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Most liked posts in thread: Signed copy of 'Bobby Campbell - They dont make them like him no more' by Paul Firth

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  1. tommycairns28

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    I still have Dean Richards autograph on the back of a packet of Lambert and butlers - not suggesting Deano smoked - it was just an impromptu meeting in a nightclub with my dad and my old man managed to seize the opportunity to bring me the highly valued artefact back.
    Gone clearly, are those days when our footballing heroes would rub shoulders with us common folk.
     
    #13 tommycairns28, Jun 1, 2023
  2. tommycairns28

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    One quote from big Bob i found very relevant to the current methods evidently applied by Messrs Hughes and co. was in regards to the full season ex-England international Roy McFarland spent training the lads down at Apperley Bridge (not much changes round here!).
    "When McFarland came to Bradford i couldn't believe he was doing the same thing as I'd done as a 14 year old at Derby years before. Two touch, in little areas and with goals the size of tables. it was just crap. There was just no real incentive for you and it doesn't bear much relation to Saturday afternoons. It's nice to see a team play two touch and spraying the ball about. But I'd sooner see a header from a cross on the byline, or a shot go into a big net, not a couple of cones a yard and a half apart where there's no goalkeeper."
    Far be it from me to criticise Hughes'training methods (of which i have seen next to nothing), but the idea of playing to our main no. 9's strengths rather than pussyfooting about with easy on the eye possession based football seems to be a tactic that was a clear source of frustration some 40-odd year back.
    Haha, just found the observation particularly relevant in today's context.
    Having never seen Bobby play, would it be fair to say that there was many similarities between the great man and our own history maker - Andy Cook?
     
    #14 tommycairns28, Jun 2, 2023
  3. Ulysses S Grant

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    Very little. Bobby was an absolute bruiser who thought nothing of taking out a defender to get to a ball. His heading ability was amongst the best I've ever seen and the way that man could swivel his neck and meet a cross was up there with the very best number 9's. He never ever went down looking for a foul and would just run straight through a defender, Bobby wasn't interested in winning a penalty when he could batter the defender and still score.

    Cook is probably a more skillful footballer than Bobby, but in the context of the times, Bob's game suited things very well. Cook can finish well, but he hasn't got half the shot that Bobby had. If a keeper got between Bob leathering a ball and the goal, he didn't save it, he just ended up in the back of the net. or if he did save it he broke his wrists.

    Bobby was more akin to Bob Latchford, Malcolm McDonald & Co, Whereas Cook is just a typical lower league 21st Century player. If Bobby had applied himself more at a young age, and trained properly he would have had a career at a much higher level and played 50 plus times for NI. He just wanted to play games and did little else off the pitch.
     
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    Bobby was at Aston Villa when he was 14, but I get your point.
     
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    #17 Ulysses S Grant, Jun 2, 2023
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    I used to be in the BV last hour after coming up from Town for the entire duration of his times at the club, every home game . Never saw him once, for balance.
     
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    Lots of reoccurring knee issues wasnt it?
     
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    50 times for Northern Ireland?

    He won just a couple of caps didn't he?
     
    #21 NorthernMonkey, Jun 2, 2023
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    Cook is very similar to bobby in stature and temperament, only thing is Cook isnt allowed by the officials to put it about like bobby did,i,e, knocking the ball and the keeper in the net,but if it was allowed i'm sure he would be
     
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    He did, both as a sub I believe, my point is if he hadn't gone off the rails he could have achieved that when you compare what he had to the two strikers they had at the time in Gerry Armstrong & Billy Hamilton. Whiteside was also in the 82 squad but he was only 17.
     
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    According to the book, he played a weeks trial at Derby under McFarland, though he never played a competitive match. "All i did was muck in with the apprentices and play 2 touch football, which id never played before in my life. For a young kid that's just come in, to play 2-touch football is very hard, especially when you're a forward and you want a few touches to take a player on and have a shot!"
     
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    Fair enough, must have missed that bit
     
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  12. Bronco

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    Roy McFarland took Bobby Campbell to Derby when he left Bradford City a day or so before we played Manchester United in the 3rd round second leg of of the Milk Cup at Old Trafford I wasn't aware he'd had trials at Derby but if he did it was before McFarlands time as manager.
    During his time at Derby he scored 4 goals in 11 appearances which to say he'd moved up to league two which is now the Championship wasn't bad in a piss poor derby side, McFarland obviously didn't fancy him even though he hadn't played half a season and allowed Bobby to come back to Valley Parade.
     
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    I don't understand that comment, Bobby played along side McFarland at Valley Parade and McFarland has certainly never been the Derby manager previously, certainly not when Bobby was a young player.
    I have the book and its a great read for football fans generally but more so Bradford City fans who remember Sir Bobby Campbell I'll have to give it another read if I missed that with regards a trial at Derby County.
     
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    Legend who just loved scoring goals. Still don't know how Bobby thought he'd pulled off that Liverpool goal celebration :joy:
     
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