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RiP mike - one of my all time footballing heroes

WTF?

Two years today

Ohhh, I was wondering. Seemed like a very random idea for a thread.

Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.

guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.

I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.

Scatman wrote:Two years today

Two years already? Time flies when you're an old bastard.

His remark about being unhappy that the rags were relegated because that meant we've lost four certain points. Class.

Glad he got to see us winning the cup.

Loved the guy.

john@staustell wrote:

guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.

I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.

Or a BBC pundit. Shearer STEALS a living from us. He specialises in repeating what someone has just said, and if there's nothing for him to repeat he states something obvious. He was at it again last night.

Dameerto wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.

I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.

Or a BBC pundit. Shearer STEALS a living from us. He specialises in repeating what someone has just said, and if there's nothing for him to repeat he states something obvious. He was at it again last night.

I can't abide Shearer and I never could. To me he's just the epitome of abject mediocrity and his greatest claim to fame is probably managing Newcastle for a brief period of time and overseeing their relegation from the Premier League.

As a footballer, as a competitor, as a personality and also as a human being, Shearer wasn't/isn't fit to lace the great Mike Doyle's boots.

I just wish we had another Mike Doyle in our team today.

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

Dameerto wrote:

john@staustell wrote:

guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.

I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.

Or a BBC pundit. Shearer STEALS a living from us. He specialises in repeating what someone has just said, and if there's nothing for him to repeat he states something obvious. He was at it again last night.

I can't abide Shearer and I never could. To me he's just the epitome of abject mediocrity and his greatest claim to fame is probably managing Newcastle for a brief period of time and overseeing their relegation from the Premier League.

As a footballer, as a competitor, as a personality and also as a human being, Shearer wasn't/isn't fit to lace the great Mike Doyle's boots.

I just wish we had another Mike Doyle in our team today.

There will NEVER be another Mick Doyle I'm afraid mate. Utter class hard fuclin bastard if ever there was one and he could play a bit too. He was a proper full-blooded Blue too. Apparently I've heard a few say that he was a bit of a big headed cunt off the pitch but I'll forgive him that if it's true because he was proper hero leg end to all us on the ol Kippax. Never forget him stood in the middle of the pitch at The Swamp in 74 when we relegated them. The scum fans swarmed onto the pitch form the fuctard end to try to get the match abondoned and Mick just stood there with his hands on his hips fronting the coward fuclers. Every single one of em just gave him a wide berth and ran around him.

R.I.P. Mick.

Leg end FACT!!!

RIP Mike.

Too few of his kind left in the game now. Bled Blue.

For those of us old enough to remember the reglar Kippax chant:-

M I
M I C
M 1 C K

MICK DOYLE!!!

Burt wrote:For those of us old enough to remember the reglar Kippax chant:-

M I
M I C
M 1 C K

MICK DOYLE!!!

Blooooody he'll that takes me back. Nearly as that sha la la la thing I used to do.

It ended in lee . Think it was a song f the time.

Evenmydoghatesunited wrote:

Burt wrote:For those of us old enough to remember the reglar Kippax chant:-

M I
M I C
M 1 C K

MICK DOYLE!!!

Blooooody he'll that takes me back. Nearly as that sha la la la thing I used to do.

It ended in lee . Think it was a song f the time.

Sha-la-la-la Summerbee.