RIP An impressive goal scoring career - I recall him later as the voice of Soccer Saturday on TSN here in Canada. Former Aberdeen, Fulham and Scotland striker Graham Leggat dies at the age of 81 Graham Leggat scored 64 goals in 109 games for Aberdeen in the 1950s Aberdeen statement described Leggat as 'one the best to grace Pittodrie' Leggatt then scored 134 goals for Fulham including a three-minute hat-trick By ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED: 22:42 GMT, 30 August 2015 | UPDATED: 23:58 GMT, 30 August 2015 Graham Leggat, the former Aberdeen and Scotland striker who played at the 1958 World Cup, has died at the age of 81. A statement on the Dons' official website read: 'Everyone at Aberdeen Football Club is saddened with the news that former star Graham Leggat, arguably one the best players ever to grace Pittodrie, has passed away in Canada.' The Cottagers website issued a statement which read: 'All at Fulham are thinking of Graham's family and friends at this time.' please log in to view this image Former Aberdeen, Fulham and Scotland striker Graham Leggat has died at the age of 81 please log in to view this image Leggat picks up the ball for tired Ipswich keeper Roy Bailey after the third of four memorable goals in 1963 Aberdeen-born Leggat scored 64 goals in 109 games for the Dons between 1953 and 1958 and netted eight goals in 18 games for his country. He joined Fulham for £20,000 and went on to score 134 goals in 280 games for the club - including a three-minute hat-trick in a game against Ipswich in 1963 - before leaving in 1966. Spells at Birmingham, Rotherham and Bromsgrove followed before he moved to Canada in 1971 to manage Toronto Metros, before later working as a journalist and commentator for Ontario-based TSN. please log in to view this image Leggatt joined Fulham for £20,000 and scored 134 goals in 280 games for the club before leaving in 1966 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Graham-Leggat-dies-age-81.html#ixzz3kLg3gjeg
I remember Leggat in that Fulham team that also had the great Johnny Haynes as well as Bobby Robson. That picture of him picking the ball up was in a 10-1 win on Boxing Day if my memory is right...
RIP Graham. I never saw him play except on television, but I certainly remember the name. He definitely would have played alongside Jim Langley & perhaps Rodney Marsh as well. Unless Rodney was called in to the first team when Graham Leggat left Fulham.
I remember graham leggat very well as I was at that game when he scored 3 goals in 3 minutes and don't forget it was against a team that were crowned top tier champions only 18 months earlier .. in my loft I have stored away the next day newspapers on that game it was a amazing day of football that's why I saved the newspapers.. always sad to hear a football legend passing away.. R I P graham
Tough day for that Ipswich keeper - perhaps he and his fellow defenders had too much Christmas fare? Back in the days of mud, blood & guts, when men were true footballers, without all the diving, feigning injury etc. nonsense.
