Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => Football => Topic started by: Sleuth on January 10, 2012, 15:15:55 PM
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I am in Turkey now :-) but the day before we flew I was at White Hart Lane watching my local team Cheltenham Town FC whom I support and watch whilst in the UK ( very much in contension for a automatic promotion from div 2 theis season ) play Spurs !!!! Of course we lost :-) 3-0 .... they had 8 international players in their line up and that was without Bale. Modric, and Van de Vart playing !!!! :-) Spurs out played us... but we tried to play `football` against them and didnt try to `kick` em off the park as that ain`t our style :-) The day out at a top premiership ground and a full house !!! and terrific atmosphere was what we 5.000 Cheltenham supporters were looking for and we got that !! :-) To hear the spurs fans singing " oh whennn the spurssssssssss go marching innnnn " was magic to us . I last visited WHL 45 years ago when the brilliant Jimmy Greaves and the scottish Alan Gilzean ( the G MEN ) graced the park.... what memories :-) and what a fab day it was last saturday, thanks to the guys who pulled that fixture `out of the hat` last December :-)
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Glad to hear you had a great day out Sleuth,and CTFC give it their best shot.I used to go to WHL with my Dad who was a season ticket holder in the 60s and 70s and in those days a wink and handing over a few bob at the turnstile allowed me to sit between him and his mate.I remember the great times of the 60s and the brilliant Spurs players,the G men,cliff Jones,Danny Blanchflower,and the Scottish players Dave Mckay (probably the most commited player of the time)John White,Jimmy Robertson,and Alan Gilzean (he scored so many goals with his head)
However I saw the light ;) and followed the Hammers from 15yrs old.
Great memories - Badger
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Off sleuth's topic, but Dave MacKay would never, ever have stayed on the park in any game that Chris Foy referreed.
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George Best quoted "Dave Mckay was the hardest and bravest player I ever played against"
And lets face it there were quite a few hatchet men around at the time
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Still off topic (sorry sleuth) but Chopper Harris springs to mind
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I was literally only a few yards away in the ground when Dave `the tank`McKay grabbed wee Billy Bremner by the scruff of his shirt during a Spurs v Leeds Utd match ( famous photo now :) ) I was so close in the ground ,to the incident I could have almost reached over and parted em before the ref intervened :-) I will never forget it ... and the photo of that incident has been immortalised :-)