Seeing the pic of the 1970s players tonight with Bob Mc Kinley leading them made me wonder if we appreciate what this man was to our club. When we do our lists of greatest teams and players Bob never gets a mention yet this is the man who played 18 years for us. 682 matches. An fa cup winner,club captain and a gentleman. I know i'm probably wrong but i can't remember him getting booked and i know he never got sent off. Word is the corporate boxes are being named after the european cup winning team and rightly so but there is no recognition of Bobs marvelous service to the club as far as i know. Views please
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Bob Mc Kinley
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kevin
Banned
Never heard of him
TheDudeII
John Robertson
Dad puts him in his 3 favourite ever Forest players.
john player
Viv Anderson
To my shame I know very little about him, by the sounds of it he deserves some sort of honour.
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
Idiot
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
Always remember way back in the day when I was less than 10 going to see Forest Bob and Jeff Whitefoot were always my favourite players.
Bob was a rock all through the 60's when Carey built such a great side.
But of course we were nothing before Clough were we?
Bob was a rock all through the 60's when Carey built such a great side.
But of course we were nothing before Clough were we?
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Bob was regarded as a gentleman in the game. Uniquely never being sent off, and booked no more than a handful times throughout his entire career. Unprecedented for a centre-half.
His game against Celtic was one one of the less forgettable Forest testimonials I've attended over the years and was thoroughly deserved.
Being a member of that generation of players who had to get a proper job after leaving the game, I believe he became a prison guard at Lowdham Grange.
His game against Celtic was one one of the less forgettable Forest testimonials I've attended over the years and was thoroughly deserved.
Being a member of that generation of players who had to get a proper job after leaving the game, I believe he became a prison guard at Lowdham Grange.
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John Robertson
BuckeyeRed
Jack Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1btNULC_E
about 5:10 there's an interview with Big Bob. He was before my time but damn he is overlooked by a lot of our fans. A true gentleman and a Forest legend. Rest in peace Sir.
about 5:10 there's an interview with Big Bob. He was before my time but damn he is overlooked by a lot of our fans. A true gentleman and a Forest legend. Rest in peace Sir.
Kjetil Osvold's Cat
Kingsley Black
I suppose the thing is that it's only really you old-timers :wink:, who can consider choosing him in a best Forest XI or as one of the top 10 Forest players or whatever. Even so, he's still one of the names new fans hear when growing up supporting Forest (at least I did). It's just that anyone too young to have been watching when he played won't have seen anything of him, apart from an interception in the FA Cup 1959 Final highlights or something if we're lucky. It's a bit like deciding if Neil Franklin should be alongside Bobby Moore in an all-time England XI - most of us don't know how to judge him...although Forest fans would probably stick Des Walker in that position anyway!
I remember when I was going overboard with the Forest all-time XI's on that thread a while ago, that I put McKinlay in team 4 or something just as recognition that it sounds like he was good enough for that at least....but it was a bit of a case of Pin the Tail on the Donkey really - I think at least one old-timer put him in the first team though IIRC.
Anyway, the fact that his name lived on enough for a kid to hear it in the 80's as a legend of the Club is something at least. His number of appearances and years service should ensure he continues to be talked about now and again even in 100 years time when nobody remembers him first hand - a bit like Grenville Morris now although goalscoring is always a bit more prestigious than racking up appearances.
I remember when I was going overboard with the Forest all-time XI's on that thread a while ago, that I put McKinlay in team 4 or something just as recognition that it sounds like he was good enough for that at least....but it was a bit of a case of Pin the Tail on the Donkey really - I think at least one old-timer put him in the first team though IIRC.
Anyway, the fact that his name lived on enough for a kid to hear it in the 80's as a legend of the Club is something at least. His number of appearances and years service should ensure he continues to be talked about now and again even in 100 years time when nobody remembers him first hand - a bit like Grenville Morris now although goalscoring is always a bit more prestigious than racking up appearances.
Kjetil Osvold's Cat
Kingsley Black
Good find - that's Billy Gray too - he looks to have had a great game in the final at inside forward, setting up goal 2 with a cross as well.
Bob McKinley no. 5 on his back was the finest uncapped centre half that never played for Scotland. Nothing got past him. Only once in his last season when he pulled a player back at Arsenal. This was the ONLY TIME HE WAS BOOKED in his entire career. Todays fans would have appreciated how Bob would completely doninate the middleand yet play so cleanly against some of the roughest, tougest centre forwards around. We'll never see the likes of him again. No amount of praise is too high for this man.
