terry-h 9:06 Mon Sep 17
Happy birthday Bonzo.
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eusebiovic
9:15 Mon Sep 17
Re: Happy birthday Bonzo.
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72!
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Mart O
9:21 Mon Sep 17
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72 ! He's not, is he ???
FFS, now that makes me feel old. What a player though.
Always makes me laugh when cunts in the media go on about the 'West Ham Way' without knowing that our fans have always loved a battler.
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Crassus
10:10 Mon Sep 17
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Mart - he could play a bit too mate ....
But my memory was of him laying waste to the other sides enforcers and rough tacklers
We were playing Sheffield Utd and of all people, Tony Currie, a big lad and brilliant with it, took out Patsy Holland down by the West Side South Bank corner - big mistake, Billy loved Patsy, he started running from well inside our half, the fucking ball was out of play, players just standing about, but Bonzo was in full flight, the crowd roaring as he travelled a good half length of the pitch
The 'coming together' was of one big lad thinking fuck me for 5 seconds and whack, and another, hands around his neck and straight over the wall into the West Side the pair of them
Remarkably, a mere booking, less so, not one Northern type intervened, predictably, Currie never went near the ball thereafter
We loved our Bonzo
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Mart O
11:09 Mon Sep 17
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Oh he could play all right, but you remember him for what I do, mate.
Still can't believe he's seventy fucking two.
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only1billybonds
11:11 Mon Sep 17
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My ultimate hero. Home to Chelsea early 70's and we had a skinny kid on the right wing,Johnny Ayris. He coukd only have weighed about 7 and a half stone tops but he was quick. A but to quick for Ron "Chopper" Harris who smashed into Johnny who ended up in the West Side. First chànce he got Bonzo went crashing into Harris almost cutting him in half. Ol Chopper stayed well away from Bill the rest of the game. The Graham Roberts story is my favourite,that can wait for another time.
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Takashi Miike
12:25 Tue Sep 18
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met him at a charity do for little Isla last year, he still looked fit as a fiddle. one memory watching him was towards the end of his career, we were playing wimbledon at plough lane and bill was on the bench. throughout the game fashanu was throwing his weight around and bullying players until bill came on and set about him after a 50/50, fashanu shit himself. every team needs a character like bill who sorts out the opposition's cunts
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sand iron
12:31 Tue Sep 18
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only1billybonfs 11:11
Come on mate, I’d love to hear the Graham Roberts story!
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Westham67
12:37 Tue Sep 18
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The word legend is used too frequently these days but Bonds was and is a true West Ham legend
Socks rolled down, steaming in ,covered in mud
Lifted 2 FA cups in my life time
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Darlo Debs
12:40 Tue Sep 18
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Happy birthday to a true claret and blue hero
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BillyBondsBirthday
12:48 Tue Sep 18
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Have always been thrilled to share a birthday with my West Ham hero.
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Mr Logic
1:53 Tue Sep 18
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My 'ero,
appy birfdi Billy Boy
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gph
2:02 Tue Sep 18
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Happy Birthyesterday.
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Darlo Debs
2:08 Tue Sep 18
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BBB you are fortunate. I share mine with Steven Gerrard :-(
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only1billybonds
8:41 Tue Sep 18
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Sand Iron
Roberts turned up at Tottenham from non league Weymouth with a rep for being a bit of a hard man on the pitch. He enjoyed this reputation and to enhance it he had a mental list of players he wanted to 'do'. When he came up against Bill for the first time the game was about 15 minutes in and they both went for the ball,the odds were 60/40 in Roberts favour of winning it. Fast forward a minute or two and a semi concious Riberts is being brought round with smelling salts while a grinning Bonzo is looking down on him asking 'wanna try that again son'
Watched him from when he joined us from Charlton and grew to adore the man very quickly.
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zico
9:06 Tue Sep 18
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The most shocking thing about Bonzo is how on earth did he not receive an England cap?!?! Think Greenwood picked him once and sadly Phil Parkes smashed into him accidentally in training and Billy missed out due to broken ribs.
Great player though and a thoroughly decent fella by all accounts. I remember him saying that he was at his peak early 70's when he was Trevor's midfield minder. Says something that he gained another 450 odd appearances and lifted two FA Cups "after" his peak!!
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Far Cough
9:08 Tue Sep 18
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Yeah Parkes was no midget
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wanstead_hammer
9:19 Tue Sep 18
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Yeh, remember sparra legs Ayris. Was from wapping. Think harris done him at stam bridge as well, so he had it coming.
And when bonzo brought the bully boy Roberts back down to earth was a classic.
Bonzo was a true leader and always gave 110pct.
Cant believe he's 72. (Fuck giving him the bumps though!)
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only1billybonds
9:40 Tue Sep 18
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Alvin Martin tells a great story about Bonds and pre season training. Ol stretch reckons even as a 40 year old the only person who could keep up with Bill was the pro athlete the club drafted in to take charge of the cross country run. Blokes half Bonds's age were chucking up while Bonzo had barely broke sweat.
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eusebiovic
9:49 Tue Sep 18
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I will never forget him charging across the pitch at Wolves when Julian got sent off...
I didn't know whether he was going there to make the best of a bad situation or to have it out with him on the pitch...but he looked proper pissed off that day...I bet it crossed his mind as he was running over!
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MikeHammer
4:46 Wed Sep 19
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Needs to be recognised more by the club.
What people say about him being such a gent is true - he was a neighbour when I lived in Chislehurst and would go out of his way to apologise for his daughters parking .. so weird to have so normal domestic conversations with a legend (and bizarrely I am doing that still about boilers, gardening, window cleaners etc with one of his successors as captain!).
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