The Opposing Player Who Got The Most Stick.

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

3 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

Didn't Alan Groves get loads off our lot in the 70's ?

Best reception I've seen for a former player is Worthy,  when he warmed up against the empty Embankment purely to show boat.

Worst ever stick/racism I've witnessed was at Hampden in 85, the entire masses of Jocks were very vocally in abusing Viv Anderson.....some of it can be heard on here(think of Allardyce's first name).......that was the year the tables turned at Hampden,...... 2 years later, they'd be run ragged and again in 89

 

Yeah Groves got plenty against us, he was a good player though. 

[MickyD]

18 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

Yeah Groves got plenty against us, he was a good player though. 

Didn't Groves date a significantly younger girl?  Hence the stick. 

[leigh white]

12 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

Yeah Groves got plenty against us, he was a good player though. 

Alan Groves wed a 16 year old girl and the Burnden Paddock didn't half give him some abuse, he got subbed and came and stood amongst us, he was a great laugh and joined in the banter. He passed away a few years later, a few of us went to Boundary Park for the Debbie Grove's benefit match pre season when they played Blackpool.

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

1 minute ago, leigh white said:

Alan Groves wed a 16 year old girl and the Burnden Paddock didn't half give him some abuse, he got subbed and came and stood amongst us, he was a great laugh and joined in the banter. He passed away a few years later, a few of us went to Boundary Park for the Debbie Grove's benefit match pre season when they played Blackpool.

The fucker missed a good chance against the baggies that might have sent us up when we won 4-0 at Charlton. 

[paulhanley]

3 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Noel Brotherson at Blackburn, he was a bald as Casino and always got pelters.

"Bald headed bastard, your just a bald headed bastard". A regular Manny Road North refrain in the early 80s!

[dusan nikolic]

I remember Muzzy Izzet getting a load of shit on the 5-0 opening day at Leicester , I remember he walked across to take a throw in giving us the Wanker gesture.

[paulhanley]

1 minute ago, Mr Grey said:

He was their David Lee, bit earlier like.

There was one game were he really tore us apart. First game of the season at Ewood in 76/7. 

Been dead 25 years - was only 38 when he went.

[paulhanley]

1 minute ago, Mr Grey said:

He always seemed to have a stormer against us. He looked 38 when he was 21.

By and large though in the 70s and early 80s we did better against Blackburn than they did against us. That team of theirs had Glenn Keeley, Mick Rathbone, Derek Fazackerley, Simon Garner etc. Even in those three Div 2 years at the start of the 80s they only beat us once and never at Ewood.

[Biggish Dave]

Used to sup in the boozer as Noel Brotherston, super fella. Lived in a terrace house, worked as a painter and decorator. Nothing big time Charlie about him at all

[Steejay]

8 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

By and large though in the 70s and early 80s we did better against Blackburn than they did against us. That team of theirs had Glenn Keeley, Mick Rathbone, Derek Fazackerley, Simon Garner etc. Even in those three Div 2 years at the start of the 80s they only beat us once and never at Ewood.

Met Glen Keeley a few times over last few years. He has a business in Gonzo territory.

He was telling me that he nearly signed for us but was put off by what the players said about Phil Neal.

[dusan nikolic]

13 minutes ago, Steejay said:

Met Glen Keeley a few times over last few years. He has a business in Gonzo territory.

He was telling me that he nearly signed for us but was put off by what the players said about Phil Neal.

He did play a few games under Neal though , were they on loan. I always wondered why he didn't hang around long.

Edited April 4, 2020 by dusan nikolic

[Biggish Dave]

Yes, played a few games - scored against Port Vale in the f.a cup. Used to have the Woodlands in Blackburn. My local boozer, used to get a few of the younger Rovers players in there and Foggy used to pop in a good few sundays. Most the rovers lads were arseholes. Only James Beattie did anything as a footballer and I’ve known him since he was a young kid

[paulhanley]

16 minutes ago, Steejay said:

Met Glen Keeley a few times over last few years. He has a business in Gonzo territory.

He was telling me that he nearly signed for us but was put off by what the players said about Phil Neal.

He did definitely have a short spell with us in 88/89. He was well past his best. But we signed him the week after Mark Came had his leg broken by that twat at Chester. 

