View Full Version : RIP Alan Ball - 1966 England World Cup Legend
Cloggsy
25-04-07, 08:42 AM
A sad day for English Football :smt022
RIP Alan Ball (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007190162,00.html?CMP=KNC-powersearchSEM1&HBX_PK=alan+ball&HBX_OU=50) :!:
the_runt69
25-04-07, 09:09 AM
RIP the short ginger one, another of the 66 team gone
Sid Squid
25-04-07, 09:14 AM
Sad indeed - he was only 61. I saw him play for Arsenal many times. Good memories.
Jelster
25-04-07, 09:31 AM
Sad indeed - he was only 61. I saw him play for Arsenal many times. Good memories.
Yes, my first football hero, an inspirational number 8 in an Arsenal shirt....
And such a nice bloke too, not like most of the arrogant arses we have in todays game.
RIP...
a legend down these parts, its not often saints and pompey unite on anything but today is one of those days. did fantastically for both clubs, for saints both as a player and a manager. probably the only manager to understand a team CAN revolve round one player, in our case Matt Le Tissier. played some of the best football of our history under Bally. he had Le TIss as first on the team sheet and the rest revolved around him.
RIP Alan Ball
R.I.P indeed.
A very honest pundit whenever he was on the telly too.
Sadly I'm too young to have seen him play other than repeats of the world cup final really.
SoulKiss
25-04-07, 11:11 AM
Post on behalf of SVEcosse
1966 was 41 years ago
Ok so you won the big one
Your very next game was agaisnt Scotland and you lost that one
OK
Enough of the 66 stuff.
As for the death - well dont follow football, didn't know the guy, but always a loss when someone dies.
Also don't forget 7th September 2005.
*snigger*
I know it's not in the same league but hey - we are a small nation and proud of our team.
Post on behalf of SVEcosse
1966 was 41 years ago
Ok so you won the big one
Your very next game was agaisnt Scotland and you lost that one
OK
Enough of the 66 stuff.
As for the death - well dont follow football, didn't know the guy, but always a loss when someone dies.
can you ask them if they want salt and vinegar on their chip? i'd say they're bitter enough already.
danf1234
25-04-07, 05:19 PM
A real loss to the football world. RIP :(
Sorry not a football fan, but surely it's a family's tragedy, but no loss to football as he's not still playing?
Jelster
25-04-07, 05:48 PM
Sorry not a football fan
That's obvious....
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ASM-Forever
25-04-07, 06:30 PM
Sorry not a football fan, but surely it's a family's tragedy, but no loss to football as he's not still playing?
His death could be considered a loss to football, due to his celebrity/popularity within the game. Youngest player in the immortal '66 world cup winning team. Got MOTM as well i think. Had a decent club career as well and then mananged a fair few teams.
I am too young to have ever seen him play, but he was always on talksport in the mornings and seemed a laugh.
wyrdness
25-04-07, 08:21 PM
I used to have a poster of him on my bedroom wall in the early seventies. My mum (an Arsenal fan) bought it for me. I was too young to know who he was, and hadn't yet come to the conclusion that I don't particularly like football. Still, it's sad as 61 is too young to go.
Youngest player in the immortal '66 world cup winning team. Got MOTM as well i think.
got a feeling a bloke called Hurst may have pipped him for that particular honour :cool:
Tiger 55
26-04-07, 08:14 AM
Post on behalf of SVEcosse
Oh no you don't!
Delighted to wade into any '66 and all that' thread but this one is for the memory of a fine player, may he rest in peace.
SoulKiss
26-04-07, 08:32 AM
Youngest player in the immortal '66 world cup winning team.
Immortal??
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Jelster
26-04-07, 08:40 AM
got a feeling a bloke called Hurst may have pipped him for that particular honour :cool:
Actually, Alan Ball did get MotM for the '66 cup final.
And just for you people with chips on shoulders...
"When we won the World Cup"
Actually, Alan Ball did get MotM for the '66 cup final.
And just for you people with chips on shoulders...
"When we won the World Cup"
i stand corrected :thumbsup:
and for those with chips i'd like to add...
NER NER NE NER NERRR
Remember the Home Championships?
Who was the last winner of it?
Ner ner ner nerrrrrr ner back.
:tongue:
hmmm let me think....
world cup winners....or home championship winners....hmmm let me have a bit more thought.
nah, sticking with the world cup nev.:king:
Hehe everyone has there own glory.
Some of us just don't go on about it as much lol.
Tricky one this in my household cause the missus is English so her dad and me have some interesting conversations about football.
plowsie
26-04-07, 11:39 AM
Sad indeed - he was only 61. I saw him play for Arsenal many times. Good memories.
Never watched alotta the old games really(probably because i wasnt born) but last night in memory i watched the 66 final :D i was there all the way with them lol. It brings back to life how much most footballers of today are actuall pu$$ies there was hard tackles that players were gettin up and carrying on. Correct me if i'm wrong but Ball was the youngest in the 66 squad and yet one of the better players.
I think they should bring back alot of the old rules, i.e back passes keeper only allowed 3 steps, it keeps the game moving ;)
De-rail :roll: Anyway RIP Alan Ball a credit to the game.
Sid Squid
26-04-07, 01:46 PM
...lots of sense...
And while I'm replying:
Post on behalf of SVEcosse.
Really? The rallying to your argument has been awful quiet.
1966 was 41 years ago...blah blah blah blah...won the big one...whiny whiny whiny...Enough of the 66 stuff.Yes, you know you're quite right - I'll do you a deal, as soon as Scotland win the World Cup* I'll never mention it again, promise, cross my heart and hope to die.
Your very next game was agaisnt Scotland and you lost that oneAnd this matters because...? Oh wait! I get it now! Scotland were the real World Cup winners in '66! Of course, it's so obvious when you point it out.
As for the death - well dont follow football, didn't know the guy, but always a loss when someone dies.Hold on a mo Dave, this is dangerously near being relevant to the thread**, easy now.
*Or indeed, anything.
** Ish - don't follow football, don't know who he is... etc etc
Jelster
26-04-07, 03:05 PM
Earlier in this thread I commented about Alan Ball wearing a number 8 shirt. Last night I watched a 1975 Arsenal vs Manure game (Arsenal won, 3-1) and he was wearing no 7.
Gerodie Armstrong was in the no 8 shirt, which got me confused, as I was sure Bally used to be no 8? Maybe after Armstrong left he picked up the "8" shirt ??
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Pedrosa
26-04-07, 03:42 PM
Peter Henry mentioning to me that Mr.Ball wear Nš8 mainly for Everton. Most England games he wear Nš7 also.
Oh dear, someone else for my Dad to bemoan the death of. Well, it'll make a change to reminding me 'which ones died when' each time the opening credits run to yet another repeat of Dad's Army. :roll:
What (very) little I did know of him though, he did seem like a genuinely nice bloke - for a footie player. RIP.
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