As Luck would have it…
I told you the story about my luck with management, here is the other side of the coin… The man who signed me at Arsenal, Terry Neil, unbeknown to me was a very luck y man whilst serving out his time at Hull City…That meaning he was about to receive a letter of dismissal from Hull City when Tottenham called the club and asked about his availability and whilst the chairman’s son was on the phone t White Hart Lane (I cannot disclose who that was) the letter of dismissal sat there staring at him whilst you can imagine what was going through his head, yeah, “compensation’ and plenty of it, so without Terry knowing Spurs took offered him a contract and heaven knows where that letter ended up, probably with that loose button I told you about?
A MAGNIFICENT BALL
I was very happy at Stoke City but the roof fell off literally and they had to sell both me and Greenhoff along with Pejic and then Shilton, but I was the first one to go after hearing the club (those morons upstairs) needed the cash to pay for the roof. The following day the brilliant Ken Friar and his manager turned up at my home in Barlaston and although Waddington would not agree to sell me – Bill Williams, the secretary, did so = the deal was as Stevie Wonder once sand ‘Signed, Sealed and Delivered, I’m Yours’ and although I was deeply hurt about the outcome I then looked forward to playing with the brilliant Alan ball and the genius of Liam Brady at Highbury, but on my arrival I found out that I was signed to replace the 1966 World Cup winner and was choked. This was the worst piece of management I saw in my 20 year career and I had seen many of them…
BRADY A GENIUS
In the end , the move was disastrous with a bad injury and an even worse manager, although I never (honestly) disliked him, it was just that OI had come from the best of Waddington to the worst of Neil, and I suppose you might call it like listening to Des O’Connor after being at a Frank Sinatra concert, and I could not put it any straighter. And if you don’t like Francis Albert Sinatra then you need to go to Specsavers, no, I mean have your hearing tested….
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