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Just realised that today is Chalky's 50th birthday!

Well done Chalky,thanks for all of the good times at STFC

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Chalkie White is God. As the flag might say.

 :notworthy:

The greatest player ever to wear a Swindon shirt. Shorts hitched up, elbows sharpened and ready to go. The fun he'd have against our back 4 even at 50.
I see on the thisis site there is an imposter called Chalkies very high shorts. Its not me as they seem to know what they're talking about.

Happy 50th Chalkie, many happy memories.

Thanks for the "penalty" at Wembley.

What are you talking about it was blatantly a penalty! ;)

As was every free kick he won and every offside decision given his way. He was so quick he'd be given offside even if he was 10 yeards on.

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but not the greatest surely ?

Everyone looks for something different. In my eyes the greatest because he was the greatest entertainer on the pitch. The most talented - no. If it came down to pure instinct he was the boss. If he had time to think he wasn't so clever. He was one of the fittest players I've ever seen and chased every single lost cause. His attitude was 100%. He was also the best wind up artist I've seen on a football pitch. He really worked his defender ( and the ref ) and never gave him a moments rest - verbally and physically.
I could relate to him like no other player before or since.

If that makes him the greatest to you Chalkies_shorts then that is cool


I suppose we all have our "greatest's"

Fair shout and good comeback BTW

Chalky's 50?  fuck off.  Please tell me this is some sick joke.  Chalky White is quite obviously 33, as he will always be and I will always be a teenager or at the very oldest 25.  FIFTY??????????????   Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 I recall a game when Chalkie scored hat trick v Mansfield in 87, Friday night ko, I'd scored a hat trick myself earlier in a game on the astro at Dorcan...I was feeling well past it by then...strangely I'm not much older than Mr White.

Doesn't matter how old he is.............. Chalkie is immortal.

what a cult hero he was.shorts up to his neck,not a clue about the offside rule,the two handed celebrations towards the north stand,his poor touch.but above all that his knack of scoring goals or falling over to win pens makes him a legend imo.

Definitely in the legend category.

What Arriba said.

Considering his technique, or lack thereof it was often a wonder how he got to that level in the first place. But man did he know how to bang them in.

His 2 goal salvo at Trashton when we beat the Traders 4-0 will stay in my mind a long time. The Traders weren't very happy with our Chalky.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YqT9UPz4flg

Good find Mr. Mayes.

And what a fuckin' line up, let's hope that we get a first team as good as that again sometime.

Nice one Mr Mayes. You soemrtmies forget how good Jonah was and what a takle from Stigger in the lead up to the 3rd goal.

The pleasure was all mine. in putting in the link to the video of that match.Whenever the Slave Traders
try to give it the big un,just remind yourselves of that sunday afternoon.  :)

The fluidity of our midfield was just so good,with every player able to interchange with one another,
movement on and off the ball and above all else, the skill to beat their opponents.

We'll get back to those levels with the help of good management,financial investment from Mr Fitton
and the encouragement and support of all of us.Keep the belief guys,even when times are tough.

God, we were so good in those days.

Thanks for the vid, great memories.

remember that day well.to think we struggled that season too.shows how shit we are now

Roger Mallone was almost in tears, we were marched back to temple meads by coppers and greeted by a ford fiesta of bristols hardest wanting a fight with a couple of thousand of us.  They were laughed at quite a lot.

Great days indeed.

myself and mates were in that convoy to temple meads(land of bo was there i think?) a horse slobbered all over some geezers face, and my mate got nicked back at swindon station for opening the train door before the train had stopped.

Who can forget being at Selhurst Park for the play-off victory,with our hero scoring twice.
Nice interview with Chalky and Barny.Happy Days..

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AVhDl41xMG4&feature=related

Is that favourable editing, or did we really shit on city that easily?

I want us to be that good again :(

Chalky is still fitter than Barry Corr!

Also remember in the early days he was a supersub of some note..........

 Dave...I can never quite decide whether it's better to have, at least seen, decent STFC sides or just always known us as crap.

 When you've seen some decent stuff, it somehow makes the present shit harder to take.

We slaughtered them that day, a fantastic day trip out on the train for about £3 return on the old footy special.

We truly had a great team then and we played proper football even away from home but the CG being a fortress, definatly the best Town team I have seen in my 30 odd years of following them.

Chalkie and Shearer up front were a dream partnership, any of our striker since with the exception of Fjortoft were not fit to wash their boots.

If I remember correctly, on HTV in the week before they had a preview show with players from Swindon & Shitty.

It was at the time we played the diamond formation in midfield, and I'm sure I remember the Shitty player being asked about how to combat the diamond, and his immortal reply was something like "We've worked on it and training and know how to play against it.   it won't cause us any problems".    :D

The best thing of all was phoning the Shitheads on the Monday and ordering the match video.
To be fair to them, they did sell me a copy.  I might dig it out this afternoon and watch it again   :D

Wow, I loved watching that. Good away following too. Ashton Gate as atmospheric as ever...

I was at that game! Me and 2 mates went down by car, couldn't get tickets for the away end so ended up in with the shitty fans. Needed bodyguards by the end! (We didn't really celebrate the first two, but by the 3rd & 4th we couldn't really help it!)

The best performance by Tom Jones I ever saw.

Back to Chalky, I remember the goal he got against Millwall, after 'controlling' the ball with his arse to beat the defender and drilling it home, low and hard.  I seem to recall that when he signed, Lou told him he wasn't very good and he should always shoot low and hard...111 goals later, I guess it worked.  I also had the privilege of interviewing him at his home in about '94.  Top bloke, if shorter than I thought he'd be.

What Reg said.

i'm glad i saw some great football played by stfc.that city game was the season after the sunderland play off victory, and we didn't do very well that year. that said the quality of player,and football played by us was so much better than we get now.

Loved the way Chalkie celebrated every goal as if hed scored the winner in the cup final.

no stupid dances or worked celebrations either!

Chalkie-the only player to score for Swindon with every part of his anatomy

I was lucky in that I lived and worked in Brizzle from 88 to 99. I think we finsihed above them all bar 1 season and had bigger gates than them for most years as well. I used to see Chalkie in Yate / Sodbury. I always got a smile as I'd be wearing my Town shirt. I'm glad I got out in 99.

The only player i stood up and applauded when he scored against us......i didnt cheer...i just smiled and clapped as he ran past me......Hereford i think...

Twas Hereford indeed in some Micky Mouse cup.

He got a round of applause from most of the ground after he scored that goal, he looked a tad surprised about it.