The voice of football

A real old school gentlemen. Sadly missed.

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"Stylish" isn't the word that springs to mind regarding that strip.

@@robertroberts3703 - lol Perhaps not. I was a kid back then and had very little sense of style, so if Stoke wore it then that was the best strip of the day as far as I was concerned!

@@renejean2523 👍 No disrespect intended. That League Cup winning squad of 72 included my fellow countryman John Mahoney and, of course, the one and only Gordon Banks.

@@robertroberts3703 - Yeah, that was the best team in my lifetime. Welsh international Mahoney was definitely one of my faves as a kid. And Hudson, of course. Through to '76 Stoke were solid. Thought they were gonna win the league that year until the stand blew down and we had to sell our best players!

@@renejean2523 Wow! That event seems to have passed me by. As a teenage adolescent by then, I suppose other things were clamouring for my attention, as they do! Sorry to hear that! Jimmy Greenhoff was another Stoke great back then who left for United.

Hopefully both can get out of league 1 this season. Interestingly, if it had been 3pts for a win during that season Ipswich would have won the title on goal difference.

The first few months Carlisle topped the Division but as said the bubble burst, but the likes of Man U, Spurs, Man C, West Ham, Newc, Wolves, Villa & Leeds all got relegated. No one was immune. Not now, they pay they stay whilst the usual suspects go up & down ie WBA, Wolves, Newc, etc, but hey if you've got a owner with squillians you can take a non entity like BRENTFORD! up. The game is purely about money now & nothing else but Millennials think that is normal. So be it. World Cup next time will have 48 countries in it. Good grief. Possibly Brentford too!

@@seltaeb9691 You're absolutely right, Carlisle did indeed top Div. 1 for a time in the early weeks of the 74-75 campaign. And on the subject of Man. United & relegation, at the end of the previous season, they'd of course gone down to Div. 2, along with Norwich & Southampton. Carlisle, Luton & Middlesbrough had gone up, while at the end of the 74-75 campaign, United & Norwich made immediate returns to Div. 1, while Carlisle & Luton passed them in the opposite direction. Strange that, the same four clubs, swapping places, two seasons in a row!

Legend has it during one christmas fixture both teams stopped playing, swapped cigarettes and chocolate then dug trenches and started shooting each other

He was looking for the c*** who did His hair...

Some people think they are better than a club...Arsenal to Derby County, great move,not.

Proper footballers, proper men.

I had a friend that told me that back in the 60s they played Christmas Day AND Boxing Day. Just crazy.

Norman Whiteside was on £350 a week+ win bonuses & that was in early 1980s. I rmbr I was earning just over £250 working at my local newspaper.

@@seltaeb9691 - I'm old enough to remember that £250 was a pretty good wage back then. Can't believe the players earned so little though. Stoke bought Shilton for 350,000 or so. A record for a keeper. Now he'd be earning that each week. I bet your local paper isn't paying anyone 250,000!

@@renejean2523 the stories are wrote here & it gets sent too, wait for it.. China! They set the pages with adverts up & it gets sent over to the printer in UK who prints it. Could not believe it but it is so. Where's the NGA Union now! Footballers now, on 10s of 1000s a week, the Clubs furloughed their office ground staff during COVID but paid the players wages. That's football & standards now.

Mid seventies, no one earning more than £300 a week.

@@renejean2523 I think Peter Shilton was the highest paid player in the country when Stoke signed him. £300 plus a week.

I know, great isn't it?