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Shout to the Klopp: Liverpool FC 18/19

I met Tommy Smith twice, the first being with my Dad when I was a young kid about 12 at a charity fundraising function full of fat men in big suits where even my Bluenose Father, who dragged me over to shake his hand, told me he was the hardest man to have ever put on a pair of boots. He said he hated watching him against Everton as Smith was on the pitch to tackle players and that didn't just mean winning the ball. I subsequently grew up knowing he was god long before Fowler got his place at the throne.

I then met him at another function about 10 years ago and found him to be one of the loveliest softly spoken characters I've ever met... until I told him my dad was a Bluenose :D

I don't normally get that soppy about people's passing but I was a bit choked today to learn of Tommy's passing. Tommy played in an era where working class scousers, mad Jocks, and even the odd tasty Welshman made the fields of Anfield road a good place to take the kids. Most of them ended up on society's sportsmen slag heap like Tommy did in the end unlike the money grabbing agent driven lads of today.

Tommy really was scouser though who like many of the era found the experience of hard times at the hands of the state.

Tommy Smith pays penalty for disability claim

Mr Smith, of Blundellsands, Merseyside, has had two new knee joints, a new elbow and a hip replacement since his days as Liverpool captain. He claimed he could only limp out to take part in the charity kickabout after taking painkillers.


Earlier this year, Mr Smith said: "On the day of the shootout, I was drugged up with painkillers. I was helped on the pitch and the ball was put in front of me."


He criticised a Department of Social Security doctor appointed to examine his case, claiming she was with him for only three-quarters of an hour, adding: "Because I go on holiday to America, because I took a penalty at Wembley, and because I do some after-dinner speaking, that makes me able-bodied. I'm not going to lie down and be trodden on. I think it adds insult to injury when I have never been in trouble in my life. People who know me know I'm up-front." It was the principle, not the money, that was motivating him, he said.


The three-man panel, chaired by Peter Ball, decided unanimously that Mr Smith was not entitled to an award of the mobility component of disability- living allowance.




A statement said that he was entitled to the lowest rate of the care component, pounds 13.15 a week, backdated from 13 September 1996.


Mr Smith's wife, Sue, said the decision was "totally disgusting".


"They could have come to stay with us for a week and seen what I did for him but they still probably wouldn't have believed us," she said.


Mr Smith attended the hearing in a head brace and in a wheelchair following a road accident near Skelmersdale last month. He had to be cut free from the wreckage and suffered three fractures to his spine and four broken ribs.
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There are plenty of crippling and harmful cunts in this world. Tommy just played football.

Rest in peace The Anfield Iron

 
Not keen on the transfer talks around Mané. Did read that Madrid won't approach him unless he hands in a transfer request :hmm:

It does seem inevitable that some of the big money players (Hazard, Pogba and likely Eriksen the obvious ones) will be moving so that may well start a domino effect.
 
friedaweed said:
I met Tommy Smith twice, the first being with my Dad when I was a young kid about 12 at a charity fundraising function full of fat men in big suits where even my Bluenose Father, who dragged me over to shake his hand, told me he was the hardest man to have ever put on a pair of boots. He said he hated watching him against Everton as Smith was on the pitch to tackle players and that didn't just mean winning the ball. I subsequently grew up knowing he was god long before Fowler got his place at the throne.

I then met him at another function about 10 years ago and found him to be one of the loveliest softly spoken characters I've ever met... until I told him my dad was a Bluenose :D

I don't normally get that soppy about people's passing but I was a bit choked today to learn of Tommy's passing. Tommy played in an era where working class scousers, mad Jocks, and even the odd tasty Welshman made the fields of Anfield road a good place to take the kids. Most of them ended up on society's sportsmen slag heap like Tommy did in the end unlike the money grabbing agent driven lads of today.

Tommy really was scouser though who like many of the era found the experience of hard times at the hands of the state.

Tommy Smith pays penalty for disability claim



There are plenty of crippling and harmful cunts in this world. Tommy just played football.

Rest in peace The Anfield Iron

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Shame he was an unrepentant racist.
 
The39thStep said:
He was but I'll also remember that he was a great player. His playing career might make him a legend but his racism doesn't make him a hero. I wouldn't dismiss his comments as being of that time either tbh.
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Yup you're right. Ali thought the Elijah Mohammed was the muts nuts and Bob Marley thought god had come back to rule the earth in Ethiopia.

Men have their faults but in their art they can excel beyond them even if they don't realise their own brilliance.
 
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No pink boots and snoods in those days.

I've put a bet on 0-0 today (14/1). Wishful thinking really, Sarri has pulled it off against City and I think it's our best bet today.
 
Missed the game due to work :mad: saw the score :thumbs: and the match stats :cool: MOTD is on too late for this Badger.

Update...

[Manchester City
Man City v Brighton (FA Cup) 06/04
Man City v Spurs (CL) 17/04
Man City v Spurs (PL) 20/04
Man Utd v Man City (PL) 24/04
Burnley v Man City (PL) 28/04

5 games
2 away
3 against top 6 PL or CL games

Liverpool
Porto v Liverpool (CL) 17/04
Cardiff v Liverpool (PL) 21/04
Liverpool v Huddersfield (PL) 26/04

3 games
2 away
1 against top 6 PL or CL games
 
Legendary former Liverpool captain Tommy Smith dies aged 74
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A true football hero to a generation when football was everything.
RIP Tommy Smith
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I then met him at another function about 10 years ago and found him to be one of the loveliest softly spoken characters I've ever met... until I told him my dad was a Bluenose :D

I don't normally get that soppy about people's passing but I was a bit choked today to learn of Tommy's passing. Tommy played in an era where working class scousers, mad Jocks, and even the odd tasty Welshman made the fields of Anfield road a good place to take the kids.
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Former Liverpool player, Howard Gayle, shared his memories of the Late Tommy Smith in his autobiography, 61 Minutes in Munich.
 
Easy. However now 2 more games than Man City to play in all comps and Barcelona being quite the distraction of I’m honest. Hoping spurs can replicate their champions league performances in the prem but no doubt they will roll over and die.
 
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