RIP Trevor Francis

[Packerman]

Sad a great player.
Never had a great memory and certainly not improving with age but, in my head, I went to watch an away game at Maine Road with Trevor flying down the wing. Cup game? Late seventies, early eighties? We lost.

Jan 1982 we lost 3-1 Francis scored two big tasty being in a blocked in away end basically in the Kipax

[Maurice Swan]

He not only made his debut for Birmingham as a sixteen year old at Ninian Park, he also scored in the first few minutes of the return game at St Andrews seven months in front of a near fifty thousand crowd - it’s a reminder of your own mortality when a player you remember being nicknamed “Superkid” has died.

RIP

Second that....makes me feel uneasy. reading of all these youngsters passing away.....>!!!

[Packerman]

it was Jan 1982 we lost 3-1 Francis scored two bit tasty being in a blocked in away end basically in the Kipax

think we were bussed from Maine road to our buses if memory serves

[John Buchanan]

Jan 1982 we lost 3-1 Francis scored two big tasty being in a blocked in away end basically in the Kipax

Thanks Packerman. Yes, tasty is how I recall it, also, police weren't particularly friendly and we're very "thorough" in their search techniques as we went in.

[Majorblue]

He really was a special player yet came across as a starstruck youngster in interviews throughput his career.

As others have said no age to go . RIP

[Taunton Blue Genie]

News report on his Notts Forest signing

Nice XJS

https://twitter.com/1968tv/status/16...LhmySD2aRt-GNg

Coventry City were also in the running for his signature.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...arget-15801828

[TWGL1]

As a non supporter of either clubs , what’s the issue on a Cardiff forum referring Forest as Notts ?

Granted if I was on a Forest board , but here ?