The Hull Daily Mail reporting that 'Sir' Les Mutrie has died today at the age of 65 following a long battle with cancer. Apologies if someone has already posted this or if it should be on another thread. One of my earliest "heroes", not least for THAT goal in the 4-1 drubbing of Sheff United back in 83/84.
Sad to hear that. Still have a scar on my ankle from jumping up and down too exuberantly after "that goal" and taking a chunk out of it after catching it on the edge of the terracing. Amongst my all time favourite City goals.
The Hull City Southern Supporters produced and gave Les a book that paid tribute to his time at City. I’m told he was genuinely moved by this gesture during his final weeks. He was a fine player who lived a rich and varied life. Good man.
I remember two of them very well, as recounted here some time back. And as OLM points out, his age was incorrectly quoted in the original HDM piece. Not that it makes much difference. RIP.
Bit before my time , just googled him to read about him - says he had a great record here but didn't score anywhere else , is that correct or Wikipedia being usual reliable self?
Sad news. I called his name each time I took a shot when playing 5 a sides, at work, up until I hung up my Sambas almost 10 years ago. "Mutrie" A man of my time. RIP.
Very sad news of a player that epitomised everything you wanted from a City player, with his dribbling skills, goal poaching and overall attitude for the cause of Hull City. Remember from my early days as a supporter his no nonsense approach to scoring goals. I seem to remember one match in which he scored three or four and then late on got sent off for nutting the opposition player. RIP Sir Les.
One of my favourite all time City goals was Les against I think Port Valve at Fer ark, Marwood stormed down the wing and crossed for Mutrie to head a bullet header home at Bunkers end. I think we won 3-1 that day. RIP
As AlRawdah writes above, we've had a lot of contact with Les at the Southern Supporters in recent months. I first contacted him to contribute to the book that I'm writing (which I've mentioned on here). Despite it being clear that Les was very ill, he was very keen to be involved in the book. We chatted a lot and his contributions are terrific. At the Southern Supporters AGM this summer we were generally bemoaning the lack of recognition for the great Hull City players of the past. We decided to do something about it and launch our own Hall of Fame (as nothing of its ilk exists at present as far as we're aware). The list will be announced as planned on Friday at 11am, but we'd decided that evening to have 20 inductees decided by the HCSS members and one Committee's Choice inductee. The latter would be a player/club employee who perhaps didn't quite get the recognition they quite deserved, or someone whose brilliance got a bit lost in our achievements of the past 15 years or so. Les was easily the most popular choice for this accolade. We made up a book for Les, filled with pictures of his career and memories from fans of his (I also got a couple of quotes from Pete Skipper and Nick Barmby, both of whom were more than happy to contribute given the esteem they held Les in). We sent this off to him to mark him being the first member of our Hall of Fame. The response we got from Les and his family was wonderful. The book and the being inducted into our Hall of Fame evidently meant the world to them. His family have been in touch asking for more of the books to be printed to be at Les's funeral, which of course we're more than happy to sort out. It was lovely to be able to let Les and his family know what he meant to Hull City and the people of Hull in his last few months. Throughout my contact with the Mutries, it's been so, so clear what a terrific bloke Les was, and what a wonderful, humble, loving family he comes from. Our club is built on working class heroes like Les, who took to the city and the club and sweated blood for us. Today's a sad day, but we were lucky to have known Les at all. RIP to a good, good man.
