Met Mally Lord in later life and said to him 'Aren't you Mally Lord who played for City' ? He said 'I used to be'. Sid Stamp would have been to person who refused Mally admittance to the social club, he was the club secretary and no-one got in without a membership card. Sid once refused a bus full of Swansea fans admittance to even use the toilets and get a drink when a game between City and them was called off at the last minute, and they had just arrived on the car park after an horrendous drive to Hull.
I think City were playing Pompey at BP....0-3 down and playing like a bunch of twats, Terry Neill brings Mally Lord on to a cacophony of boos. Lost 1-3 or 0-3 can't recall. Tommy Docherty was in the dug-out with Neill. Next home game...Tuesday night..City are playing Swindon Town (I think). Mally Lord scores, Tommy Docherty jumps out of the dug-out and does a jig.
is it true that Big Billy punched out Vinnie Jones in a Sheffield bar when they were both on the Blades' books?
Vinnie Jones, a colleague at Sheffield United, recalls in his autobiography how Billy nipped a burgeoning rumble with a phalanx of Sheffield Wednesday fans in the bud by sparking out the opposition ringleader with "one of the best right-handers I have ever seen - inside or outside a ring". During that spell at Sheffield United, he was sent out to roam the green with the explicit instructions from his manager, Dave Bassett: "Go and cause some bollocks, Billy." He so rarely disappointed. 'Nobody would deny that he was seriously hard. He once apparently offered out the entire Crystal Palace side in the players' lounge at Hull'. Rob Smyth (Guardian)
Bunny was bladdered in the WF, I mean absolutely trolleyed to the point where he was unsteady on his feet and getting loud in people's faces. Someone took exception to his behaviour and slapped him. City managed the damage limitation and convinced the HDM that Bunn was attacked by some soccer toughs from Birmingham (City's opponents that day 20th Sept 1986), who were making a weekend of it , despite the fact that no one did this back then. No one really believed this confected canard, but protocol demanded that the paper had to carry it.
The 'Mansfield 200' Humbs OB invented this fictional incident around 15 years ago. According to them, a 200 strong group of fans were planning to attack the police at the City - Mansfield fixture, hence the need for aggressive robust policing of unsuspecting fans after the match behind the East stand in a very crowded confined space..
I never thought Billy ****ting in the team bath was an urban myth. I heard all sorts of stories about City from friends who got taken on there but didn't make the grade in the 80's and 90's. I heard that Henry Ngata used to get all kinds of abuse and would just laugh it off, these days it would be national news, also in Beverley our deputy headmasters wife was getting knocked off by Garreth Roberts
As I recall. they were both rugby tackled to the ground near the edge of the penalty area. Imagine if the coppers had laughed and stood aside, then beckoned them to proceed eastwards to the mother of all angry stompings from approx 6,000 angry SAFC fans surging down to get at them.
Jones got about two caps didn't he. Hunter was an excellent defender in the first division throughout his career. Not comparable
It was two more caps then Waggy and Chillo got. The only England memory I have of Hunter is that missed tackle v Poland. Waggy and Chilton were at their peaks during the Ramsey World Cup winning period and the years afterwards up to the 70 World Cup. The England squad didn't change too much during that period. I do believe if Waggy had of gone to either Derby or Forest under Clough and Chilton to Leeds under Revie they would have picked up a few caps between them. After Ramsey it seemed anyone could get a game for England as long as you were playing in for a Div 1 club. In hindsight both players were probably at their peaks three or four years too early. For example do you think Stuart Pearson was better then them both ?
Think in Mexico 70 we had Astle, Clarke and Lee up top. The Ghilas and Vennegoor of Hesselink of England attacks.
He told the story himself when a dog got on the pitch at Boothferry Park someone shouted out keep the dog on, take Lord off! There was a group in front of me at the West Stand who always gave him stick, when he scored the hat trick at home to Burnley I tapped one of them to enquire whether he should be substituted now, I was told to piss off.Charming I was pointing out they usually wanted him off so why not now!
I can acknowledge better players. Great part of our history. But do You think anyone would be picking chilton or waggy in front of Jimmy greaves, Geoff hurst, Roger hunt franny lee etc etc. No they wouldn't unless they're wearing hull city goggles.
That era sixties and seventies was the time of striking partnerships. Jones & Clark, Toshack & Keegan, Waggy & Chillo etc. IMO, even though Waggy & Chillo are all-time heroes of mine, they were plying their trade in the old 2nd & 3rd division. I don't think you can put them in the same bracket as the players plying their trade in the old Div 1.
Billy Bremner and Emlyn Hughes both ended their careers with City expecting to become player manager's with us but didn't get the offer.
