| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) 15:41 - Jun 30 with 812 views | Keno |
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 16:56 - Jun 30 with 755 views | Blue_badge |
Brilliant footballer, as we all know - but also saw him in a celebrity cricket match where he hit the ball over the crowd and into the car park, followed by the sound of smashing glass! |  | | |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 17:00 - Jun 30 with 732 views | SouthBucksBlue |
Big Al!
Big Al!
Big Al!
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 17:20 - Jun 30 with 719 views | DJR |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 16:56 - Jun 30 by Blue_badge |
Brilliant footballer, as we all know - but also saw him in a celebrity cricket match where he hit the ball over the crowd and into the car park, followed by the sound of smashing glass! |
Talk of celebrity cricket matches reminds me of a game played at a cricket pitch near Sidegate Lane Primary School. It must have been about 1972 or 1973, and I remember Colin Viljoen in whites, but I can't remember any other players there. |  | | |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 17:56 - Jun 30 with 681 views | SouthBucksBlue |
Big Al!
Big Al!
Big Al!
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 18:21 - Jun 30 with 663 views | jontysnut |
Six foot two
Eyes of blue
Alan Hunters after you
Na Na Na Na.. Na Na na.. Na Na |  | | |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:31 - Jun 30 with 606 views | Pendejo |
My dad's favourite Town player, probably because they were both no nonsense defenders. |  |
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:39 - Jun 30 with 597 views | jontysnut |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:31 - Jun 30 by Pendejo |
My dad's favourite Town player, probably because they were both no nonsense defenders. |
Lives on Broomhayes and will always stop and have a chat with my 90yr old dad when they bump into each other. An absolute diamond. | | | |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:41 - Jun 30 with 594 views | Keno |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:31 - Jun 30 by Pendejo |
My dad's favourite Town player, probably because they were both no nonsense defenders. |
I remember going to watch training when it dont on the pitch next to next to the ground. The attackers were practicing volleys, badly, and most of the balls ended up in the car park of the churchmans factory.
Big Al was assigned to go and get them and I think its fair to say he was overly happy.
He use of the English language, albeit with a heavy Northern Accent, was 'industrial" made worse by the fact he dropped his cigarette
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:53 - Jun 30 with 576 views | jontysnut |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:41 - Jun 30 by Keno |
I remember going to watch training when it dont on the pitch next to next to the ground. The attackers were practicing volleys, badly, and most of the balls ended up in the car park of the churchmans factory.
Big Al was assigned to go and get them and I think its fair to say he was overly happy.
He use of the English language, albeit with a heavy Northern Accent, was 'industrial" made worse by the fact he dropped his cigarette
BIG ALLLLL!!!!!!! |
I'm sure there's a story, and if it's not true then it ought to be, about Al and some players walking round the pitch before a game in Belfast. There's a huge bang. One of the players goes WTF was that.. Big Al without missing a beat says about a twenty five pounder. | | | |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:56 - Jun 30 with 574 views | Churchman |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:31 - Jun 30 by Pendejo |
My dad's favourite Town player, probably because they were both no nonsense defenders. |
One of my dad’s favourite players too. He actually met him a few years ago and reckoned he was a lovely bloke.
I was privileged to see him play many times. He was a much better player than he looked. He could look a bit slow and awkward, but he was neither. You never saw Hunter robbed. He was always in the right place, could tackle, head the ball and kept the game simple. Nobody took liberties with him.
Positionally, he was even in the right place to punch the ball out of his own penalty area at the Highbury 78 semi-final! He doesn’t know why to this day. It’s about the only grade A ballsup I ever remember him making. After Mariner, Robson’s best signing and I couldn’t argue if people reversed those two legends.
He was a better player than Butcher but a different type of player to Beattie and Osman. |  | | |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:58 - Jun 30 with 571 views | Keno |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:53 - Jun 30 by jontysnut |
I'm sure there's a story, and if it's not true then it ought to be, about Al and some players walking round the pitch before a game in Belfast. There's a huge bang. One of the players goes WTF was that.. Big Al without missing a beat says about a twenty five pounder. |
In the Mr John book I love how well he and Sir John got on.
I bet some of those evening at the big house where quite something!!
Oh for a time machine!!! | |
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 20:02 - Jun 30 with 568 views | Keno |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 19:56 - Jun 30 by Churchman |
One of my dad’s favourite players too. He actually met him a few years ago and reckoned he was a lovely bloke.
I was privileged to see him play many times. He was a much better player than he looked. He could look a bit slow and awkward, but he was neither. You never saw Hunter robbed. He was always in the right place, could tackle, head the ball and kept the game simple. Nobody took liberties with him.
Positionally, he was even in the right place to punch the ball out of his own penalty area at the Highbury 78 semi-final! He doesn’t know why to this day. It’s about the only grade A ballsup I ever remember him making. After Mariner, Robson’s best signing and I couldn’t argue if people reversed those two legends.
He was a better player than Butcher but a different type of player to Beattie and Osman. |
I can remember him taking Malcolm Macdonald out vs Newcastlet with a sliding tackle on a wet afternoon at PR.
Nowadays it would have been a red card and probably a very ban but Big Al just looked at the Ref, smiled, pointed at the ball before playing a wonder diagonal pass to burley on the other wing.
Malcy had a very quiet game whenever he played Ipswich after that | |
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| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 20:47 - Jun 30 with 534 views | jontysnut |
| BIG ALLLLL!!!!!! Happy Birthday (n/t) on 20:02 - Jun 30 by Keno |
I can remember him taking Malcolm Macdonald out vs Newcastlet with a sliding tackle on a wet afternoon at PR.
Nowadays it would have been a red card and probably a very ban but Big Al just looked at the Ref, smiled, pointed at the ball before playing a wonder diagonal pass to burley on the other wing.
Malcy had a very quiet game whenever he played Ipswich after that |
Whenever a forward left something on Al you could see him pointing. 10 minutes later that player would be deposited into the front row. | | | |
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