MARSH GIBBON 12:06 Mon Apr 18
John Lyall 10th anniversary
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Today marks the 10th Anniversary since we lost John Lyall. The family lost a loving Husband, Father and GrandFather this day in 2006.
John was just 66 years old.
Last Friday I had the pleasure of organising a private event for the family and managed to contact many of the former players and they also attended.
As I said, the Lyalls lost a very special family member and we as fans lost a legend. A part of West Ham died that day. Football lost a gentleman, a man who many thought should have been the England manager.
So as I have done in the past on this wonderful forum, please add your own thoughts and messages to the family and as I always do, I will print them off and pass them on to the family.
cheers all
Tony H
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Northern Sold
2:02 Tue Apr 19
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GIBBON... Is that you 'Oskins?? Our club fine been all done and dusted??
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cholo
1:49 Tue Apr 19
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I remember a banner being unveiled, possibly at Hillsborough saying "LYALL OUT, SIGN FASHANU" or something equally moronic, seemed that most of the vocal Lyall out merchants were in the south end of the chicken run for some reason.
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GreenStreetPlayer
8:37 Tue Apr 19
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This has been sung with a number of manager's, but even his name goes best with this.
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Then the louder chorus with something to bang in time to like a back of a stand.
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
Johnny Lyall's Claret & Blue Army
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
JOHNNY LYALL's CLARET & BLUE ARMY
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Son of Anarchy
1:57 Tue Apr 19
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Soldo...
I was young back then and it was my 1st insight into just how moronic west ham fans are at times.
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normannomates
1:12 Tue Apr 19
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Indeed mate.
I remember 89 well...the stick he got was out of order.
But he never slagged the supporters in his book..
Top man John Lyall...loved the man
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Northern Sold
1:08 Tue Apr 19
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What fucks me off Norm is that JL got all that and yet the Walrus got off relatively scott free when he was here... he never had the venom and the bile that Lyall got towards the end of his tenure.. bad taste in the mouth that
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normannomates
1:06 Tue Apr 19
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LYALL OUT was a constant in 89...sobering thought indeed on the fickleness of supporters.
He really was hounded by the way.
But I guess it goes to show it isn't a modern thing.
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Crassus
12:49 Tue Apr 19
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Stranded - well said sir
Northern - indeed, shameful
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Northern Sold
12:30 Tue Apr 19
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The LYALL OUT years were some of the saddest in our proud history... broke my heart
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Son of Anarchy
12:25 Tue Apr 19
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John Lyall for me was Mr West Ham, part of my West Ham died with him.
Marks ten years since we got to an FA Cup semi also
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normannomates
10:11 Mon Apr 18
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Stranded 9.43
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Stranded
9:43 Mon Apr 18
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Think I probably picked (not being from the East End) West Ham as my club somewhere around the end of the Greenwood era, but I was too young to know or care anything about managers. So the first one I ever paid any attention to was John Lyall.
Growing up, John's personality and the club itself were indivisible. He literally 'was' West Ham. In the same way that certain players like Sir Trev and Billy were.
Every manager since has had to match up to him, and, for me, not one has even come close. The dignity, sportsmanship, and genuine personal class he had has been too tall an order for any that followed.
I love Bilic and what he's brought to the club. But he still has a long, long way to go, and the bar is set very, very high.
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normannomates
9:11 Mon Apr 18
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There was a clip on YouTube from them old BIG MATCH videos..with John pre match in the dressing room with the old boy who had been the kit man for ever..his last match before retirement...and John winding him up...
Funny and touching.
Can't seem to find it now unfortunately
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Shin Chan
9:05 Mon Apr 18
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I grew up watching John Lyall's teams play football how it should be played.
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HairyHammer
9:04 Mon Apr 18
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Absolutely Love John Lyall for me he is always going to be my favourite West Ham manager.
I think just by the way he spoke and held himself he was a very honest and decent man too.
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WHOicidal Maniac
9:04 Mon Apr 18
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Two years since Dylan Tombides passed too...
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WHOicidal Maniac
8:59 Mon Apr 18
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I'll leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAFcqR7uu0
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Mart O
8:44 Mon Apr 18
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For me also, John Lyall more than anyone else set the standard for what the club - and sport in a broader sense - is supposed to be about: style on the pitch; class off it.
Just as my father is a better man than I'll ever be, so too there'll never be another man like John Lyall in top flight football. For better or worse, the world's changed too much for that.
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gph
3:21 Mon Apr 18
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Greenwood and Lyall ARE West Ham for me.
When we fall below their standards, we somehow become less ourselves.
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normannomates
3:17 Mon Apr 18
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Lily hammer 1.42
Sums up exactly how I felt about the man.
Gutted it ended how it did..with the fans on his case..and eventually the tin tac.
He didn't that.
Dont know if anyone on here has read his Autobiography..
John Lyall. JUST LIKE MY DREAMS.
.written a few yrs after he left...but as ever the Gentlemen didn't show any bitterness...in fact wrote WHU fans were special.
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LYALL OUT
3:03 Mon Apr 18
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He was West Ham for me and I was gutted when he was sacked.
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