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Adge said:

Get yourself to a few away games and you might change your view of him.

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I've followed games on here when we're away from home and in the match threads people are saying he is diving in those matches too.

I rate the bloke. Just wish he wouldn't keep going to ground so easily.

Otis said:

I've followed games on here when we're away from home and in the match threads people are saying he is diving in those matches too.

I rate the bloke. Just wish he wouldn't keep going to ground so easily.

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So taking things second hand then.

Adge said:

So taking things second hand then.

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Several posters have been commentating on it. You can't tell me he only decides to go to ground at home surely can you?

Hobo said:

No keep battling stay on your feet and he will get far more penalty decisions.

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Didn’t when mcsheffrey played in his first stint.

Nonleagueherewecome said:

Killer got a good mention in a piece I read the other day about Jon Beck's Cambridge and when they started to get "found out" at a higher level: Route One - theBlizzard.co.uk

“We played off other people’s mistakes. But the better people you play against, the less they give you the ball back. We were that good that we were able to dominate teams even playing that way but the system became predictable,” says Claridge. “I can remember playing Newcastle. Brian Kilcline was marking me and I don’t think he came within 20 yards of me. He knew where the ball was going before we’d even played it. I said to John at half-time, ‘You’ve got to change this,’ but he just wouldn’t. It was a massive opportunity missed.”

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Funny thing was Beck was a skilful cultured player for us.

Grendel said:

Funny thing was Beck was a skilful cultured player for us.

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I know-not first hand but from him playing proper passes on the deck on pitches that look like ploughed fields on grainy footage. The irony! The piece mentions that too, but also says that he never did much more in management after Cambridge: he was actually Assistant Manager at Histon when they knocked McAllister's Leeds out of the FA Cup, playing pretty much the Cambridge way on a muddy pitch, which I had the pleasure of watching live on TV: Histon make history as they knock Leeds United out of the FA Cup

It was almost hilarious how McAllister stuck stubbornly to passing football on a quagmire whilst Histon hoofed and out-fought them.

They almost got to the league that season, but lost the Conference Play Offs. Beck fell out with the manager and left and five relegations later, Histon are back in the Eastern Counties League.

Beck turned off the Hot Water in our dressing room when we played Cambridge in a cup match i seem to recall!

They were a right shower.