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29th October 2018, 19.43:07 | #10-0 (permalink) |
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Re: Kevin Keelan
Every generation can only really comment on what they see before them.
Before my time - not by much but I never saw heard him but heard lots about him. My first memories were of Brian Lloyd - then I recall us signing Everton & Wales keeper Dai Davies who was part of our probable best ever league team. Fond memories of Andy Marriott - they were good years under Brian Flynn. Best ever keeper ? impossible to say, sometimes it helps if you have a good team infront of you and of course each generation can only relate to what they have seen before them in their time. Seem to recall great stories about a massive keeper around the first Word War I seem to recollect - bit of a character - name escapes me, highly acclaimed. |
29th October 2018, 19.45:56 | #11-0 (permalink) |
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Re: Kevin Keelan
As someone in their mid-20s, I can only comment on what I've heard about Keelan from older Wrexham fans - which is nothing but good.
The best goalkeeper I've seen at Wrexham is probably Marriott or Dibble (Andy, not Christian, although I like Christian too). Best since we've been in this league is Maxwell and the only competition is probably Bachmann or Coddington, but Maxwell gets the nod for a longer tenure. |
29th October 2018, 20.03:56 | #13-0 (permalink) | |
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29th October 2018, 20.24:36 | #14-0 (permalink) |
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Re: Kevin Keelan
If I am right (please correct me if I am wrong)I seem to remember him coming to us from Kidderminster. I can remember him and Alan Fox giving an opposing centre forward a right good seeing to after he had challenged Keelan and the ball had been kicked down field and the ref and all the players followed it! But I agree he was outstanding in his day.
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29th October 2018, 20.39:03 | #16-0 (permalink) |
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Re: Kevin Keelan
That's around the same time I started watching Wrexham.... And yes, Keelan was brilliant...Bit like Peter Bonneti....
I also remember a goalkeeper from those early days, who couldn't dive...Arthur Johnson I think his name was...
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29th October 2018, 21.23:16 | #17-0 (permalink) | |
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Pretty sure Leigh Roose was of the era of being a gentleman player, ie an amateur expenses only. think there was a story was travelling from London to play in Stoke, missed the train so paid for a private charter train to travel to Stoke and presented the Stoke club with the receipt for them to pay. |
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29th October 2018, 21.58:33 | #18-0 (permalink) | |
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Found this explanation about him though. There was also a book about him released which I seem to recall had a thread of it's own sometime ago. https://youtu.be/6AKXqVMJO-o |
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