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6 hours ago, chi blue said:

Had the yellow Gloves

You must have been rich. I only had the basic thin green ones..

4 hours ago, Shug said:

You must have been rich. I only had the basic thin green ones..

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Think my Nan and Grandad bought them for Christmas for me, before that I was just using old gardening gloves!! If I was sepp Mehr the German keeper, I would pull my shorts lower down and have the gardening gloves half  hanging  off my hands. 

Edited June 8, 20206 yr by chi blue

13 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

No.problem mate looks a lot different these days .  You must get up there early to get a parking spot !

Get there for 1pm for a 3pm ko £3.75 an hour!! Get in for the half price drinks in the MHU 

6 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Times were bad 78/79 ten of these would at least get a debut in the first team that season or 79/80 if my memory is right.

Some goalkeeper.

'Great Save!'

'The essential guide to great goalkeeping. With the late, great Peter Bonetti and Neville Southall.'

Originally by Steve Stacy.

Just found this goalkeeping documentary.

It was filmed I think at Everton's training ground.

Again, I hope nobody minds me posting it here.

 

 

9 hours ago, Richard P said:

Times were bad 78/79 ten of these would at least get a debut in the first team that season or 79/80 if my memory is right.

I make it 8 don't know if Clare came on as a sub (maybe the forum's statto Erks can look it up). Sitton, Pates, Nutton, Fillery ,Rhoades Brown, Hales, Johnson, Chivers

 

 

Bobby Charlton's last game and a good view of Peter Osgood after he'd scored the winner.

14 hours ago, Richard P said:

Get there for 1pm for a 3pm ko £3.75 an hour!! Get in for the half price drinks in the MHU 

Sounds good to me mate ! Take care

I think we know the answer to that question !

Chris Sulley had a decent career after leaving us, with Bournemouth and Blackburn.

A good mate of mine played age-group football with skipper Iori Jenkins here in Wales.

Neither made an appearance for our first team.

Edited June 9, 20206 yr by Backbiter

40 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Chris Sulley had a decent career after leaving us, with Bournemouth and Blackburn.

A good mate of mine played age-group football with skipper Iori Jenkins here in Wales.

Neither made an appearance for our first team.

It does make me laugh BB when people say he's one of the worse footballers I've ever seen about any ex player. Because even to make it to Chelsea's reserve team in 78 you had to be an outstanding player especially when you consider our generation did nothing but play football. I played with someone at school level who everyone was convinced would make it he was streets ahead of everyone else the furthest he got was playing for Hendon.

10 hours ago, bluehaze said:

I make it 8 don't know if Clare came on as a sub (maybe the forum's statto Erks can look it up). Sitton, Pates, Nutton, Fillery ,Rhoades Brown, Hales, Johnson, Chivers

I certainly can.

http://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Participants/1980/J Clare.htm

James Clare matches 1980-1981

Came on as a sub for Clive Walker v Bolton away.  Sat 4th Oct 1980. A 3-2 away win.

His only first team appearance from what I can find.

 

4 hours ago, bluehaze said:

It does make me laugh BB when people say he's one of the worse footballers I've ever seen about any ex player. Because even to make it to Chelsea's reserve team in 78 you had to be an outstanding player especially when you consider our generation did nothing but play football. I played with someone at school level who everyone was convinced would make it he was streets ahead of everyone else the furthest he got was playing for Hendon.

I played organised 11-a-side football up until the age of 35. All the way through school and then into Old Boys football. Senior level was the highest I ever got, but I did actually get 20 minutes for Chelsea Under 11s in a friendly in 1985. (Obviously never good enough, but it is my one claim to football fame!) 

Anyway, you could tell the kids who were on League teams' books. They were always either quicker or stronger than you - and most were both. If you had pace you could be taught to play football to a degree. Thanks to that and some decent coaching from quality football people, some lads I remember did get to turn pro, but it really is just a handful.

