Far Cough 10:04 Mon Jan 13
Budgie Byrne
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpmix9ZrRQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR12BYm6SLxDDm-GZymcwsqGmJenxoUGSXVKN1USyKMgZ1bhMi_SI3RKOZk
Jumpers for goalposts
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The Stoat
12:50 Tue Jan 14
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One of my all time favourites
Celebration at the 64 cup final at 7.24 ;-)
Messy sod at 8.36 ;-)
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12:56 Tue Jan 14
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Used to drink in the Robin Hood on a Sunday morning.
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Percy Dalton
1:07 Tue Jan 14
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Didn't Budgie score two goals against Burnley in the quarter final in 1964.
I can remember going crazy when he scored one of the goals.
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Helmut Shown
1:11 Tue Jan 14
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When We beat Leeds 7 - 0 in the league cup, this was the greatest performance by an individual player i have ever seen. He was untouchable that night. Jack Charlton was completely over run by Byrne. Even despite that little shit Bremner running around fouling everybody with a pulse.
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Takashi Miike
1:13 Tue Jan 14
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my dad's favourite player. said he would beat a man, then do it again to take the piss
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oioi
1:23 Tue Jan 14
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Helmut Shown 1:11 Tue Jan 14
I was on the north bank that night. Happy days.
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Cheezey Bell-End
1:30 Tue Jan 14
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Apparently we got him part exchange for Ron Brett, who I hadn't heard of and who died aged 24.
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terry-h
2:18 Tue Jan 14
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From the book 'They played with Bobby Moore' - Ron Brett was killed in a car crash in 1962 in Clerkenwell. He was accompanied by his friend and ex teammate West Ham goalkeeper Brian Rhodes who escaped with cuts and bruises.
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bowboy
10:47 Tue Jan 14
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I also was there that night Helmut. Jack Charlton at a later date said that Budgie was the hardest player he had to mark in his career. No one who attended that game will ever forget it. The sight pf Budgie juggling the ball in front of big Jack before lobbing it over Jacks head for Hurst to score is my stand out moment of watching football for over 70 years.
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Far Cough
10:53 Tue Jan 14
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I remember reading about the Leeds game, I only wished I was there, by all accounts, Budgie tore Charlton a brand new arsehole, that night
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Helmut Shown
11:28 Tue Jan 14
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Revie said he was coming down for a draw. We had beaten Fulham 6-1 the Saturday before. But the memory i have is Byrne chipping over their defence and Bovington putting it over the bar from under the bar.
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JayeMPee
12:23 Tue Jan 14
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Seems like a lifetime ago but bumped into him at Butlins in Minehead, he was with his kid(kids) and was a really nice guy to chat too. Imagine any of the current lot going there for holidays, most not fit to clean his boots!
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Far Cough
7:13 Tue Jan 14
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At least one thing we got over Crystal Palace
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Percy Dalton
8:43 Tue Jan 14
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£65,000 transfer that's about 50 million in today's football terms.
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gph
9:57 Tue Jan 14
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Didn't Revie swear he'd never loose to "that man's" (Greenwood's) team again?
I think he only lost once more, but only 1-0.
Or I have I misrembered reading this somewhere reliable (i.e., here)?
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Any Old Iron
10:26 Tue Jan 14
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As a nipper Budgie was easily my favourite player. For his pre-match warm up he'd come over to the chicken run and perform a fantastic range of keepy-uppys. He was a real entertainer.
And for three or four years he had a fantastic twin-striker partnership with Sir Geoff.
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Admiral Lard
11:54 Tue Jan 14
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Met a guy recently who was in the reserves at Palace in the 60s. Reckons Budgie Byrne was by far the best player he ever played with and a good bloke too boot
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SDKFZ 222
2:41 Wed Jan 15
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I only ever saw Budgie ‘play’ on one occasion, that was in the Wally St. Pier testimonial in 1975. However, he was so fat that he hardly moved out of the centre circle all match.
With regard to Leeds, weren’t we just one of four teams who beat them in the 1973-74 season when they only lost 4 times prior to winning the league? I remember a sunny 3-1 win at about Easter time at the Boleyn.
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zico
8:39 Wed Jan 15
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I assume that 7-0 was never televised which is a shame. So many great games we will never see. It always bugs me that the 85/86 season there was a TV strike and half of McAvennies goals were never on tape. Typical West Ham luck, they go for the League Title and there was a bloody TV strike!!
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Helmut Shown
4:00 Wed Jan 15
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The next day the Daily Express had a headline "The Sledgehammers"
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