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TownSNAFU5	July 24, 2023, 3:50pm
Vodka Drinker Posts: 5,975 Posts Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 62.03% Rep Score: +30 / -21 Location: York Approval: +6,883 Gold Stars: 42	Very early death.   Cannot remember why, but my dad took me to see him play for Birmingham at Sheff Wed.  He was only 16 and scored a hard trick.  Birmingham won 5-2 I think.  Great talent recognised with being the first Million pound footballer.   Cloughie helped him to 2 European Cups.  Again, by chance whilst serving in the RAF in Germany, 3 of went to their European Cup final win over Malmo in Munich.  Trevor Francis put in the cross for the winning and only goal. Still not sure how Malmo got to the final.  It was all 2-leg KO matches then.
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grimsby pete	July 24, 2023, 3:51pm
Exile Posts: 55,705 Posts Per Day: 9.80 Reputation: 81.7% Rep Score: +126 / -28 Location: Suffolk Approval: +17,800 Gold Stars: 222	RIP. Surprised he has gone at an early age.                              Over 36 years living in Suffolk but always a mariner.                              68 Years following the Town                               Life member of Trust                                First game   April 1955
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140381	July 24, 2023, 6:11pm
Guest User	Wasn’t he one of the first players to take diet seriously after he went to Italy. I remember him being a hell of a player for Wednesday in his late 30s. That all being the case I’m shocked to hear he had a heart attack.
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TAGG	July 24, 2023, 7:11pm
Vodka Drinker Posts: 5,149 Posts Per Day: 0.93 Reputation: 53.6% Rep Score: +26 / -27 Approval: +2,957 Gold Stars: 126	RIP What a fantastic player in his day. In his three stints as Grimsby Town manager spanning over 10 years the club was never relegated and he also guided them to three promotions. Only 14 managers have reached 1,000 matches in charge of a Football League team by 1998 and Buckley is one of them. GOD
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bawarmy	July 24, 2023, 8:01pm
Cocktail Drinker Posts: 1,517 Posts Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 86.91% Rep Score: +5 / 0 Approval: +2,020 Gold Stars: 33	I remember years ago my Sunday football team had an auction night. We had lots of stuff. Bobby Charlton autograph, signed footballs from various clubs .etc  We asked Trevor Francis for a signed picture and he wrote back to us politely refusing. We sold the letter of refusal at auction.  The Daily Star headline said Trev’s no fetches tenner Great player though.
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SouthLakesMariner	July 24, 2023, 8:48pm
Lager Top Drinker Posts: 311 Posts Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 81.78% Rep Score: +1 / 0 Approval: +939 Gold Stars: 21	Quoted from DB 69, no age to pass away. A great player and will always be remembered as the 1st million £ player to be transferred. RIP Trevor. Sad loss. The real fee was probably a lot more than £1m when Cloughie’s brown paper bags are taken into account (allegedly).
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TownSNAFU5	July 24, 2023, 8:50pm
Vodka Drinker Posts: 5,975 Posts Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 62.03% Rep Score: +30 / -21 Location: York Approval: +6,883 Gold Stars: 42	Francis scored the only goal against Malmo.  That is what you pay a million pounds for. I knew he played a big part in the goal.  From memory I thought. he crossed it for the winner.  Maybe it was John Robertson who provided the cross?
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aldi_01	July 24, 2023, 10:54pm
Barley Wine Drinker Posts: 12,008 Posts Per Day: 2.03 Reputation: 73.73% Rep Score: +54 / -20 Approval: +5,679 Gold Stars: 473	Kind of ironic that the first million pound player should die on the same day as the most outrageous and highest bid for a footballer ever is tabled… 'the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy'...well done Mozza
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spartacus	July 24, 2023, 11:03pm
Shandy Drinker Posts: 50 Posts Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 83.41% Rep Score: +2 / 0 Approval: +165 Gold Stars: 1	RIP Tricky Trev Also a favourite quiz question and Happy memories of Nottingham Forest in the European Cup and playing for England when i was growing up. Also bought one of his tracksuits from a mush in Shepherds Bush once.
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jamesgtfc	July 24, 2023, 11:16pm
Vodka Drinker Posts: 6,043 Posts Per Day: 1.16 Reputation: 79.95% Rep Score: +20 / -5 Approval: +12,970 Gold Stars: 190	Quoted from aldi_01 Kind of ironic that the first million pound player should die on the same day as the most outrageous and highest bid for a footballer ever is tabled… The £260m bid for Mbappe isn't too far from the football-inflation adjusted cost of £253.5m for Trevor Francis! [url]https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/status/1683516355583123482?t=p0RUc6W4vxGwxksGJAGTNw&s=19[/url]
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