one). But both already mentioned

What a cock that Wilson was.

God I hated him

 

[Rodley]

Phil Starbuck must be 'posh' nowadays after the success of his coffee shops.

People visit them religiously!

 

[Rodley]

What a cock that Wilson was.

God I hated him

James “Heart of a Pea” Wilson

 

[bypassblade]

Ted Hemsley went to a grammar school, I think Frank Barlow and Tom Fenoughty too?

Silent I think Hemsley's best school was the bookies that used to stand on John Street, once saw him run out of said building about 2:45ish with a mac on over his kit.

 

[bypassblade]

If you listened to the late Justin Fashanu he was very eloquent when he spoke RIP son.

 

[Bert]

If you listened to the late Justin Fashanu he was very eloquent when he spoke RIP son.

Worth 5 minutes of anybodies time reading this.

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