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1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:12 pm
by Lip
Found an old Daily Mirror back page picture of Willie Irvine scoring the winner against Sunderland in a 1- 0 victory .
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Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:07 pm
by Royboyclaret
Great pic, and certainly worthy of a comment......That was one of the 29 league goals that Irvine scored in that '65/'66 season that I referred to on another thread. It was in a sequence of 6 consecutive games in which Willie scored, hitting the net 9 times in those games......the man just loved to score goals.
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:30 pm
by Tribesmen
Never have I ever liked that year ...
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:55 pm
by Bfc
I saw everyone of the goals Willie scored that season.
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:28 pm
by Claret Till I Die
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:30 pm
Never have I ever liked that year ...
Because it was the year that Cantona was born?
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:45 pm
by Claret Toni
I see there's a headline lower down on the page letting us know that the Manchester United youngster, George Best, passed Busby's test. Maybe it was a test at that United party in Belgrade mentioned later in the article, where the senior pros set youngsters initiation tests and they let Matt know.
Anyone know what the test might have been?
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:56 pm
by Hipper
Bert Head was a special manager. Probably worked with Colin Waldron at Bury but had good spells at Swindon and Palace with emphasis on youth.
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:03 pm
by AGENT_CLARET
I was 45 days old that day
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:21 pm
by South West Claret.
It was a cracking season and no mistake.
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:08 pm
by dougcollins
Hipper wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:56 pm
Bert Head was a special manager. Probably worked with Colin Waldron at Bury but had good spells at Swindon and Palace with emphasis on youth.
I was going to comment on that too.
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:05 pm
by Wokingclaret
AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:03 pm
I was 45 days old that day
I was 94 days then,
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:10 pm
by ClaretTony
Scored just one week before he broke the post war record for league goals in a season at Villa.
The greatest goal scorer I have ever seen play for Burnley and am ever likely to.
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:46 pm
by AGENT_CLARET
Wokingclaret wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:05 pm
I was 94 days then,
You old git
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:54 pm
by Wokingclaret
Was Rochdale Claret back then
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:00 pm
by gawthorpe_view
Wokingclaret wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:54 pm
Was Rochdale Claret back then
Did you ride on Ellen Smith's specials?
Re: 1966
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:15 pm
by TheOriginalLongsider
Wokingclaret wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:05 pm
I was 94 days then,
4 months before I was born
Re: 1966
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:19 am
by Acting Claret
4 days before I was born.
Re: 1966
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:26 am
by Spike
England won the World Cup
Those toe rags on the A666 were relegated
Great year
Re: 1966
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:19 am
by Claret Till I Die
418 days before I was born
Re: 1966
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:23 pm
by morpheus2
AGENT_CLARET wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:03 pm
I was 45 days old that day
I was 120 days old!
Re: 1966
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:25 pm
by morpheus2
12th January same as CT
Re: 1966
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:30 pm
by Mark the Claret
morpheus2 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:23 pm
I was 120 days old!
Mere babes, I was 4 and a half
Re: 1966
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:33 am
by bfc8
Claret Toni wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:45 pm
I see there's a headline lower down on the page letting us know that the Manchester United youngster, George Best, passed Busby's test. Maybe it was a test at that United party in Belgrade mentioned later in the article, where the senior pros set youngsters initiation tests and they let Matt know.
Anyone know what the test might have been?
George had been struggling with cartilage problems for a while, in the end he missed several games at the end of the season when it was decided he needed an operation.
Sometimes thought had he been English he would have missed England's World Cup win summer 1966 due to the injury.
He was ok again at the start of 1966/67.
Re: 1966
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:30 am
by Longford Claret
Tribesmen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:30 pm
Never have I ever liked that year ...
Blackburn Rovers getting relegated wasn't too bad.