101 GREAT GOALS: TONY FIELD AND THE MARK OF GENIUS

[BRFCS.com]

A tribute to a special moment after Tony’s passing this week

Read the full article on the front page and let us know your thoughts.

[Herbie6590]

Thanks to @Fred Cumpstey for his timely reminder of this piece…

[Comfortably numb]

I would be around 14 at the time and lived on Revidge Rd.

There were many, many times I would walk to Ewood from home and wait outside the players entrance just to see Tony Field and get his autograph..

He never refused, must have got his signature a dozen times.

God bless Tony and thank you

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20 minutes ago, Herbie6590 said:

Thanks to @Fred Cumpstey for his timely reminder of this piece…

Amazing that he played with the great Pele 

[Paul Mellelieu]

My first Rovers' hero. RIP.

[Roversider]

I think Rovers paid £18k for his transfer from Southport, he was brilliant to watch. The only time I remember his goals drying up was when John O'Mara joined and for a while, concentrated on being a provider and O'Mara scored freely. That didn't last and Tony (I suspect contrary to coaches directions) reverted to his entertaining, direct style. O'Mara stopped scoring but Tony was back in the limelight.

Sad to see him leave to join Furphy at Sheffield but glad to see him gracing the same pitch as Pele.

How do you compare him to current players? You can't, I just wish we had him back in his pomp today.

[RevidgeBlue]

1 hour ago, ... said:

Amazing that he played with the great Pele 

Even more amazingly, so too I think did fellow former Rover Terry Garbutt - who I didn't think was anything special.

[Penwortham Blue]

Up there with my favourite players of all time and certainly the one who captured the imagination during my very earliest visits to Ewood. God bless Tony Field, RIP

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, Herbie6590 said:

Thanks to @Fred Cumpstey for his timely reminder of this piece…

What a wonderful picture that top one is.

It just sums up what the game is all about -providing joy - and sort of typifies everything we've had taken away from us over the last 15 years and particularly over the last two or three.

[rigger]

Seemingly wasn't the most popular person with the other players, but was a god to a young me.