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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sat 7 Sep 12:24
The former Dundee United and Liverpool centre-half has died at the age of 86. I was surprised to read that he only won two Scotland caps but I suppose there was a lot of competition in that position in the 1960s.
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Topic Originator: Stanza
Date: Sat 7 Sep 13:28
I remember him playing against Italy in 1965 in a World Cup decider,which I think Scotland just needed to draw to qualify for the finals (could be wrong on that).
Stein listed him as a centre forward, Yeats kicked off and immediately lumbered back into central defence. Italy won 3-0.
In the 1970s he also had a short spell as player-manager of Barrow, my "other" club,
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sat 7 Sep 16:53
I`m sure he was in the Liverpool team I watched at Hampden Park as they lost the Cup Winners cup final to Bid T Par`s Borussia Dortmund.
Post Edited (Sat 07 Sep 16:57)
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 7 Sep 19:04
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Paralex, Sat 7 Sep 16:53
I`m sure he was in the Liverpool team I watched at Hampden Park as they lost the Cup Winners cup final to Bid T Par`s Borussia Dortmund.
Correct, I was there - sat behind Ally McLeod and his Ayr United squad - got into an argument with him when he blamed Lawrence the Liverpool keeper for the first goal - he didn’t like anybody contradicting him in front of his players !!!
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Topic Originator: AdamAntsParsStripe
Date: Sat 7 Sep 21:41
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veteraneastender, Sat 7 Sep 19:04
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Paralex, Sat 7 Sep 16:53
I`m sure he was in the Liverpool team I watched at Hampden Park as they lost the Cup Winners cup final to Bid T Par`s Borussia Dortmund.
Correct, I was there - sat behind Ally McLeod and his Ayr United squad - got into an argument with him when he blamed Lawrence the Liverpool keeper for the first goal - he didn’t like anybody contradicting him in front of his players !!!
“What do you know aboot fitba son” is what I imagine he said 😊
Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sat 7 Sep 23:23
You must have been in the posh seats VEE and rather brave to challenge Awwy McWoud in front of his players. I`m sure I was in the Celtic end that night.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sun 8 Sep 07:07
My pal’s Dad got stand tickets - not sure why, we were terracing tams.
Had there been been any football refereeing justice Celtic would have been in that final, they were robbed at Anfield.
Then tickets would have been very difficult to find.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sun 8 Sep 11:20
Was at a Scotland game against Italy mid sixties, John Greig scored a screamer, don`t know if Yates played that game?
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Sun 8 Sep 11:46
This is the sort of post where sammer usually excels, displaying his quite extraordinary memory. I do hope that he is okay.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sun 8 Sep 12:06
He didn`t play in the 1-0 victory over Italy at Hampden but, as Stanza explains above, did play in the reverse fixture in Italy. That was his second and final cap for Scotland.
Bill Shankly was always emphasising the physical presence of the man calling him a `mountain` and a `Colossus` and, when introducing him to journalists after he signed, inviting them to go into the dressing room and `walk around him`.
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sun 8 Sep 12:10
Ron was 6’2” so certainly a “giant” in the 60s
Nowadays that’s probably on the smaller side of average for a centre half ?
RIP, Ron
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sun 8 Sep 14:11
That 0-3 in Naples was also Adam
Blacklaw’s last game for Scotland if memory serves - blamed for at least one of the goals, maybe two ?
Big Jock had the team lined up with 2 centre halves trying the big Cattanchio (?) tactic he learned from Helenio Herrera while Pars manager 2 years earlier.
The two Ronnies - Yeats and McKinnon !!!
Of course the minute Italy scored Scotland were screwed
Played on a Wednesday afternoon and shown on TV - absence rates at schools soared !!!
Then came the inevitable reckoning and retribution the next morning 😱
Post Edited (Sun 08 Sep 14:19)
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sun 8 Sep 14:30
I believe I also watched him play for Liverpool against Arsenal at Highbury in a league game in 1968. I was a member of the Glasgow Possil YM youth team at the time, a nursery team for Arsenal. We were in London for two weeks playing against Arsenal`s youth team. I think Liverpool won 2-1. No it was 1-1, August 17th 1968 seemingly.
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