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Reply | Coffee VVankers thread...
at 22:35 18 Jun 2025
You need to use loose leaf tea, the difference between that and the tea you get from bags is like night and day.
I read somewhere it's because that loose leaf tea uses the best stuff from the leaves of tea plants whilst tea bags often contain lower-quality tea 'dust' or fannings. |
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Reply | 25/26. New kits
at 10:18 16 Jun 2025
I always wondered why Gerry wasn't front and centre of that team photo being the team captain and was stuck on the end of the back row. |
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 21:57 14 Jun 2025
No, Wolves were third division at the time. They won the third division title that season. No player from the fourth tier has ever played for England. |
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Reply | Quality players who rarely featured for England
at 19:40 13 Jun 2025
What might have been at the 1982 World Cup had Regis' hamstring not blown out a couple of weeks before the World Cup in a pre-tournament friendly. He'd had an absolutely fantastic season for West Brom (bar the cup semi-final!) scoring 25 goals.
Instead we took Peter Bloody Withe. |
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Reply | Quality players who rarely featured for England
at 15:23 13 Jun 2025
Barker probably would have got a cap in 1990 in one of the friendlies before the World Cup and might have been an outsider for the World Cup squad had he not broke his leg shortly after the Liverpool FA Cup games. He was in great form and with his club manager being Bobby Robson's number 2 at the time... |
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Reply | Quality players who rarely featured for England
at 15:09 13 Jun 2025
"Bannister would have been selected but was not edible having won an U21 cap for Wales"
Where have you got that from? Bannister's wiki entry (I know...) says he played once for the England U21s in 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bannister
Surely if he 'd represented Wales at any level, then back in the mid 80s they'd have been all over him picking him for the Wales senior team given how few top division players they had back then? [Post edited 13 Jun 15:09]
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 11:57 13 Jun 2025
Lawler actually played four times for England Terry all in 1971, a couple of home internationals and a couple of Euro '72 qualifiers. |
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 11:54 13 Jun 2025
"I remember an England manager picking the entire (eligible) Liverpool team. I think it was Ian Callaghan's only cap. I think it was against Switzerland but I am certain it was a dire 0-0 draw"
September 1977 a friendly against Switzerland, Ron Greenwood's first game as England caretaker manager and yes it WAS a 0-0 draw. It was actually Ian Callaghan's first England cap for 11 years! He'd last played for England in the 1966 World Cup group game against France when Alf Ramsey was still giving wingers a go. Callaghan was 35 by this time!
The players picked were: Ray Clemence, Phil Neal, Emlyn Hughes, Ray Kennedy, Terry McDermott and Callaghan. You could say it was virtually seven Liverpool players as Kevin Keegan was also in the squad who'd only just moved to Hamburg.
One thing has always intrigued about this is the absence of Jimmy Case who was the only English Liverpool player not picked. It must have been strange for him to see all his Liverpool team mates go off to the England training camp with him left behind wondering what he'd maybe done.
As a post script, Callaghan was picked once more in the following game, a World Cup qualifier away in Luxembourg where 5 of the Liverpool 6 again played, a pathetic performance where England just scraped a 2-0 win which all but ended their hopes of qualifying.
There's a famous photo of them:
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 22:30 12 Jun 2025
A few from the 70s:
Colin Viljoen, Brian Talbot, Trevor Whymark - Ipswich
Mike Doyle - Man City
Phil Boyer - Norwich
Brian Greenhoff - Man Utd
I thought Phil Neal also got more caps than he should have especially after the emergence of Viv Anderson. Joe Corrigan although a good keeper and didn't win many caps for obvious reasons, still won nine times as many as Phil Parkes did. |
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Reply | Come back Southgate...
at 21:46 10 Jun 2025
Not been impressed at all with Tuchel so far.
It'll be the usual; qualify with ease, stumble through the group and go out to the first decent side they meet in the knockout stage. |
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Reply | Blood Donors
at 23:06 9 Jun 2025
I would willingly give blood but can't due to receiving a blood transfusion during an operation in the early 2000s. Anyone who has had a transfusion since 1st Jan 1980 is disqualified. |
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Reply | The Big Match - ITV4
at 11:55 8 Jun 2025
Just watched it. How we didn't win that game, god only knows. Could have been 4-0 before they equalised.
Stan's free kick in the first half that was going in until it took a deflection and hit the top of the crossbar and then his curling shot in the second half that came back off the inside of the post, Dave Thomas' point blank shot that to be fair was a good save by Day and then they scored with probably their second shot on target near the end.
There were probably games we played worse in that season and got the two points. |
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 10:10 4 Jun 2025
He's talking about Clive Allen, not Clive Clark. |
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Reply | Varane being sold?
at 10:09 4 Jun 2025
Andy King was signed at the same time as well by Tommy Doc for about £400k.
I've looked at our signings and sales in the 80/81 season (thanks to the brilliant qprnet.com stats section) after Tommy Doc was sacked and was surprised. Terry Venables did some really good business and actually turned a profit.
When he took over we signed seven players the first few months:
Sealy 80k
Flanagan 150k
Stainrod 275k
Silkman 20k
Gerry 150k
Fenwick 100k
Burridge 200k
But over the season then recouped:
Woods 225k
McCreery 100k
Harkouk 50k
Neal 125k
Walsh 170k
Hill 80k
Langley 200k
Wicks 700k
The profits from which pretty much enabled us in the close season to buy back Allen from Palace and Gregory from Brighton. |
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