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damn fine GK in his day, bit unlucky not to get more caps with the likes of Shilton and Clements around Bowel cancer is very beatable, know a couple of people who have.
All the best to Phil, part of a great squad of memories
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
My first rangers hero when I was a kid. To this day I don't think I've ever been as gutted about a player leaving as I was when we sold parksy to the spammers.
A mate in Hammersmith was diagnosed with this in January last year. His letter more or less said it was terminal and he had no more than 12 months left. Just been given the all clear following two major operations that made his stomach look like a tube map.
A mate in Hammersmith was diagnosed with this in January last year. His letter more or less said it was terminal and he had no more than 12 months left. Just been given the all clear following two major operations that made his stomach look like a tube map.
Best of luck big fella. We have had some great Goalkeepers but you was my favourite.
My first rangers hero when I was a kid. To this day I don't think I've ever been as gutted about a player leaving as I was when we sold parksy to the spammers.
Me too Nov77, the first time I really started regularly going to Rangers I was nearly 10 and I was amazingly fortunate and privileged to experience our best ever season 1975-1976 when Phil was our 25 year-old brilliant keeper and the base of our success.
My vantage point was immediately or slightly to the right behind the Loft end goal - the first row in behind the advertising boards was all kids. I used to enter the ground with my elder brother - who stood a further 3/4 steps back - around 2ish just to ensure a good spot and to soak up the atmosphere, count the seats and lights on the floodlights and read every word of Ron Phillips' excellent programme.
You always knew when the big bouffant-haired,walrus-moustachioed,barrel-chested Phil Parkes was on his way out to take his place between the sticks in the warm-up because of the overwhelming olfactory assault! I'm still not sure if it was just embrocation or linament rubbed on to keep his muscles loose or was it that great pong also mixed in with the whiff of Cossack Hairspray that he was poster boy for,(in rivalry to Kevin Keegan and Henry Cooper with the, alleged, 'great smell of Brut'.)
He did have the odd televised stand-out ricket where daisy-cutter soft shots crept agonisingly under his large frame but to my mind he's simply the best QPR goalie have ever had. An amazingly reassuring commanding presence to the fans & back four,a brilliant shot-stopper,massive hands with his own special gloves,confident and reliable on crosses, quick accurate distribution by throw or by kick and unlucky not to get more than the one England cap (v Portugal 1974) because he played in an era when England were blessed with so many top keepers (Shilton,Clemence,Corrigan et al ) I cried my eyes out when he left for a then World Record for a goalie 565,000 to West Ham in February 1979. Funnily enough he then went on to make exactly as many league appearances for WHU as for us: 344. As popular at Upton Park as he was here,voted by West Ham fans as their best all-time keeper.
Whenever I've seen him since on telly or listened to him on the radio, with his distinctive softly-spoken Black Country burr, he comes across as a thoughtful intelligent, observer of the game and I know when he comes back to Loftus Road as a corporate host, genial courteous patient Phil gives excellent value. No enemies in the world and no bad behaviour or embarrassing incidents to sully his good name,a dedicated professional and a credit to the game.
Hang on in there Big Phil! Fight on! All power (& disease fighting antibodies) to your hands, elbows, knees and most of all your harris!
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
Saw his first game for us and it was so reassuring to see the way he dealt with a firm shot in those very capable hands. Best goalie we've had in my time.
Obviously wish him all the best for a quick and thorough recovery.
I met him once when he turned up at the football club I played for when I was a youngster. An absolute man mountain, built like the proverbial brick wall! Really decent guy. All I can say is I wish him all the best and hope he can make his greatest save now, himself.
