Colin Baker, Wales World Cup player in 1958, one club man with City and all round nice bloke has died at the age of eighty six;-
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Colin Baker, Wales World Cup player in 1958, one club man with City and all round nice bloke has died at the age of eighty six;-
http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/
RIP. Very good half back, played left half mainly (No 6) if I remember correctly
used to work with Ken Hollyman years ago and always spoke highly of Colin
think he represented Wales at youth or under 23 level too but never quite got a full international cap
RIP
Very reliable club man.
Colin Baker, City and Wales legend.
RIP sir.
RIP Colin Baker aka BIF BAF Baker. A true City Legend.
Colin Baker was the first autograph I ever managed to get. He would stop for any fan. His wife worked in the Welsh Office and when she thought her husband was being transferred to Carlisle, who apparently wanted him, she said there was no way she would let him go.
He won 7 full caps and was part of the 1958 World Cup squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
Met him acouple of times and he was a lovely, unassuming bloke.
Definitely a City legend. And a local lad too. RIP Bluebird.
RIP Local Lad Bluebird
My first autograph too. I remember looking at his nicotine stained fingers as he wrote in my book. He smoked 40 Senior Service a day I heard!Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
RIP Colin.
yes you are correct he did attain 7 caps and played his last game against scotland in 1961 as well as an under 23 capQuote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
RIP to the Tremorfa boy
Sullivan, Malloy, Baker heart of the defence. Then we we had Gammon and Hole. Never had players of that calibre from South Wales since. Yes I know Molloy was Scottish, but the others were immense.
RIP Bluebird
He got 7 caps apparentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
And played in the '58 World Cup finals !Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
Colin Baker smoked like a trooper and Derrick Sullivan drank like a fish. Two City greats though!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
Only vaguely remember him with his ginger hair.
Great servant to City
RIP
Kept fit by playing baseball for Adamsdown in the Summer. Apparently I met him when I was nipper but I can't honestly remember. I'm not surprised he smoked like a trooper, many of the City men did (they were always men to me). I've a scrapbook of 1958 World Cup press photos from Dewi Lewis carefully stored somewhere.
I'm just looking at a huge collection of his old programmes and one from 1961 City v Spurs (7.00pm Saturday KO too) has Baker up against Blanchflower. That must have been some game.
298 appearances for City. And as TOBW mentions, one club man. Rare indeed.
Isn't that strange, I got to know Colin well for a year in the seventies and I don't remember him being a smoker when, clearly, it seems he was - there would have been no such thing as workplace smoking bans then and it seems odd that someone who smoked throughout his professional football career would jack it in soon after he stopped playing.
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Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
That was probably the greatest City win I’ve ever seen, City won 3-2 , Spurs did the double that season. The atmosphere to say the least was electric. On a Saturday night because Wales were playing home in the 5 Nations. Official attendance was just over 45,000 but it was nearer 60,000. Amazing night.
Just reading your post sets my heart racing - I can imagine the atmosphere and that massive crowd. Also, I just noticed Cliff Jones played for Spurs that night too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
Lovely write-up TOBW! :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
The next home game was against Villa, attendance was about 12,000. City have always had fickle attendances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
Edit: just read the club website and think yours is so much better and far more personal and fitting. Also, as a graphics person, I hate the upper case font on our website that makes Ks look like Hs - just look at Baker in the title. Annoys me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I attach a match report of this game, which I was lucky enough to attend. It was an amazing atmosphere and a tremendous match to watch. City played extremely well against a team that went on to achieve the double of the League and F A Cup. Spurs included the following players who were household names at the time - Dave Mackay, Danny Blanchflower, Cliff Jones, Johnny White and Les Allen.
It is very sad to hear of the passing of Colin Baker, who was a City stalwart at the time. In the 1962/62 season he was an ever-present, playing the full 42 games for City. I recently had the pleasure of being the Manager of the Glamorgan Junior Golf team and Colin’s two grandsons Oliver and Max were regular members.Attachment 4401Attachment 4402
Sorry, but the match report did not come out properly because it is too large, and is very blurred.
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Thank you :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew
It was an amazing night. My father and I had been to the rugby in the afternoon and we walked straight to Ninian Park afterwards along with what seemed to be half the crowd from the Arms Park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woosnam
My favourite ever match too, what an atmosphere, only two other matches (RM&L) have ever come close but not as close to that Saturday Night Fever @ NP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
I agree about the crowd too!