Kjetil Osvold's Cat
Kingsley Black
I notice Billy Bingham was Luton's right winger too!
For the Forest goals, and Billy Gray (number 10) plays this one is a bit better actually (but not as good in that the interview isn't included of course):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8OdPl5_bg
For the Forest goals, and Billy Gray (number 10) plays this one is a bit better actually (but not as good in that the interview isn't included of course):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8OdPl5_bg
Anatoli
Stuart Pearce
Bobby - From 'Those Forest Men'. Previously on LTLF as a Me Owd piece.
Forest started out as a Bandy or Shinty or Shinny team. Bandy is a cross between football and Ice hockey, played by teams of 11, on Ice, with a ball, not a puck. It is still played in Russia and Scandinavian countries. Once we converted to football, our first real rivals were of course, Notts County. They were formed to play football, not some other game. The Derby rivalry came about in the 1970’s because Clough left them and came to us. And we all thank the Lord for that.
So, I thought about Cult Heroes and I thought about what it was to truly be a loyal servant to a football club. Nigel Clough is our second highest scorer of all time and the son of our greatest ever manager, yet he can openly declare his support for our arch-rivals and go on to manage them. Kris Commons spent all his time at this club telling us that we were the club that he had supported as a boy, and he too left to join our greatest rivals. Footballers can be so fickle.
So, I thought about which was our most loyal ever player. Which player had the most all-time leading appearances in competitive games for Forest? What do you think? Stuart Pearce? Nigel Clough? Des Walker?
My cult hero is not mentioned in the book I was bought. He was an unglamorous player playing for an unglamorous team in an unglamorous division. The player that has made the most competitive appearances for Forest for all time is Scottish Centre-half, Bobby McKinlay.
Bobby was born in 1932 in Lochgelly, Fife. He was the son of a semi-professional football player who played for Cowdenbeath. His junior club was Bowhill Rovers and in 1949, his uncle recommended him to Billy Walker’s Forest. At the time he was an inside right. He joined the club and made his début on the 5th of October 1951 against Coventry City, aged 19 years and 17 days. He took over from the injured Alan Orr. Up front for us that day, was our leading goal scorer of all time, Wally Ardron. Within three seasons, Wally had retired and Bob had established himself at Centre-back. He played in the first game against the Busby babe’s team after the Munich disaster in front of 66 thousand fans. He was a member of the team that won the 1959 cup final and he survived Walker’s cull of the following season. In 1962 he was made club captain and he remained in this role until 1966.
On 22nd April, 1959, Bob McKinlay missed Nottingham Forest's game against Leeds United at the City Ground. It was 23 October, 1965, before his name was off the team-sheet again for a League match. This run in the side took in 265 consecutive appearances and six full seasons. In total, McKinlay played 614 times in the League for Forest, to this day, a club record. During all that time, twenty years of professional football, Bobby never earned more than seventeen pounds a week.
Look at any team photo from the 1950s and 60s and there is Bobby smiling back at you. Forest have always had strong Scottish connections and our longest serving player was a Scot. Bobby was our most loyal ever player; a true unsung hero. The word ‘stalwart’ seems made for him and his contribution to the history of our football club.
Bobby made his last League appearance for Forest in 1969, at the age of 37. He went on to play for Albion Rovers back in Scottish lower-league football before retiring. Although he was often nominated for the Scottish national side, he never made an International appearance.
After retiring from the game, McKinlay worked as a prison officer at Lowdham Grange Detention Centre, near Nottingham. He died in 2002, leaving two children and five grandchildren.
This is a real Forest hero; a model of professionalism and consistency. We will never see his like again.
Forest started out as a Bandy or Shinty or Shinny team. Bandy is a cross between football and Ice hockey, played by teams of 11, on Ice, with a ball, not a puck. It is still played in Russia and Scandinavian countries. Once we converted to football, our first real rivals were of course, Notts County. They were formed to play football, not some other game. The Derby rivalry came about in the 1970’s because Clough left them and came to us. And we all thank the Lord for that.
