Good luck to you big man. Some silky skills for a player your size. Just go easy on the pies now you've stopped playing. Headline in the paper when he signed for us... I'm big and I score goals.
A great character and a really skillful player. You get the feeling that he loved every minute of his playing career. Sadly born just a bit too early to make the most of all you can eat buffets.
Top top man ... and even now that sense of humour flows through ... hope he has a great retirement and he will always go down as one of my all time favourite players ... for a big lad his touch was quite sublime .. ask him to run 5 yards though and well ... the rest is history. Eat as many pies as ya want now Jon knowing ya do t have to sweat them off again.
sadly remembered for leaving the pitch to 'you fat bastard' after playing ****e and being subbed when we got tonked at Barnsley - was that his last game? - maybe
Saw him play for York last season he still had position and ' presence ' which still gained him a few yards ... Unfortunately this was cancelled by ... the reason he has retired
Catalogued in the archives next to WHITEHURST, William, under S.YORKS LUMPS, underachieving players who frittered away their talent by 'having a laugh'
That volley vs weds was a thing of beauty, his auto biog an I teresting read.... Not a fan of the tanned ball bag Phil brown at all you could say....
Just because both were considered bruisers because of their appearance you couldnt be further from the truth. Whitehurst had very little natural talent and was made into a half decent striker by the coaching of Chris Chilton who took him under his wing. Those who saw him play early on saw a rough bricky who just used brute strength on the pitch but couldnt hit a cows arse with a shovel .. and having known some of those who played with him his sense of humour at the time was none existent. Parkin however was a talent that managed to play despite his fight against his weight. Two totally separate individuals who played the game in differing manners.
Yeah actually BW worked on his game a lot to improve it, and we sold him at just the right time, but JP? who was force feeding him?
bw came back to us and it was obvious from his new found touch and awareness that he had worked with proper coaches elsewhere and just goes to show, same with Robertson at Liverpool that coaching can make a player