One guy I played with from a very young age was light-years beyond anyone else. The sort of skillful midfielder who could beat all 10 outfield players and then stick it in the top corner. He did make it to the Premier League, but only ever as a right-back!

It's hard to understand just how good you have to be. 

 

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

I certainly can.

http://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Participants/1980/J Clare.htm

James Clare matches 1980-1981

Came on as a sub for Clive Walker v Bolton away.  Sat 4th Oct 1980. A 3-2 away win.

His only first team appearance from what I can find.

 

Knew I could rely on you Ersk 

45 minutes ago, Ewan Hoozarmi said:

I played organised 11-a-side football up until the age of 35. All the way through school and then into Old Boys football. Senior level was the highest I ever got, but I did actually get 20 minutes for Chelsea Under 11s in a friendly in 1985. (Obviously never good enough, but it is my one claim to football fame!) 

 

 

Anyway, you could tell the kids who were on League teams' books. They were always either quicker or stronger than you - and most were both. If you had pace you could be taught to play football to a degree. Thanks to that and some decent coaching from quality football people, some lads I remember did get to turn pro, but it really is just a handful.

 

 

One guy I played with from a very young age was light-years beyond anyone else. The sort of skillful midfielder who could beat all 10 outfield players and then stick it in the top corner. He did make it to the Premier League, but only ever as a right-back!

It's hard to understand just how good you have to be. 

 

I was playing senior football up until 2005, until work commitments took over, and remember my final season we had a couple of pre season friendlies against Portsmouth 18's and Brighton's under 18's, being a keeper and a fraction over 6ft it had got me by fine playing men's football since the mid 80's and my teenage years, but honestly I felt like a dwarf when shaking the hands of the keepers of these two respective under 18's teams, they must of been about 6'5ft, huge great lads, no chance a Paul Cooper of Ipswich making it in this day in age. He was only about 5'9ft.

14 hours ago, bluehaze said:

I make it 8 don't know if Clare came on as a sub (maybe the forum's statto Erks can look it up). Sitton, Pates, Nutton, Fillery ,Rhoades Brown, Hales, Johnson, Chivers

Thought Sulley made it on the bench. 9 wasn’t bad without looking it up! Spoke to a couple people from that era.

They say that Jimmy Clare was a better player than Micky Fillery. Another example that talent alone is not enough, you got to have physical and mental attributes as well.

Don't know why he didn’t make that tournament, but Timmy Elmes was in that age group and he made several appearances 

I was at the same school as David Hopkins who played for us briefly in the early ish 1990s

And so was in the same school side as him.

Even at that young age, he was so much better than the rest of us technique wise.

It was amazing to watch how his career playing wise developed.

My old man played against Charlie Cooke, when Charlie Cooke was just starting out in Non League football in Scotland

 He always stated that Cooke was 'by far the best player he ever played with or against'.

Tenuous Chelsea connection, that  I fully accept.

A good mate who went on to play for Sutton Utd including the Cup win against Coventry played for Wimbledon Youth Team. Several times I watched him play South East Counties- Against Millwall John Fashunu looked a handful at 16, against us the only player that made the grade I can remember was Keith Jones who I played against several times.

Of our gang and we’re still mates today Paul Rogers went on to play for Sheffield Utd and Stuart Massey Palace and Oxford; both played semi pro before going full time.

I saw them play in a friendly against Spurs at Gander Green Lane and Ardiles really looked a class above. He used to run with his elbows out and no one got near him.

Spent a couple of years playing Senior Level including a year for Corinthian Casuals. Some years I played Saturdays, some years it was watching Chelsea, but back then with games getting called off all the time plus suspensions always saw the Blues a good bit.

Sunday football I’m sure we all played, normally with a raging hangover.

 

This was in the Evening News (better paper than the Standard in my opinion they merged in 1980) printed  before the comeback. We only won five games all season and I was at two of them this being one of them. I must have been flushed I can't remember why cause I bought my first pair of football boots the same day Gola Aztec didn't quite have the dough for Adidas Beckenbauer with the screw in studs that were the business.