Troy McClure 9:35 Mon Oct 2
Happy Birthday Sir Trevor Brooking
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69 today.
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joe royal
4:28 Thu Oct 5
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FLJ could be classed as pretty clever.
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gph
2:48 Thu Oct 5
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Trev's probably in the top ten percent of academically qualified footballers, but he's not even the top among West Ham players - remember, Iain Dowie's a rocket scientist.
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zico
2:31 Thu Oct 5
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Northern Sold 12:26 Tue Oct 3
Got more qualifications than any other footballer didn't he?!
Wonderful player and a great partnership with Bonzo as well. Linked up well with Keegan with England too, can always remember the ball sticking in the stanchion of the goal.
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gph
2:28 Thu Oct 5
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Everyone's terrified of his Finnish Mafia connections through his wife, Joe.
Say a bad word, and you'll be saunaed to death
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joe royal
1:46 Thu Oct 5
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Out of all the footballers that have come and gone over the years he is the only one that I haven't heard a bad word said about him.
By anyone.
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4ever-blowin-bubbles
1:41 Thu Oct 5
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great hero of mine
i was at his last ever game for west ham v everton
anyone else there
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Ronald_antly
1:16 Thu Oct 5
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Is it still his birthday?
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mattyolmes
1:07 Thu Oct 5
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Just simply The best.
Happy Birthday Sir Trev!!
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wanstead_hammer
12:12 Thu Oct 5
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isolated hammer.
Spot on.
And he was/is a true gentleman as well.
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gph
11:57 Wed Oct 4
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That should read "My first memory of him playing was..."
My first memory of him was coaching my primary school a few years earlier.
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isolated hammer
11:53 Wed Oct 4
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Chrisel, he didn't naturally fit into a 4-4-2? His role was a free role to go wherever to cause maximum damage. He was simply the playmaker who had a minder in Billy Bonds and a work horse in Geoff Pike. Add into the mix Alan Devonshire and hey presto.
He was a sublime, majestic, skillful intelligent footballer and he played his whole career with us.
LEGEND
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Hammer and Pickle
6:38 Wed Oct 4
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He was also a boyhood hero of mine. I never took the chance to see him live and you can cunt me off all you like for that.
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Chopper Toshack
5:54 Wed Oct 4
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THE West Ham player of my life.
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gph
12:34 Tue Oct 3
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My first memory of him was a youngster breaking into the team getting booed for a pass out wide which found no-one, and two old blokes near me, wiser than the average fan, saying that it was the winger's fault for lack of movement into the space.
I like to think the winger was Redknapp, but I'm not 100% sure
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Northern Sold
12:26 Tue Oct 3
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Got some good grade O'levels
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Chrisel
12:24 Tue Oct 3
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Which who'err has the amusing story about naming their son after him?
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Any Old Iron
12:22 Tue Oct 3
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I saw Sir Trev from his debut to his finale, and there's never been a player in C&B who's given me more pleasure.
Happy Birthday Gino.
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Mex Martillo
11:58 Tue Oct 3
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Great passer of the ball, I loved seeing him split defenses apart with a single well calculated pass. We miss a player like that right now.
Happy Birthday Trevor
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Lily Hammer
11:54 Tue Oct 3
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De Bruyne is a closer comparrison than Hazard, though not the exact same thing.
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Chrisel
11:51 Tue Oct 3
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In my head I always picture him as Eden Hazard
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Coffee
11:30 Tue Oct 3
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Chrisel
:-)
I'd love to have seen him in the current team - and in any WHU team. Not sure about him on the wing. His natural position was always central, but he did often cut in from a side. I guess he'd have a Lanzini-type role with licence to float.
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