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The Philosopher

The Philosopher

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Apparently there’s a new book about Tommy Hutchison due to come out.

Unfortunately before my time but given that he’s widely accepted to be our greatest ever player…..

www.whsmith.co.uk

Hutch, Hard Work and Belief: The Tommy Hutchison Story by Tommy Hutchison | WHSmith

Order a Hutch, Hard Work and Belief: The Tommy Hutchison Story today from WHSmith. Delivery free on all UK orders over £30
www.whsmith.co.uk www.whsmith.co.uk
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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That is actually the book wot I wrote (to quote Morecambe and Wise).

The book will sell for £25 from bookshops, Amazon etc. but Tommy and I will sell it cheaper than that and cheaper than the price quoted at Smiths, plus it will be a signed copy.

Tommy will be the guest at the Blackpool game at the end of October and will be in the lounges before the game and the casino afterwards.
We hope to do a book signing session in Waterstones and then the club shop on the morning of the game.

I hope to put details of how to order the book on here over the weekend.
 
DazzleTommyDazzle

DazzleTommyDazzle

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joemercersaces said:
Dazzle, Tommy, Dazzle, used to be the cry. He’d pick up the ball on the left wing and usually beat two or three players, often twice. Brightened up many a dreary Saturday afternoon in the 70s. In those days there wasn’t the same degree of transfer business or we would never have kept him.
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To be fair, that sounds like a decent username!
 
Colin Steins Smile

Colin Steins Smile

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The Philosopher said:
Apparently there’s a new book about Tommy Hutchison due to come out.

Unfortunately before my time but given that he’s widely accepted to be our greatest ever player…..

www.whsmith.co.uk

Hutch, Hard Work and Belief: The Tommy Hutchison Story by Tommy Hutchison | WHSmith

Order a Hutch, Hard Work and Belief: The Tommy Hutchison Story today from WHSmith. Delivery free on all UK orders over £30
www.whsmith.co.uk www.whsmith.co.uk
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Tommy Hutchison was my hero as a child. I was so lucky to have seen him play for us.
"Hutch on the wing and Stein in the middle...."
 
Houchens Head

Houchens Head

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City's greatest ever player in my opinion! Players today wouldn't be fit to lace his boots!
Other favourites of the day are:
Bobby McDonald (best left back ever!)
Scoring partnership - Mick Ferguson / Ian Wallace
Feel free to add your favourites. (I've got far too many to add!!)
 
bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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I wrote an article for Late Tackle magazine on Tommy Hutchison. And it was his birthday this week , and hear he's fit and well. I wrote that he is arguably our greatest ever player, especially in the top flight. Remember that goal he scored at Highbury against Arsenal when he dribbled round 4 or 5 players, before putting the ball in their net. What a legend.
 
Johhny Blue

Johhny Blue

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bringbackrattles said:
I wrote an article for Late Tackle magazine on Tommy Hutchison. And it was his birthday this week , and hear he's fit and well. I wrote that he is arguably our greatest ever player, especially in the top flight. Remember that goal he scored at Highbury against Arsenal when he dribbled round 4 or 5 players, before putting the ball in their net. What a legend.
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Best goal I’ve ever seen live
 
HerneBayGaz

HerneBayGaz

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bringbackrattles said:
I wrote an article for Late Tackle magazine on Tommy Hutchison. And it was his birthday this week , and hear he's fit and well. I wrote that he is arguably our greatest ever player, especially in the top flight. Remember that goal he scored at Highbury against Arsenal when he dribbled round 4 or 5 players, before putting the ball in their net. What a legend.
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Yep defo a true legend 👏 I was in the Arsenal end when he scored that absolutely great goal celebrating like a mad man. Didn't go down well with the gooners. Still stuff erm...
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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You can see lots of the Arsenal fans applauding that goal. I wasn’t there but according to Tommy, he nearly did the same thing again two minutes later. This time Barnett in the Arsenal goal saved it.
The goal is described and discussed in Nick Hornby's best selling book ‘Fever Pitch’.
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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Anyone who wants to pre-order the new book about Hutch, you can use the link below. The date for publishing is Oct 17th. However, if you wanted a signed copy it would arrive after Oct 29. Tommy is down from Fife for the Blackpool game and I could get him to sign books that are going out after that date. Books bought from the link below will cost £18 plus p and p, cheaper than the price on Amazon or in bookshops.
order your books here;

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'Hutch' order form

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Tommy will be at a forum at the Jag Club on Browns Lane the night before the Blackpool game, Oct 28. As soon as I have more details I will post them on here.

Apologies if I bump this thread from time to time over the next few weeks.
 
bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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Looking forward to buying the book. But if this is the first book out on Tommy Hutchison that is surprising, as a player with his ability and career I'd have thought they'd have been a few.
 
tisza

tisza

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He was my footballing hero. Was shattered when he left for Man City. Thought Ccfc was doomed at the time and the world would end. At 12/13 years old all perfectly reasonable assumptions🤣 I must literally have a hundred Hutch autographs scribbled across old programmes, autograph books and those old mini photos they used to sell in the club shop.
 
bringbackrattles

bringbackrattles

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Irish Sky Blue said:
No, first book on Hutch. Really surprising when you think that there are a few books on ex-City players, but none on the player most would agree is our best ever.
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You get players with a lot less talent than the Hutch writing autobiographies and doing talks etc, and earning vasts amount of money in the process. Then again you get " celebrities " with no talent whatsoever making a living out of it, so we shouldn't be too surprised.
 
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EalingSB

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I’ve often thought that a book on Benno would be good. Every time I watch the vintage MOTD/The Big Match Revisited he’s the best player on the pitch.
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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Thought it might be nice to give a few extracts from the book as a way of nicely bumping the thread. I’ll try and use a few from Tom’s time at City. That said this first one is from his childhood.


Tommy grew up in a poor but happy family in a Fife mining village. In the excerpt below he gives an idea of how they survived hard times with the help of a mobile ten bob note!


“Despite my happy life, I would have been aware that we were poor from quite an early age. However, it was never something that bothered me; why should it? Everyone else I knew was in the same hand-to-mouth boat as us. It’s only in later years after leaving Dundonald that I realised how truly impoverished we were. There was a ten-bob note that floated around our family. On occasions it would be with one or other of my uncles if they were short, quite often it would be back with us, particularly if my dad was off work with one of his frequent bouts of illness. The main thing I suppose is that we never went hungry – there was always something on the table – or without clothes, however well worn or threadbare they might be. Mum, Dad and our wider family made sure we never went without the essentials.”

Excerpt From
Hutch, Hard Work and Belief
Tommy Hutchison and Kevin Shannon

if you would like to buy the book. Please use the link below.

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if you would like to buy the book. Please use the link below.

'Hutch' order form
 
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rhino1002

rhino1002

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Torquay Sky Blue said:
"That's what you call supreme "
If I remember the song correctly
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I tend to think your right
the song came from advert for a cake called supreme
The song went

There's sponge on the top and cream in the middle and that's what you call supreme
turned in to hutch on the wing and stein in the middle

Certainly as i remember it but it was 40 + years ago in fact nearer 50
 
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