[Albion] Frank Worthington RIP

[allystrat]

Remember seeing him with the page 3 model Jane Warner in the Black Lion, Patcham one Sunday. He made the most of life that’s for sure.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Great player and a larger-than-life character. Thanks for the memories, Frank. There'll never be another.

 

[1066familyman]

That’s sad, another hero gone.

That goal against Ipswich, for Bolton.


https://youtu.be/W0z_arXZ8nM

This still remains my favourite goal of all time.

 

[BLOCK F]

A real cool dude and a fabulous footballer.
Loved watching him play for the Albion.
RIP Frank.

 

[The Albion Roar]

How good?

The ball control of Victorian prisoner bound for Australia
The range of passes of Glenn Hoddle
The skill and co-ordination of a murmuration through an Autumn sunset over the Palace Pier
The foot of a traction engine
The style of finest Americana

And - I'm heading for trouble here - better to watch even than Vicente.

RIP Frank Worthington.

 

[Guinness Boy]

If I remember correctly, he flicked the ball up in the air and volleyed it from around 30 yards. It hit the South Stand crossbar and went in off Dave Beasant's back and would have counted as an own goal these days but was all Worthington's by right.

There's a great story of him nearly signing for Liverpool but failing the medical because of high blood pressure. Liverpool put him on a plane to Spain for a few days' rest to see if it would sort the problem but on the flight he met some Swedish blonde. He spent the whole time in Spain shagging himself (and her) senseless and arrived back with even higher blood pressure than before.

Definitely in off the bar but I had forgotten or blanked out that it had gone in off the keeper's back.

Top story

 

[Grassman]

I had a season ticket on the West Stand the season he played for us. When he wasn't playing he used to sit next to me. Sometimes with his mate Malcolm McDonald, who was running a pub in Worthing at the time. For someone brought up watching football on there 70s I used to be utterly starstruck. RIP a true great of the game.

Surprised Malcolm came along, wasn’t his car turned over (with him in it) by our lot away at Luton in the 70s?

Rip. Frank.

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Apart from the goal itself, which is simply magical, you look at the Ipswich players. They fully expect him to pass backwards, they are even running with him. Then its WTF

That’s sad, another hero gone.

That goal against Ipswich, for Bolton.


https://youtu.be/W0z_arXZ8nM

 

[Knightsworld]

Privileged to see him play for us.

RIP

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

RIP Frank

You were class

On and off the field

 

[bobbab5]

Scorer of the 1st goal I saw at my 1st Brighton match, against Palace early on in 84/85. R.I.P. Frank.

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lens]

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Used to love these player profiles! Look at his "most memorable game" - he scored 16 goals in a Huddersfield Youth Match!!!!!
Hard to imagine a more naturally gifted player we have had the chance to watch, even past his prime.

 

[Hamilton]

We talk about players like Vicente etc, but he was one of the greats that I was privileged to see. He generated excitement when he signed.

 

[maltaseagull]

Love to see the ref running back applauding that special goal.

A great, maverick player, when we also enjoyed Bowles, Currie and Hudson too.

Seemed to have a full life.

RIP.

And Duncan McKenzie!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

He was far too good for our bunch of (comparative) donkeys at the time, even though his legs had gone by then.

He would play lay-offs in the penalty area to openings where our forwards ought to be, except they didn't have the football brains to see them and get there in time.

Pure class.

 

[Rogero]

He was a real character on and off the pitch. There will not be another like him.

 

[Swansman]

RIP. Remembered as one of the biggest cult players in Allsvenskan despite only playing here for half a season. They still remember him especially over at Mjällby AIF.

"Frank, whats the best club you ever played in?"

"Best club? Hanöhus Night Club!"

 

[Baker lite]

RIP Frank.
Feel extremely privileged to have seen him in a Albion shirt.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

From that Guardian article
"Once described by the former Huddersfield and Bolton manager Ian Greaves as “the working man’s George Best”, Worthington played in 22 consecutive Football League seasons from 1966-67, scoring 266 goals in 882 appearances in all competitions."

72 is no age, younger than me. But I would swap lives with him and die earler ......

 

[daveinprague]

R.I.P. Legend