Great memories for you - interesting 1963 Boxing Day scores, although Ipswich got their revenge two days later, winning 4-2. The Ipswich defence sounds as leaky as ours last season - "Those champions of May 1962 were relegated in May 1964 under Jackie Milburn. Ipswich conceded 121 goals that season. " The goalden era! If you thought Saturday's Premier League goal-fest was spectacular, that was nothing... By Michael Walker Updated: 01:36 GMT, 8 February 2011 Those who think it was goals galore as 41 were rifled in during Saturday's Premier League games should reflect on the early 1960s and in particular Boxing Day 1963, when the 10 First Division games produced 66 goals.That was a record. The goals peaked at Craven Cottage, where Fulham beat Ipswich 10-1. This was the same Ipswich team that 18 months earlier had been league champions under Alf Ramsey. Those champions of May 1962 were relegated in May 1964 under Jackie Milburn. Ipswich conceded 121 goals that season. Alan Mullery played on Boxing Day 1963 and remembers the game. As he said yesterday: 'I scored the ninth.' Mullery added that two days later Fulham went to Ipswich and were beaten 4-2. 'There always used to be strange results at Christmas,' he said. 'It was something you just couldn't get the gist of. You could win heavily and lose heavily. please log in to view this image Back in the day: Bryan Douglas (second left) leaves Martin Peters (left) and Ken Brown (third left) trailing as he slides in to score past West Ham keeper Jim Standen (right) in Blackburn's 8-2 win on Boxing Day 1963 'I remember that day was an absolute rout - Graham Leggat scored four. Leggat was a Scottish international, we had Johnny Haynes, captain of England, George Cohen, Bobby Robson. Fulham had a good team. 'Ipswich were good too and they played their best side that day. It was just one of those days.' Were goalkeepers significantly worse then? 'No, I don't think so,' Mullery replied. 'Roy Bailey, father of Gary Bailey of Manchester United, was the Ipswich keeper that day. He was a decent keeper. There were plenty around. In the early 60s you had Gordon Banks, then Pat Jennings. Bert Trautmann was still around, Bert Williams at Wolves before that. Of course there were probably a few duff ones too.' please log in to view this image Game changer: Ian St John says playing in Europe led to the rise of defensive tactics Ian St John scored for Liverpool that Boxing Day in their 6-1 win at home to Stoke. St John pointed out that goalkeepers then rarely left the goal-line. Hence they were called 'linos'. 'They stayed on their lines and that meant forwards had more space in the area,' St John explained. 'In those days there were a lot of classy forwards and forwards were definitely in the ascendancy.' It meant that even with Blackburn winning 8-2 at West Ham, there was no sense of the afternoon being outrageous. 'There wasn't the emphasis then on defence that grew under George Graham at Arsenal, for example,' St John added. 'You never heard a phrase like "shutting up shop" when I was starting out. 'In effect that's boring football. At Anfield the fans used to chant, "Attack, attack", and when we crossed the halfway line there would be a huge roar. 'Funnily enough, under Bill Shankly we changed the way goalkeepers played. Under Shanks our defence began pushing up, we began playing a flat back four and that meant our keeper, Tommy Lawrence, left his line and came out of the box. People would ask, "What's Tommy doing?" 'We won the title that season, 1963-64, and then went into Europe. That was a big influence on how Liverpool played. 'For the first time you needed to have a defensive mentality because you didn't want to concede away goals at home. 'That was 1964 when Liverpool were first in Europe but we were in it for 20 consecutive seasons until Heysel. So you can see how European football changed the way we thought and played. It was about keeping the ball, not just "attack, attack".' please log in to view this image Piece of the action: Alan Mullery scored Fulham's ninth goal as they romped to a 10-1 win over Ipswich on Boxing Day in 1963 please log in to view this image Being the dominant club, others will have copied Liverpool's increasingly tactical style. Perhaps Saturday is partly explained by the influence of Blackpool's have-a-go open game this season. St John called Saturday a 'throwback'; he also rubbished a notion that old Boxing Day scorelines were due to Christmas festivities. 'There was no over-indulgence at all - we had back-to-back games,' he said. 'Shanks used to say, "We have a Christmas in the summer". We also had back-to-back fixtures at Easter. I remember Tottenham were two up one half- time at Anfield and we won 5-2. Three days later at White Hart Lane we lost something like 7-2.' Mullery added that he could not call that 1963 Boxing Day the most extraordinary day of his career. 'When I was 17 we once got beat 9-0 at Wolves. 'It was midweek so we stayed in a hotel and after the game we were sitting down for a meal. Frank Osborne, Fulham's general manager, said, "Well, we just lost 9-0 lads, but one day Alan Mullery will play for England". I couldn't believe it, but he was a good judge. 'Frank Osborne - he'd played for Spurs. He smoked 60 a day and drank a bottle of scotch a day. He wore a suit and tie and trilby hat every day, even when he was playing golf. All he changed were his shoes. I had to carry his clubs when I was a ground-staff boy. He was a scratch golfer. 'I wouldn't recommend his lifestyle but he died at 91.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1354674/Premier-League-goal-fest-spectacular-goalden-era.html#ixzz3kOp9Mumw Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Different era completely, I'm sure they played a full programme on Christmas Day with the return fixtures on Boxing Day back then...
