Brown bread, aged 74.

Proper mon

Before my time but a hard man when football was a mans game

As many caps for England as Ricketts and SKD. Looked a right hard bloke. 

Crippled through playing for a good while with cortisone injections... in both knees I think. Hard man but a good player with it. 

   The more I remember of those days the more I realise how dull the game is now in comparison. 

first non-Bolton player I ever heard of ... watching the 1974 FA Cup final and my old man telling me Tommy Smith was a proper player (think he meant hard bastard but didn't want to say it)

RIP Tommy Smith hard as nails.

There used to be a story doing the rounds years ago about JB & Tommy having a set to in the players tunnel at fulltime  when we beat them 3-2 in the league cup.Not sure how much truth there was in it but John was the 'go to ' late tackler if the game required it.

Or as they used to say in the Burnden Paddock 'take his number John' .Least likely looking assassin but there you go.

21 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

The more I remember of those days the more I realise how dull the game is now in comparison. 

Absolutelyfuckingbangon!!!!!

19 minutes ago, wakey said:

first non-Bolton player I ever heard of ... watching the 1974 FA Cup final and my old man telling me Tommy Smith was a proper player (think he meant hard bastard but didn't want to say it)

Yep. My dad had no love at all for Liverpool but really liked Tommy Smith - used to say he was the only player he’d seen as good as Hartle and Banks

I remember Tommy Smith having a car crash in Skem and he ended up claiming DLA, a few years later he was on the Wembley pitch taking spot kicks before a final kicked off, some soft twat Evertonion grassed him up to the Work's and Pension's and he ended up paying an hefty fine and losing all his benefits. A player you never see the like's of again in today's football. R.I.P. Tommy la.

werent there some story about sammy allardyce beating him in a fight on the burnden car park , after we beat (!?) them once. ?

or is it made up ?

Here we go

 

Let's win it for Tommy

 

He was in boys from the blackstuff, I think

Shit out when shake hands called it on

8 minutes ago, Casino said:

Here we go

 

Let's win it for Tommy

 

He was in boys from the blackstuff, I think

Shit out when shake hands called it on

I remember Souness and Sammy Lee being in it. Don't remember Smith though.

Any road - great header in the 77 European cup. RIP big man

11 minutes ago, Casino said:

Here we go

 

Let's win it for Tommy

 

He was in boys from the blackstuff, I think

Shit out when shake hands called it on

Tosser Hughes was in it.

3 dirtiest ever :

Tommy Smith 

Ron Harris

Norman Hunter 

46 minutes ago, Casino said:

Here we go

 

Let's win it for Tommy

 

He was in boys from the blackstuff, I think

Shit out when shake hands called it on

One of the greatest scenes ever when Shake Hands called it on in that pub where Leigh White is a regular.

Yosser butts “Shake Hands” ...knocks him clean out....Shake Hands rises...the rest is history.

 

Now then Casino.....who was the funeral wake for in that episode ?

I reckon Ronnie Phillips will answer correctly first

 

56 minutes ago, Casino said:

Here we go

 

Let's win it for Tommy

 

He was in boys from the blackstuff, I think

Shit out when shake hands called it on

Shake Hands

https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1787001494919373&_rdr

Rip

12 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

One of the greatest scenes ever when Shake Hands called it on in that pub where Leigh White is a regular.

Yosser butts “Shake Hands” ...knocks him clean out....Shake Hands rises...the rest is history.

 

Now then Casino.....who was the funeral wake for in that episode ?

I reckon Ronnie Phillips will answer correctly first

 

I never went in the Green Man, but been in similar back street pubs when working in scouseville, all packed to the rafters so what time you went in.

2 minutes ago, leigh white said:

I never went in the Green Man, but been in similar back street pubs when working in scouseville, all packed to the rafters so what time you went in.

I wondered where you’d fucked off to in the Pool when I needed a hand on the roof Mick

 

Actually down on the dock road on Tuesday for a refresher course......talk about pissed off mate...got to sit there from 9am to 4pm listening to a Corbyn Lover for 7 hours 

1 minute ago, miamiwhite said:

I wondered where you’d fucked off to in the Pool when I needed a hand on the roof Mick

 

Actually down on the dock road on Tuesday for a refresher course......talk about pissed off mate...got to sit there from 9am to 4pm listening to a Corbyn Lover for 7 hours 

You'll be a fully paid up member of Momentum after that sesh mate.

2 minutes ago, leigh white said:

You'll be a fully paid up member of Momentum after that sesh mate.

Have you been drinking matey

 

32 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

One of the greatest scenes ever when Shake Hands called it on in that pub where Leigh White is a regular.

Yosser butts “Shake Hands” ...knocks him clean out....Shake Hands rises...the rest is history.

 

Now then Casino.....who was the funeral wake for in that episode ?

I reckon Ronnie Phillips will answer correctly first

 

George Malone? 

5 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

Have you been drinking matey

 

Just getting in the mood for the w/e footy at the colls.

3 minutes ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

George Malone? 

Could be Molly Malone for all I know P, i haven’t got a fucking clue