Kinnear and Knowles, that was a good pairing, for ten years. Hard to imagine these days. And they won a FA Cup, two League Cups and a UEFA Cup. Sadly that is hard to imagine these days as well. RIP Joe.
It is my recall as well. But when I look, in 10 years Joe played 200 games for us. In 12 years Cyril played 400 games for us. Am I right in thinking Joe had a bad injury?
He was. But in sides with such good players he was a bit overshadowed. Even his fellow fullback was better known.
I did think of naming Peter Baker instead but he really wasn’t unsung.
Jennings - best goalkeeper I have ever seen
Ledders - the King
John White - nearest to genius before Hoddle
Cliff Jones - best Welsh winger to play for us
but yeh, Hoddle, that season in the second division, he was only 19 and he carried us back into the first division and we only just made it...
I admit to getting old but my recollection is that Hoddle left Monaco mid season with a knee injury. He needed to go somewhere for rehab and that somewhere was Chelsea. He didn’t play for them but he did his recovery there. Did he ask to do it with us, did we offer him the chance? No idea.
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