P.S. - I'll never class Mr. Sturrock as an Ex-shrimper he will be a 'Forever Shrimper'Paul Sturrock saved our club and we all should be forever grateful
i watched this last night - quite a bit of footage of us at the training ground and at a game and yes Coughlan getting a bit choked up when talking about Luggys PD. Worth a watch if only for the briefest of glimpses of Ken ‘McNasty’ JarvisInteresting 2023 BBC Scotland programme on Paul Sturrock ('Icons of Football'), with a brief Southend mention plus Graham Coughlan interview just after 21:30 minutes. Best to turn on subtitles as it can sometimes be hard to make out what Paul's saying, due to Parkinson's I guess. He's 66 now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0frxl3t
I shook his hand and told him that on the one occasion I met him.Paul Sturrock saved our club and we all should be forever grateful
Thanks for posting that, a good watchInteresting 2023 BBC Scotland programme on Paul Sturrock ('Icons of Football'), with a brief Southend mention plus Graham Coughlan interview just after 21:30 minutes. Best to turn on subtitles as it can sometimes be hard to make out what Paul's saying, due to Parkinson's I guess. He's 66 now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0frxl3t
When you think about it, I cant think of a more perfect manager for the situation we were in. People came to southend just to play for him.Love this. Sad to see how much his Parkinson's has taken hold now.
Personally love this bloke. I didn't at first. I irrationally blamed him for the way Tilson had been unceremoniously disposed of despite being constantly undermined by Ron Martin between 2008 and 2010.
What Luggy did was remarkable, though. We could so easily have followed Stockport out of the EFL that season as we were arguably in a worse state than them on the pitch over the summer. His contacts and his influencing built a new squad in a matter of weeks.
Were it not for injuries to Timlin and Dickinson, plus Ron Martin caving to the vocal minority'a complaints about the style of football and disrupting things by requesting that Luggy get the ball on the deck a bit more, we'd have gone up in 2011/12. The first half of that season was superb, sitting top on over 50 points at the halfway stage and scoring goals for fun. Shouldn't have mattered how we did it.
Stockport at home, Blair Sturrock came on as a sub and got a 96th minute equaliser in a 1-1 draw. Stockport ended up getting relegated from the EFL that season,Think it was one of his very first matches at Roots Hall (can't remember the opposition, or even the result!) that the linesman on the East side put his flag up then lowered it, leading to a goal against us. Luggy went ballistic on the touchline and was sent to the stands, where we cheered him! I thought then that we could get to like this fella... he had