Roger Hunt RIP

[ClaretTony]

Another of England’s World Cup team has passed away. Roger Hunt was 83.

[tiger76]

RIP Roger a key member of that 66 squad.

And it was only a couple of days ago that Salah beat his record as the quickest Liverpool player to net 100 top flight goals.

[Bosscat]

RIP Roger Hunt

[Cirrus_Minor]

Another top class striker of his age that we have lost. I do remember Hunt scoring against us at Turf Moor when Liverpool won 4-0 and 5-1 and used to dread them coming.

RIP Roger Hunt.

[Tribesmen]

How many of the 1966 team are still alive ?

[mkmel]

Only Bobby Charlton,Geoff Hurst and George Cohen left of our 1966 World Cup winning team
RIP Roger

[longsidetrumpet]

Only Bobby Charlton,Geoff Hurst and George Cohen left of our 1966 World Cup winning team
RIP Roger

What about the rest of the squad Mel?

[ClaretTony]

What about the rest of the squad Mel?

Seven in total

George Cohan, Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst
Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, Ron Flowers and Terry Paine

[longsidetrumpet]

Ron Flowers, Terry Paine, Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, just checked

[longsidetrumpet]

Sorry tony quicker than me (but not on the pitch)

[mkmel]

I don't know about the rest of the squad apart from Jimmy Greaves who recently passed away. And wasn't John Connelly in the squad?

[Ashingtonclaret46]

One of my favourite non-Claret players who made the game look effortless because of his positional sense.
RIP Roger Hunt and thanks for the memories.

[ClaretTony]

Sorry tony quicker than me (but not on the pitch)

I only knew without looking it up because I'd done so recently when Jimmy Greaves died.

[JohnMac]

Another great striker.

RIP Roger

[Petersa]

I don't know about the rest of the squad apart from Jimmy Greaves who recently passed away. And wasn't John Connelly in the squad?

John played in the opener vs Uraguay. A dull 0.0 draw and never played for England again nor 1st Div football. He joined Rovers after the World Cup.

Used to pass Connellys Plaice a lot, just down the road from my Grandmothers in Brierfield.

[ClaretTony]

John played in the opener vs Uraguay. A dull 0.0 draw and never played for England again nor 1st Div football. He joined Rovers after the World Cup.

Used to pass Connellys Plaice a lot, just down the road from my Grandmothers in Brierfield.

We tried to buy Connelly back but he turned us down and went to Blackburn

[lakedistrictclaret]

We tried to buy Connelly back but he turned us down and went to Blackburn

A decision which he, reportedly, came to regret.

[ClaretTony]

A decision which he, reportedly, came to regret.

I'm not surprised given where he went.

He said at the time that he didn't think it was the best thing to do to go back.

[elwaclaret]

I don't know about the rest of the squad apart from Jimmy Greaves who recently passed away. And wasn't John Connelly in the squad?

John Connelly certainly was in the final squad… he used to tell how he spent the entire final on the bench holding Nobby Styles false teeth.. Nobby he thought wanted to commiserate that he had only made the bench, but instead he pushed his teeth into the palm of his hand… with no where to put them John Kept them the whole first half in his hand.

[conyoviejo]

Back on track now with this thread.

R.I.P. Roger Hunt,a really good player who was always a pleasure to watch.

[bfcjg]

RIP

[Peter Loo]

Certainly one of the players over the years that epitomise the saying “in the right place at the right time”.

No airs or graces about him either he just knew were the net was.

[ClaretTony]

Seven in total

George Cohan, Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst
Ian Callaghan, George Eastham, Ron Flowers and Terry Paine

Out of interest I checked the Germans and they still have eight of their team still with us and sixteen of the squad.

[Uwe Noble]

Saw him late on in his career at t'Turf playing for Bolton about 1977. Very impressive, even then, out wide on the right.

[karatekid]

Out of interest I checked the Germans and they still have eight of their team still with us and sixteen of the squad.

I wonder if the German squad had a much younger average age than England.

[ClaretTony]

I wonder if the German squad had a much younger average age than England.

I think they might have had but I was still surprised only six have passed away including Hans Tilkowski, Helmut Haller & Lothar Emmerich who played in the final.

[Sarum]

In 1957 Roger Hunt, whilst stationed at Larkhill Army Camp on Salisbury Plain, played for my local side Shrewton Utd (who also happen to play in claret and blue).

A few years later future England forward Mick Channon, a local lad, played for Shrewton Utd too, before joining Southampton.

[beddie]

A privilege to see him play. RIP Roger.

[IanMcL]

Another loss to our unique football squad.

Had a very good world Cup.
Thank you Mr Hunt.

[FCBurnley]

Top quality player RIP.

[BillyIngham'sShorts]

Its time to tell my Roger Hunt story. In around 1998, I was a youngish solicitor working for a big law firm in North West and we had our annual golf day for clients at Sandiway golf club Cheshire. I turned up a bit late for a pre match buffet lunch with a client and joined a table full of solicitors I knew, and who were with their respective clients. One of my partners said to the table (looking at me , "Billy") : "well Billy used to play football to a decent standard , didn't you Billy" , beckoning me to regale them with my impressive history, so before I had as much as swig of my half a bitter...I reckoned I was coming in on the back end of a conversation that seemed to centre around the chap (a client) to the right of me about 60 who I didn't recognise... I told the table about how I had been on school boy forms , and played a few games as semi pro in my youth before playing London Amateur League from age 20 onwards, and the said guy to my right kept chipping in with questions like, "where in London" and "what position", so after a few minutes, one of the solicitors said "Roger played a bit aswell" nodding to the said guy, to which I said, "really, who did you play for?" . And you all now know the answer : Liverpool and England. Roger was selling his haulage firm and had used us to do the sale. I felt a ****.

[rufus lumley]

The Livepool fans knighted him when the honours system only gave him a MBE.

[Buxtonclaret]

Another of the great players from my earlier years leaves us.
R.I.P Roger.