Who did your old man always tell you about?

I remember leaving the south paddock near the players tunnel after one match. My dad said with reverence " See that bloke on crutches? That's Tony Green". Then I got to see him play, and understood.
 

Who did your old man always tell you about?​

Too many players to mention, he was a massive Pool fan

Away from football, Frank Randall the original ' Pure Filth ' comedian
 
If any commentator on the telly raved about how hard a ball had been kicked, I could guarantee that my Oldham supporting dad would say "Albert Quixall - he could kick a ball"
Sadly Albert died last week. I must admit I assumed he had been dead for years 🙄
 
Dad wasn’t really a football fan - he used to watch the World Cup games and FA cup Final and that was about it. His favourite player was Bobby Charlton but he used to tell me about Wilf Mannion (my dad is a smoggy) and Garincha.
 
My dad always spoke about Morty and Matthews, but said the best player he ever saw was Duncan Edwards. He was brilliant in the few games he saw him play against us, playing left back in one game, in which Matthews only rarely touched the ball.
 
My Dad always told me how good the 53 cup winning side were. And later on how good Tony Green was. He was right. He took me to my first game as a young boy to watch Tony Green.
 
My Dad went to the 53 cup final without a ticket, managed to get one off a tout just to watch Matthews get his medal.
 
Henshman said:
My dad always spoke about Morty and Matthews, but said the best player he ever saw was Duncan Edwards. He was brilliant in the few games he saw him play against us, playing left back in one game, in which Matthews only rarely touched the ball.
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Same as my dad, always said the best player he ever saw was Duncan Edwards, he must have been some player!
 
dodgy_surname said:
Duncan Edwards, very sad story, RIP
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Same with my old man who always wanted me to support ManU as the family came from Urmston in that part of the world.
He spent my childhood winding me up about Dirty Leeds, in fact we went over the day after they beat us in the 1977 Cup semi and they all laughed at me sat there in my Leeds scarf.
 
My dad was from Streatham Hill but he liked Bobby Stiles. "Teeth out, contact lenses in, then I'm ready!"
 
Hazi said:
My grandad brought me up and always said Tony Green was the Scottish Pele
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My Dad was Newcastle Utd fan, and growing up as a kid he was forever telling me about his two favourite players....one was the legendary goal machine that was Malcolm ‘Supermac’ Macdonald, the other being our very own Tony Green, who effectively made supermac into the hero he was with his creative skills.
 
Me and my Dad always talked about how good Matthews was and I kept asking him if he was my Uncle (we share the same surname) and he never told me otherwise.


Until I was 28 and found out that Matthews wasn't my real surname. Long story - shit loads of skeletons and cupboards...
 
The sacking of Alan Brown always irked him. And he loved Sir Jim.
 
As my old man was a Villa fan he'd wax lyrical about..Tom 'pongo' Waring,
Danny Blanchflower, Peter McParland and
Johnny Dixon to mention just a few.
 
Going back a very long way by Dad's boyhood hero was Peter Doherty. (1930's). He told me he'd run up to take a penalty with his left foot and hit the ball with his right. Always sticks in my memory that comment. Pool sold Doherty to Citeh for £10,000 in 1936 which was a huge amount of money in those days. Doherty died in PLF in 1990, same year as my Dad. Will be having a kick about together now.
 
Another for Tony Green. I had never heard of him as he missed the 69/70 promotion season due to a bad injury. But when he came back (v Everton?) I could instantly see what a great player he was. He was outstanding in that seasons FACup game v West Ham but sadly I never really saw much of him as he left for Newcastle in 71 but he never really got back to being 100% fit and retired in 73 but was still in his 20s.
 
My Grandad used to wax lyrical about Jimmy Hampson . For my Dad, despite growing up in the years of Matthews & Mortensen, it was Tony Green & the pre-Beckham ball bending Alan Suddick
 
Being a Scot who brought me up to support Blackpool, my dad's stories split between Blackpool and his memories of watching matches north of the border. His favourite players north & South were George Young of Rangers and Tom Finney.
 
My Dad was a Sgt Major in the APTC during WW2 and came accross a lot of the sportsmen from those days, Boxers, Footballers, Rugby Players et al and I honestly can't remember all their names. But, one thing I do have is a picture of him playing in the same football team as Mike England.
 
My dad used to rave about Ernie Taylor. He must have been some player looking at his height and goalscoring record.
 
Curryman said:
My Dad was a Sgt Major in the APTC during WW2 and came accross a lot of the sportsmen from those days, Boxers, Footballers, Rugby Players et al and I honestly can't remember all their names. But, one thing I do have is a picture of him playing in the same football team as Mike England.
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Mike England played for Wales.How ace is that?
 
Curryman said:
My Dad was a Sgt Major in the APTC during WW2 and came accross a lot of the sportsmen from those days, Boxers, Footballers, Rugby Players et al and I honestly can't remember all their names. But, one thing I do have is a picture of him playing in the same football team as Mike England. But it will not, for some reason, download.
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dodgy_surname said:
dodgy_geoff always told me about his hero Morty 👍⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Dad was a huge Bury fan, coming from there and having played at Gigg Lane himself so he used to constantly remind us of Bury 6 Derby County 0 in the Cup Final of 1903 with Tiny Bradshaw scoring a hat trick. So, in answer to the OP, Tiny Bradshaw.
 
Greggy Lane Lasher said:
My dad's favourite two players were Tony Green and Ray Charnley. He reckons Green was the best ever Blackpool player he saw, and that Charnley kept us in the old 1st division for a number of years.
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Great choice from your dad. Agree totally about Tony Green. He was something else. UTP!
 
my dad (in the picture) was a detective in Manchester City centre in the late 60's/early 70's. He had many tales about nights out with the city and united players of the time - George Best hiding from an angry husband in the cellar of a pub, an "altercation" with Malcolm Allinson after not so big Mal tried to pay a bar bill with cup final tickets and many more. He didn't like Jimmy Saville though..............
RIP Don
 
My dad wasn't into football but I will always remember watching the 1988 Euro finals on tv with him ( well he was reading the paper throughout the match). I went out of the room for a moment and when I came back he told me Holland had scored. I asked him if the goal was any good. I am not sure he replied but the commentator got very excited about it.

It was of course the classic van Basten volley - one of the all time great goals. When the replay came up at the end of the match I tried to explain why it was so good but he still wasn't impressed.
 
My Stepdad was a twot, my mum however told me all about Morty, and players following on from him up until I started watching the pool with Walsh and Hatton....
 
I used to tell my grandad how good Tony Green and Alan Suddick were but he would always say that I had never seen Len Shackleton play.

Stan53
 
My dad and his brother always talked about George Farm a lot. Uncle especially, as a keeper of some ability himself. One story that got repeated a lot was a shot from opposition once that sailed way over the bar and high into the Kop. A bloke close to them, who was well known a big farming bloke, gave it one punch and whacked it straight back onto the pitch, over Farm's head.

I probably heard more stories from my bowling captain, who played semi pro in the Sixties - for Bury I think.
 
The two Stans but he was also a great admirer of Tom Finney - he says Finney was the complete forward and compares him to Thiery Henry
 
My old man was a Leicester fan but when he moved to Blackpool he went to watch us every week. Morty, Matthews and Perry were his man 3.

Used to bang on about some bang average Leicester striker in the 80's who went on to score a few for England. Forget his name now....
 
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