BRANDED 12:18 Mon Jan 22
Jimmy Armfield RIP
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Always seemed a completely top bloke.
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Northern Sold
12:19 Mon Jan 22
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Yup agreed... great voice for radio as well
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Eddie B
12:25 Mon Jan 22
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RIP. Why he was never knighted, I'll never know.
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lowermarshhammer
12:42 Mon Jan 22
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One club legend, always made listening to a game enjoyable as a neutral when he was on the radio.
RIP
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ted fenton
12:54 Mon Jan 22
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A real gent.
R.I.P.
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David L
1:19 Mon Jan 22
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Agreed. Top player and decent man.
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wanstead_hammer
1:34 Mon Jan 22
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Yep, always had a deep love for the game.
RIP.
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Far Cough
1:45 Mon Jan 22
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One club man for Blackpool also was in the world cup squad in 1966
RIP
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monkfish9
2:28 Mon Jan 22
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All round decent bloke who spoke some good sense.
Good innings.
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stoneman
3:10 Mon Jan 22
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Absolute legend, loved listening to him on the radio.
Before my time as a player but people tell me he was a fantastic player.
RIP Jimmy
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claret on my shirt
3:13 Mon Jan 22
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yeah listened to games on the Radio with him doing the commentary before i had Sky, seemed a pretty top bloke.
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HairyHammer
3:15 Mon Jan 22
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Jimmy Armfield R.I.P.
A true football man who loved the game.
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BRANDED
3:21 Mon Jan 22
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From 2009
Jimmy Armfield, the former Blackpool and England defender, is to receive a World Cup winners' medal 43 years after England lifted the trophy. Armfield, who captained England 15 times and earned the last of his 43 caps against Finland two weeks before the start of the 1966 finals, is one of the 11 reserves who did not play in the 4–2 win over West Germany.
Prior to the 1974 World Cup only those players who played in the final received a medal, but Fifa have now confirmed that they will reward the others who were part of the winning squads — 14 additional medals will be made for each of the winning teams from 1930 to 1970.
Armfield, a former Bolton and Leeds manager, insists that he did not apply for the medal, but considers the decision as a welcome surprise.
"It's nice to get it but I can't say it's something that's been bothering me all these years," he told Blackpool's official website. "We just didn't expect it and I wasn't bitter about it at all. If you didn't play in the final, whether through injury or not getting selected, you didn't get a medal – it was as simple as that.
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w4hammer
3:21 Mon Jan 22
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RIP. Amazing career and a decent tho pretty old school presenter
anyone seen that photo of him in and england shirt that west ham have tweeted? Trying to work out what stadium he's in at- is it Molyneux?
https://twitter.com/WestHamUtd/status/955414997177454592
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Sniper
3:37 Mon Jan 22
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RIP
Such a wonderful man to listen to, superb pundit. I’m sure there was a satire programme about him on 5live just before Christmas...
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Sven Roeder
3:38 Mon Jan 22
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Sorry to hear that.
Has been mentioned a fair bit on 5Live that he was ill and you could tell by the comments that he was thought of as a top bloke
Always enjoyed him on the radio as he knew his stuff and just seemed like an old school gent.
RIP
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cholo
4:03 Mon Jan 22
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During the so called tv football blackout in the mid eighties, I turned to radio 2 and the brilliant voices and commentary of Jimmy Armfield and Peter Jones. Both now sadly gone.
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wanstead_hammer
4:17 Mon Jan 22
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w4hammer
I reckon it's Blackpool (Bloomfield rd) back in the day.
Typical old school end ready for the taking.
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Spandex Sidney
4:52 Mon Jan 22
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Took over from Brian Clough after his 44 days at Leeds and did a half decent job with those Don Revie dirty cunts.
When top footballers were not greedy, self-serving wankers. The story about his WC Winners medal says it all how humble the bloke was and decent commentator
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Bouncing Ludo
5:08 Mon Jan 22
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Definitely Bloomfield Road
https://twitter.com/bfchistory/status/635819769615286272
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