Thursday, 2 March 2017

SAVE, RAVE, DECEASE, RAISE (a glass)

The Consett AFC's goalkeeper, 30 year old Peter Jeffries, pulls off this interesting SAVE in his team's game against South Shields, but his heroics could not prevent his team from losing 1-3 this Durham Senior Cup semi-final on Tuesday.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12094/10786564/consett-keeper-peter-jeffries-makes-mind-blowing-save

15 years ago Denis Bergkamp scored a wonder goal for the Arsenal  at Newcastle United.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/15118/10786516/how-dennis-bergkamp-scored-his-arsenal-wondergoal-at-newcastle

Sadly, Tommy Gemmell who played a huge part in Celtic's successful European Cup run in 1966-7 has died and the club is mourning his passing.
Tommy played over 400 times as a full back for Celtic and scored 63 goals. One of those came in the  European Cup Final against Inter Milan in Lisbon. His equalising goal led to a 2-1 victory and Celtic became the first British club to win a European title, fondly known as the "Lisbon Lions".
2017 is of course the 50th anniversary of the famous win.

Gemmell scored for Celtic against Feyenord in the 1970 European Final, but this time there was a defeat 1-2 after extra time. He is the only British player to score in two European Finals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM4ydShTw54  watch the referee in the second goal and keep an eye out for a couple of other random events.

He played 18 times for Scotland, scored one goal (a penalty) and was there when the Scots beat the World Champions, England, 3-2 at Wembley in 1967.

After Celtic Tommy went to Nottingham Forest, Miami Toros, Dundee and then managed Dundee and Albion Rovers.

And finally, today, somewhere on the Sandbanks "housing estate" Harry Redknapp is celebrating his birthday, born March 2 1947. Let's hope he isn't driving.

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