What a great TV prog.
I feel so lucky to have been a Leeds and Swindon fan in the 70's
Swindon had their best team and Leeds Utd had a fantastic team that I love dearly
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What a great TV prog.
I feel so lucky to have been a Leeds and Swindon fan in the 70's
Swindon had their best team and Leeds Utd had a fantastic team that I love dearly
Watched it, laughed and cried, Pat saying she "always wanted to be a lady", when of course that's exactly who and what she is, Jack at the end of the programme quoted on the memories when returning to Dublin and "they (the memories) will always be there" only they won't and weren't by the time he passed.
Gent, honourable man, direct to a fault, honest without, would that football was populated by more of the same today.
Don't mean to be flippant, but can you see shades of Jack in our current coach (and why in the name of all that is holy was he never Leeds manager?)?
Very sad in parts to see how illness had left him, but a fine tribute to a great player and manager
Still to come tonight MOTD interview with big Jack.
And if you have it, Leeds v Liverpool 2000, on Sky Sports PL now
Amazing bloke - never gets the credit for how articulate and bright he was.
Loved the notes he made and key thing in one of them ENJOY IT.
A character who enriched the lives of those who met him.
Tear jerking indeed. But the most poignant quote from Big Jack for me is when he said he " wasn't a good footballer but was good at preventing other good footballers playing football" I may and surely have not quoted 100% accurate but the essence for me is that Big Jack was a GREAT footballer in a GREAT team that a lot could learn from today. There are players from that era that were truly remarkable in many ways and to name one or two would be an injustice to the others. But I can't stop myself from mentioning Micky Jones a fekin hero end off of but the whole team from Revie down were and are second to none end off of. **** Clough (loved him outside of Leeds tho)
I liked the note "Leeds United player, licensed to kill", and the clip of him taking out Osgood.
Don't want to go back to all the violence, but the namby pamby prima Donna's we have now, who fall to the floor like they have had their faces caved in when it was their foot that got trodden on, they could learn a thing or two about strength of character, loyalty, grit and determination from the likes of Charlton senior.