Mr Football

[1eyedog]

Not sure if everyone has heard this - especially the younger WOOFERs. I used to love this and listened to it over and over again.

Enjoy.

[Bulldog4life]

Not sure if everyone has heard this - especially the younger WOOFERs. I used to love this and listened to it over and over again.

Enjoy.

Yes always have loved that song too. I always have felt that I was so priveleged to see the great man play too.

[1eyedog]

I posted it up here because I played it for my son for the first time this morning and then told him all about the great man.

[bornadog]

This one with some vision

[Twodogs]

So tell me mr Whitten, mr Football if you please.

[Scraggers]

This is my son's favourite song. He is six. He is also named Elijah John or as we call him EJ

[1eyedog]

Yes always have loved that song too. I always have felt that I was so priveleged to see the great man play too.

You get a sense of his class even in that brief footage.

[Bulldog4life]

You get a sense of his class even in that brief footage.

Yes you do. And the swagger. He was that great and knew it too.

[Cyberdoggie]

This is my son's favourite song. He is six. He is also named Elijah John or as we call him EJ

I was trying to get Edward Jack (my grandfather) over the line but had to put my father's name in instead as the middle name.
I'm happy with Edward (Ted) thought.

[merantau]

Ted Whitten was the greatest fotballer and personality to play the game without a shadow of a doubt. We will never see the likes of him again and I was privileged to see him play for 14 years.

[Twodogs]

I was trying to get Edward Jack (my grandfather) over the line but had to put my father's name in instead as the middle name.
I'm happy with Edward (Ted) thought.

I reckon I did well to get Liberatore into my daughter's given names.

[1eyedog]

I reckon I did well to get Liberatore into my daughter's given names.

When my younger brother was 8 he named his 4 goldfish Barry after Fish.

A weirder sentence I have not written.

[Twodogs]

When my younger brother was 8 he named his 4 goldfish Barry after Fish.

A weirder sentence I have not written.

It sounds perfectly cromulent to me.

[Eastdog]

Ted Whitten was the greatest fotballer and personality to play the game without a shadow of a doubt. We will never see the likes of him again and I was privileged to see him play for 14 years.

It would have been great to have been around when EJ was playing and to have met him and have a beer.

[Bulldog4life]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wchNf9Vv_ck

Ted Whitten A Tribute To EJ 1995

Well worth a look.