white noise Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Super Frank is 65 today! How time flies......remember Blackburn away and Ipswich that goal like it was yesterday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Leigh White and myself yesterday were discussing the side of the late 70's. Franky Worthy,Thommo,Peter Reid,Willie Morgan,Paul Jones,Greavo................what a team to be blessed with to be brought up watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Great times eh...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salford Trotter Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Leigh White and myself yesterday were discussing the side of the late 70's. Franky Worthy,Thommo,Peter Reid,Willie Morgan,Paul Jones,Greavo................what a team to be blessed with to be brought up watching So many wonderful memories watching the Wanderers in the late 70s/early 80s...The Franky Worthy/Alan Gowling/Neil Whatmore strike force scored goals for fun     Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianofcleveleys Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 So many wonderful memories watching the Wanderers in the late 70s/early 80s...The Franky Worthy/Alan Gowling/Neil Whatmore strike force scored goals for fun      Couldn't agree more, some great times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderers63 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Oh happy days Catching the 59 bus at hindley @1.20pm getting into moor lane @1.50 then walking past the railway station down to manny road then down to burnden oh happy days Frankie worthys debut against stoke in the embankment now that was very lively bricks bottles and coins where flying over the segregation does anyone remember Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderers63 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Blackburn away that wednesday night that still stands to me as the best ever match watching the wanderers the occasion, the night, and the fans,out of this world.20k plus wanderers fans and frankie worthy scoring the goal. the only game that came close was hull away on that friday night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwfc2003 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 One of the best memories was his two doubles against the red shite on our return to the top league Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lever Ender in L.A. Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Frankie not doing too well these days......what a lot of folk tend to forget was not only did his goal send us up....it also relegated the six fingered ones....remember watching Granada Reports the night after he battered the red shite...Bob Greaves was made to sing..."There's only one Franky Worthy" .....brilliant days !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderers63 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 The chant was:- Ohhhhh frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie worthington Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mounts Kipper Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 I honestly think technically he was the best British player I have ever seen, he could also look after himself and to say he knew where the net was is an understatement his playboy antics were the reason he did not get a massive move to Liverpool and he would have been a legend there and would have played 50 games plus for England. He was my hero as a kid did my utmost to copy his playing style and failed miserably, I continued to look out for him after he left BWFC and he played until he was 40 and gave VFM everywhere he went. I was lucky enough to meet him a couple of times at sports and dinners and a friendlier bloke you could not meet. I should be too old for heroes but Frank is still my heroe today and when he came onto the Reebok pitch recently I found my self bowing to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enzo gambaro Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 The chant was:- Ohhhhh frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie frankie worthington Happy days Too many Frankies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Not a lot of people know that when he retired Frankie set up an American themed restaurant on Middlebrook with Benny Hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulhanley Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Frankie not doing too well these days......what a lot of folk tend to forget was not only did his goal send us up....it also relegated the six fingered ones....remember watching Granada Reports the night after he battered the red shite...Bob Greaves was made to sing..."There's only one Franky Worthy" .....brilliant days !! Nah ... it was Blackpool who went down that season, not Blackburn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules_darby Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Not a lot of people know that when he retired Frankie set up an American themed restaurant on Middlebrook with Benny Hill.Burger King? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mounts Kipper Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Happy Birthday Frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Oh happy days Catching the 59 bus at hindley @1.20pm getting into moor lane @1.50 then walking past the railway station down to manny road then down to burnden oh happy days Frankie worthys debut against stoke in the embankment now that was very lively bricks bottles and coins where flying over the segregation does anyone remember Sounds familliar.  Did the same journey many many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breightmet Boy Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Used to catch the bus as a kid, get off at the side of Bolton College on Bridgeman Street, then walk down the Manny Road. Dark nights with the original lights glaring made it that bit more special. Frankie Worthy will always be up there with the greats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter RONNIE PHILLIPS Posted November 24, 2013 Site Supporter Share Posted November 24, 2013 Bumped into him in a bookies in Manchester a couple of years ago, couldn't believe how nervous I felt...still in awe of the man. Great guy, doesn't know much about the Whites these days tho, sounded like the club have forgotten him a bit, which is a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUREADY2ROLL Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 The Friday night we beat the red shite 3-0 it was electric in the Stags Head, Daubhill.  Playing YMCA over and over again the place was rocking to Frankie do do do do do do, I say Frankie, do do do do do do, Frankie, do do do do do do, Frank Worth ing ton's magic  Thinking about it that song would work for Jermaine Beckford.  Happy Birthday Frankie; probably our most stylist player we have ever had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 A forward signed from a Midlands club whose goals got us promoted to the top division and then helped to keep us up there the following season. Scored in a memorable win at Old Trafford but left the club in not the best of circumstances after a little more than 2 seasons. Â Frank Worthington, Michael Ricketts, or both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COYW Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 I remember him turning up at the player's entrance at Burnden once in spangly jacket, jeans, cowboy boots and a stetson. I was amazed that he was prepared to drop down a division to join us when he'd been winning caps for England a couple of years earlier. I don't think he would have if it weren't for his former manager Ian Greaves persuading him we wouldn't be in the Second Division for long. He was top scorer in that first season back in the First Division as well. He got a great reception when he came back to Burnden... even though he was player manager of Tranmere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannyroad58 Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 That night at the dingles will live with me for ever, thanks Frank for that oh and scoring at OT when we won 2-1........if my memory serves me right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeOghani'sIroningBoard Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Top man. Saw him rip into Jimmy Bloomfield at a Leicester City training session when he talked to him doing keepie-uppies which he fucked up. Used to watch him at St Andrews with Whatmore and Todd when at Uni, crowd pleaser everywhere he went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianofcleveleys Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 I honestly think technically he was the best British player I have ever seen, he could also look after himself and to say he knew where the net was is an understatement his playboy antics were the reason he did not get a massive move to Liverpool and he would have been a legend there and would have played 50 games plus for England. He was my hero as a kid did my utmost to copy his playing style and failed miserably, I continued to look out for him after he left BWFC and he played until he was 40 and gave VFM everywhere he went. I was lucky enough to meet him a couple of times at sports and dinners and a friendlier bloke you could not meet. I should be too old for heroes but Frank is still my heroe today and when he came onto the Reebok pitch recently I found my self bowing to him. Said everything I'd have said, as a football mad teenager he was was a hero, somebody who could see and do things others couldn't. We had a great team then but he was the big reason we walked down Bradford Rd and Weston St on a Saturday afternoon all those years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.