Pavilionaire
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Tommy Lawrence right up there with Clemence and Grobbelaar as the great Liverpool keepers. R.I.P. Tommy.
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[Football] Tommy Lawrence. Liverpool.
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seagulls4ever
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Come on! Get with it, man.
Maybe its an age thing. There was football before 1983, you realise?
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
I'm sure I watched him in goal for Tranmere playing against us at the Goldstone in the early '70s. I also seem to remember Ron Yeates playing in the same game. This was the era when First Division footballers stepped down a division or two to play for a couple more years to get more money in as they weren't payed the millions they get now.
Also remember Bobby Charlton playing sweeper for Preston when he was their Player-Manager.
Also remember Bobby Charlton playing sweeper for Preston when he was their Player-Manager.
Seasidesage
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RIP. Great keeper in his day.
You did, I was at that game, a 2-0 Albion win I think? Tommy Lawrence stood and applauded the second goal, as it was laid back by a player for our main striker to smash it into the corner, with Lawrence not being a flying pig. 1972/3?
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I love the way his face lit up in that interview.
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The programme line-ups from March 11 1972:-
And from Pat Saward's notes in the programme from the next home match, against Oldham on March 15 1972:-
Coldeanseagull
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I've found the best way to not make yourself out to be prat, is use this thing I've discovered. It's called 'google'. If someone I've never heard of carks it, I google them(see what I done there). Then I decide if I would like to comment on that thread.
Sometimes it's better to be silent and be thought of as a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
Sometimes it's better to be silent and be thought of as a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
Leekbrookgull
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Steve Piper,yes i was there and a solid partnership with Andy/R
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
That’s when I saw him as well, playing for Tranmere at the Goldstone. Great keeper.
I remember that Bromley goal. God he caned it.
Leekbrookgull
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Thank-You.
Jameson
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Me too. He was famous at that time having played for Liverpool. North Stand Chant:
Who’s that keeper with the big fat arse?
Lawrence, Lawrence,
Repeat,
Lawrence is his name!
Different times, different songs.
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theboybilly
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RIP Tommy. I remember you well
I actually hate that interview as the pig-ignorant **** interviewing him had no clue who he was. You'd think he'd at least done some basic research to discover who was playing in that game. And it's not as if it was a one-off appearance either, Lawrence was the Liverpool keeper almost all the way through through the Shankly era
I dunno, it must be an age thing as I see the esteemed Buzzer hasn't heard of him either. Such is life. I guess soon the names of Hunt, St John, Yeats, Lawler, Thompson, Hughes, Evans, Toshack etc will follow Tommy into the 'Who?' category. I'm sad in more ways than one.
As I recall, he ran from the Western edge of the North stand penalty area, in a diagonal run beating a few players to the left corner of the South stand area and lashed it left footed into the far right top corner, the Flying Pig was beaten all ends up. One of the greatest Goldstone goals.
No Brighton connections admittedly, but Lawrence was a legend in the 1960s - and I've never been a Liverpool fan.. I'm sure we'll also have RIP threads for people like Ray Wilson or George Cohen when they die.