Unfashionable childhood heroes

[LCBB72]

There is only one for me , The King of Roots Hall , BILLY BEST .

 

[blues exile]

There is only one for me , The King of Roots Hall , BILLY BEST .

Not childhood in my case, but irrefutably and incontestably the Best.

 

[ESG]

Alan Moody for me. Lived round the corner, worked in Salmons as a cobbler in the afternoons and was a quality cricketer for Hockley.

 

[wivs]

There is only one for me , The King of Roots Hall , BILLY BEST .

I don't want to be pedantic, but how is king Billy unfashionable? He was everyone's hero, including mine.

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

Look at that League table! A real mix there. Leeds, Charlton, Norwich, Southampton, Huddersfield, Brighton, Brentford, Millwall went one way, whilst Yeovil, Stockport, Orient & Hartlepool have gone the polar opposite.

Sadly, I feel we could be following one of those groups. And it’s not the good one.

Mental aint it. That was a really strong League 1 when you look at it now. Southampton had the likes of Lallana, Schneiderlin and Lambert. Leeds had Beckford, Snodgrass, Becchio, Johnson and Gradel. Huddersfield would have had Rhodes wouldn't they? Swindon had Austin as well. Crazy.

Sorry back to topic

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Isla St Clair, presenter on generation Game with Bruce Forsyth.
I met her in 1976 when I was doing some volunteer helping with the Variety Club involving severely handicapped kids; and she was simply a beautiful person and very involved in everything; even taking the kids to the loos etc.
Such a sweet softly spoken goddess for any teenager to worship.

 

[LCBB72]

I don't want to be pedantic, but how is king Billy unfashionable? He was everyone's hero, including mine.

That's true , but just cannot resist telling the world that BILLY BEST is The King of Roots Hall .

 

[BriggBlue]

Mine was no other than Barry Conlon, how low my expectations were.

Strangely enough a decade later my wife took me to watch Grimsby as it's the closest side to us and guess who made their debut on loan for them? It was a bit surreal as he's looked pretty much the same. Crap.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Isla St Clair, presenter on generation Game with Bruce Forsyth.
I met her in 1976 when I was doing some volunteer helping with the Variety Club involving severely handicapped kids; and she was simply a beautiful person and very involved in
everything; even taking the kids to the loos etc.
Such a sweet softly spoken goddess for any teenager to worship.

Well if we're going there, I vote for the lovely Linda Lusardi when everyone else raved over Sam Fox.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Well if we're going there, I vote for the lovely Linda Lusardi when everyone else raved over Sam Fox.

Off topic MK, Linda was ALWAYS the thinking males top bird.
And certainly not unfashionable.

 

[Firestorm]

Well if we're going there, I vote for the lovely Linda Lusardi when everyone else raved over Sam Fox.

Maddie Smith was my favourite

 

[SouthendSpence]

Sofiene Zaaboub

 

[DoDTS]

Bobby Gilfillan

1964-65 I was 12 years old and for the first time I saw every home game (plus 4 away), Bobby was leading goal scorer with 22 goals

 

[Strykr]

I thought adrian clarke was pele-esque bitd. Cant remember which game it was but he was on fire with a delicious 40 yard chip over the keeper.

 

[Lambs Beret]

Mine seem to have come later than childhood! Andy Ansah and Ricky Otto were mine but hardly unfashionable
As I got older though I found myself strangely in awe of Trevor Fitzpatrick and Barry Conlon. I don't know whether it was because they were awful and I saw these guys and thought, if this is the level for a professional footballer I have more than half a chance to still resurrect my already sunk chances of playing football at a decent level.

 

[rigsby]

Isla St Clair, presenter on generation Game with Bruce Forsyth.
I met her in 1976 when I was doing some volunteer helping with the Variety Club involving severely handicapped kids; and she was simply a beautiful person and very involved in everything; even taking the kids to the loos etc.
Such a sweet softly spoken goddess for any teenager to worship.

I don't wish to spoil your teenage fantasy about the lovely Isla but i cant be the only one who gets nervous reading that sentence....... In a post about a 1970's BBC light entertainer.

 

[wivs]

I really liked Anton Otulakowski, but I'm still not sure how to spell his name. Really skillful player and he went up in my estimation when he appeared on tv doing a somersault throw in. I was cheesed off when he and Dave Cusack were both sold to Millwall in a previous Roots Hall fire sale.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I don't wish to spoil your teenage fantasy about the lovely Isla but i cant be the only one who gets nervous reading that sentence....... In a post about a 1970's BBC light entertainer.

No, there were lot of celebrities at this fun fair (closed to public) and Isla was great, Princess Margaret was also very chatty. These kids were spastic and worse, Variety Club did make dreams come true for them and their families in a high quality day.
Believe it as over 40 years later it is a remaining high point for me to know that there is some very good and unclamouring aspects of too often decried celebrity.

 

[Mad Dog Shrimper]

I thought that Paul Byrne, Andy Thomson, Gary Jones, Julian Hails, and Adrian Clarke were good but find that others didn't like them. I thought that Ben Lewis, Garry Cross and Daniel Kerrigan were going to have great futures with us.
Also loan signings such as Kevin Rapley and Tony Battersby.

 

[Blueronron]

I got his signature too, Dave was inside the D 'really cool ' at the time
And hambers inside the C

It’s funny I sign my things in identical way with the D being long and other letters inside, all because of Dave Chambers and me being star struck ?