I remember him scoring 4 goals for Birmingham v Bolton while he was just 16 - primarily because I was also 16. It was a feat that would've seen him snapped up by a bigger club nowadays. In the event he gave Birmingham another 8 seasons scoring 118 goals - it was 1971.
I think I saw at the Valley when he was in his first season for Birmingham as a teenager. Maybe it's a fake memory. But it's real to me. Did they win 0-2?
Trevor Francis lost his wife Helen to cancer in 2017 after 45 years together since they were 19. That must've been difficult as they had a very close marriage and he said he felt bereft once she passed.
He played over 50 games for England and scored 12 goals and a two time European cup winner.
First game for Birmingham at 16 in 1970 and last Game for Sheffield Wednesday in the 1993/94 season when he was 39.
Rip Trevor Francis… remember you playing as a 17 year old at the valley … Brum had 1 coach load of fans sitting in the old stand singing “ what’s his name… FRANCIS !” Could tell you was different class even then.
3 years older than me, I recall watching the BBC lunchtime show talking about a young up and coming footballer called Trevor Francis, I think for Birmingham.
Was Francis the player that Cloughie paid £999,999 for because he “didn’t want the million pound price tag to go to his head”?
Great player. RIP
got a feeling that was either Greaves or Law from their Italian club
no those transfers were way before the £1m player. I think LR is right. Cloughie also showed up Francis at the PoTY do for having his hands in his pocket.
you're right, Greaves was the first £99,999 transfer to save the label of the first £100,000 player .. long way from a million
Alan Clarke Leicester to Leeds first £100,000 player summer of 69 .. I'm getting so old
Growing up near Kidderminster I used to go to watch The Blues and seeing the Hatton Francis Latchford trio upfront was very exciting. He dribbled and rode tackles, had immense pace a brilliant footballer. Just 16 when he made his debut too. A true football legend
Comments
RIP Trevor.
RIP Trevor.
RIP.
Great player.
He played over 50 games for England and scored 12 goals and a two time European cup winner.
First game for Birmingham at 16 in 1970 and last Game for Sheffield Wednesday in the 1993/94 season when he was 39.
626 games and 231 goals !
Amazing career.
RIP Trevor Francis, the boy from Plymouth.
May he RIP.
RIP Trevor. That line above demonstrates just how much of a successful household name he really was back in the day.