[dusan nikolic]

7 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

He did definitely have a short spell with us in 88/89. He was well past his best. But we signed him the week after Mark Came had his leg broken by that twat at Chester. 

23 appearances in total , but didn't figure after February 

[paulhanley]

1 minute ago, dusan nikolic said:

23 appearances in total , but didn't figure after February 

Which is when we started doing well and when Dean Crombie got shifted to central defence

[Barnstoneworth White]

2 hours ago, miamiwhite said:

Probably 76/77.....didn't he flick the V sign to the Paddock and get booked ? Beat them 3-0 that day

Think you might be right there.  As an aside I got my picture in the Sunday Mirror sat on the advertising hoardings of the Manny Rd North at that game.

[tomski]

James McLean Giving the waving hand gesture with us at that Sunday game a few years back while he was sub 

[Zico]

3 hours ago, BWFC_LOVE said:

I think Fish tried to force himself out, and even got given a high squad number at the beginning of the following season, which pretty much confirmed he’d be gone.

Jensen on the other hand went with our blessing if I recall. 

Never really understood Blakey getting stick, besides the fact he joined a rival. I don’t think he actively seeked a move, but a Prem move beckoned and £4.3m was too good to turn down. Might be misremembering though. 

For me, fish stuck around a couple of seasons after relegation and tried to get us promoted, then after we twice didnt make it he took a PL move, it wasn't like he jumped ship at the first chance

Jensen played one season and then did one

[Not in Crawley]

8 hours ago, Underpants said:

I remember Meldrew giving Dean Kiely dogs load of abuse down at Charlton when he was keeper there.  He was right in his ear all the time he was at our end. I don't know what Kiely had done to deserve it but it worked. He had a poor game and we won.

I remember that game, although Kiely took it well - he had a little dance to the chant at the end of the game which drew a cheer.

Crouch’s first game for Villa was against us, so did we start the Freak chant? 
 

I remember Dickov equalising against us for Leicester and someone behind us calling him an umpa lumpa for most of the game.

also, less about Alan Ball, being a relative of his an all. My mum’s half of the family are mainly Evertonians. 

[dusan nikolic]

29 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

I remember that game, although Kiely took it well - he had a little dance to the chant at the end of the game which drew a cheer.

Crouch’s first game for Villa was against us, so did we start the Freak chant? 
 

I remember Dickov equalising against us for Leicester and someone behind us calling him an umpa lumpa for most of the game.

also, less about Alan Ball, being a relative of his an all. My mum’s half of the family are mainly Evertonians. 

The Peter Crouch freak chant started at QPR 2001 if I remember, it was in the promotion season , then Iain Dowie replaced crouch and people started shouting Ugly Freak when he went near the ball.

Edited April 4, 2020 by dusan nikolic

[leigh white]

1 hour ago, dusan nikolic said:

The Peter Crouch freak chant started at QPR 2001 if I remember, it was in the promotion season , then Iain Dowie replaced crouch and people started shouting Ugly Freak when he went near the ball.

I went to a Blackburn V Bolton reserves game at Morecambe , Iain Dowie and his brother were both in the bar during the half time break, fuck me, Iain looked the most handsome.

[Zico]

1 hour ago, Not in Crawley said:

Crouch’s first game for Villa was against us, so did we start the Freak chant? 

It started at QPR away in 2000ish when he was a sub warming up alongside Iain Dowie, though not sure who the chant was initially aimed at

[MickyD]

9 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Crouch’s first game for Villa was against us, so did we start the Freak chant? 
 

 

9 hours ago, dusan nikolic said:

The Peter Crouch freak chant started at QPR 2001 if I remember,

 

8 hours ago, ZicoKelly said:

It started at QPR away in 2000ish 

Want it simply a resurrection of the abuse Kevin Francis used to get?

[Rudy]

David Dunn is a twat is a twat is a twat

David Dunn is a twat is a twat is a twat
 

He’s a Dingle.

For an entire half of football

Might have been David Bentley. Either way it works.

Edited April 5, 2020 by Rudy’s Message

[dusan nikolic]

17 minutes ago, MickyD said:

 

 

Want it simply a resurrection of the abuse Kevin Francis used to get?

I forgot about him , weren't they both about 6'7"