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“Count me out”
What Stan Cullis of Wolves said when asked to give the Nazi salute before England’s game against Germany in Berlin in 1938.
He was dropped
Stan Cullis of Wolverhampton Wanderers
The man who said ‘count me out’ when the England team were told to give the Nazi salute before a match in Berlin in 1938 and was dropped.
Read about ‘The Passionate Puritan’ here:
“He was right up there with the very, very best. Pele, Maradona, Di Stefano, Cruyff, Best. But how many of them were world class in two positions?
“The answer to that is easy. None of them”
Read about the man Bobby Robson said this about.
18-year-old Jimmy Greaves of Chelsea marries Irene in March 1958.
They divorced at the height of his alcoholism in 1977.
They reunited 18 months later.
They remarried in 2017.
After that she never left his side for more than an hour
Eric Morecambe once asked Greavesie what he would have been if he wasn’t a great footballer. He replied “probably an electrician or something”.
He asked Eric what Morecambe and Wise would have been if they weren’t funny and Eric said “Mike and Bernie Winters”
Bill Shankly on first joining Liverpool
‘I had no idea what I was getting into so I put the boys in the training pitch dribbling around traffic cones.
I won’t say the club was in a bad way but the cones won 3-0’