FRANK THE MAVERICK IS WITH US JUST

Frank Worthington's daughter announced through the Press Association that her father had Alzheimer's and said that would explain a lot of his behaviour but Frank typically has denied the diagnosis and is apparently in full control of his faculties. Some locals may disagree.

The 67 year old lives at Outlane, Huddersfield in West Yorkshire and any concern about the Halifax born footballer should be taken with a pinch of salt, although some of Frank's habits may not be entirely what his doctor would recommend. MInd you when he was a youngster and in charge of his faculties, much of his life style might have been considered variable!

When he was hoping to sign for Bill Shankly at Liverpool his blood pressure was high enough tocause  concern, so Shankly sent the striker to Majorca for a few days to settle his condition but that surprisingly only made it worse. It was the booze that was creating the imbalance!

Starring with Huddersfield in the late 60s he joined Leicester City in 1972 and then had a string of teams including Bolton (where THE goal was scored in 1979 against Ipswich fooling centre halves Terry Butcher and Russell Osman, a seriously good top class, defensive pair), Birmingham City, Leeds Utd, Sunderland, Southampton, Brighton, Tranmere, in the USA, Sweden, South Africa and Ireland

and also at Preston, Stockport, Chorley, Stalybridge, Weymouth and Guiseley He has been about!

Here is his GOAL!

http://talksport.com/football/watch-frank-worthingtons-amazing-solo-goal-daughter-reveals-former-huddersfield-leicester

He didn't like Don Revie and Revie didn't like him so he only played for England 8 times, scoring 2 goals.
A play boy he wore the "tightest jeans anyone had seen", played in a rock band, was kissed by Raquel Welch at Chelsea once after scoring against the Pensioners and was part of that cult of footballers who had fun before Arsene Wenger and Co took charge of football's health and welfare.

Those were the days-Stanley Bowles, Rodney Marsh, Chopper Harris, Bobby Moore (yes even Bobby) and so on......