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Malcolm Webster

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Mick

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..... who kept goal for us just over 100 times in the mid-70s has today retired from football.

He was never our best goalkeeper nor our worst, but he went on to have a very highly regarded career as a goalkeeping coach.
 
I am sure there is film of him playing for Arsenal v Manchester United that was on The Big Match on You Tube some where .
 
Mick said:
..... who kept goal for us just over 100 times in the mid-70s has today retired from football.

He was never our best goalkeeper nor our worst, but he went on to have a very highly regarded career as a goalkeeping coach.
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I would put him in our bottom 20% - I think he cost us our division 3 status in 1975/76, particularly at Colchester on Easter Saturday when he turned a 1-0 half time lead into a 2-1 defeat - his last game for us.

However, Ron Atkinson took him to Cambridge United where he played for 8 years making over 250 appearances, many in the second division. One of the shorter goalkeepers at 5' 11".

As you say had a great career coaching - apparently when Richard Wright went from Ipswich to Arsenal he wanted to take Webster with him!
 
Thought he was a decent keeper as well.
When i read the "thread" Malcolm Webster....i thought "oh God another one gone"..but only retired,thank God.
He must be really old now,but still keeping fit.Well done Malcolm
 
ozzie said:
Thought he was a decent keeper as well.
When i read the "thread" Malcolm Webster....i thought "oh God another one gone"..but only retired,thank God.
He must be really old now,but still keeping fit.Well done Malcolm
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"Top Man" was Malcolm. In the late seventies when I was working for Bill Garner at his trophy business in Rochford, I got to know Malcolm really well after Bill had left Chelsea and signed for Cambridge United. Malcolm played over 250 games for the U's and was also assistant manager to another ex-Southend player Chris Turner between 1986-1988. Malcolm also ran many successful soccer schools for various clubs in the east of england before becoming Ipswich Town's full time goalkeeping coach a few years ago. (Ozzie, Malcolm Webster is 67 and was born in November 1950).
 
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