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  1. Leedsoflondon

    Leedsoflondon Well-Known Member

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    Just read an article by and about Gordon McQueen, still gets upset about the digs he gets for joining the scum, but still all his mates are from the Leeds days and says Peter Lorimer is just Leeds through and through.
    Remember Lorimer him getting some bad press during the Bates days (and possibly Cellino) but he simply could never bring himself to criticise the club and not support it. I for one hope he comes through this.
     
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  2. MIGHTY

    MIGHTY Del-Boy

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    No need for you to worry <whistle>
     
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  3. Irishshako

    Irishshako Well-Known Member

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    One of my Revie heroes:(
     
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  4. MIGHTY

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    wasn't he the one known for having a hard kick / shot or something like that ?
     
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  5. lifecheshirewhite

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    Yes his shot was reported to be 70 miles an hour,remember him bending the fencing in front of the Stretford end one season with a shot.
     
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  6. Chippy / Glory

    Chippy / Glory Senior Member

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    Should have hit the fecking target. Problem solved.
    Not good reading even if pissed up pete was Bates's stooge.
     
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  7. sniffer1

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    when we are in the bottom half of the championship at christmas expect with big boot size 10 to be on christensens
    backside and pushed out of the door , if leeds had of got a quality manager and quality signings i would have said promotion was within sight this season but not now , radizzani has shown his true colours and its funny enough i thought the same around january when radizzani as the man who was supposed to come in and invest in the squad did not buy 1 player in january just when we needed a boost BUT i now am suspicious that radizzani did do that on purpose as he knew that if leeds had of got promoted then he would have had to pay more money to buy out cellino makes you think does"nt it , why he did not put in money in january for signings as that is what cellino said he was coming in as joint partner to do . we will see now what players he does get AND my thoughts are he wont spend much just when AGAIN leeds need quality players now
     
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  8. ellandback

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    Peter had hardest shot in football!
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    Peter Lorimer was just 15 years and 289 days when he made his first-team debut for Leeds United this week in 1962.

    By the time he’d finished his second spell with the club 24 years later, he’d played 779 times and had become the club’s record scorer with 255 goals which wasn’t bad considering the Scot never played as a striker!

    Lorimer was one of the lynchpins of the Don Revie era at Elland Road, helping to turn the Yorkshire club from a run-of-the-mill Second Division team to one of the most-feared and at times hated outfits in Europe.

    During his first 17-year spell, Peter won the league twice and finished runners-up four times.

    He also won an FA Cup, a League Cup and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups.

    In these days of buzzwords, Lorimer had his own USP Unique Selling Point.

    It was the power of his shot, officially recognised at the time as the hardest in football.

    It earned him several nicknames Lash, Hot Shot and Thunderboots among them all.

    It wasn’t uncommon to see his right-footed drives exceeding 90mph and one penalty was recorded at 107mph.

    Peter was from Dundee and his exploits in Scottish schoolboy football had alerted Matt Busby’s talent scouts at Manchester United.

    The story goes that United offered Lorimer’s parents £5,000 for him to join the club.

    However, they returned the money as he wanted to join Leeds, the club who had first shown an interest in him.

    Though he made his debut before his 16th birthday, he didn’t feature in the Leeds first-team picture again for two years, as Revie relied on experience to win promotion to the top flight and establish the club there.

    But in the 1965-66 season, he was top scorer with 19 goals in 34 games.

    Leeds won the League Cup-Fairs Cup double in 1968 their first major trophies under Revie and Lorimer scored 30 goals.

    The following year, they won their first-ever title and Lorimer his first Scotland cap.

    When Revie left to manage England in 1974, the team he built slowly broke up and as experienced teammates retired or moved on, Lorimer was left as the old head helping a new generation.

    He eventually left in 1979, moving to Canada to play for Toronto Blizzard and Vancouver Whitecaps.

    He returned to Leeds United in 1983, aged 37, with the club back in the Second Division.

    He broke the club’s goalscoring record and retired just before his 40th birthday in 1986.
     
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  10. Irishshako

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    Yes Mighty, he had the hardest shot in the day, the LASH<ok>
     
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  11. Irishshako

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  12. Irishshako

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    Played 3 games for UCD gave his money back because he felt he didn't play well
     
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  13. Irishshako

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    McQueen punched David Harvey to engineer a move to scum so he could join his boyfriend Joe Jordan<grr>
     
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  14. Leedsoflondon

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    He's daughter is ****ing hot though.
     
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  15. Irishshako

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    <doh>
     
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  16. 2020VisionofLeeds

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    Peter Lorimer had a lot more than just the shot though that was awesome. Those old footballs weighed a ton by the end of a rainy game and were very hard to stop at the speed he hit them

    I remember a lot of our attacks up the right, lorimer always looked about to shoot, but could be a nimble dribbler of the ball. Always with a purpose though, the shot was usually unleashed at some point

    Very sorry to hear about him, obviously his recent contributions have been iffy but as a player he was important. Take a look at some old games to see.
     
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  17. Leedsoflondon

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    Sorry
     
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  18. davy

    davy Well-Known Member

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    He was my ultimate hero when I was a kid. Not many Leeds fans in NI, mostly scummers because of Best and them, but he was dynamite. Leeds to the core, like Bremner.

    Best of luck Peter.

    <applause><applause><applause>
     
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  20. 2020VisionofLeeds

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