Norman Hunter

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  1. Hooky feller

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    We lost the opening game to Wednesday at home 0-3. Thinking bloody hell. Can we compete in this league. Went to Hillsboro on crutches. ( broke my leg and ankle playing Sunday morning football 2 weeks earlier) 6 days after my youngest lad was born. Walking up Halifax rd. after the game to get to mi cousins car. I think everyone else was home by the time we got tut car. One of my favourite memories.
     
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    Norman was the better all round footballer....Clarkey was definitely the dirtier/nastier of them.
     
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    First ever away game. Remember going in the pub near the Barnsley train station passing as 16 (age limit to get into pub) when only 14 and the build up to the game was immense. Juke box kept playing Boomtown Rats...tell me why I don't like Wednesday...over and over again...great days
    Thanks Norman for those special times we had over the next few years
     
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    Amen to that. He was manager when I first started out down at t'Well. What a team that was.

    Think I've actually still got my 'Norman Hunter's Red and White Army' ruler in a box somewhere in the attic.

    Rest easy Norman lad, and thanks for the memories.
     
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    Ah my bad ,someone told me it was Kevin and I didn’t bother checking . Knew she’s from Grimsby though .
     
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    Terry Curran tore us to bits. Probably the reason why Norman set about him in the return fixture....
     
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    Would that have been the game in November 1979.?


     
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    Yeah...thanks for this post. Off to watch it now on the big screen and show my lads. Lots of great time wasting if I remember with loads of back passes and Micky Lester doing keepy uppies on the edge of the box.
     
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    John Collins playing as well.You Reds.
     
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    R.I.P. Norman and sincerest condolences to his family

    I can only echo the many comments that he managed one of the finest teams that i ever watched at oakwell

    LEGEND
     
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    Really enjoyed that replay .
    I was there Wednesday fans dreaded playing us in that era .
    Wish we could beat them these days i do despise those **** houses
     
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    They are related. Kevin is her uncle.

    Edit: Having checked again, I'm not sure he is. A lot of people said so a few years ago and I think I just assumed they were right.
     
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    A wonderful photo from the club's official twitter page of the two Normans:-
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    RIP Norman.

    I watched Norman Hunter in a friendly at Lincoln City my mate and I went to that game I'm ny on sure it was is 1st game in a Barnsley Shirt, I also saw him play at Old Trafford in the cup final replay against Chelsea 1970 and the Wembley final of 1973 against Sunderland.
     
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    Brilliant. The world has lost some people of stature. It's time for these modern overpaid ******* to show some mettle now & do something for the country, instead of their own bank balances. The football world is waiting. I'm ready to turn my back on them if they don't. My business is ****** & I'm not going to be at a match in a long time anyway. These guys played the game hard & with passion & for little reward compared to the modern players. Brek Shea will have made more than both of them.
     
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    its down to the habits of the chinese. lets face facts . but this is normans thread so ill say no more
     
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    Wasn’t that a League Cup game? Think we had three or four debutants including Bobby Flavell and a certain Ronnie Glavin
     
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    Just thinking back to Norman’s team and the thing that struck me first was how they feared nobody. And that included Liverpool 1982, one of the best club sides the game’s ever seen (see thread from a few days ago).

    And we played great football, didn’t hoof it and didn’t try to kick teams off the park. Though make no mistake, they’d stand up for themselves.

    All this, to me, is the very essence of Barnsley Football Club. Thanks Norman.
     
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