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Can't remember what club it was but the other week they had played so dire, the chairman said that was the last time they would stay at a hotel overnight before a local derby ... may have been a League 1 team, can't remember.
So these so called smaller clubs, without the financial clout of the big boys are ok to stay in a hotel (all 20 or so of them) the night before a LOCAL derby, when some of them probably live closer to the ground than the hotel they're staying in!
My dad used to tell me that when he used to go and watch Villa in the late 40s/early 50s, they used to walk past a house on the way to the ground where Trevor Ford lived - the Villa centre forward, and a couple of times, he came out of the house carryng his boots, with his overcoat on as they walked past, and then he used to walk with the crowd towrds the stadium. Nobody used to bother him at all, the occasional fella would say "Have a good match Trev" or some such similar 50s style terrace chant but that was it ...
Incredible when you think of the hype of today.
So these so called smaller clubs, without the financial clout of the big boys are ok to stay in a hotel (all 20 or so of them) the night before a LOCAL derby, when some of them probably live closer to the ground than the hotel they're staying in!
My dad used to tell me that when he used to go and watch Villa in the late 40s/early 50s, they used to walk past a house on the way to the ground where Trevor Ford lived - the Villa centre forward, and a couple of times, he came out of the house carryng his boots, with his overcoat on as they walked past, and then he used to walk with the crowd towrds the stadium. Nobody used to bother him at all, the occasional fella would say "Have a good match Trev" or some such similar 50s style terrace chant but that was it ...
Incredible when you think of the hype of today.
Edited by MikeyT on Saturday 4th November 23:13
minicity said:
Never saw him play of course but apparently* he was up there with thes best ...
wikipedia said:
Legacy and Appraisal
Duncan Edwards was and still is admired by many involved in the game. Bobby Charlton, England's all time top scoring player, claimed that he wasn't fit to lace Duncan's boots, and that he "was the only player that made me feel inferior". Infact the only player who can possibly match Edwards since has been Roy Keane according to Bobby Charlton. The former England manager Terry Venables watched him play against his beloved Tottenham Hotspur as a youngster and said he was the greatest player he had ever seen. Edward's Manchester United team mate Wilf McGuinness holds him in similar regard, and commenting on the Munich air crash stated: "We definitely did lose one of the all-time greats". The former Manchester United United manager Tommy Docherty said of Edwards: "You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas - Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all". The great Sir Matt Busby described him as "the best player in the world".
Such was Edwards' potential brilliance that it has even been claimed that had he lived on it would have been him, not Bobby Moore, who lifted the World Cup trophy as England captain in 1966.
Ability
According to those who experienced what Duncan Edwards could do on a football field, he was the complete footballer and there wasn`t a single weakness in his game. He could dribble like a winger and pass like an inside forward. He had unrivalled stamina and could have run for days. He could shoot powerfully, with either foot, was dominant in the air and could tackle like a tidal wave, such was the range of ability he possessed in his young body.
*according to me dad again
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