[Football] The Cat - RIP

[jakarta]

Always thought Phil Tufnell was The Cat due to his catnap abilities in the changing room before hanging in there for a plucky six or seven runs when batting at eleven as England subsided to yet another defeat?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Wrong again ! thank goodness !

You ARE Ron Harris and I claim my £5.

 

[Questions]

Oh my goodness, what a shat day

Out of respect, can we NOT have an explanation of why he was known as " The Cat " ?

Because he used to shit in his neighbours garden or was it that he could lick his own bollox ?

RIP Peter Bonetti

 

[vegster]

Because he used to shit in his neighbours garden or was it that he could lick his own bollox ?

RIP Peter Bonetti

Shame on you !...

 

[Beach Hut]

RIP, I had a pair of his green goalkeeper gloves once

 

[Questions]

Shame on you !...

Oh....... you said NOT.. F..uck I re- read that after veg..sorry

 

[Moshe Gariani]

RIP, I had a pair of his green goalkeeper gloves once

Me too. Mine were just thin cotton that now you’d take for gardening gloves. When dry they were worse than bare hands but they came into their own on a wet day.


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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Wow, is this the worst day ever for celebrity deaths?

Edit just seen on the Argus site that he was a part time Albion coach, I never knew that

Dave Sexton connection? Dave live in Hove and a son went to my school.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Horribly scapegoated for the 2-3 world cup semi final defeat (after being 2-0 up) against der chairmens. Mind you...actually, no, best not. RIP.

GK 12 Peter Bonetti
DF 2 Keith Newton
DF 5 Brian Labone
DF 6 Bobby Moore (c)
DF 3 Terry Cooper
MF 4 Alan Mullery
MF 8 Alan Ball
MF 9 Bobby Charlton Substituted off 70'
MF 11 Martin Peters Substituted off 81'
FW 7 Francis Lee Yellow card
FW 10 Geoff Hurst
Substitutions:
DF 18 Norman Hunter Substituted in 81'
MF 19 Colin Bell Substituted in 70'
Manager:
Alf Ramsey

Edit: I can name the teames all those boys played at the time for without thinking. Without looking (below) can you?





Chelsea
Blackburn
Everton
Wet Sham
Dirty
Spuds
Arsenal
ManUre
Spuds
Citeh
Wet Sham
Dirty
Citeh

 

[OzMike]

Sad news RIP Peter, how old was he ?

 

[theboybilly]

Horribly scapegoated for the 2-3 world cup semi final defeat (after being 2-0 up) against der chairmens. Mind you...actually, no, best not. RIP.

GK 12 Peter Bonetti
DF 2 Keith Newton
DF 5 Brian Labone
DF 6 Bobby Moore (c)
DF 3 Terry Cooper
MF 4 Alan Mullery
MF 8 Alan Ball
MF 9 Bobby Charlton Substituted off 70'
MF 11 Martin Peters Substituted off 81'
FW 7 Francis Lee Yellow card
FW 10 Geoff Hurst
Substitutions:
DF 18 Norman Hunter Substituted in 81'
MF 19 Colin Bell Substituted in 70'
Manager:
Alf Ramsey

Edit: I can name the teames all those boys played at the time for without thinking. Without looking (below) can you?





Chelsea
Blackburn
Everton
Wet Sham
Dirty
Spuds
Arsenal
ManUre
Spuds
Citeh
Wet Sham
Dirty
Citeh

Had to check as I was only 99% sure but Keith Newton played for Everton in 1970 (transferred mid-season prior to the World Cup Finals)

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Peter Bonetti .... what a goalkeeper! He was rightly nicknamed "the cat" , he was the most athletic shot stopper I have ever seen. Gordon Banks did it by reading the game and having a sixth sense to position himself, Bonetti was just so quick to react and hurl himself at a ball to collect it.
I was surprised to see today that he only won seven England caps . Any other era he would have been a mainstay.
Yes, a Sussex family.... He may be gone but certainly not forgotten.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I did the same the other day. Worthing family and his brother was a decent player as well. He was one of the first goalkeepers to wear specialist gloves and my first pair of keepers gloves were a pair of his branded gloves.

