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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

66 Years Ago Today


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It seems incredible now that he dropped down a division to join us on loan. Ian Greaves managed him at Huddersfield and talked him into joining us, telling him it would only be a temporary stay in the Second Division. What were Leicester thinking letting him go?

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same as us when we let him go, maybe

 

he played more games for leicester than any of his other 76 clubs

That's probably his personality, if any man can have football regrets it's Frank if he'd have signed for Shankly he would have won every honour in the game. Technically there can't of been many UK footballers who've been better. Edited by Mounts Kipper
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Do you think so? Did you see him play? far from a carthorse IMHO.

 

 

I agree and, by the fuck, could he drink! I once had the pleasure of attending the Grand National in his private box at Aintree with a Daily Express Sports Reporter mate of mine who lived on Red Lane.

 

Bollinger Black Label in pint glasses! Kept that pace up all day too. Only collapsed after the last race. Prodigious.

 

Before Traf asks - it was the year West Tip won. I only had 3 bets all day. Aonoch at 16-1 racing against an absolute hurdling champion called See You Then; West Tip in the National; Northern (something - I think it was Exposure) in the last given to us by some Irish lads in the same box - they'd come over to unload on it. One of my most profitable days ever on the punt and the one and only time I have attended a Grand National.

 

Think we played a Sunday game that weekend?

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Your right P. I played footy with him and Alan Hudson in Sunny Benidorm in 1973 , brilliant fella got invited to his villa and stayed for 2 days, years later when he was with Rotherham I showed him some holiday photos and ended up on a night out with him and Terry Mc Dermott.....like I say brilliant bloke who died way too young.....

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Your right P. I played footy with him and Alan Hudson in Sunny Benidorm in 1973 , brilliant fella got invited to his villa and stayed for 2 days, years later when he was with Rotherham I showed him some holiday photos and ended up on a night out with him and Terry Mc Dermott.....like I say brilliant bloke who died way too young.....

 

 

Like Alan Ball, wasn't he another one we missed and Blackpool snatched him?

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I agree and, by the fuck, could he drink! I once had the pleasure of attending the Grand National in his private box at Aintree with a Daily Express Sports Reporter mate of mine who lived on Red Lane.

 

Bollinger Black Label in pint glasses! Kept that pace up all day too. Only collapsed after the last race. Prodigious.

 

Before Traf asks - it was the year West Tip won. I only had 3 bets all day. Aonoch at 16-1 racing against an absolute hurdling champion called See You Then; West Tip in the National; Northern (something - I think it was Exposure) in the last given to us by some Irish lads in the same box - they'd come over to unload on it. One of my most profitable days ever on the punt and the one and only time I have attended a Grand National.

 

Think we played a Sunday game that weekend?

 

We didn't have a game that weekend.

 

it was the weekend after Easter and we'd played Wigan Away on Good friday and Blackpool at home on Easter Monday, just like it should be.

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We didn't have a game that weekend.

 

it was the weekend after Easter and we'd played Wigan Away on Good friday and Blackpool at home on Easter Monday, just like it should be.

 

 

Cheers mate - knew you'd know. Couldn't remember why I was at the races and not watching the whites.

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