Peter Lorimer

[Cleve van Leef]

Taken too soon at 74

RIP

[lardy]

Re: Peter Lorimer

RIP but 74 is a respectable and normal age to die, isn't it?

[elytillidie]

Re: Peter Lorimer

RIP but 74 is a respectable and normal age to die, isn't it?

Someone will probably say the same when Prince Philip kicks the bucket. Rocket shot on Lorimer if I remember rightly.

[Vindec]

Re: Peter Lorimer

RIP but 74 is a respectable and normal age to die, isn't it?

Not when you are 73.

[MacAdder]

Re: Peter Lorimer

A big part of Revie's "dirty Leeds" side of the 70's.

They were as dominant a team then as say MU were in the 90's/00's or Liverpool in the 80's.

Widely accepted to have the hardest shot in the game.

RIP.

[MacAdder]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Not when you are 73.

Very true.

Three score and ten was considered a good innings not so long ago but they say people are living longer now :shrug:

It does seem strange how many of these household names are passing at around the late 60 early 70 age which I don't consider to be old.

I suppose footballers of the generation before were dying at a similar rate it was just that they weren't so well known by the masses, pre-TV.

[cardiff55]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Not when you are 73.

Or even 66 like me.

[lardy]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Very true.

Three score and ten was considered a good innings not so long ago but they say people are living longer now :shrug:

It does seem strange how many of these household names are passing at around the late 60 early 70 age which I don't consider to be old.

I suppose footballers of the generation before were dying at a similar rate it was just that they weren't so well known by the masses, pre-TV.

Also there's more 'space' for news nowadays. A few decades ago you needed to be a decent name for your obituary to get in the news. Now there's guitarists from one hit wonders in the 60s who will have their death reported.

Not that this applies to Lorimer, who was a genuine known name.

[life on mars]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Gosh another Leeds death , had a long term illness .

Wonder if these lads dying in their mid 70's didn't have the luxury of better health awareness and behaviours, and its caught up with them .

Average death rate in UK is around 81 these days ??

[Pearcey3]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Gosh another Leeds death , had a long term illness .

Wonder if these lads dying in their mid 70's didn't have the luxury of better health awareness and behaviours, and its caught up with them .

Average death rate in UK is around 81 these days ??

Yep although that average life expectancy applies to those being born these days. A new born boy has a life expectancy of around 79 and a new born girl can expect to live to 83.

[Gofer Blue]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Not when you are 73.

Even less so when you are 74, like me!

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: Peter Lorimer

RIP but 74 is a respectable and normal age to die, isn't it?

I friggin’ hope not, I’m 76 this year!

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: Peter Lorimer

A big part of Revie's "dirty Leeds" side of the 70's. They were as dominant a team then as say MU were in the 90's/00's or Liverpool in the 80's.

Hardly. Leeds only won two league titles spaced five years apart, which is incomparable with the Man Utd and Liverpool sides you mentioned. Indeed, isn't it a commonly-held view that the Leeds team of the late-60's to the mid-70's were far less dominant than a side with their abilities should have been?

[J R Hartley]

Re: Peter Lorimer

Someone will probably say the same when Prince Philip kicks the bucket. Rocket shot on Lorimer if I remember rightly.

He’ll live until hes 200 that ****.

[splott parker]

Re: Peter Lorimer

RIP, perhaps one of the few likeable ones out of the bunch of dirty tw@ts that were involved with Leeds. And TLG is correct, they weren’t dominant in the late 60s/early 70s era, won a few things but were more bridesmaid than bride. Revie and his lieutenants Bremner & Giles were dodgy as f*ck with plenty of back up from other team mates. Perhaps if they’d have concentrated on football, because they could turn it on on occasions, rather than the dark arts they may have been more successful.