I remember seeing his brother play for Worthing (or possibly Sussex) schools at Woodside Road many years ago. I think the family had a business in Findon Valley at one point. Peter ended up being a postman in the Scottish Islands. (Not a job you'd imagine any of the current crop of Prem 'keepers doing.)

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I remember seeing his brother play for Worthing (or possibly Sussex) schools at Woodside Road many years ago. I think the family had a business in Findon Valley at one point. Peter ended up being a postman in the Scottish Islands. (Not a job you'd imagine any of the current crop of Prem 'keepers doing.)

Dry cleaners on Cissbury Parade. Still there as far as I can remember.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

RIP a legend.

From an era where the old First Division was brimming with great goalies from these Isles.

Yes indeed, the 1970's and even early 80's was awash with great British goalkeepers, we could probably have fielded a whole team of them!

Not any more alas.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Horribly scapegoated for the 2-3 world cup semi final defeat (after being 2-0 up) against der chairmens. Mind you...actually, no, best not. RIP.

GK 12 Peter Bonetti
DF 2 Keith Newton
DF 5 Brian Labone
DF 6 Bobby Moore (c)
DF 3 Terry Cooper
MF 4 Alan Mullery
MF 8 Alan Ball
MF 9 Bobby Charlton Substituted off 70'
MF 11 Martin Peters Substituted off 81'
FW 7 Francis Lee Yellow card
FW 10 Geoff Hurst
Substitutions:
DF 18 Norman Hunter Substituted in 81'
MF 19 Colin Bell Substituted in 70'
Manager:
Alf Ramsey

Edit: I can name the teames all those boys played at the time for without thinking. Without looking (below) can you?





Chelsea
Blackburn
Everton
Wet Sham
Dirty
Spuds
Arsenal
ManUre
Spuds
Citeh
Wet Sham
Dirty
Citeh

My goodness, that looks like a good side. There were - and probably still are - some with the view that it was a stronger side than the 1966 one which of course had home advantage and played all their games at Wembley.

 

[Questions]

Horribly scapegoated for the 2-3 world cup semi final defeat (after being 2-0 up) against der chairmens. Mind you...actually, no, best not. RIP.

GK 12 Peter Bonetti
DF 2 Keith Newton
DF 5 Brian Labone
DF 6 Bobby Moore (c)
DF 3 Terry Cooper
MF 4 Alan Mullery
MF 8 Alan Ball
MF 9 Bobby Charlton Substituted off 70'
MF 11 Martin Peters Substituted off 81'
FW 7 Francis Lee Yellow card
FW 10 Geoff Hurst
Substitutions:
DF 18 Norman Hunter Substituted in 81'
MF 19 Colin Bell Substituted in 70'
Manager:
Alf Ramsey

Edit: I can name the teames all those boys played at the time for without thinking. Without looking (below) can you?





Chelsea
Blackburn
Everton
Wet Sham
Dirty
Spuds
Arsenal
ManUre
Spuds
Citeh
Wet Sham
Dirty
Citeh

Only one Toffees player in the team Harry despite them having won the league that year. Edit:Although did Ball move at the end of the season....... I think he might have....

 

[Wardy's twin]

I had his dictionary when i was at school - hark back to the time when you used to put your name on a list in the front of your school text books so you could be held accountable for loss or damage.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

My goodness, that looks like a good side. There were - and probably still are - some with the view that it was a stronger side than the 1966 one which of course had home advantage and played all their games at Wembley.

There were also some who thought we were very lucky to win it in 66, (l wasn't one of them though).

Certainly though, home advantage, and playing all our games at Wembley, was a massive help.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Only one Toffees player in the team Harry despite them having won the league that year. Edit:Although did Ball move at the end of the season....... I think he might have....

An Arsenal player at the time.