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Why is that when players retire, they seem to think they can just let their bodies go to hell?

Look at the pic on the offiicial site - there we have Steve Conroy, Keith Edwards, Chico Hamilton and Tony Currie. None are exactly fine figures of men, but Currie is 60 and doesn't look that bad for his age and and Hamilton looks pretty average. But Conroy and Edwards!!!

If you didn't know them and you were asked to guess what jobs those two had been doing 25 years ago, you would run through about 6732 before you got to professional athletes!
 

Darren said:
Why is that when players retire, they seem to think they can just let their bodies go to hell?

Look at the pic on the offiicial site - there we have Steve Conroy, Keith Edwards, Chico Hamilton and Tony Currie. None are exactly fine figures of men, but Currie is 60 and doesn't look that bad for his age and and Hamilton looks pretty average. But Conroy and Edwards!!!

If you didn't know them and you were asked to guess what jobs those two had been doing 25 years ago, you would run through about 6732 before you got to professional athletes!
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That explains why im overweight

Must have been a footballer in a previous life
 
I know they're not ex-united players.....

But if you look at Hirst and Waddle, and this goes to really validate your point Darren.
 
It is easily done. If you're a professional athlete and you are shovelling away 8,000 calories a day, but also burning off 8,000 in training etc. you stay slim and svelte like SF (some player by the way) :D :D

However, given that the diet may not have been all that brilliant for professional footballers 20 years ago and more, once you stop playing that 8,000 calories of pies, chips, mars bars and Stones' is soon going to collect around the midriff. However in the case of Hirst and Waddle, this is to be applauded as pork roasts better with a bit of fat!
 
Kevin Gage is another who has slammed on quite a bit of timber in his retirement
 
Darren said:
Why is that when players retire, they seem to think they can just let their bodies go to hell?

Look at the pic on the offiicial site - there we have Steve Conroy, Keith Edwards, Chico Hamilton and Tony Currie. None are exactly fine figures of men, but Currie is 60 and doesn't look that bad for his age and and Hamilton looks pretty average. But Conroy and Edwards!!!

If you didn't know them and you were asked to guess what jobs those two had been doing 25 years ago, you would run through about 6732 before you got to professional athletes!
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Which player is which? Isn't Edwards the one on the right? He looks in decent shape!
 
What about those who were 'pudgy' before retirement - Paddy Buckley for a start.
 
Given the polyester leotards and hotpants players wore in the 80s Id say theyve earned a right to blob up in their autmun years.
 
very important for us all to keep fit n trim, owd BB just sits at a desk most days spouting bollox on the phone an visiting a well knbown football forum typing bollox :D thats why most days i cycle 20miles.
 
SouthEssexBlade said:
It is easily done. If you're a professional athlete and you are shovelling away 8,000 calories a day, but also burning off 8,000 in training etc. you stay slim and svelte like SF (some player by the way) :D :D
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Just wait till I get fit!

:D:D:D
 

Pinchy said:
What about those who were 'pudgy' before retirement - Paddy Buckley for a start.
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Remember watching him play for the reserves. Yes, he was overweight but he was quite quick and had some skill. Steve Kindon was very fast despite looking overweight. Ferenc Puskas was podgy during his playing career but what a player, though.

Having played football in local leagues between 1979 and 1987 there were quite a few very overweight players who were really good players
 
Paddy scored on his debut - a 1-1 draw at Arsenal. It was on MOTD.
 
Pat Buckley has been a family friend for almost 30yrs now,and I am glad to tell you that he still keeps an eye out for our result on a weekly basis,and remembers his time at the Lane with fondness.

Having been involved in the managerial side of the non-league scene at Kiveton Park,Sheffield Club,Retford Town,Gainsborough Trinity and Goole Town after leaving the professional game,and also taken time out to run a newsagents on Gateford Road in Worksop,he's now back in Scotland,living just to the East of his home town of Leith.

BTW,during his time in non-league management,he was responsible for signing a number of ex-Blades including Gary Marrow (remember him?),Ray McHale,and one Anthony Currie esquire....
 
Pinchy said:
Paddy scored on his debut - a 1-1 draw at Arsenal. It was on MOTD.
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No he didn't. The Arsenal game was on 13/1/68 and PB did indeed make his debut then. Colin Addison scored in a 1-1 draw. PB's first goal was at Preston on 17/3/69 in a 2-2 draw. He scored again in the next game (v Bolton at home on 22/3/69) and that was it as far as scoring went.

I believe both his goals were pens.
 
Darren said:
No he didn't. The Arsenal game was on 13/1/68 and PB did indeed make his debut then. Colin Addison scored in a 1-1 draw. PB's first goal was at Preston on 17/3/69 in a 2-2 draw. He scored again in the next game (v Bolton at home on 22/3/69) and that was it as far as scoring went.

I believe both his goals were pens.
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Thanks Darren. Middle age playing tricks again! It was so unusual for us to be on MOTD and I remeber it being significant in terms of Paddy Buckley. My scrambled mind has done the rest. Luckily there's always someone to put me right on these things.

Colin Addison is one of my all-time favourite Blades.
 
In Paddy's home debut (home to Man City in which we lost 3-0 and they clinched the league title a few months later) in Jan 1968, he made a solo run to the penalty box (we were a goal down at the time) selling the dummy to a few city players before he got tripped. Ref awarded a penalty to us but Woody had his effort saved by Ken Mulhearn
 
Grecian2000 said:
Did Franny Lee play? Now he was a fat bastard.
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He jpoined City from Bolton in October 1967 so he probably will have played in that match at BDTBL in January 1968 unless he was injured or suspended (I remember him fighting with Ted Hemsley in the 1-1 draw in November 1972 and Lee got sent off by the ref)

Here is his famous punch up with Norman Hunter in Nov 1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8kxMnc5KUs
 
As I understand things, we had Francis Lee almost bagged as a player about the time of the punch-up. We'd agreed terms with the player and also his club, but then the board got cold feet and thought the fee for an ageing porker was a bit much, so we opted to pay £100,000 for Chris Guthrie instead.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but :eek:
 
Go on then, lets have a fully figured United XI...

To start off

GK Foulke

RB
CB
CB
LB Unsworth

RM
CM
CM
LM Buckley

F Shipperley
F Windass
 

Grecian2000 said:
Would I be doing Darren Bullock a dis-service to suggest he was a little on the portly side? Or was he just really slow?
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Bullock is a good call

GK Foulke

RB
CB
CB
LB Unsworth

RM
CM
CM Bullock
LM Buckley

F Shipperley
F Windass
 
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