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Bobby Collins

Post by basil6345789 » Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:08 pm

Hadn't realised that he was Footballer Of The Year, 1965

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Targetman » Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:05 am

Well it was nearly 60 years ago!

Love 'em or loathe 'em, they did have some good players around that time.

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Quicknick » Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:20 am

basil6345789 wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:08 pm
Hadn't realised that he was Footballer Of The Year, 1965
What made you think of him?

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:54 am

He’d been a really good player at Everton. Big surprise when he moved to Leeds at the time given he was over 30 but did well for them.

Leeds went on to have some outstanding players - just a shame they played in the way they did.

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by basil6345789 » Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:03 pm

Quicknick wrote:
Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:20 am
What made you think of him?
It popped up on a footy facebook group.
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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by basil6345789 » Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:00 pm

An ex-Clarets star who started-out at Bury, when Collins was nearing the end of his playing career there, along with a future Citeh star, told me Collins showed the two youngsters how to break a man's leg, after training one day. He said he felt cold and very negative about it.

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Vino blanco » Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:30 pm

Bobby Collins, Billy Bremner and Norman Hunter....possible the three most cowardly, dirty players I have ever seen on a football field.
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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Claret Toni » Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:50 pm

Vino blanco wrote:
Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:30 pm
Bobby Collins, Billy Bremner and Norman Hunter....possible the three most cowardly, dirty players I have ever seen on a football field.
I'd take issue with that.

For me I'd step it up to probably, and if the number were 4 then the other one would be Johnny Giles.
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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Vino blanco » Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:53 pm

Agree totally CT, I had forgotten about him.....possibly the worst of the lot.

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Quicknick » Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:23 pm

I sense a Leeds fan club on here. Haha!

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by summitclaret » Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:44 pm

Vino blanco wrote:
Thu Jun 08, 2023 4:30 pm
Bobby Collins, Billy Bremner and Norman Hunter....possible the three most cowardly, dirty players I have ever seen on a football field.
You can list the whole team of Revie encouraged dirty bast***s for me, apart from Eddie Gray.

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Foreverly Claret » Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:02 pm

They that live by the sword......

I went to work in Leeds in 1963 and , having bugger all to do at nights ,I sometimes went to Elland Road if there was a match on.

I saw Collins deliberately flatten Derek Dougan who was playing for Peterborough I think. He got in close and jumped up catching Dougan under the chin with his shoulder .Pole-axed him .

He got a real come -uppance a few years later ( 1965 ? )...when Leeds played Torino away...some guy broke his thigh...finished his Leeds career.

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Re: Bobby Collins

Post by Darnhill Claret » Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:52 pm

Alan 'sniffer' Clarke rarely gets a mention but his over the ball skills were up there with the best, or is it worst.

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