13 May 2025 08:42:40
It looks like long throws are coming back into fashion which reminds of the late great Ian Hutchinson and his massive throw that led to Webb's goal in the FA cup final replay.
13 May 2025 08:58:48
Now that was a goal Jimbo, vall in the bet along with half the Leeds team.
13 May 2025 09:12:34
That was a fantastic moment. I had a drink with Hutchinson and Osgood in a local bar after we had just got stuffed by Norwich in the league cup semifinal first leg.
Hutchinson could hardly walk but he could still drink. My hangover lasted for days!
13 May 2025 11:31:36
Amazing to have had that time with Ossie and Hutch Tom. Well worth a bad hangover. It was so sad that Hutch's career ended by injury before it should have. That throw, the Webb goal, Hutch and Ossie aerial threat a reminder of the lack we have in this respect in current team. As it is we still endlessly cross the ball high into the box but with Jackson poor in the air and no one else much good either though occasionally a Cucurella or EF can be unmarked in right place at right time to nod home.
We still so. need an attacker with real aerial power though ascwe had with DD and perhaps could have with eg Osimhen. It would be quite nice too to have a latter day Ossie to cheer on at the Bridge. But we might need Champions League football to attract one?!
13 May 2025 11:56:46
JBS, sadly I think the Osimhen pursuit has run its course and I cannot see Newcastle selling us Isak, so number one on my list is Sesko. I’m never convinced about Champs League qualification being the sole driver of a players decision.
On the Ossie and Hutch front. I had the very good fortune to meet Ossie twice more at social events. I found him to very good company and a genuinely nice bloke. I wish I could say the same about Alan Hudson but that’s another story.
13 May 2025 12:58:39
Tom, never met Hudson but he always looked like a miserable so and so.
13 May 2025 13:24:11
Jimbo, I was young and he tried to chat up my girlfriend. It was in the “Birds Nest pub Waterloo. ” It didn’t end well.
I also had the misfortune to meet him again later in life. He was with an ex spuds player called Miller and that didn’t work out very well either.
15 May 2025 15:04:22
|Yes Alan H did always look pretty miserable!