Willie Coulson v Gary Moore
Added to which I think I was witness to one of the best left hooks ever thrown on a football pitch by GM !
Trouble is , I can't remember the exact circs.
Can anyboy out there help ?
You're right, but like you I can't remember the who, what & where, help please.
My favourite memory of big Gary wasn't hm scoring, but missing a sitter in front of the North Bank. There was a cross from the left Gary came steaming in with the goal at his mercy from two yards. Unfortunately Gary ended up entangled in the net and the ball was skied into the North Bank much to our collective amusement. I think we were winning hence the laughter.
Thanks for making me laugh again I too remember that miss, defied all laws of physics and it still lingers with me to this day !! Anyway Gary was a really nice bloke when me and a couple of mates decided to ask for his autograph and went round the his house in Little Hays Leigh.His wife even looked shocked at our adoration of him , unfortunately he was always seen as the fall guy beside BBYou're right, but like you I can't remember the who, what & where, help please.
My favourite memory of big Gary wasn't hm scoring, but missing a sitter in front of the North Bank. There was a cross from the left Gary came steaming in with the goal at his mercy from two yards. Unfortunately Gary ended up entangled in the net and the ball was skied into the North Bank much to our collective amusement. I think we were winning hence the laughter.
I am so glad we are having this chance to remember old greats and happy times, so much better to live in the past than in the present at the moment.
Well remembered Devon, I was probably being generous when I said 2 yards, as you suggest it was more like two feet. The only comparable miss I can think of was by a bloke called Roger Davies who played for Derby. I think they were playing a cup match at Chelsea, he rounded the keeper, and fell over the ball with the goal gaping and onbody within yards of him.
To be fair to Willie Coulson I think he formed a formidable drinking team with Davie Cunningham, and many pubs in the area went bust when the pair of them left the club.
But the local taxi drivers must have felt a lot safer.;)
IIRC,Dave Cunningham famously clocked one after one of those mammoth drinking sessions.
Gary Moore every time for me, BTW.Unlike :OBL: I though he was a better player than Chris Guthrie.Still remember his miss away at Mansfield in the Cup.He scored some great goals though in tandem with Billy Best.
Coulson was good for a laugh but not much more.
The miss was against Chesterfield, as Canveyshrimper says we were one up at the time. A second would have made the game safe, but I seem to remember we eventually lost the game 2-1 (it may have been 2 all-the memory may be playing tricks). What does stand out, as Canveyshrimper said is the quality of the miss. I remember it being about a yard, rather than two yards out, with no Chesterfield player within 10 yards of the ball. Somebody (I think it was Billy Best) had slotted the ball past the keeper and the ball was rolling into the centre of an empty net. Along came Gary, his arms raised skywards in premature celebration, to scoop it up and over the bar, at about an 80% angle. Cue sitting in the net with a face that just got redder and redder. Honestly, I wish something like YouTube had existed then to record the miss for posterity-quite simply the worst miss I ever saw at the Hall and possibly the worst I've ever seen anywhere.
Having said all that big Gal gets my vote over Willie Coulson, who unlike Garry More had a more or less permanent red face due probably, as others have suggested, to his love of the bevvy. Never more than an adequate mid fielder, he can't be compared to Moore, who never gave less than everything for the cause, made a lot of goals for Billy Best, and despite his misss against Chesterfield, scored a good few himself.
Willie Coulson on the other hand caused me much hilarity for a very different reason, a chap at work asked me if Coulson had ever ridden a horse as his legs were so bandy. Forever after that I could never watch one of runs down the wing without laughing out loud; I'm sure you could have nutmegged him while he still had his legs together!