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I remember (and surely I can't be the only one), the Pontoon taunting him with the song "Terry Curran sh1ts his underpants", whilst playing for Wednesday at BP.
I remember it as "Jackie Charlton sh1ts his underpants". Probably both got an airing to be fair.
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Went to play golf at Garforth near Leeds in the mid nineties and stopped at a cafe for breakfast and bloke serving looked familiar. Was playing golf with ex Scunny & Lincoln striker Derek Bell, and he knew the guy who yes was Terry Curran who I believe was owner as well as Chef!!
Good player & good breakfast!!!!
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I remember it as "Jackie Charlton sh1ts his underpants". Probably both got an airing to be fair.
I don't remember Jackie Charlton playing at BP. Town fans singled Curran out in a period when Wednesday were probably more hated than Hull and definitely more than Scunny.
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I remember one midweek game when I was about 15 and we beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 (I think) in front of a massive crowd (Tony Ford scored at least one) I was behind the fences in the pontoon and someone threw a coin at Curran and he picked it up and threw it back in annoyance, only two be met by hundreds more bouncing off the mesh and going all over For younger listeners I'm not condoning this, but the atmos was electric that night, one of the best ever at BP Great days grrr (Bottom quote )
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See Jack Charlton also gets mentioned as he was Sheff Wed manager at the time Curran played. Guy in our village, Tony Simmons, ex Rotherham, QPR & Chimps was telling me how Charlton made him sub at BP on boxing day in early eighties when he was 17 and never played for the first time.
Tony is a ginger & says he went for a little run to get earm to get that normal friendly welcome that Yorkies used to receive in that era. He says add the fact I was ginger, white as a ghost & skinny and you can imagine it was not the start to professional football he was dreaming of.
Not looked at database for result but memory suggests a 1-0 win wwith either Waters or Wilko scoring the goal but I seem to recall goal was at Osmond end following a great run from midfield by Waters but cannot remember if he played 1-2 with Wilko to score himself or pulled it back for Wilko. Sure Les and others will correct me if wrong.
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See Jack Charlton also gets mentioned as he was Sheff Wed manager at the time Curran played. Guy in our village, Tony Simmons, ex Rotherham, QPR & Chimps was telling me how Charlton made him sub at BP on boxing day in early eighties when he was 17 and never played for the first time.
Tony is a ginger & says he went for a little run to get earm to get that normal friendly welcome that Yorkies used to receive in that era. He says add the fact I was ginger, white as a ghost & skinny and you can imagine it was not the start to professional football he was dreaming of.
Not looked at database for result but memory suggests a 1-0 win wwith either Waters or Wilko scoring the goal but I seem to recall goal was at Osmond end following a great run from midfield by Waters but cannot remember if he played 1-2 with Wilko to score himself or pulled it back for Wilko. Sure Les and others will correct me if wrong.
Ah yeah...course he was. Right. I don't remember him getting that song, but Curran definitely. Take your shaggy hair, and your flamboyant, laconic style Curran, and f**k off!
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Remember going to Wednesday in the curran era and seeing that huge kop long before it was covered and thinking wow , very impressive
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Yeah, I remember Terry Curran playing for Town at the end of his career, always rated him until he played for us.
Some success stories as well though, Trevor Whymark, Garry Birtles, Chris Nicholl and even Ivano Bonetti spring to mind.
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Remember going to Wednesday in the curran era and seeing that huge kop long before it was covered and thinking wow , very impressive
never thought of it before but just now wondered where kop comes from....turns out it's a site of a battle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spion_Kop_(stadiums)
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