Definitely one of the best games of the Currie era funny I never use to miss a game at home in the 70s went to plenty away but I can't remember in detail many of the football moments but the agro I remember in fine detail.
Tony Currie - your vintage moments
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Definitely one of the best games of the Currie era funny I never use to miss a game at home in the 70s went to plenty away but I can't remember in detail many of the football moments but the agro I remember in fine detail.
Silent Blade
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That is correct, it was our 2nd goal. Barry Wagstaff and Gil Reece were our other scorers in the 3-2 win. TC missed the next game because he was getting married!
Silent Blade
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Remember that well. Lou Macari opened the scoring with a header (for a small player he scored quite a few goals with his head- must have been an excellent jumper or was very good at predicting the right place to head in a cross ). TC's goal was a half hit shot that fooled everyone in the penalty box. woody's winner was in the dying minutes and it seemed to take ages for the ball to bounce 3 ot 4 times towards the post and then into the net
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It was the 2nd goal when the L**ds players went mental with the ref for not awarding a foul at the other end. A long ball went to the left side and I think Scullion crossed low for Dearden to beat Paul Madeley for the goal and Gary Sprake was in no man's land. The 3rd goal was Flynn heading Woody's corner across the goalmouth and Colquhoun headed it in
Silent Blade
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The TC corner/Woody volley resulting in a goal happened 3 times in the 1973-74 season. In the 5-0 win against Arsenal, the Upton Park match you mentioned and Woody's hat trick clincher in the 4-2 win against Southampton in December
Silent Blade
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Yes, it was at BDTBL but in the season before the previous season
Jan 1972 - we were losing 5-0, Alan Ball sat on the ball just before the halfway line near the JSS. Nip Hague from Dronfield was so furious, he was going to run on the pitch to hit Ball but his friends got hold of him and made him stay in the John Street Terraces
Oct 1972 - we won 1-0, Ball got sent off and the Blades fans were gleeful
Sept 1973 - TC sat at the ball. Unfortunately I missed the game cos I was at boarding school
I have fond memories of most of those already mentioned but the TC magic moment that I still remember the most vividly didn't involve his footballing skills but the heavenly talent that he possessed. I was stood on the John Street Terrace on a really wet night and there was a young boy at the front by the railings getting soaked to the skin. The ball went out of play for a United throw in, TC went to collect it from near where the young boy stood. The boy said to our hero " Tony, please make it stop raining"!
In those days "Tony Currie could walk on water tra la la la la la la"
In those days "Tony Currie could walk on water tra la la la la la la"
Pittsburg Blade
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I have a memory of a game against Leicester City in our promotion season...Keith Weller (also not a bad player) had jinked his way brilliantly into our area and was just about to pull the trigger when TC slid in and hooked the ball from behind so quickly that Weller air kicked. TC then stood and with minimum back lift sent the ball 50 yards upfield to a sprinting Woody who took it on and then smashed a thunderbolt against the bar. I remember the crowd being stunned into silence over the best 20 secs of footy skill you'll ever see.
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A game against Stoke when Alan Hudson had been picked ahead of TC in the England team. He spent the entire game looking for Hudson so he could nutmeg him before picking out a pass. There is is a picture in the Green 'Un from that game of four Stoke defenders all going the wrong way in the box as TC went past them
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Quite often TC would go past one player with great skill and wave his both hands at the crowd but there was one moment when he ended up on his arse not long after waving at the crowd! It was in the 1st half of the Boxing Day match against Middlesbrough in 1975. Boro's right back, John Craggs was challenging TC in the centre circle as we attacked the Lane End. TC's body swerve had Craggs falling on the floor, Craggs looked over to see TC wave his hands at the crowd before beating another Boro defender but Craggs picked himself up quickly and reached TC just outside the box with a strong tackle from behind. While TC was on his arse, Craggs stood up quickly and waved both his hands at the crowd! The ref awarded us a free kick and booked Craggs. We didnt find Craggs actions funny at the time but looking back you can understand Craggs fury and his sense of humour at the end!
See below a clipping of TC in the "Great Entertainers" video. Loved his duel with Rodney Marsh and then TC won it at the end before giving V signs at the Loftus Road crowd! That QPR match was 44 years ago today! We lost 2-1, Woody getting our goal. Barry Bridges and Frank Clarke got QPR's goals
See below a clipping of TC in the "Great Entertainers" video. Loved his duel with Rodney Marsh and then TC won it at the end before giving V signs at the Loftus Road crowd! That QPR match was 44 years ago today! We lost 2-1, Woody getting our goal. Barry Bridges and Frank Clarke got QPR's goals
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Bet half of em can't lace their own boots
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Now thats
Now that's how red and white striped shirts should look. Fk off Macron with your poxy designs!
Now that's how red and white striped shirts should look. Fk off Macron with your poxy designs!
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Brings back so many great memories reading through..I also remember walking away after seeing TC's debut and me and my Dad saying what a good player that Currie looked.You forget that he was only 21 when we got promoted,but he was running the show.It was a privelege to have been around to watch TC,a real showman...passing the ball 30/40 yards and landing it on a sixpence,and he would make the ball hold up like a Jack Nicholas golf shot...the TC shuffle where he would cock his front foot forward and drag the ball forward with his back foot and steal a couple of yards on his marker..some great goals like have been mentioned.The West Ham goal and the sitting on the ball incident are the best memories for me..and taking the piss out of Revie's Leeds that night when we played them off the park.UTB!
