Our Bill (2 Viewers)

Happy birthday Bill the best £35,000 our club ever spent.

Happy Birthday Bill. Best keeper we have ever had. Proud that my brick is part of your wall

Jimmy Hill recognised that the goal-keeper is the most important component of the team.
And In those days we bought the best available.
Consequently we had success.
How times have changed.

Great goalkeeper loved watching him play.

Bob Latchford said:

Happy Birthday to legendary goalkeeper Bill Glazier, who's 74 today! (402 games, 1964-75)

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Best we ever had.

We wouldn't have lost the away first leg to Bayern Munich if Bill had been in goal instead of that buffoon Eric McManus, who makes Lee Burge look like Lev Yashin

That night showed exactly the difference a good or bad goalkeeper can have on a game.

The Reverend Skyblue said:

We wouldn't have lost the away first leg to Bayern Munich if Bill had been in goal instead of that buffoon Eric McManus, who makes Lee Burge look like Lev Yashin

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Apologies if I mentioned this before. One Sunday when I was a kid I was playing football with my mates on Binley Rec. Someone came running up to say that Bill Glazier was outside Binley Club. We all ran over to the club and sure enough there was Bill and also the CET football writer Derek Henderson. They had been in the club, come back out to Bill's car only to find that his Jack Russel dog, who had been left in the car, had squeezed through the partly open window and run off. This was the cue for 20 plus boys to start scouring the streets of Binley Village. The dog was eventually found and returned to Bill who thanked everyone before driving off with Derek and the dog. We got a thank you from Bill either in the CET or the programme at the next game can't remember which.
How times change
Would the world's most expensive keeper now go drinking in public? Go drinking at a local working men's club? (Not many left now). Go drinking with the local football journalist? Go drinking and driving? Have an unglamorous dog like a Jack Russell? Probably no to all questions.

The Reverend Skyblue said:

We wouldn't have lost the away first leg to Bayern Munich if Bill had been in goal instead of that buffoon Eric McManus, who makes Lee Burge look like Lev Yashin

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An assassination of a goalkeeper who had a long and successful career with Bradford City and Notts County.
Eric McManus was put in the team at the last minute as a young boy and was not ready for his assignment and yes he drowned on the night. This was not a Gordon Banks, Peter Bonneti scenario in the 1970 world cup in Mexico.
400 games including the Bradford fire game and a near 20 year career suggests he was anything other than a buffon.

bump! B-)

Hahaha.

We went to an Asda cafe today and our bill was £11.30.

Otis said:

We went to an Asda cafe today and our bill was £11.30.

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Could you itemise please, for context

Two scones, 2 teas and a cafe latte.

We left a 3p tip.