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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_BakerAs a young boy i vaguely remember seeing this mans photo splashed all over the footie annuals etc. What a scoring record! yet i reckon most today wouldn't have heard of him....i only remembered after seeing that his brother passed away today RIP....not a bad player either. Joe Baker and Bro....real good couple of footballing brothers i reckon. 
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #1 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 00:46:56 » |
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Got capped for England, while playing in Scotland...an anomaly, which I never thought I'd see again until, Trevor Steven, Mark Hateley and Gazza inexplicably pitched up north of the border.
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« Reply #2 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 08:05:01 » |
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I saw Joe Baker play on a couple of occasions Leefer and he was one hell of a Centre Forward. The type we do not see in the game now - Ray Crawford, Ron Davies, Wyn Davies, Tony Hateley, and one of my Swindon favourites Pat Terry
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« Reply #3 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 08:10:03 » |
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Strange fact as well is that his brother Gerry who played for Coventry in the sixties was a USA international
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« Reply #4 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 08:40:27 » |
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'In his first season with Hibs, the 17-year-old Baker scored all four goals in Hibs' 4–3 victory over city rivals Hearts in the quarter-final of the 1958 Scottish Cup.'
That's the sort of thing I used to daydream about doing as a young lad. Hell of a record, seems unlucky on the face of it not to have made the '66 World Cup squad with stats like that at Arsenal.
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« Reply #5 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 10:22:52 » |
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I saw Joe Baker play on a couple of occasions Leefer and he was one hell of a Centre Forward. The type we do not see in the game now - Ray Crawford, Ron Davies, Wyn Davies, Tony Hateley, and one of my Swindon favourites Pat Terry
Not so sure about the last sentence, one of the abiding curios about English football, is the clinging on to the "big number 9" not just lower league Bayo Akinfenwa types, but England have fielded Andy Carroll and Rickie Lambert recently, very much out of the mould. |
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« Reply #6 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 11:44:34 » |
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Fantastic, another set of brothers capped by different international teams.
Someone asked me this at work a while back. Think I got 4
Anyone got any?
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« Reply #7 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 12:05:24 » |
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Got a feeling John Hollins played for England while his brother Dave had a cap for Wales
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« Reply #8 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 12:50:09 » |
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Awesome.
That's Baker and Hollins mentioned in this thread plus the Tim and Chris Cahill, Jerome and Kevin Prince Boateng....I'm sure I had another two, must be a few more...
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« Reply #9 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 12:54:26 » |
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Roy and Steve Wegerle
Christian and Max Vieri
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« Reply #10 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 19:26:41 » |
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Boateng of Germany and Uganda?
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« Reply #11 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 20:15:56 » |
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Boateng of Germany and Uganda?
Unless I've missed something thats Jerome (Germany) and Kevin Prince (Ghana) |
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« Reply #12 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 23:40:22 » |
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Unless I've missed something thats Jerome (Germany) and Kevin Prince (Ghana)
I think they both had the choice and chose differently, if I remember. |
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« Reply #13 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 23:42:32 » |
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Didn't George Weah has a relation that played 20 mins for Southampton after duping Souness into signing him by DVD?
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« Reply #14 on: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 23:59:18 » |
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Didn't George Weah has a relation that played 20 mins for Southampton after duping Souness into signing him by DVD?
Ali Dia.....wasn't actually a relation...he got in touch with Graeme Souness and acted as Weah, he stated he was an International footballer and that he was a relation to George Weah....on that, Souness signed him before seeing him play! |
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