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Offline Larry Duff

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2013, 07:12:28 PM »
Phil Woosnam.  I have great memories of him.  In my first year of senior school my school team went unbeaten the whole season and won the Erdington and Saltley League and Cup double (I wonder if any other members of that team post on here)

Phil Woosnam presented me with my medals.  1966 I reckon.   He was Villa's captain then and an inside left.  He went on to be the commissioner of the NASL and I went on to work at Dunlop loading wagon's. 

Offline frankmosswasmyuncle

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2013, 07:23:38 PM »
Phil Woosnam - one of my first Villa heroes who I actually saw play on a regular basis in the 60s
RIP

Offline Navin R Johnson

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2013, 07:42:34 PM »
He was the man Jimmy Hill would have liked to have been.   A fine player and a true football visionary decades before his time.   Thank you for everything Phil.

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2013, 08:45:24 PM »
What's the H&V policy regarding player deaths ?

Should they all get a thread of their own ?

I first mentioned Woosnam's passing yesterday in the Celebrity Deathwatch Thread.

Earlier today, someone else posted notification in an existing thread and now we have this new one.


The problem with the Celebrity Deathwatch thread is that it (quite rightly) doesn't allow RIPs and "So very sad"s and it can be a bit irreverent.
People who feel the need to throw a RIP the way of a favourite ex-player should certainly be allowed to start a new thread.

Offline not3bad

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2013, 11:12:09 PM »
RIP Phil Woosnam

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2013, 11:14:50 PM »
What's the H&V policy regarding player deaths ?

Should they all get a thread of their own ?

I first mentioned Woosnam's passing yesterday in the Celebrity Deathwatch Thread.

Earlier today, someone else posted notification in an existing thread and now we have this new one.


The problem with the Celebrity Deathwatch thread is that it (quite rightly) doesn't allow RIPs and "So very sad"s and it can be a bit irreverent.
People who feel the need to throw a RIP the way of a favourite ex-player should certainly be allowed to start a new thread.

For an ex player it is fine to start a thread about them in HD.

For other celeb deaths, if it is someone you like a lot, or you consider highly topical, again, most welcome to start a RIP thread in OT.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2013, 11:16:32 PM »
And RIP Phil, enjoy playing on the Villa Park in the sky.

Offline ROBBO

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2013, 06:33:01 AM »
He would have fitted in very well in our present set up, talented footballer.

Offline martyn ellis

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2013, 10:07:04 AM »
Highly intelligent both on and off the field, with a forward thinking business head on him too as exemplified by his work in the States after his playing days were over. I saw him regularly playing in the sixties.

Offline ClarrieBlue

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2013, 08:11:10 PM »
He played and scored in my first ever Villa game. A 2-0 home win over Sheffield Wednesday in 1965. Tony Hateley got the other. It would be interesting to know how many assists he gave for Hateley to score all his goals. I was in the old Trinity Road Stand with my Dad. My Dad paid and in time honoured fashion, I ducked under the turnstile and my Dad chucked the gateman a shilling or two. Those were the days.

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2013, 01:12:45 PM »
Phil played in my first ever game, v. Spurs in April 1965. A one-nil win helped us to stay up that season. I think he wanted to leave because of the obvious lack of ambition in the boardroom at the time.

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #26 on: July 26, 2013, 09:34:33 PM »
Nice piece in the Gaurdian today Clicky.

Offline E I Adio

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2013, 12:24:35 AM »
Now the Indy Link

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Re: Phil Woosnam
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2013, 08:26:13 AM »
...and I didn't know that Ian Woosnam was a cousin of Phil's. Nor indeed that Phil's middle name was Abraham.

 


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