He's Here, He's There: The Gerry Gow Story

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It was gone midnight in Delph when I wrote that lol. Sorry, joke between me n the hubby! I’m sure he will explain it. I’m not claiming to know who borrowed it from who, and NB10’s jokes are generally borrowed from somewhere, but I’m just saying it’s a possibility in my mind at the moment, until I get further evidence, that the borrowing happened the other way round. I keep thinking I can remember the ‘Mr. Universe’ line from a gig at The Duchess in Leeds. And that venue closed in about 2001. He looked like somebody you wouldn’t want to meet on a darkened street in Paisley with his grey straggly perm and moustache, but he was the type of character you would want alongside you in the trenches. And when there is a goal anyway he’ll more than likely miss it chatting with some fella about the best view from Moel Siabod or something.

It's almost 40 years since the sides met in that final during which Gow dominated Spurs' storied midfield partnership of Ossie Ardiles and Glenn Hoddle, one a World Cup winner in 1978 and the other England's most naturally gifted player of the era. By the way John, according to your Rothmans is there a worse-supported professional football club in the world than T.N.S.? After a season and a half of reflecting on this, I think we cheer for corners as a ‘folk memory’ of the days when they did indeed generally produce somewhat more goals. In effect, we get excited because our dads did or still do. And so man hands on blind optimism to man, which is pretty much how humanity survives in general anyway, isn’t it?Gerry Gow is mentioned in the song 'This One's for Now' by the band Half Man Half Biscuit on their album Urge For Offal.

Thanks for clarification, sorry for mis-judged pedantry. Slopes off to try and work out what Midge Ure looks like. I tried googling milk thief but nothing that came up looked much like him. Were Umbro nipple tassels unique to Bristol City? I’m sure the equivalent kit for Manchester City had a club crest on one side. Gordo: Lee Chapman is still buying a house in Oadby (Leicester) after being spotted in Spencers Estate Agents thousands of times and I’ll tell yer this for nowt, Cruyff signs tomorrow! Gerald Gow (29 May 1952 – 10 October 2016) was a footballer who played for Bristol City in the 1970s, making 375 appearances for them in The Football League. [1] Playing career [ edit ]

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Gerry Gow's testimonial was delayed for 45 minutes as the City legends team were held up in traffic on the way to Bristol – but it was worth the wait for the former Scottish midfielder. Sad, but of course inevitable, that we can get almost as passionate about who rules us locally as about who has occupied and tyrannised who in some far-flung corner of humanity’s inhumanity to manity. Gow ended his playing career as player-manager at then non-league Yeovil Town, where he was in charge from 1984 to 1987. Unlike in England, winning a corner seemed to generate very little excitement in the crowd. Perhaps the fans just understood the percentages better. Goals are very rarely scored from corners, unless the defence is doing something it shouldn’t do.” I have a vague notion that Ross Noble is a fan of the band. Although I have no evidence just a feeling so don’t quote me on it…

And Tranmere aren’t/weren’t the only team to play on a Friday night either. Accy Stanley are playing Morecambe on Friday 31st for example. If the title was “Friday Night and the Gate is Low” I could swallow that one but ‘Gates are..’ implies more than one match taking place and therefore does not refer specifically to TRFC. Seen it both ways but on the whole I write ‘defo’ too, and it is a word that I do tend to write a lot as a sign that I have ‘code-switched’ into footy forum mode. He came to the club (Weymouth) with quite a reputation because he had quite a great deal of success with Yeovil. I think the board of directors at the time were hoping he was going to bring the same success down to Weymouth.”Can I query the spelling of ‘deffo’? I’ve always use just one ‘f’ on account of the fact that it’s short for ‘definitely.’ Tonight’s attendance 123” might have been (joking, I am). “Because you didn’t indicate to go down Woodchurch Lane” probably was. The former Blues midfielder, now 63, became a cult hero among fans during a short spell at Maine Road in the early 1980s.

Also capped by Scotland at youth level, he managed the Terras in the 1989-90 season after featuring as a player-manager at Yeovil. the Venglos line is typical of the sort of rumour that circulates on the Tranmere Rovers fans forum thecowsheds.com (and other football forums) although usually it’s being seen in the car park shaking hands with the chairman or as the result of speaking to someone who claim to be one of the player’s uncle in Wetherspoons But it was his old team mates Gow really wanted to see and he wasn't disappointed when the City bus finally made it to Ashton Gate. Gow had a distinguished playing career before joining Weymouth, he had made over 350 league appearances for Bristol City and had spells at Manchester City and Rotherham United, as well as representing Scotland at Under 23 level. When the Glaswegian was tasked with replacing the departed Stuart Morgan in February 1989, he took on a team on the slide and one who he ultimately couldn’t save from relegation from the Vauxhall Conference come April. In fact, things had gotten so dire at Weymouth that Gow had to bring himself out of retirement for a league match against Maidstone United when he couldn’t name eleven fit players.In my mind NB10 is a Bergkampesque type figure on the “field”. Am I wrong and,if so who is his playing style similar to? Isn’t that just a geographical reference, not necessarily associated with TRFC or their ground, albeit it’s very close by? 6 days of the week between August and May it’s got nowt to do with football (and you could argue Prenton Park hasn’t got anything to do with football on any day, but that would be churlish). Plus, there’s a Woodchurch Lane in Ellesmere Port. Within easy reach of the keen cyclist. Just looking forward to the late starters finally getting going, I for one thought I would be visiting Probe tomorrow before the Bilston gig. Ah well, alls well and all that tosh!