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Bob Latchford

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Poor Les Sealey - fine kit n ' team
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torchomatic

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Best kit we ever had. Also, when I passed my test in 85 I bought a Citroen and had them for years. There used to be a bloke near Harbury on a farm who used to buy and sell them. Lovely cars back then.
 

torchomatic

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Utterly brilliant squad.
Imagine what that entire Admiral kit would fetch on ebay.

Certainly a lot more than our current squad. Maybe someone should ask Tim tonight to look in any old out of the way cupboards at Ryton, might be some kit stashed in there. Would certainly boost our income.
 

shy_tall_knight

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I have met 2 of that squad in person, Ray Gooding scouted a young lad from our team, he certainly doesn't have the long flowing locks of hair now nice guy (didn't know he was from the North East) John Beck - May 92 in Ibiza was manager of cambridge at the time who knocked us out that FA cup that year - what an ignorant to$$er I was sober and so was he, so glad his management career ended
 

vow

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I always thought Jim Holton and Mick Ferguson were big, but Garry Thompson looks huge in that pic, gotta be 6'4" just never thought he was that tall?

p.s. I'm going for 6,4" due to Big Jim Holton being 6'2" eyes of blue!
 

rob9872

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I had that same picture on my bedroom wall. Not sure where the foreign writing came from, but it was the centre page from the Telegraph special that used to come out every summer. I used to look forward to that each year in the same way as I'd be standing outside the newsagent waiting for the pink to arrive on a Saturday.

The weird thing is that I was only 7 and yet even now I could name all of those without the narrative underneath, but if you put this season's in front of me, I'd struggle.
 

torchomatic

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I had that same picture on my bedroom wall. Not sure where the foreign writing came from, but it was the centre page from the Telegraph special that used to come out every summer. I used to look forward to that each year in the same way as I'd be standing outside the newsagent waiting for the pink to arrive on a Saturday.

The weird thing is that I was only 7 and yet even now I could name all of those without the narrative underneath, but if you put this season's in front of me, I'd struggle.

Yep, the summer pull out in the CET and the league ladders in shoot made my summers back in the 70's.
 

Bob Latchford

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rob9872

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Shoot ladders, forgot about them - quality.
 

Bob Latchford

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I had that same picture on my bedroom wall. Not sure where the foreign writing came from, but it was the centre page from the Telegraph special that used to come out every summer. I used to look forward to that each year in the same way as I'd be standing outside the newsagent waiting for the pink to arrive on a Saturday.

The weird thing is that I was only 7 and yet even now I could name all of those without the narrative underneath, but if you put this season's in front of me, I'd struggle.
Yes , definitely . used to look forward to that paper coming out in the summer time . meant the season was on it's way . and , waiting for the pink on Saturday evenings [ If we won ]
 

trevelfarandwide

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Bobby McDonald seems to be wearing an impish "I just did a silent and deadly one" grin, if you look closely. It hasn't hit Gordon Milne's nose yet, clearly.

Great team though. :)
 

Leamington Pete

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I had that same picture on my bedroom wall. Not sure where the foreign writing came from, but it was the centre page from the Telegraph special that used to come out every summer. I used to look forward to that each year in the same way as I'd be standing outside the newsagent waiting for the pink to arrive on a Saturday.

The weird thing is that I was only 7 and yet even now I could name all of those without the narrative underneath, but if you put this season's in front of me, I'd struggle.

I could have written exactly this myself (apart from being a bit older!). Definitely my era and could name all that team with ease. Would cycle from Leamington to the training ground during the school holidays and stand on the touch lines watching them train, never any problem. Ron Wylie would sometimes let my mate and I go into the main building and get any autographs we wanted. Always remember what a nice bloke he was. Jim Holton too would always chat and crack a joke.
 

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