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An Evening with the Liverpool 1965 FA Cup Winners Team

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Portly

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Ii have just had an email from the Liverpool Philharmonic advertising this event on Tuesday 11 May 2010.

http://www.liverpoolphil.com/3140/events-film-comedy-amp-events/liverpool-1965-fa-cup-winners-team.html?utm_source=New+what%27s+on+guide+out+now+26%2F03%2F2010&utm_campaign=10e97566a8-April_to_September_brochure_3_26_2010&utm_medium=email

I think I might go to that. It was my first season as a LFC supporter and I went to every game in that cup run, including a replay away to Stockport and the final at Wemberley! Happy days!

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They didn't look after players in the old days like they do now.

If you had cruciate ligament damage, the gaffer would tell you to try " running it off."

;D
 
It was the first team I could name all the players from.
It was a great team and like any great team and was a mix of styles, personalities stars and workers.
I might go along with you Portly, if you like


regards
 
[quote author=Portly link=topic=39539.msg1078364#msg1078364 date=1269935810]
They didn't look after players in the old days like they do now.

If you had cruciate ligament damage, the gaffer would tell you to try " running it off."

;D
[/quote]I often wonder how many injuries I've had that would mean a long term layoff if I was a proper footballer.
I have played pretty much every Sunday for the past 15 years and only had TWO injuries that actually stopped me playing both to my right ankle (one of which was horrific, went over sideways on it on concrete and my foot went sideways my ankle flat on the floor. I couldn't put any weight on it for about 3 weeks, it went black up to the knee and swole up to the size of my calf....did I go to the doctors? Did I fuck) other than that I've played through hundreds of sprains, niggles, tweaks and I often wonder how many times (in real football) I'd have been told by the physios to take a knee. The best you get from us is 'i'll stick in defense this week' or horror of horrors 'i'll just do nets' but never 'i've got a slight thigh sprain I'll need to have a couple of weeks physio' funny to think that if I was a proper footballer I'd have been made to miss loads of games I've played in. That ankle one would have been about 6 months probably. 4 weeks I was in nets.
 
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=39539.msg1078370#msg1078370 date=1269936492]
I might go along with you Portly, if you like
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OK I will order 2 tickets bro. If you can't make it on the day, I'm sure I will find someone else to go. Even though I'm Billy No-Mates. 🙂
 
Whooohoo tonights the night - Portly and I are off to our evening with the first team I fully remember.
None of the Ibrahimovic carry on for these chaps

regards
 
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[quote author=Portly link=topic=39539.msg1078364#msg1078364 date=1269935810]
They didn't look after players in the old days like they do now.

If you had cruciate ligament damage, the gaffer would tell you to try " running it off."

;D
[/quote]I often wonder how many injuries I've had that would mean a long term layoff if I was a proper footballer.
I have played pretty much every Sunday for the past 15 years and only had TWO injuries that actually stopped me playing both to my right ankle (one of which was horrific, went over sideways on it on concrete and my foot went sideways my ankle flat on the floor. I couldn't put any weight on it for about 3 weeks, it went black up to the knee and swole up to the size of my calf....did I go to the doctors? Did I fuck) other than that I've played through hundreds of sprains, niggles, tweaks and I often wonder how many times (in real football) I'd have been told by the physios to take a knee. The best you get from us is 'i'll stick in defense this week' or horror of horrors 'i'll just do nets' but never 'i've got a slight thigh sprain I'll need to have a couple of weeks physio' funny to think that if I was a proper footballer I'd have been made to miss loads of games I've played in. That ankle one would have been about 6 months probably. 4 weeks I was in nets.
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Aquilani would have called for an amputation.
 
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=39539.msg1103259#msg1103259 date=1273590874]
Whooohoo tonights the night - Portly and I are off to our evening with the first team I fully remember.
None of the Ibrahimovic carry on for these chaps
[/quote]

No, they were lucky if the club refunded the cost of their bus ticket to the game.

It really was a beautifully-balanced team, but there's little point in going on about it when most of our fellow forumites weren't even born when we won the FA Cup for the first time! ;D
 
[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=39539.msg1078040#msg1078040 date=1269865486]
Hope Tommy Smith manages to get there. Last I heard his arthritis was near crippling him.
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Shame.
 
I often wonder how many injuries I've had that would mean a long term layoff if I was a proper footballer.
I have played pretty much every Sunday for the past 15 years and only had TWO injuries that actually stopped me playing both to my right ankle (one of which was horrific, went over sideways on it on concrete and my foot went sideways my ankle flat on the floor. I couldn't put any weight on it for about 3 weeks, it went black up to the knee and swole up to the size of my calf....did I go to the doctors? Did I fuck) other than that I've played through hundreds of sprains, niggles, tweaks and I often wonder how many times (in real football) I'd have been told by the physios to take a knee. The best you get from us is 'i'll stick in defense this week' or horror of horrors 'i'll just do nets' but never 'i've got a slight thigh sprain I'll need to have a couple of weeks physio' funny to think that if I was a proper footballer I'd have been made to miss loads of games I've played in. That ankle one would have been about 6 months probably. 4 weeks I was in nets.
Click to expand...

I hurt my knee once. And I've split my head open twice.
Currently I have a sore shoulder, although I can't pinpoint any particular incident that may have caused it.
 
[quote author=Portly link=topic=39539.msg1103263#msg1103263 date=1273591219]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=39539.msg1103259#msg1103259 date=1273590874]
Whooohoo tonights the night - Portly and I are off to our evening with the first team I fully remember.
None of the Ibrahimovic carry on for these chaps
[/quote]

No, they were lucky if the club refunded the cost of their bus ticket to the game.

