King’s wonder volley
https://youtu.be/0iYYu3M4Itg
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King’s wonder volley
https://youtu.be/0iYYu3M4Itg
Toshack, my first City Hero, as a young boy. Still one of my favourite City players of all time. 50 years on!
Where have all those years gone
Where has Toshacks waistline gone
tosh..my boyhoid hero..with barry john..met barry but never met tosh..have to book a plane to iran!
Tosh went to Canton High School where at the time the school didn’t play soccer only rugby
Killer Evans was the PE master. Cnut
I believe that was the last game (or one of them) Toshack played for Cardiff. That day Toshack played wearing the number 8 shirt when he usually wore the number 10 shirt. I was at that game and missed the fact Don Murray crossed the ball for Toshack's goal which is surprising given that Murray rarely, if ever, ventured from the centre of the park.
When Liverpool told him he could go, he actually spoke to City about a coaching job. However, he allegedly didn't have a very warm reception because Manager Jimmy Andrews saw him as a threat. He was probably right but he then went to Swansea and transformed them.
What might have been.
I believe Tosh would have been very happy to return but as you suggested some within the club were not keen.
Also worth recalling that whilst there has always been a fans rivalry with the Swans we had had many players who had started there careers at Swansea or were from that area and vice versa. His going west was a much easier decision to make then that it would probably be now.
Tosh, Leggy, Earnie. Oh yes!
The old ‘proper’ Grangetown End was something else (not like that latter day concrete terrace affair). Frightening place to be late 60s/early 70s, some right nutters inhabiting the place. Frightening in a great way, wouldn’t have missed bouncing up & down on the wooden terracing for the world. Certainly don’t want to glorify or revel in terrace shenanigans but the taking & repelling the taking of ‘ends’ was a rite of passage every football fan of a certain age encountered I would imagine. Talk about battling for the pride of your ‘End’ Jeez, looking back it was open house for loonies. As I said though, wouldn’t have missed it for the world, Anyone up for getting on Bournemouth’s End two hours before kick off ????😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was indeed a very strange time as a youngster I don't think I worked it out ,all that running from one end to another , pownding r down streets , chanting love songs at coppers in black hats , jumping off coaches before being ambushed by the home fans , coppers on horse back chasing fans , yes catching that ride down the grangend stand ,oh yes, some even set fire to it for a laugh ,whilst singing "Ninian Park is burning down " ,strange and somewhat bewildering times, when matched by today's controlled environment.
It was crackers, wasn’t it, looking back. It was though the law of the land were caught completely off guard. Fans running here, there & everywhere, not being stopped entering any part of the ground. You paid your few bob at any turnstile and walked in. Even on the way & back from the match was an adventure both home & away, the chase to the station was a weekly event. Tudor Rd & Ninian Park Rd akin to an Olympic sprint for away fans some weeks. How did we survive eh? 😂😂😂
Who remembers Tosh's hat-trick in the 3-0 victory against Scotland at Ninian Park in 1979?
I remember Terry Yorath dribbling with the ball, stopping it, cockily sitting on it for a short and then setting off again.
I wonder what Alan Hansen the pundit would have made of Alan Hansen the player's "tackle" in the lead up to the first goal? I would have paced that game as about 1976, but the Grange End was full of Scotland fans and it was the "new" open air version of that part of the ground and the away fans were always put on there in it's early days.
Another Toshack goal against Scotland here and Brian Flynn scoring one of the best goals I've seen Wales score to put us 2-0 up, but then Dai the Drop started performing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcG8tc_Ai_Q
This is a game that I remember well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uDOiE8HsTPQ
Not because I was there but in the then little known, undeveloped Corfu resort of Benitses. We had an apartment. No TV, phone or radio. I walked to a nearby taverna to see if I could get the result off their TV. I was amazed and delighted to hear that we had stuffed England 4-1.