RIP Willie Whigham

Oh what a sad day. One of my favourite players as a kid as I watched him help us get promoted.
In the 70's I used to see him in the BSC canteen .He must have wondered who the idiot was who couldn't stop staring at him.
RIP Willie.
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Very sad. Loved seeing Willie, he was our No.1 when I first started going.

A lovely ugly bu99er,
you were number one in your day
with a face sent straight from Heaven
to scare star strikers away.

A skinny malinky gangler
sent doon from the lochs
with honours in keeping clean sheets
from the high school of hard knocks.

And I can still see you now
at halftime on the pitchside track
having a minute with the fans
sharing a fag and the crack.

Tipping over top corner scorchers,
a teddy boy, woodbined flyer,
palming away mam’s jokes about
a face to keep kids off the fire.

The Holgate has a new angel,
singing away in the dark.
He’s rough and he’s tough
and his voice is gruff –
St Willie Of Ayresome Park.
 
I don't know if he was our best ever keeper, though he was really good, but he was certainly the most memorable.

RIP Willie.
 
red_clowne said:
My lasting memory is of him letting the ball go between his legs and into our net at Roker Park (1968 or 1969 perhaps), I think it might have been a back pass as well.
One of my heroes but that memory still haunts me.
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Yes that still sticks in my memory 71 in a 4-1 drubbing.My first keeper.Not the best in my time but certainly nowhere near the worst.RIP.
 
Borobarmy said:
Remember hordes of Boro fans at the ZDS in 1990 singing his song outside a pub near Wembley as he was stood at the door laughing . RIP
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"We've got Willie willie willie willie whigham in our goal, in our goal

Wiiiillie, Willie Whigham

Willie Whigham in our goal

Wiiiiillie, Willie Whigham, Willie Whigham in our goal...."
 
RIP Willie - a real character and good goalie. The look on your face after the own goal by Stuart Boam in front of the Holgate was priceless.
 
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