Has died aged 73. Part of the one team from the early 70s (in fact pretty much any time) that I can remember all the members from off the top of my head. Have confessed before how the boy me growing up in South Cambridgeshire to a Sheffield Wednesday supporting family believed that my "playground club" should be Leeds (Wednesday were 3rd division, Leeds were massive and to my simple 8 year old brain, also from Yorkshire and therefore acceptable) . I wanted to grow up to be Peter Lorimer or Eddie Gray, but even then I knew that the backbone of the team were the people like Madeley and Reaney. RIP
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
I think that I have said before that I was a Leeds United supporter for most of my childhood until I discovered punk rock (I. Therefore I span the teams mentioned here and, again, can still name most of the players off by heart. As ad hoc says, you may not remember Madeley's individual performances (especially with no video and being too young for MOTD) but an important component of that team. Off to scour Youtube.Last edited by Bored Of Education; 24-07-2018, 09:16.
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- Dec 2013
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- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
I already listed my favourite Leeds United team from that era in another thread, then got ticked off (rightly) by 1974ddr for leaving out Terry Cooper...
Anyway, in that thread he (1974ddr) listed the Leeds players from 70/71 and 71/72. Worth repeating it here for Madeley's appearances, (and people say modern players play too many games):
Leeds 1970-71: League apps /goals
Norman Hunter 42/1, Allan Clarke 41/19, Paul Madeley 41/5, Terence Cooper 41/1, John Charlton 40/6, Mick Jones 39/6, Peter Lorimer 38/12, Gareth Sprake 35/0, John Giles 34/13, Michael Bates 31/0, William Bremner 25/3, Paul Reaney 19/0, Edwin Gray 19/1, Rod Belfitt 10/3, David Harvey 7/0, Nigel Davey 7/0, Terence Yorath 3/0, Terence Hibbitt 3/0, Chris Galvin 1/0.
Leeds 1971-72:
Paul Madeley 42/2, Peter Lorimer 42/23, Norman Hunter 42/0, John Charlton 41/5, William Bremner 41/5, John Giles 38/6, Allan Clarke 35/11, Gareth Sprake 35/0, Terence Cooper 34/1, Paul Reaney 33/0, Edwin Gray 26/6, Michael Jones 24/11, Joseph Jordan 12/0, Rod Belfitt 11/1, Michael Bates 9/0, David Harvey 7/0, Terence Yorath 7/1, Chris Galvin 3/0, James Mann 1/0, Keith Edwards 1/0
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Paul Madeley played in the first-ever game I went to, which was vs Coventry in 1970 I was aged 6 and went with with my dad,
According to a quick search, the team that day was:
1. Sprake, Gary
2. Reaney, Paul
3. Cooper, Terry
4. Bremner, Billy
5. Charlton, Jack
6. Hunter, Norman
7. Lorimer, Peter
8. Clarke, Allan
9. Jones, Mick
10. Giles, Johnny
11. Madeley, Paul
12. Bates, Mick (for Charlton)
Leeds won 3-0, with Clarke scoring 2 and Charlton the other. If my memory is right, it was Charlton's 500th appearance and a 3-piece suite was wheeled on the pitch as part of the presentation to him. I think that Charlton's 600th appearance a couple of seasons later was also by a coincidence against Coventry, and that might have been the 3-piece suite day. I know I was at both games: again something of a coincidence as I remember I was only taken to a couple of matches a season at most at that time.
Anyway, this thread is about Paul Madeley and I'm saddened by his death. On the very remote chance that anyone connected to him reads this post, they have my sympathies.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
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I linked to it in the spin-off thread, but just for maximum exposure, here's a piece I did on his shirt-number history
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- Dec 2013
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- NW Glasgow (aka Bearsden)
- Partick Thistle, Scotland, Leeds United
- Choc Digestive (milk)
Originally posted by denishurley View PostI linked to it in the spin-off thread, but just for maximum exposure, here's a piece I did on his shirt-number history
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Originally posted by denishurley View PostI linked to it in the spin-off thread, but just for maximum exposure, here's a piece I did on his shirt-number history
"In January 1964, the man who Revie would describe as his Rolls Royce made his debut against Manchester City, wearing number 5..."
Leeds won that match at Elland Road 1-0. And my uncle was playing in it. He was City's no. 2, Bill Leivers. I should be speaking to him tomorrow. And I intend to mention this game to him.
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Here are the match details. I love the name of the referee:
SATURDAY 11th JANUARY 1964
LEEDS UNITED 1 (Weston)
MANCHESTER CITY 0
Attendance: 33,737
Leeds United team: Sprake, Reaney, Bell, Bremner, Madeley, Hunter, Giles, Weston, Lawson, Collins, Johanneson
Manchester City team: Dowd, Leivers, Sear, Kennedy, Wood, Oakes, Young, Gray, Pardoe, Shawcross, Wagstaffe
Referee: Fussey. M
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Originally posted by Bordeaux Education View PostAh, and, of course, Albert Johanneson listed there who was another interesting Leeds player (way before my time, obviously).
I published this two-part article about Johanneson in April 2015 (in French):
http://cahiersdufootball.net/blogs/t...t-britannique/
http://cahiersdufootball.net/blogs/t...t-britannique/
(I’d actually just moved in to Leeds when he was found dead in a tiny council flat in north Leeds where he’d been living as a recluse for years, but I had never heard of him and his death only made a few lines in the papers. In spite of his significance to Leeds United and even to English football, he was buried in a paupers’ unmarked grave until local teacher Paul Eubanks paid for a cross and plaque and then contacted the club to give Johanneson a dignified resting place - the club paid for a headstone).
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