I was chatting to him at the Yeovil game. I lived close to him when he was in digs in Wendell Road when he first played for us (Dave Thomas moved in when he moved out) and it was great to reminisce. All the best to the big man.
fecking kunt of a disease, fingers crossed Parksey gets through it the old man could never work out how clemence got in before parkes for England just out of interest did phil own Parkseys sport shop in the bush??? used to send my poor old nan down there all the time to pick me up QPR stuff
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
fecking kunt of a disease, fingers crossed Parksey gets through it the old man could never work out how clemence got in before parkes for England just out of interest did phil own Parkseys sport shop in the bush??? used to send my poor old nan down there all the time to pick me up QPR stuff
He did indeed own the sports shop. His was the Bush end of Uxbridge Rd and Ron Springett had one further down opposite the British Queen and obviously both played for the Rs and England during their careers.
as a wee laddie growing up in east ham, phil was opening a wendy's american burger joint in green street at the juncture of harold road..i must have been about ten(phil was at west ham by now)... i put on my blue and white scarf and went down to get a glimpse of this krakken like giant of a man.
the crowds of snotty kids in their parka's was overwhelming, but i hung in there and phil signed his famous cheeky smiley face signature for me on my history book , which was covered with the 7" single of sid vicious "com'n everybody ".
i was too nervous to talk to him but ive still got his signature in my mums loft.
it meant the world to a ten year old boy.
god bless you phil,
you can beat it,
glenn
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all the very best to phil parkes..a great goalie and if clemence or shilton were not about, he'd have won near 100 caps....( there was also corrigan, rimmer that were capped too at the time)
Also read on dot.org that Ian Gillard is battling the disease as well. Best wishes to both Parkesy and Gilly, two bona fide Rs legends.
Criminal that he only ever got one England cap, he was twice the keeper Clemence was but played for an "unfashionable" team. Like others I too was gutted when he was sold to Wet Spam. Convinced we would have bounced back at the first attempt after relegation in '79 had he been in goal.
My first rangers hero when I was a kid. To this day I don't think I've ever been as gutted about a player leaving as I was when we sold parksy to the spammers.
More or less took the words out of my mouth. Dunno why I made Phil Parkes my hero ahead of all those great outfield players, but there you go.
Me too Nov77, the first time I really started regularly going to Rangers I was nearly 10 and I was amazingly fortunate and privileged to experience our best ever season 1975-1976 when Phil was our 25 year-old brilliant keeper and the base of our success.
My vantage point was immediately or slightly to the right behind the Loft end goal - the first row in behind the advertising boards was all kids. I used to enter the ground with my elder brother - who stood a further 3/4 steps back - around 2ish just to ensure a good spot and to soak up the atmosphere, count the seats and lights on the floodlights and read every word of Ron Phillips' excellent programme.
You always knew when the big bouffant-haired,walrus-moustachioed,barrel-chested Phil Parkes was on his way out to take his place between the sticks in the warm-up because of the overwhelming olfactory assault! I'm still not sure if it was just embrocation or linament rubbed on to keep his muscles loose or was it that great pong also mixed in with the whiff of Cossack Hairspray that he was poster boy for,(in rivalry to Kevin Keegan and Henry Cooper with the, alleged, 'great smell of Brut'.)
He did have the odd televised stand-out ricket where daisy-cutter soft shots crept agonisingly under his large frame but to my mind he's simply the best QPR goalie have ever had. An amazingly reassuring commanding presence to the fans & back four,a brilliant shot-stopper,massive hands with his own special gloves,confident and reliable on crosses, quick accurate distribution by throw or by kick and unlucky not to get more than the one England cap (v Portugal 1974) because he played in an era when England were blessed with so many top keepers (Shilton,Clemence,Corrigan et al ) I cried my eyes out when he left for a then World Record for a goalie 565,000 to West Ham in February 1979. Funnily enough he then went on to make exactly as many league appearances for WHU as for us: 344. As popular at Upton Park as he was here,voted by West Ham fans as their best all-time keeper.
Whenever I've seen him since on telly or listened to him on the radio, with his distinctive softly-spoken Black Country burr, he comes across as a thoughtful intelligent, observer of the game and I know when he comes back to Loftus Road as a corporate host, genial courteous patient Phil gives excellent value. No enemies in the world and no bad behaviour or embarrassing incidents to sully his good name,a dedicated professional and a credit to the game.
Hang on in there Big Phil! Fight on! All power (& disease fighting antibodies) to your hands, elbows, knees and most of all your harris!
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I must have stood nearby you many games back then 18. What a gentleman he is, the likes of which we've never seen since, and an outstanding stopper. Cried like a girl when he went to Wet Spam too. The original gentle giant. Hang in there Phil.
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