Memory Lane George Best at Roots Hall?

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Peter fell out with the then manager Dave Smith because he was playing in America , never really played in the Southend team after that .

Just looked it up. Whilst with us, he played in the summer break for Baltimore Comets twice, San Diego Jaws and Vancouver Whitecaps. No wonder he fell out with Dave Smith.

 

[LCBB72]

Just looked it up. Whilst with us, he played in the summer break for Baltimore Comets twice, San Diego Jaws and Vancouver Whitecaps. No wonder he fell out with Dave Smith.

His last full season here , Peter and Stuart Parker had knocked up nearly 40 goals between them , and we were relegated that season .

 

[LCBB72]

Just looked it up. Whilst with us, he played in the summer break for Baltimore Comets twice, San Diego Jaws and Vancouver Whitecaps. No wonder he fell out with Dave Smith.

When you look at the record books the season that he fell out with Peter , Southend scored only 52 goals , perhaps a bad mistake by Dave Smith .

 

[Zeuss]

Courtesy of our friends at Wikipedia, Best's entire career, he did get about a bit!

Youth career
1961–1963	Manchester United
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps[SUP]†[/SUP]	(Gls)[SUP]†[/SUP]
1963–1974	Manchester United	361	(137)
1974	→ Jewish Guild (loan)	5	(1)
1974	→ Dunstable Town (loan)	0	(0)
1975	Stockport County	3	(2)
1975–1976	Cork Celtic	3	(0)
1976	Los Angeles Aztecs	23	(15)
1976–1977	Fulham	42	(8)
1977–1978	Los Angeles Aztecs	32	(12)
1978–1979	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	28	(6)
1979–1980	Hibernian	17	(3)
1980–1981	San Jose Earthquakes	56	(21)
1980–1982	San Jose Earthquakes (indoor)	21	(33)
1982	Sea Bee	2	(0)
1982	Hong Kong Rangers	1	(0)
1983	Bournemouth	5	(0)
1983	Brisbane Lions	4	(0)
1983	Osborne Park Galeb	1	(1)
1983	Nuneaton Borough	0	(0)
1984	Tobermore United	0	(0)
Total		604	(239)
National team
1964–1977	Northern Ireland	37	(9

Never saw him play for Fulham,but did for the other 3 English league clubs: Manure,Bournemouth and in one of his 3 games for Stockport, a Boxing Day derby v Southport- he failed to get past the ginger-haired left-back ,Eric Snookes.

 

[AndyT]

Peter Silvester.
He had a good goals ratio with us. I remember him going on loan in the summer a few times whilst with us, to play in the American League, which was very poor in those days with small crowds. They weren't into football(Soccer) in those days.
I always felt it left him knackered as he had no summer break from playing.

Yep, of course, the Silvester.

Always rated him highly.

Good striking partnership with Stuart Parker in 1975-76.

Remember being there when he bagged all four against Brighton & HA. :happy:

 

[AndyT]

I was thinking that was an odd-looking Southend team on the programme but then remembered that programmes were printed a day or two before the match so I always took a pen to the match with me to change the names to who was actually playing. Players didn't have squad numbers in those days, of course, so printing the whole squad list, like they do in modern programmes, wasn't possible. I would guess that Alan Moody would have partnered Neil Townsend at centre back. Does anyone know what our actual team was for that match?

Actual team was :-

Webster
Dyer
Worthington (R)
Taylor
Townsend
Moody
Love
Brace
Guthrie
Ford
Silvester

Result : Won 4-1 (Silvester 2, Brace, Guthrie)
Att : 8,295

 

[Sleaford Shrimper]

Actual team was :-

Webster
Dyer
Worthington (R)
Taylor
Townsend
Moody
Love
Brace
Guthrie
Ford
Silvester

Result : Won 4-1 (Silvester 2, Brace, Guthrie)
Att : 8,295

Thanks for answering my question.

Ah, those were the days! Three strikers playing and they all scored. We could do with a bit of that now! An interesting midfield three of Ford, Love and Taylor, too.

 

[AndyT]

Yep, very positive away from home and it worked.

Don't remember anything about Alastair Love, but the others are all names I grew up watching. :thumbsup:

 

[LCBB72]

Yep, very positive away from home and it worked.

Don't remember anything about Alastair Love, but the others are all names I grew up watching. :thumbsup:

We signed Alastair from West Brom , he went to Newport County with Dave Elliot when Dave became player manager .

 

[LCBB72]

Thanks for answering my question.

Ah, those were the days! Three strikers playing and they all scored. We could do with a bit of that now! An interesting midfield three of Ford, Love and Taylor, too.

Tony Taylor never really lived up to his big money fee .

 

[AndyT]

We signed Alastair from West Brom , he went to Newport County with Dave Elliot when Dave became player manager .

Many thanks.

Didn't look like he played very much for us. Around 7 or 8 games in total.