Eric Winstanley

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  1. Tyk

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    Has become a Coach at Oldham Athletic
     
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    well I for one wish him all the very best..... a reyt legend.
     
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    Good luck to him and I wouldn't bet against him helping get them straight back up.
     
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    He must be at least 70 by now
     
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    Danny Wilson took the glory but did nowt without him.
     
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    One of our greats. Best of luck Eric.
     
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    74 in November.
     
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    Good luck Eric
     
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    Best of luck to one of our true club legends. Stalwart of the team I was brought up watching.
     
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    Are you sure? Didn’t think he was well?

    Very nice to hear if it is right though
     
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    Right everybody, this came as a bit of a shock when Whitey called me earlier.

    It was news to me.

    Although there’s maybe a little truth in it, he’ll not be joining Oldham in a coaching capacity. He’s mates with Andy Rhodes who’s just got the assistants job there.

    I’ll pass on your thoughts, I’m sure he’ll appreciate it.

    He still gets down to Oakwell most home games, and we dissect the game on the way home on hands free, he still loves the club and wants nothing more than the club to do well.

    As Troff said above he’s had his health problems over the years since his quadruple heart bypass on the eve of the season back in the championship after the relegation from the premier league but looks as fit and well as he has for years, that being said, I don’t think he harbours any idea of going back on a training field.

    You Reds
     
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    Good to hear he's better and still gets to games. With all his knowledge and experience, I'm surprised he doesn't get more calls for advice/helpfrom friends and former colleagues at various levels.
     
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    Winny! Winny! Winny! Winny!

    Thus chanted the Ponty in the late 60’s and early 70’s when Big Eric strode forward to take up an attacking position at a corner. Usually the ball would then be delivered precisely on to his head by George Hampstead.

    Leading goal scorer - from centre half - in the 67/68 promotion season (when we never lost a game at home). And remember the hat trick to beat Watford from 2-0 down.

    Another one for whom the term “Legend” perhaps isn’t quite enough.
     
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    I love it when he tells me about that 'Hatrick', and an overhead kick he tells me about which was better than Van Basten…

    I don't, I'm bored of it, my kids do though. ;)
     
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    Think the overhead kick may have been one of the hat trick goals - there was certainly an airborne volley amongst the three!!
     
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    Should still be at Oakwell we are less without him
     
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    Very best of luck to the man
     
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    A true great and a huge part of the history of the club
     
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    I'm conscious I'm bias and he's my old man but I'm gutted for him that he isn't. Its not my place to go through it all on here in full, but he was properly shafted.

    He would have been there till the day he died if it wasn't for one of the worst managers this club has had, he is BFC through and through, or was definitely.

    Thing is theres the player side, which is actual quite sad. He was the most sought after young player in the country and could have gone to Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool or Spurs and chose Spurs who had just won the double. Got injured in his last BFC game at Luton and the rest is history. This was when he just 19 years old and had been the captain of BFC for nearly 12 months.

    He was the first British player to ever play after knee ligament surgery and continued to play for years without training through the week.

    I've just done what I try not to do, but I'm proud of my old man like you are all proud of your own, and when his name comes up it fills me and my kids with pride and sometimes the heartache for him that it could have been far different comes home.

    Some of that story I'm glad didn't happen, otherwise I wouldn't have been here or I'd have been more like Danny Dyer than the d1ckhead I already am.
     

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