| A debut to forget - History on 13:19 - Dec 8 with 852 views | TheChef |
Very sad about the Burnley keeper dying so young.
I assume that was one of Stan's last few games before he moved to Forest? To think come the end of that season, he could have appeared in a European Cup final had he not been so stubborn with Clough. |  |
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| A debut to forget - History on 13:35 - Dec 8 with 815 views | ngbqpr |
Two vivid memories from that game, when I used to stand in the same spot near the front of the Loft every week, just to the side of the goal.
1. A young lad in front of me spitting at the GK as he came behind the goal to pick up the ball. Never seen that before or since. Why anyone in their right mind could even think for a split second about doing that is beyond me. O'Rourke looked visibly shaken, poor lad.
2. Allen's reaction when he missed that sitter. Totally pi$$ed off and couldn't bring himself to celebrate the goal - a true striker :) |  |
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| A debut to forget - History on 15:20 - Dec 8 with 751 views | DWQPR |
| A debut to forget - History on 13:35 - Dec 8 by ngbqpr |
Two vivid memories from that game, when I used to stand in the same spot near the front of the Loft every week, just to the side of the goal.
1. A young lad in front of me spitting at the GK as he came behind the goal to pick up the ball. Never seen that before or since. Why anyone in their right mind could even think for a split second about doing that is beyond me. O'Rourke looked visibly shaken, poor lad.
2. Allen's reaction when he missed that sitter. Totally pi$$ed off and couldn't bring himself to celebrate the goal - a true striker :) |
I was sitting on the perimeter wall to the left of the School End goal and can still spot myself on the highlights. When it was announced that Burnley were fielding a 17 year old kid making his debut you just knew something was in the air with the likes of Bowles, Currie, Allen and Goddard in the attack. |  |
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| A debut to forget - History on 15:32 - Dec 8 with 744 views | CamberleyR |
| A debut to forget - History on 13:19 - Dec 8 by TheChef |
Very sad about the Burnley keeper dying so young.
I assume that was one of Stan's last few games before he moved to Forest? To think come the end of that season, he could have appeared in a European Cup final had he not been so stubborn with Clough. |
Yeah, Cloughie forbade him from playing in John Robertson's testimonial game just before the final, Stan apparently told him what he thought of him and that was that for his Forest career.
The disappointment is that Forest at the time were on the bones of their arse injury wise (18 year old Gary Mills started and 37 year old Jim Montgomery on the bench for example), in fact I don't even think they had a full complement of subs for the final so Stan at the very least would have been on the bench and would have got a winner's medal. |  |
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| A debut to forget - History on 10:55 - Dec 9 with 574 views | TheChef |
| A debut to forget - History on 15:32 - Dec 8 by CamberleyR |
Yeah, Cloughie forbade him from playing in John Robertson's testimonial game just before the final, Stan apparently told him what he thought of him and that was that for his Forest career.
The disappointment is that Forest at the time were on the bones of their arse injury wise (18 year old Gary Mills started and 37 year old Jim Montgomery on the bench for example), in fact I don't even think they had a full complement of subs for the final so Stan at the very least would have been on the bench and would have got a winner's medal. |
Oh Stan.
I mean a testimonial match vs a European Cup final?!
I think I could swallow my principles on that one. | |
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| A debut to forget - History on 11:34 - Dec 9 with 542 views | Juzzie |
Talking of debut's, QPR v Burnley in October 1982 was my first ever QPR League game as a wide-eyed teenager.
I'd been to some reserve games a year or so before and the FA Cup Semi Final a few months earlier but was itching to get to a league game.
This was a game I was interested in because we'd beaten them 7-0 a couple of years earlier.
Standing in the loft on a very cold Saturday and 2-0 down at half-time. "We not fking coming here again" muttered my Dad.
We won 3-2 and the rest is history. |  | | |
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