Don Revie’s fabulous 1972 side …
Leeds United players wearing their international cap. Back Row l-r: Paul Madeley, Allan Clarke, Terry Yorath, Eddie Gray, Gary Sprake and Norman Hunter. Front Row l-r: Mick Jones, Paul Reaney, Peter Lorimer, Johnny Giles, Billy Bremner and Jack Charlton. 5th May 1972.
The exact team we beat in the cup final the following season
That save off lorimer, did you go?
Long story but I couldn’t get a ticket.
My Dad went as he got one from Colchester FC (his brother had a contact there)
I was at the night match when we beat Malcolm Allison’s Man City 3-1 - best atmosphere I’ve experienced at a football match.
I saw the quarter final at home against Luton and I was at Hillsbrough when we beat Arsenal in the Semi.
My Dad has that, along with every other newspaper he could get his hands on. We were only talking about it the other day and he has never taken the programme out of the sleeve it came in and still has his match ticket and train ticket.
Would he have been included in that generation where there was very much a rift between the Scots that plied their trade in England and Scotland, which affected the number of caps a lot of them got?
Only saw him play once against England a couple of weeks after the leeds v Sunderland final.
Line ups.
Hotshot Lorimer R. I.P.
Possibly, There was also something in the Guardian obitaury about him playing in South Africa instead of going on tour with Scotland and therefore being banished for several years prior to the 1974 World Cup. Did he play in the 1978 team? I don’t remember him then.
Looks like his last game for Scotland was in 76
He would only have been about 29 then as he made his debut at 15 in 1962. I wonder what that was all about?
What a player this fella was. RIP Frank.
Absolute genius. RIP.
8 games for England
We hate a player with flair.
Frank Worthington, a working man’s George Best. R.I.P.
Great player and could have hit bigger heights if he hadn’t failed the medical for Liverpool.
Could have been his manager
Always the showman
Man about town
King of Rock & Roll
With Linda Lewis
Elvis is always on his mind.
“ Bill Shankly had identified the Huddersfield Town centre-forward as the kind of skilful goalscorer he wanted in his emerging second great Liverpool line up.
The only issue was Frank was a notorious playboy. He later titled his autobiography One Hump Or Two.
Following successful transfer talks - a club record £150,000 deal was agreed in 1972 - the move was put on hold when Worthington failed a medical after having high blood pressure.
Shankly was unfazed, instructing Worthington to take a holiday to Majorca to reduce his blood pressure.
“My father had just died so I was probably suffering from some form of anxiety, but I was also enjoying the fruits of being young,” he explained.
He was dating Miss Great Britain at the time, but chatted up another woman on the plane to the Balearic Islands before having a ‘threesome’ with a Swedish mother and daughter, and then another romp with a Belgian lady.
He returned to Anfield for a second medical, and failed again, leading Liverpool to call the move off.
Shankly sent some flowers to Worthington’s mum.“
David Prentice Liverpool Echo…
Didn’t anticipate ever posting here, lost my father end of last year but but that’s not really something I’d share outside of our family and friends.
Laura
We met Laura after our first visit to the village cricket clubs Friday evening kids training and BBQ, not long after we moved in. She pounced on us as we left as her two girls are the same age as ours and she was excited to see some new girls in a village full of boys.
Our eldest has gotten to know theirs and though we all seem to be constantly busy with life the girls have gotten together from time to time. We’ve had the family here for BBQs and they’ve always bubbled with life and vigour.
Laura contracted Covid some weeks ago, no underlying health conditions, reasonably fit and active and under 50. We had heard she wasn’t well but the odds must be in her favour right?
Heard this afternoon that she passed away last week. What do you say, what can you say. Two girls and a husband that doted on their Mum
Goodbye Laura
Covid’s not over, take care out there
So sorry to hear this Dan. Awful, absolutely awful. Take care.
