Dave Sexton

[Morvangull]

In 1958/59, the first time in the Second Division, when I first started watching the Albion I remember him scoring a hat trick in 2 minutes but we still lost 4-6 at home to Middlesborough. R.I.P Dave

 

[raymondbriggs]

Really? Football supporting is ALL about "petty f***ing rivalry"? And that is a "basic fact"? You child. It's "synchronised" as well by the way.

Cheers for that,enjoy the swimming.
Watching football is not a spectator sport,live it is my advice.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Under Dave Sexton, we were a really good team. Champions elect for about 10 days in 1976 before Liverpool played their last League game against Wolves. We were 15 minutes away from being champions ... 15 minutes.

RIP Dave Sexton.

No one actually recalls much about that Liverpool side that particular season. It's lost in the fog of history. That season is undoubtedly best remembered for the players and football of QPR, a team built by Sexton. Gerry Francis, Don Masson, Dave Clements, Phil Parkes, Stan Bowles, Frank McLintock. Flairniacs!

 

[Kumquat]

Cheers for that,enjoy the swimming.
Watching football is not a spectator sport,live it is my advice.

Thanks for that. Your advice that is. Watching football is not a spectator sport. Brilliant.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

R.I.P. deserves something to be done next home match for sure

 

[topbanana36]

RIP Dave Sexton, his son was my lecturer in kent condolences to him as well.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Bye Dave,Thanks for the memories........R.I.P.

 

[trueblue]

A proper one minute silence tomorrow hopefully. And then on Saturday I expect we'll get the cop-out minute's applause as there'll be too many beered up muppets for it to be observed respectfully.

 

[One Love]

A great player for the Albion too. Lived 2 doors up from him in Amberley Drive. I was just a kid but Mr Sexton as I called him was always friendly. First Albion Player i can remember seeing doing an overhead scissors kick and scoring.

RIP Mr Sexton

Does anyone remember or know anything about his family because when I was a kid I used go to Amberley Drive and play with his son.

Would love to jog some memories.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Dave Sexton 1930-2012

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

Does anyone remember or know anything about his family because when I was a kid I used go to Amberley Drive and play with his son.

Would love to jog some memories.

I seem to remember being told ( when I was a lot younger, 1978ish?) that he used to live on the corner of Clarke Avenue, not far from Amberley drive ( or was that Ron Greenwood).

Blimey, I'm getting old.

 

[silverwizard]

I can remember the 4-6 loss to Middlesbrough who had Brian Clough playing and scoring for them that day. Albion were 5-0 down in the second half before Sexton inspired a tremendous rally. If only we'd had 6 mins of added time in those days!

 

[Marxo]

RIP Dave, not only played for us but won back to back European championships with the England U21's. It was interesting this morning hearing from John Hollins on 5live, he said he saw Dave Sexton playing for us because he used to come down to watch his brother Dave who played for Brighton at the same time.

 

[One Love]

I seem to remember being told ( when I was a lot younger, 1978ish?) that he used to live on the corner of Clarke Avenue, not far from Amberley drive ( or was that Ron Greenwood).

Blimey, I'm getting old.

I remember it as further down the hill, the corner of Sunninghill Ave and Amberley.

 

[c0lz]

RIP Dave Sexton.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

A good man, who knew the value of the word dignity.

He played before my time. I remember him as the manager of the great Chelsea team including Osgood, Hudson, Cooke etc, before they became Chelski

 

[The Oldman]

I remember it as further down the hill, the corner of Sunninghill Ave and Amberley.

As I said above I lived in Amberley Drive and Mr sexton lived down from me at either No 5 or 3. The house (which was owned by the club,) was between Clarke Avenue and Sunninghill Avenue.

 

[Landgull]

Always tried to play 'the game' as it should be and so decent and well mannered (football and sport could do with a few more like him) and you remember when his was so close to QPR winning the title in 75/6 season and what wonderful football. R-i-P. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wiPgqG4Ark

Well said, a very cultured player. RIP

 

[The Oldman]

Does anyone remember or know anything about his family because when I was a kid I used go to Amberley Drive and play with his son.

Would love to jog some memories.

Had an awful feeling that the son died. Found this from 1997

"The son of England soccer coach Dave Sexton drove his car off a cliff after Ecstasy tablets left him paranoid and confused, an inquest heard yesterday.

Michael Sexton, 31, whose father managed Chelsea and Manchester United, first took the rave drug five years ago.

His family noticed a change in him as he started to suffer paranoia and panic attacks. "

The cliff was Beachy head IIRC. So sad.

 

[getz]

Dave was known as one of the first continental-style footballers,also he looked pretty "cool" to my eyes