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Jones, Beardsley, Strachan, Sherwood, Solako, Mark Wright?, Sharpe?, Flowers?, think the Arsenal player is Hillier from my earliest of memories, are the one's I know
who are the others
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The greatest ever footballer to play for Oldham Athletic ....the magnificent Andy Ritchie.
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Hans Segars,John Wark, Andy Sinton,David Hurst.
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The Forest player could be Garry Charles,did play for West Ham.
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Spurs player is Gordon Durie, I think
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Tony Daly (Villa) Andy Sinton (QPR) John Salako (Palace)
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apologies two of those already mentioned
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Coventry player might be David Busst though not certain..
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wasn't Busst (Andy Pearce)
full list Back Row (L-R) David Hirst (Sheffield Wednesday) Lee Sharp (Manchester United) Tony Daley (Aston Villa) Vinnie Jones (Chelsea) Mark Wright (Liverpool) John Wark (Ipswich) Tim Flowers (Southampton) Tim Sherwood (Blackburn Rovers) Middle Row (L-R) Ian Brightwell (Manchester City) Ian Butterworth (Norwich City) Hans Segars (Wimbledon) Andy Pearce (Coventry City) Carl Bradshaw (Sheffield United) Gordon Durie (Spurs) David Hillier (Arsenal) Front Row (L-R) Gary Charles (Nottingham Forest) Andy Ritchie (Oldham) John Salako (Crystal Palace) Andy Sinton (QPR) Andy Kernaghan (Middlesbrough) Gordon Strachan (Leeds) Peter Beardsley (Everton) |
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The bloke from Cov isn't Andy Pearce. I saw this in The Sunday Telegraph the other week:
There is also one big mystery which needs to be resolved: just who is the player wearing the Coventry strip? He has been frequently identified as Andy Pearce – wrongly as it turned out. Even some of his fellow players had no clue as to who he was. As Alan Kernaghan puts it: “There was a boy from Coventry who I didn’t know and I hadn’t heard of since.” It takes the detective work of Sarah Morris from the Coventry City former players’ association to set me right. The man I am looking for is Lee Hurst, who made fewer than 50 appearances in a curtailed career for Coventry and surely is your best possible answer should this extremely niche category ever appear on Pointless. The 1992-93 season was his big break: he made 35 consecutive appearances at one stage and scored two goals. The next summer Coventry manager Bobby Gould took his squad to an army camp in Aldershot as part of their pre-season training. “We went on the assault course. I came off a 12-foot wall into wet sand and my knee just buckled – I had done my cruciate. I was stretchered off and taken back to Coventry in a brace. It wasn’t playing, which was the most frustrating thing. Hurst was 23 and had not just mangled his ligament but damaged bones inside his knee joint. He never played for Coventry again. Gould was very apologetic and Hurst speaks warmly about getting his first team chance under him. “Should professional footballers have been on assault courses? My answer now is obviously no, but at that time it seemed exciting and different. I wish it hadn’t had happened, I wish we hadn’t had gone, but there’s nothing you can change about that is there? Hurst did recover enough to play in the second tier of American soccer where the pace of the game suited him but the back-to-back away games did not. He is still proud of his brush with fame in the advert. “It was everywhere, you couldn’t turn a corner without it being on a billboard, I was privileged to represent Coventry.” The misidentification in the years since has confused him though. “It’s really weird because he’s 6ft 4in to my 5ft 10in.” Now he coaches on Monday nights and works as a painter and decorator. Business is booming, “I’m fully booked until November. The phone’s still ringing, too. “My uncle has always been a decorator, he took me under his wing and taught me. After that it was full steam ahead. What’s his speciality? “I’m a master at everything, Thom.” While Hurst’s faintly tragic story is an outlier among the Sky squad, his optimism is not. This was a group of players on the cusp of something enormous. Thirty years on we find them forging diverse paths, Most are philosophical, mostly they seem content, universally they are grateful. For the chance, for the fun, for living the dream. |
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Full article https://archive.ph/fImJ2
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Full article archive.ph/fImJ2
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didn't realise the photo was famous, just saw it in an online article today
looking at the list of all the players I didn't know, I think David Hirst and Andy Sinton are the only other names I remember but not the faces. Wonder why they were picked instead of packing it with stars, although it looks like they've picked one player per team. |
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I mean why in the world was Hillier chosen, they were over a dozen more famous names and faces than him
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probably who ever they could get for that day in that era...they showed the whole ad quite recently ...all pretty cringe inducing but amusing none the less
good article Vince... |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EFiPldOq9s
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Hirst was Wednesdays star player. I remember Fergie trying to sign him for around £4m. Not quite sure why he never went.
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John Salako was a very good player for Palace for quite a few years.
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Didn't Sky select the captains of each Club.
22 clubs in those days. Sad about Oldham Athletic. |
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Possibly some captains on there. I’m pretty sure Robson or maybe Bruce would’ve been United’s skipper. Also Psycho would’ve been Forests.
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these were captains, at least at the end of season, assume they all started off as such as well.
Arsenal - Tony Adams Aston Villa - Kevin Richardson Blackburn Rovers - Tim Sherwood Chelsea - Andy Townsend Coventry City - Brian Borrows Crystal Palace - Geoff Thomas Everton - Dave Watson Ipswich Town - John Wark Leeds United - Gordon Strachan Liverpool - Mark Wright Manchester City - Terry Phelan Manchester United - Bryan Robson Middlesbrough - Alan Kernaghan Norwich City - Ian Butterworth Nottingham Forest - Stuart Pearce Oldham Athletic - Mike Milligan Queens Park Rangers - Alan McDonald Sheffield United - Brian Gayle Sheffield Wednesday - Nigel Pearson Southampton - Glenn Cockerill Tottenham Hotspur - Gary Mabbutt Wimbledon John Scales bolded ones are in the photo. |
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