Just how good was Cheesley here???

Glad you can recall that as well - I was always sure that I heard that in the East End, but after so many years I thought it had been a figment of my imagination!!

 

Doesn't sound like it

 

I don't agree he was the "Bastard" who took him out, I was there, two players going for a ball, unfortunately PC came off worse, what a shame for him and us, would have been one of our all time greats, and I think an England player.

 

I was there and Shilton I think he knew what he was doing when landing on Cheesley.
Keepers back then were occasionally hammered (not as bad as Lofthouse) and sometimes took the chance to 'get one back' first.

 

I was stood in the Williams, and I would swear that Shilton never went within 2 feet of Cheesley. From what I could see, Cheese jumped for an innocuous high ball on his own, got it all wrong, and then landed badly and there went the knee. At least thats how I remember it from that night all those years ago. Thing is, if it happened now he would probably be out for 2 months

 

It was one of the few games I didn't go to in those days, as I was in Benidorm !! A group of us from the Bemmy Down area had gone to Highbury on the Saturday and were actually on the North Bank keeping very, very quiet during the game!! We went to the Hammersmith Palais in the evening and flew out on Sunday - don't remember if it was from Heathrow or Gatwick!

Didn't get to hear about the Stoke game or the injury until later in the week as copies of English papers didn't get there until at least two days after they were originally published in the UK. No real time news or mobile phones in them thar dark days!!

 

!00% correct BrR, I was in the same stand and that's how I saw it, went up for the ball and landed awkward and bang went his knee.