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Topic Originator: MikeyLeonard
Date: Sat 26 Apr 14:23
Passed away aged 85.
RIP.
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Topic Originator: Parboiled
Date: Sat 26 Apr 15:11
A certain Yorkshire vet was looking for a pen name and picked his after seeing him playing for Birmingham on the telly.
I don’t know if they ever met or if Jim the keeper got any thanks for that though!
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sat 26 Apr 15:33
Another one gone. A very good goalie.
RIP, Jim
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: WarringtonPar
Date: Sat 26 Apr 15:38
Quote:
Raymie the Legend, Sat 26 Apr 15:33
Another one gone. A very good goalie.
RIP, Jim
Top goalkeeper RIP Jim Herriot
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Sat 26 Apr 15:40
Great Goalie .. thoughts and sympathy with all Family and Friends .. RIP Jim
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Sat 26 Apr 16:01
Sad news. He was the first Pars player I ever got an autograph from.
RIP Jim
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Topic Originator: kozmasrightfoot
Date: Sat 26 Apr 16:43
💐
Pars fan.
Magpies fan.
Mens tennis fan.
Alternative rock fan.
Not a fan of much else.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 26 Apr 17:31
Another boyhood hero gone.
Had two spells at EEP.
RIP
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sun 27 Apr 20:02
Another of my 60s heroes gone. ☹️ Herriot was a brilliant shot stopper but a bit like Alan Rough on crosses.
My fav story is about the 2nd leg of a Fairs Cup tie in Stuttgart. After 1-0 win at EEP, manager Willie Cunningham was confident of a clean sheet in the return. 15 mins from time, Stuttgart were awarded a pen. Their No 9 immediately punched Herriot in the face. Stretcher on, Jim Thompson donned the keeper`s jersey. Herriot jumped off the stretcher on the halfway line, grabbed his jersey back, and pushed the pen round the post. Pars got their 0-0 draw to go through. Alex Smith finished up with a blood red front after being kicked on the forehead....
Those were the days. 😁
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sun 27 Apr 22:15
JH took to blackening the skin under his eye sockets to reduce glare reflected from floodlights - copying American sportsmen.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Mon 28 Apr 11:25
Full tribute is now on COWS.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Tue 29 Apr 18:11
My best pal`s Dad used to take us all over following the Pars - he reckoned that Jim Herriot`s indiscretion in a cup tie v Third Lanark contributed towards the club missing out on the double 1964-65.
He whacked Max Murray off the ball, was sent off and Thirds equalised (if memory serves) from the penalty. This led to two replays and a fixture congestion including the team playing 3 competitive matches in five days - a league game on the Saturday, the second cup replay (at Tynecastle) on the Monday followed by a Fairs Cup tie on the Wednesday.
This mess also scuppered his chance to play for the Scottish League in a game along with Willie Callaghan and John Lunn.
Sadly JL never had another chance to represent his country again at any level, unlike the other two.
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