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Winning goal at Bristol City , stunning goal , beat 7 defenders 2 programme sellers the golden goal board carrier and slotted it cooly into the net, saw Currie following the blades to Cardiff for the play off final andhe confided it was his favourite ever goal
Silent Blade
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Was it the 1-0 win in March 1971? Didnt go to that match as I was in a regional school mime contest at Derby (I was a policeman in my school team's play!)
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believe it was yes,intrigued by the mime contest ,the Mr Bean memorial trophy ?
Silent Blade
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Yes, we won it. The judge was the late Pat Keysell from "Vision On". We didnt win the Nationals at London though in June
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I sometimes think Doyle is miming being locked in an invisible room some games , hes very convincing
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1. Vs Leeds ... or it could have been Liverpool. Picked the ball up just by the JS dugouts, drifted inside and looked up. He then cracked in a 30 yarder into the BL end right hand top corner which had the keeper flailing at fresh air.
2. Vs Arse in the 5-0 revenge drubbing. That was one magical night. Currie was all over the Arse like shit on a blanket.
3. The 'quality goal'.
Bonus. Just him being on the pitch. Iconic seventies style, blonde flowing hair, dark sideburns, 'Coat of Arms' kit, big number ten, shorts number ten partially obscured by his always out shirt, Adidas boots.
I remember writing to BDTBL to ask if I could go to watch them train. They wrote back and invited me, so I went with two neighbours. We turned up at the Ball Inn first, but they'd already been and gone back to BDTBL so we walked down to the Lane where they were training at the 5 a side pitch by the Cricket Pavillion. We waited outside John Street afterwards and met the players, and I don't recall being as star struck as I was meeting TC for an autograph - he was with John Hope in his car (and I have met Natalie Portman in a bikini and a sarong - beat that!)
Currie is the best player we have had in my lifetime, Woodward will always be my overall favourite, but Currie's mastery was unmatched.
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2. Vs Arse in the 5-0 revenge drubbing. That was one magical night. Currie was all over the Arse like shit on a blanket.
3. The 'quality goal'.
Bonus. Just him being on the pitch. Iconic seventies style, blonde flowing hair, dark sideburns, 'Coat of Arms' kit, big number ten, shorts number ten partially obscured by his always out shirt, Adidas boots.
I remember writing to BDTBL to ask if I could go to watch them train. They wrote back and invited me, so I went with two neighbours. We turned up at the Ball Inn first, but they'd already been and gone back to BDTBL so we walked down to the Lane where they were training at the 5 a side pitch by the Cricket Pavillion. We waited outside John Street afterwards and met the players, and I don't recall being as star struck as I was meeting TC for an autograph - he was with John Hope in his car (and I have met Natalie Portman in a bikini and a sarong - beat that!)
Currie is the best player we have had in my lifetime, Woodward will always be my overall favourite, but Currie's mastery was unmatched.
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v L**ds in the League Cup in Sept 1970 was a solo goal. Don Revie had told Terry Cooper (left back) to stay tight with Woody. There were one or two L**ds players ready to cut out any passes to our right winger. TC noticed the space from the centre circle as L**ds players were drifting to our right wing so with the ball he ran with it and hit a powerful low shot past Gary Sprake.
v Liverpool in October 1971 was a 40 yarder. Gil Reece had lost possession of the ball near the centre circle but he made a good recovery tackle sliding the ball away from a Liverpool player and the ball went to TC who was a few yards in front of our right back Len Badger. He took a few strides with the ball and unleashed the 40 yarder (viewing from the BLUT I can still picture the look on TC's face as he clenched his teeth in his determination to hit the ball as hard as he can) past Ray Clemence
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pommpey
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So it was. I recall a picture in the next Lane Line Up shot from behind the right hand stanchion (when we had them) of Clemence, mid air and mouth open, and Currie about a thousand miles away having spanked it into the net. I was eight, and stood in my usual spot in the BLUT, below you on that day. I remember jumping up and down in glee and some bloke behind me with an amazed face, arms out, shouting, "Worra fuckin' goyal!"
Wasn't it on Sunday Soccer with Keith Macklin?
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Yes, highlights of the game was on YTV (there is footage of Kevin Keegan's equaliser in youtube). Tommy Smith, Liverpool's hard man got booked in the 1st half for a deliberate hand ball and in the 2nd half the ref took his notebook out of his pocket when Smith fouled one of our players but Smith didnt get sent off which confused most in the crowd. There were no yellow/red cards in the Football League these days although it was introduced during the 1970 World Cup
Jonboy60
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Remember going for a meal in the executive suite for one of his testimonials, won a giant teddy in the raffle. Donated it back for a picture taken with TC,with me and mate young dave baker either side.(he's got it framed and now lives in oz). Then went on the piss down London road were currie and a few other players were also downing a few. If any other board members remember comedian Mick miller(I think, he of the bald head but long strands of hair hanging down).He was f@cking hilarious, especially the noddy getting pissed gag. UTB
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Silent Blade
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Mick Miller played in goal for Celebrities X1 in TC's testimonial
And, I think, saved a penalty from TC in that game.
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Well we've had the False no.9,I think Doyle is pioneering a new tactical concept of a False DM ha,ha.
To be fair,without setting the world alight,I don't think he's done to badly this season.
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