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RIP - Stan Bowles

HBB

HBB

Jack Burkitt
Footballing Legend, and briefly Forest player, Stan Bowles has died at the age of 75. He was suffering from Alzheimer's. I've mentioned it before but I met him at a party for his book launch many years ago and he was a great laugh and very patient even though he'd been asked so many times about things like his brush with Cloughie.

The kind of mercurial talent that English football has always stuggled to accomodate he was a great, great footballer. RIP Stanley
 
Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
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A proper footballing legend of the 1970s. And what a player he was too.

Rest in peace Stan, thanks for the memories.
 
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Cloughie1975

John Robertson
Apparently Stan would have played in Madrid had he turned up for the flight!
He had his best days at QPR where he was (and still is) an absolute legend.
He was an extremely talented maverick in a lost era when real skill wasn’t coached out
of players by useless coaches with a fraction of his talent.
R.I.P. Stan.
 
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jdthebrit

First Team Squad
I went to a match at QPR when I lived in West London back when Stanleywas still the man.
The commentator on the most recent England v Poland game stated at half time that Lewandowski was hands down the best player on the pitch....
So was Stan Bowles when I saw him ( QPR lost - just like Poland did as it's a team game)
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't applaud footballers who play the game so well that their team mates can't keep up.
Au contraire! RIP a great of the game.




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BryanRoy22

BryanRoy22

Ian Bowyer
My dad told me how when he first arrived in the country, he lived local so he'd just go to Loftus Road on a Saturday as he'd have nothing better to do with the work money in his pocket (you'd just turn up at the turnstiles in those days without a ticket).

He said Stan Bowles was one of the best he ever saw live. RIP.
 
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Ian Moore Gone Little

First Team Squad
He only had a short spell with us, but he won the only medal of his pro career with us when we beat Barcelona over two legs in the Super Cup. There’s a photo of him staring at his medal with great pride. Another of the 70s mavericks has gone… 😢

Whoops - just noticed the earlier thread. Sure that wasn’t there when I looked just now…
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
He had a wand of a left foot did Stan. Other than George Best, I've never seen a footballer drop a shoulder to such effect.

I had a conversation with him during his time at Forest and I was surprised to hear him say that he would never watch football out of choice, he only enjoyed playing. RIP.
 
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Flaggers

Flaggers

May not be the best moderator on LTLF, but he's...
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Via Twitter:

Stanley Bowles.

Once asked a ref, ‘What would you do if I called you a c**t?’

Ref: ’Obviously, I’d send you off.’

Stan: ‘What would you do if I thought you were a c**t?’

Ref: ‘I wouldn’t be able to do anything about that.’

Stan: ‘Well.. I think you’re a c**t’.

😂
#RIP Stan
 
Colin Addison

Colin Addison

Youth Team
Otis Redding said:
He had a wand of a left foot did Stan. Other than George Best, I've never seen a footballer drop a shoulder to such effect.

I had a conversation with him during his time at Forest and I was surprised to hear him say that he would never watch football out of choice, he only enjoyed playing. RIP.
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Yeah absolutely magic left foot but he seemed to be on the way down in footballing terms by the time he arrived at NG2. I worked in Manchester early 70's and got to know his dad who was a window cleaner by trade. We used to go in the Hare and Hounds on Shudhill, Stan senior would often be in there really nice bloke he was disappointed Stan never played for the Mancs. Stan senior was a booze fags and bookies man I think Stan had similar interests after he finished playing. RIP Stan
 
valspoodle

valspoodle

Steve Chettle
The sort of player you just don't see these days. In my early days Len Shackleton, then George Best and, in a slightly different way, Glenn Hoddle, all supremely talented, but treated football like a game rather than the present day business.

It's now the managers who have the time and the space to make their mark as characters. The players are too busy to get into the teams of all talents to fool around.
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Colin Addison said:
Yeah absolutely magic left foot but he seemed to be on the way down in footballing terms by the time he arrived at NG2. I worked in Manchester early 70's and got to know his dad who was a window cleaner by trade. We used to go in the Hare and Hounds on Shudhill, Stan senior would often be in there really nice bloke he was disappointed Stan never played for the Mancs. Stan senior was a booze fags and bookies man I think Stan had similar interests after he finished playing. RIP Stan
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Stan could never be described as a stereotypical footballer; for a start, he didn't drive and, unlike many of his peers, particularly at Forest, he had no interest in pastimes such as golf - other than possibly having a punt on the outcome of major tournaments?

Unusually, during his time here, he also rented a terraced house in Bulwell with his glamour-model girlfriend, which was probably more a consequence of the gambling debts he'd accrued over the years than any desire to indulge a working-class lifestyle, although when I had the opportunity to speak with him at a charity event at the Manor Club in West Bridgford, he came across as a very approachable, modest and down-to-earth bloke.
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
Cloughie1975 said:
Apparently Stan would have played in Madrid had he turned up for the flight!
He had his best days at QPR where he was (and still is) an absolute legend.
He was an extremely talented maverick in a lost era when real skill wasn’t coached out
of players by useless coaches with a fraction of his talent.
R.I.P. Stan.
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Wasn't he terrified of flying, hence he wouldn't travel to the game?
Sad loss.
Talents like Stan are what makes the game great.
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Captain Sinister said:
Wasn't he terrified of flying, hence he wouldn't travel to the game?
Sad loss.
Talents like Stan are what makes the game great.
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Yet he flew to Barcelena with the team for the European Super Cup Final 2nd-leg where, along with Charlie George, he played a key role in helping us lift the trophy. I'm not sure if his fear of flying was the primary reason for him not catching the plane to Madrid; his relationship with Cloughie and PT had clearly begun to deteriate by then, as demonstrated by increasingly less gametime. He possibly judged that his time was over and decided not to trigger his fear to, at best, sit on the bench or, more likely, in the stand.
 
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