Christmas day matches ended in the '50's. Matches by then were played on Boxing day with the reverse fixtuires on the following Saturday. New Years Day wasn't a bank Holiday either! As well as Ipswich winning the return game, West Ham also won at Blackburn. I have met Ipswich fans who went to the morning game at Upton Park before going to Craven Cottage, thus seeing 19 goals on the day!
Looks like our U18's were getting into the Christmas spirit early? U18S REPORT | Charlton 9 (nine) Queens Park Rangers 0 Posted: Tue 01 Sep 2015 Read a report from the U18s' 9-0 thrashing of Queens Park Rangers at Sparrows Lane on Saturday Olly Groome reports Charlton’s U18s are on cloud nine after earning an emphatic victory over Queens Park Rangers at Sparrows Lane on Saturday. The young Addicks came up against the side they pipped to the Professional Development League 2 – South title last season and tore them apart, scoring six goals in the first half alone as just three different goalscorers registered on the scoresheet in the remarkable win. The prolific Ademola Lookman scored four, while 16-year-old Sulaiman Bah plundered his own hat-trick to add to Terrique Anderson’s brace. 13 minutes were on the clock when the Addicks scored their first with Bah getting the rout under way with a fine finish into the top left-hand corner from 12 yards following a fine passing move, before Lookman bagged the first of his quartet seven minutes later. Bah turned provider, pulling off a neat Cruyff Turn before slipping in his fellow forward, who calmly finished past the Rangers keeper with ease. On 33 minutes, Bah got his second and it was yet another result of the front pair combining brilliantly, with Lookman putting in a neat through-ball for the striker to produce a quality finish from just inside the box. The goals kept on coming with the next arriving just two minutes later and it was another of real quality. It was Lookman’s turn to secure his brace, receiving the ball on the right-hand side of the box, turning superbly onto his left with a back-heel flick and curling an unstoppable finish over the visiting keeper and in off the crossbar for 4-0. Four became five in the 43rd minute as Lookman rounded up his hat-trick, combining once again with Bah to send a first-time effort into the bottom right-hand corner and scored his fourth, and the Addicks fifth, moments later when another impressive passing move ended in the nippy striker powering in behind the defence and drilling low into the net. Incredibly, all those goals came in amongst a host of other chances for the home side with Charlton well-deserving of their six-goal lead at the break. Indeed, their dominance would not lament in the second-half as the academy side continued to pick their West-London opponents apart with ease. Anderson got in on the act on 70 minutes when he was on hand to head home Bah’s initial effort which was parried by the keeper and there was soon an opportunity to make it 8-0 when Anderson was felled by a clumsy challenge in the box. Midfielder Sam Bone stepped up to take the resulting penalty, but the Rangers keeper was equal to it, diving low to his right to keep it out. It mattered not, with Anderson keeping the floodgates wide open with 13 minutes left, racing through the defence to plant a clinical effort into the bottom right-hand corner, and Bah had the final word, grabbing his third, and his side’s ninth, with an 89th-minute near-post finish to conclude a hugely impressive afternoon for the reigning national champions. The U18s’ next challenge will be a trip to Huddersfield Town on Saturday. Charlton: Thomas; Sarpong-Wiredu (Bowry 56), Zemura, Assiana, Yao; Bone, Millar, Lapslie (Maloney 70); Bah, Lookman (Doughty 75), Anderson. Subs (not used): Prall, Willis. Goals: Bah (13, 33, 8), Lookman (20, 35, 43, 45+1), Anderson (70, 77) Read more at http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/charlton-qpr-u18s-report-9-0-2661433.aspx#xLiRcXxpV70ZbQ6L.99
Plenty of Rangers connections with the scorers on that day. Bridges and Venables played for us. Mullery ended up managing us. Hateleys son ended up playing for us. Ferguson ended up playing for us as did Clive Clarke.
