Quote Originally Posted by MOZZER2 View Post
always used to get alot of stick on here and further afield when i always said earnie couldn't trap a bag of cement and to this day i stand by that statement but a great goal scorer

not sure he would be so prolific now in what i call the semi robotic football world we now live in
Earnie had something that cannot be coached or taught......he had a poacher's instinct of being in the right place at the right time. On top of that his finishing at times was sublime, certainly the most natural goalscorer I've seen in a city shirt. He wasn't much of a player outside the box and yes his most prolific goalscoring seasons were in the lower leagues but boy what a finisher he was.