Guess its all age relevant. Say you were 10 years old when SKP was banging them in. I doubt very much you cared quinn supplied them. Different folks different ages remember diffetent things. So a 10 year old is not a dumbass. He just remembers SKP the scoring machine. Not a major cog in the machine known as Quinn.
Its quite funny how we remember the mediocre and uttet ****e more than the good players People still talk about Milton ****ing Nunez and Flo. Guess the ****e sticks longer in the old brain matter.
I can kind of relate where Comm is coming from with regards to the SKP being the one I remembered. I was around 8/9 when they were at their peak & I only really remembered SKP - probably because I didn't quite understand football at that age so just appreciated the goals that were scored. Needless to say if I was older and understood the game more I'd have appreciated the fact that Phillips wouldn't have scored half the goals without Quinn.
I must just have a more vivid memory back to my childhood. I remember loads of players from that age Garry Owers, Paul Hardyman, Colin Pascoe. Dickie Ord, John Kay, Ruben Agboola, Benno, Gates, Gabbadini, Lemon, Cornforth, Norman ect. I even remember squad players from that era like Thomas Hauser, Warren Hawke, Mick Heathcote and Tim Carter, I remember most of that squad from when I was about 9.
Don't get me wrong I remember the players. I remember Johnson & Sumerbee on the wings, Perez and his Blonde hair with that hideous GK top amongst many others. What I meant was Phillips was the real stand out for me - the reason I played CF when I was young etc.
I seem to remember a last game of the season at notts county (93?), we lost, but thanks to other results we didn't drop back to the third tier. Things seemed bleak then, like now, no sign of future heroes. Have patience.
Before SKP though there was a scoring machine called Bobby Gurney who hailed from Silksworth. Part of the championship and cup winning team of the 36 &37 in the Raich Carter era. The number of times I heard the older fellahs saying we could do with another Gurney gave him the kind of awe some hold SKP in now. Worth looking him up on Wiki.
Please don't mention cushions to me. This is just one room. I've missed no more than 6 or so cushions.
Cloughie was one of the best finishers I've seen, but was also one of the laziest. Didn't want to have to run around to find the ball, it was everyone else's job to give him it, and his job to stick it in the net.............he did that extremely well. But that was then, this is now, the game has changed a lot since then, but still remember him fondly!
My dad loved him. Reckoned he'd have gone on to become the most prolific striker in world football. Great talent cut short.
Hate cushions...someone goes to the trouble of ergo-dynamically designing a chair that you buy in a shop after trying it out then as soon as its delivered the missus fills it with cushions which have to be thrown across the room. Love Rueben Agboola, in the days when it was unusual to see a foreign name in the England team I used to write "Agboola for England" graffiti around. Rarely post now, although I disagree with much that is written, I like your forum, it's the liveliest I've seen. Umbrellas and people called Norman are other pet dislikes.
Dont know why but i like this post. Maybe its the randomest of it. Halfway through i didnt know what to expect in the next sentence. Topper. Normans
