Andy Zico

[Andy Zico @ZicoAndy]

@HBerry177 From A Century of Soccer, the books on goalies, fullbacks, penalty takers etc. and everything since, I have had great pleasure from your writings and statistics. I will miss them. All the best.

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@MickRathbone Was that why you stood on the ball, Mick? Sorry!

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@JimWilkz23 @HBerry177 John Lowey, Chris Thompson and David Hamilton.

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@HBerry177 The Rovers London Branch often had ‘I can’t play next week because I am back in Blackburn’, but the best came from Chris O’Donnell:- ‘I can’t play next week because I am going to the ballet’.

[Andy Zico @ZicoAndy]

@JohnHolden34792 @rilester1972 @simongarner10 Keith Fear missed a penalty early second half. If we had gone 4-0 up I reckon we would have probably gone on to win about 7-0.

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@JimWilkz23 I had that issue too, but managed to suss it before kick off.

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@HBerry177 Remember his thunderbolt from the half way line against Brighton.

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@JimWilkz23 Half a lifetime for me - 72 in October.

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@JohnHolden34792 7-1 if I remember correctly. Only time I have ever been. Felt like the town was 50 years behind the times.

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@JohnHolden34792 @TheWool1995 6-1 after the 0-0 draw at a windswept Willington.

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@PlasticHead55 @HBerry177 Cookie captained the London Branch football team to the 2nd Division Championship in 1988/89. Gone far too early but never forgotten.

[Andy Zico @ZicoAndy]

@Stephen24406779 @HBerry177 I hope Paul wasn’t driving. He drove us round Sweden on pre season in 1989 & 1990. God knows how we survived. God rest his soul. Left us far too early.

[Andy Zico @ZicoAndy]

@HBerry177 Howard Gayle running, arms outstretched towards the empty away terrace is my favourite memory of him. I saw him once in one of the lounges before a match at Ewood, and I reminded him of it.

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@JohnHolden34792 @HBerry177 My mate in Wimbledon
managed to borrow 2 season tickets from Chelsea fans who were on holiday. At the end the guy in front who had sussed we were Rovers fans, turned round and said in broad cockney ‘don’t clap mate, our lot will think you’re clapping them’.

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@JimWilkz23 I remember watching Kevin Thomas playing in goal for Blackpool reserves around 1967 and 1968.

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@JimWilkz23 I liked Ken Knighton.

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@JimWilkz23 Paul Bradshaw & Norman Bell.

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@JohnHolden34792 Garner scored for WBA and Rovers fans celebrated more than WBA.

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@JohnHolden34792 Shearer scored a cracker and I remember thinking ‘what a waste scoring that in a friendly, he won’t score another like that for months’. Fast forward a week and he scores two crackers at Palace!