It really was a beautifully-balanced team, but there's little point in going on about it when most of our fellow forumites weren't even born when we won the FA Cup for the first time! ;D
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I was 2 so don't remember it but do remember many of the players involved from when I began to take an interest 1969/70, they were the beginning of our dynasty and part of the reason we remain the most succesful English team of all time. Enjoy the night gentlemen .
 
[quote author=Pesam link=topic=39539.msg1103270#msg1103270 date=1273591832] Enjoy the night gentlemen .
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Thanks! I'm sure we will. ;D
 
[quote author=Pesam link=topic=39539.msg1103270#msg1103270 date=1273591832]
[quote author=Portly link=topic=39539.msg1103263#msg1103263 date=1273591219]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=39539.msg1103259#msg1103259 date=1273590874]
Whooohoo tonights the night - Portly and I are off to our evening with the first team I fully remember.
None of the Ibrahimovic carry on for these chaps
[/quote]

No, they were lucky if the club refunded the cost of their bus ticket to the game.

It really was a beautifully-balanced team, but there's little point in going on about it when most of our fellow forumites weren't even born when we won the FA Cup for the first time! ;D
[/quote]

I was 2 so don't remember it but do remember many of the players involved from when I began to take an interest 1969/70, they were the beginning of our dynasty and part of the reason we remain the most succesful English team of all time. Enjoy the night gentlemen .
[/quote]

echoed
 
[quote author=Brendan link=topic=39539.msg1103268#msg1103268 date=1273591812]
I often wonder how many injuries I've had that would mean a long term layoff if I was a proper footballer.
I have played pretty much every Sunday for the past 15 years and only had TWO injuries that actually stopped me playing both to my right ankle (one of which was horrific, went over sideways on it on concrete and my foot went sideways my ankle flat on the floor. I couldn't put any weight on it for about 3 weeks, it went black up to the knee and swole up to the size of my calf....did I go to the doctors? Did I fuck) other than that I've played through hundreds of sprains, niggles, tweaks and I often wonder how many times (in real football) I'd have been told by the physios to take a knee. The best you get from us is 'i'll stick in defense this week' or horror of horrors 'i'll just do nets' but never 'i've got a slight thigh sprain I'll need to have a couple of weeks physio' funny to think that if I was a proper footballer I'd have been made to miss loads of games I've played in. That ankle one would have been about 6 months probably. 4 weeks I was in nets.
Click to expand...

I hurt my knee once. And I've split my head open twice.
Currently I have a sore shoulder, although I can't pinpoint any particular incident that may have caused it.
[/quote]

I think it's called overthirtyitis.

I've been suffering it a lot lately
 
Great evening, some of the veterans have faired better than others.
They did a couple of charity auctions, a pair of framed shirts Torres and Gerrard nicely mounted in a double frame. An England 66 world cup replica shirt signed by the surviving team and another double frame with a Pele and Maradona international shirt signed and authenticated.
Can't remember exactly what each went for, along the lines of £550 for the Torres/ Gerrard, around £600 for the England and about £850 for the Maradona / Pele shirt. Which did not seem bad, I think you would double your money on most of them on ebay

Anyway they took it in turns to tell anecdotes of the FA cup final and campaign, and Shankly tales in the first half and then a Q7A session in the second.
Lawrence, Lawler, Byrne, Stephenson, Hunt, St.John, Thompson, Callaghan, Yeats...Smithy was unwell, thought it was heart, but turned out to be gastro enteritis.
As was said this team was the foundation for everything after.
They really put a lot of emphasis on how big a competition the FA cup was and in fact said it was more highly regarded by most players than winning the league


regards
 
It was a memorable evening, and some of the stories that the players told were fascinating.

I liked Chris Lawler's remark that after Liverpool had come home with the FA Cup, there was a big civic reception. When the festivities were over, he went back to Norris Green on the 14A bus!

Ron Yeats also spoke very well. I liked his story about when he was first signed up with Dundee United, while he was still working in an abbatoir as an apprentice slaughterman. A press photographer turned up asking to take his photo for the local newspaper. Ron said he would go and clean himself up, but the photographer said he didn't want him to clean up and furthermore asked him to get a big knife. Thus Ron's photograph appeared in the papers with blood spattered over his face and holding a bloodstained knife. He said that after that, he was given a great deal of respect by opposition players. ;D
 
It turned out that Rowdy Yeats is a very emotional chap - he choked up a couple of times when talking about events in the past that had moved him.
 
Was it well attended Portly? Any young 'uns there or was it just a trip down Memory Lane for the old duffers?
 
It was a reasonable sized audience, the stalls were mostly full and there were some people upstairs in the upper circle.

The audience were predominantly oldies like myself (not including Vlad's Quiff of course) but there were quite a lot of young people too. I would guess about 30% were under 40.

The years had been much kinder to some of the players than others. Gerry Byrne looked very old, but Ian Callaghan looked as if he was in the first flush of youth!
 
[quote author=Portly link=topic=39539.msg1103736#msg1103736 date=1273654711]
It was a reasonable sized audience, the stalls were mostly full and there were some people upstairs in the upper circle.

The audience were predominantly oldies like myself (not including Vlad's Quiff of course) but there were quite a lot of young people too. I would guess about 30% were under 40.

The years had been much kinder to some of the players than others. Gerry Byrne looked very old, but Ian Callaghan looked as if he was in the first flush of youth!
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Is that old man speak?
 
[quote author=Loch Ness Monster link=topic=39539.msg1103742#msg1103742 date=1273655244]
Is that old man speak?
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<one eyebrow raised smiley>

Not at all, old chap, that is the normal theatrical term for the seats at ground level! Look at any theatre plan on the internet and you will find that they are called the stalls.

😉
 
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