JohnG Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Another great leaves us https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36963874 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony_C Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 He was certainly a character........ RIP Nobby..... they don’t make them like you anymore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Motorsport Mickey Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) It's noticeable that these football/rugby/Athletics etc hero's of yesterday don't often make "old bones". 1966 Team Bobby Charlton George Cohen Geoff Hurst Roger Hunt Bobby Moore........... 51 Alan Ball ..................61 Martin Peters.......... 76 Nobby Stiles.............78 Alf Ramsay ..............79 Gordon Banks...........81 Ray Wilson ...............81 Jack Charlton ...........85 Mick Richards Edited October 30, 2020 by Motorsport Mickey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 7 minutes ago, Motorsport Mickey said: It's noticeable that these football/rugby/Athletics etc hero's of yesterday don't often make "old bones". Mick Richards He outlived his front teeth by a long way. He was a nice chap. In the 70's he was the manager of Preston North End. He wasn't very good at all but the fans took to him. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Motorsport Mickey Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 29 minutes ago, RogerH said: He outlived his front teeth by a long way. He was a nice chap. In the 70's he was the manager of Preston North End. He wasn't very good at all but the fans took to him. Roger Preston North End...he had a sense of humour didn't he ? Mick Richards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) Hi Mick, you would think so. But then PNE are very charitable in giving him a job. He did no worse than Bobby Charlton who was also a PNE manager Just to cheer you up Nobby was at PNE for 4 years and Bobby was there 2 years. Nobby managed twice as many games as Bobby but they both ended up with a win % of 32 - this is not Premier league stuff. Roger Edited October 30, 2020 by RogerH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Motorsport Mickey Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Perhaps the South, West and East end could join in and increase the funding available ? Mick Richards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 Thankfully, PNE do not need funding. The owner is none other than TRevor Hemmings. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
boxofbits Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, RogerH said: Thankfully, PNE do not need funding. The owner is none other than TRevor Hemmings. Roger Brighton have funding by way of Tony Bloom, but it doesn’t always translate into results as Brighton’s current form and last result against West Bromwich Albion testify. They seem to have very deep pockets funding clubs with no fans present. If The Amex is 33,000 capacity, that’s a loss each home game of around £2million plus loss of hospitality. The mind boggles. Kevin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Morrison Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 Can still 'See' him, post the 1966 match, skipping like a child around Wembley with the big gap in his top front teeth. John. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
openroad Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 Good old Nobby, gave many a schoolboy hope of making it one day ! The rough amongst the Diamonds ! Conrad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Motorsport Mickey Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 Following on from Nobbys death, today it is confirmed that Bobby Charlton has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Over the last dozen or so years there have been many footballers from our youth who have succumbed to this condition, an excerpt from the Telegraph report this afternoon about it. ...For all of us, the clock ticks on. And yet it is becoming difficult not to conclude that for the class of 1966, time has been an especially harsh mistress. Of the starting XI chosen by Alf Ramsey for the final 54 years ago, Sir Bobby is the fifth member to fall prey to Alzheimer’s or dementia in later life. First came Ray Wilson and Martin Peters, then the once-indomitable “Big Jack”, and, just last week, Nobby Stiles. For just one member of that most celebrated side to be robbed of his mental acuity is desperate, but five? With all those men the products of an era when heavier balls were headed, it is the sharpest prompt for the authorities to ratchet up their investigations into the links between football and neurological illness. That Sir Bobby’s dementia has come to light within hours of Stiles’ passing with the same condition is a source of particular pathos. For United and England, the pair were the closest friends, with Charlton’s straight-man persona the perfect complement to Stiles’ madcap excesses. On tour, their antics could be pure Laurel and Hardy. On one occasion of sharing a hotel room, Stiles, his reputation for clumsiness well-established, managed to destroy a radio, rip the curtains off the wall and write-off a bathroom shelf, all in the space of five minutes. Another time, in Florence, Charlton saw him walk into a china shop, only to hear the sound of a violent crash before Stiles ran out straight past him. Gary Neville has identified Charlton as Manchester United’s beacon - he has a stand named after him at Old Trafford CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES These were recollections fit to last a lifetime. How sad that, decades later when Sir Bobby paid a visit to his old friend at home, he caught him on “one of his bad days”, as Stiles’ son Rob put it. Little could he have foreseen that after another few years, he, too, would join the millions of dementia sufferers. For some time, Sir Bobby’s health has been known to be increasingly fragile, reflected in his gradual retreat from public life. And for all the tensions he endured with his brother, his non-attendance at Jack’s funeral this summer was an alarm, suggesting his struggles were more serious than reported. Dementia gives rise to such dread because it is arbitrary, inexorable, and all too commonplace. But the erasure of memory can never compromise the value of the life that has been lived. In Sir Bobby’s case, it is a life that has encompassed every extreme, from growing up permanently hungry during postwar rationing to conquering every land that football has to offer. Gary Neville has identified him as United’s beacon, the vital stitch in the club fabric, the embodiment of its every principle and value. His wife Norma, Lady Charlton, whom he first met at a Manchester ice rink in 1959, will see to it that his remaining years are enjoyed in comfort. For ultimately, he symbolises a gravitas and a decency that no disease can erode. I hope for the best result for Sir Bobby and his family, they suffer from a condition many other families are plagued with. Mick Richards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 People have been investigating the link between heading the ball (and back in the pre-70's those balls, especially when wet, weighed a ton) and Dementia. Interestingly Bobby C didn't head the ball that much. He was very much a one footed goal scorer. Somebody asked him once why he never used his left foot to shoot. Very simply he replied 'I stand on my left foot' Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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