Gavin Peacock's column

Salad

A very good read, that among other things explains Kevin Keegan's detailed research into findnig and signing new players, why GP is to blame for Robert Lee going, why Danny Shittu had to leave ....

http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/comment/article2137671.ece

MCS

good article that, normally i find his rantings annoying and quite anti cafc sometimes.

Oakster

Local hero!

Now he lives up the road from me & plays for my local team. His fitness is amazing, last one standing at training sessions....

_MrDick

I can't believe that he didn't cite Halesy as a boyhood hero...

Oggy Red

Interesting point GP makes about being 'in love with the game':

"When I was a player, I actually played with some guys who weren’t in love with the game. They played it because they were good at it, and they liked it, but they weren’t in love with it. I always loved football. My father Keith was a professional footballer for 17 years and I grew up with it, running around the stadium at Charlton Athletic as a boy. I enjoy talking football and I enjoy being around people who love the game as well."

Scoham

Never seen that first article before. Notice he said Nugent is one of the players that will be able to handle it, he's not really impressed at Portsmouth.

Interesting about Shittu, in some ways our young players coming through now are lucky, if they're any good they will get a chance, if we were still in the Prem some of them would eventually leave and work their way back up, like Shittu, Turner etc.

Oggy Red

Oddball memory time:

When i was a kid, I reckon it was October 1967, we drew 2-2 with Middlesboro (or was it Carlisle?) at home - and at half time Dick Neve the announcer said something like:

"Congratulations to our popular winger Keith Peacock and his wife, on the birth of their son Gavin."

And the crowd clapped.

Strange the stuff you remember, lol

LenGlover

[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Oddball memory time:

When i was a kid, I reckon it was October 1967, we drew 2-2 with Middlesboro (or was it Carlisle?) at home - and at half time Dick Neve the announcer said something like:

"Congratulations to our popular winger Keith Peacock and his wife, on the birth of their son Gavin."

And the crowd clapped.

Strange the stuff you remember, lol

Dick Neve!

I remember that name. Didn't he have a record shop in Plumstead or perhaps a record shop in Plumstead lent records to the Club or am I completely senile?

Scoham

[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]When i was a kid, I reckon it was October 1967, we drew 2-2 with Middlesboro (or was it Carlisle?) at home - and at half time Dick Neve the announcer said something like:

Having checked wikipedia he was born in November, not far off.

JollyRobin

He once came round to my house for Sunday Lunch, having met through a friend who went to church with Gavin.

Was one of the high points of my life I have to admit.

Ironically my dads side had won the South London Olympian Cup a few weeks before, and when he noticed it, it was commented upon that he never quite did win the FA Cup.

Oggy Red

[cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]When i was a kid, I reckon it was October 1967, we drew 2-2 with Middlesboro (or was it Carlisle?) at home - and at half time Dick Neve the announcer said something like:

Having checked wikipedia he was born in November, not far off.

Thanks, Sco.

Must have been the November Blackpool home game that followed the Boro & Carlisle fixtures.
That was just after we sold star left winger Lennie Glover to real 1st Division Leicester City for £80,000.

Established left back Brian Kinsey started the game in his old youth team position of left wing, in Lennie's old position.
Oh dear - no pace, no nous, no flair and subbed at half time.

We lost 2-0, our first home defeat of the season, and Blackpool went top of the League.

See what happens when you sell your best players?

;o)

Nelsenout

[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Scoham[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]When i was a kid, I reckon it was October 1967, we drew 2-2 with Middlesboro (or was it Carlisle?) at home - and at half time Dick Neve the announcer said something like:

Having checked wikipedia he was born in November, not far off.

Thanks, Sco.

Must have been the November Blackpool home game that followed the Boro & Carlisle fixtures.
That was just after we sold star left winger Lennie Glover to real 1st Division Leicester City for £80,000.

Established left back Brian Kinsey started the game in his old youth team position of left wing, in Lennie's old position.
Oh dear - no pace, no nous, no flair and subbed at half time.

We lost 2-0, our first home defeat of the season, and Blackpool went top of the League.

See what happens when you sell your best players?

;o)

I remeber that one Derek Spence scored a fluke at the South End looping a ball in off a defender.