Tommy Smith Dead

[Antepli Ejderha]

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted. A Liverpool great they say but a racist and a bully says Howard Gayle. I'm with Gayle on this one hence no RIP.

[Satchmo Distel]

Not just Gayle but also Dave Hill, who got the quotes on tape.

[treibeis]

He could undoubtedly have had me in a fight, but Tommy Smith, like Hunter and Harris and numerous others at that time, was called a "hard man" when what he actually was was a "dirty bastard".

Making a career out of planting your studs into somebody's calf - yes, I know Smith was more skillful than he was often given credit for, but that wasn't what his reputation was built on - isn't hard; it's shithousery.

[Duncan Gardner]

His death led on BBC (R5L) yesterday. Which seems over the top.

[ursus arctos]

How unlike Liverpool

[Antepli Ejderha]

Not just Gayle but also Dave Hill, who got the quotes on tape.

I did not know this. I doubt anything happened because it was just 'banter'.

Kenny Dalglish has apparently lead the tributes to this racist fuck. Why oh why?

[Satchmo Distel]

I think wingco should write a tribute

[Guy Profumo]

Go on then.

I'll say it.

Good riddance you worthless piece of racist shit.

[Hot Orange]

On Final Score, they discussed his demise to a backdrop of him hacking down a Manchester United player in the 1977 Cup Final and then suggesting that the victim dived. Dion Dublin then didn't echo Guy's comments above, but sounded like he'd have liked to.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Yep, hard to find anything to argue with on this thread.

[G-Man]

Kenny Dalglish has apparently lead the tributes to this racist fuck. Why oh why?

Because Kenny doesn't see race or racism.

[Gerontophile]

Hey G, thought you'd gone missing!

Perhaps Sir Kenny might still be in the employ of Liverpool FC? Just a thought.