larry lloyds book

[vitesse349]

has anyone here read larry lloyds book "Hard man, Hard game"? I am reading it at the moment, and I love larry and think he is a legend, but there seems to be some mistakes in this book or is it me? He talks about our defence of the 1979 european cup, and when we played in the 79-80 european cup, we played arges pitesti and he says that woodcock scored and put in a cross for birtles in the 2nd leg. I thought woodcock left in the summer of 79?? i also thought that the liverpool section of the book, was far more in depth than his time at forest, i was expecting more about his experiences at forest and was a bit gutted.!

 

[winnits]

I skipped over the Liverpool bit, enjoyed the section on his upbringing and the Forest section, although my knowledge of his playing time is pretty sketchy as I'm not old enough to have witnessed it first hand.

 

[vitesse349]

the liverpool bit was well worth reading, as shankly like cloughie was also a legend. I remember watching larry play when i was a kid, and just expected a whole lot more from the book. Bit gutted really. it just seemed like the forest section was split into match reports for our major games and that was it!

 

[Anatoli]

has anyone here read larry lloyds book "Hard man, Hard game"? I am reading it at the moment, and I love larry and think he is a legend, but there seems to be some mistakes in this book or is it me? He talks about our defence of the 1979 european cup, and when we played in the 79-80 european cup, we played arges pitesti and he says that woodcock scored and put in a cross for birtles in the 2nd leg. I thought woodcock left in the summer of 79?? i also thought that the liverpool section of the book, was far more in depth than his time at forest, i was expecting more about his experiences at forest and was a bit gutted.!

Woodcock did score in that game. He left half way through that season.

 

[winnits]

Must admit I skipped through the Liverpool bit out of pure prejudice on my part as I can't stand them, although I do admire and respect Shankly, of course, what sane football fan wouldn't?

Perhaps I'll revisit that section of the book

 

[vitesse349]

Woodcock did score in that game. He left half way through that season.

aah yes. Ok, yep. He did. Just read that he left in november 79. I remember being gutted when he left, but was only 8 years old then.!

 

[Anatoli]

aah yes. Ok, yep. He did. Just read that he left in november 79. I remember being gutted when he left, but was only 8 years old then.!

My younger brother was similarly aged and wrote to Cloughie asking for a shirt from his hero.
Cloughie wrote back saying No, but the letter itself is a diamond.

 

[vitesse349]

My younger brother was similarly aged and wrote to Cloughie asking for a shirt from his hero.
Cloughie wrote back saying No, but the letter itself is a diamond.

ha ha really?

what did the letter say?

 

[Annesley Red]

enjoyed the read as it was rough around the edges like the author.
good to hear some behind the scenes stuff

 

[LoveAlfa]

I haven't read it to be honest. But I do remember when I went to a gentlemans evening at Forest when Brian was signing copies of the book Walking on Water.

There was a queue of about ten men - all pretty successful suit types who were laughing an joking in full flow with their own egos at maximum!

As soon as each one got the the front to meet Brian they were all simply reduced to something looking like a ten year old school boy sent to meet the headmaster. I swear I heard some simply reply with "yes sir"!

What was really amazing was seeing Brian give each one a different joke or story as he signed their books.

The man was a legend, as was his teams. No matter whan spin is put on football today, and no matter how `skillfull` todays players are they will never ever come anywhere close to what we had from 1976 to about 1990ish.