So, I thought about Cult Heroes and I thought about what it was to truly be a loyal servant to a football club. Nigel Clough is our second highest scorer of all time and the son of our greatest ever manager, yet he can openly declare his support for our arch-rivals and go on to manage them. Kris Commons spent all his time at this club telling us that we were the club that he had supported as a boy, and he too left to join our greatest rivals. Footballers can be so fickle.
So, I thought about which was our most loyal ever player. Which player had the most all-time leading appearances in competitive games for Forest? What do you think? Stuart Pearce? Nigel Clough? Des Walker?
My cult hero is not mentioned in the book I was bought. He was an unglamorous player playing for an unglamorous team in an unglamorous division. The player that has made the most competitive appearances for Forest for all time is Scottish Centre-half, Bobby McKinlay.
Bobby was born in 1932 in Lochgelly, Fife. He was the son of a semi-professional football player who played for Cowdenbeath. His junior club was Bowhill Rovers and in 1949, his uncle recommended him to Billy Walker’s Forest. At the time he was an inside right. He joined the club and made his début on the 5th of October 1951 against Coventry City, aged 19 years and 17 days. He took over from the injured Alan Orr. Up front for us that day, was our leading goal scorer of all time, Wally Ardron. Within three seasons, Wally had retired and Bob had established himself at Centre-back. He played in the first game against the Busby babe’s team after the Munich disaster in front of 66 thousand fans. He was a member of the team that won the 1959 cup final and he survived Walker’s cull of the following season. In 1962 he was made club captain and he remained in this role until 1966.
On 22nd April, 1959, Bob McKinlay missed Nottingham Forest's game against Leeds United at the City Ground. It was 23 October, 1965, before his name was off the team-sheet again for a League match. This run in the side took in 265 consecutive appearances and six full seasons. In total, McKinlay played 614 times in the League for Forest, to this day, a club record. During all that time, twenty years of professional football, Bobby never earned more than seventeen pounds a week.
Look at any team photo from the 1950s and 60s and there is Bobby smiling back at you. Forest have always had strong Scottish connections and our longest serving player was a Scot. Bobby was our most loyal ever player; a true unsung hero. The word ‘stalwart’ seems made for him and his contribution to the history of our football club.
Bobby made his last League appearance for Forest in 1969, at the age of 37. He went on to play for Albion Rovers back in Scottish lower-league football before retiring. Although he was often nominated for the Scottish national side, he never made an International appearance.
After retiring from the game, McKinlay worked as a prison officer at Lowdham Grange Detention Centre, near Nottingham. He died in 2002, leaving two children and five grandchildren.
This is a real Forest hero; a model of professionalism and consistency. We will never see his like again.
Real nostalgia this. My formative years as a Forest supporter revisited, Just two picky things. Always Bobby, never Bob, and please, those were the days of centre halves, just one playing in the middle of a back three. Cen tre backs are more recent terminology which better reflects the role.
Whitefoot - McKinley - Burkitt, my oh my!
Whitefoot - McKinley - Burkitt, my oh my!
Bob was a bit before my time, but when I started watching Forest as a nipper in the mid-70s, I used to go with my Uncle, who often mentioned how good the Johnny Carey team was, and what a player McKinley was.
He looked a proper hard man, too.
Nottingham Forest have a wonderfully rich history, even before the European Cup glory years, I've often felt that we don't celebrate enough of it.
Surely that's what the game is all about, right?
He looked a proper hard man, too.
Nottingham Forest have a wonderfully rich history, even before the European Cup glory years, I've often felt that we don't celebrate enough of it.
Surely that's what the game is all about, right?
The Vicar
Geoff Thomas
In the 1966/7 season he played in a back four alongside Terry Hennessey as Forest played 4 4 2
David Layne
First Team Squad
Those were the days! Bobby Mac was how we referred to him.
Joe Baker's Dog
Grenville Morris
We rightfully remember the European Cup winning teams and the teams that did so well in the late 1980s.
But we had a really good team that won the FA Cup in 1959 and an even better team (in my opinion) in the mid to late 1960s. As well as Bob McKinley there were others who deserve to be remembered - Terry Hennessey, Henry Newton, Ian Storey Moore, Joe Baker.........these were great players. I met Henry Newton a couple of years ago and he is a true gent and looks as fit as he did all those years ago.
But we had a really good team that won the FA Cup in 1959 and an even better team (in my opinion) in the mid to late 1960s. As well as Bob McKinley there were others who deserve to be remembered - Terry Hennessey, Henry Newton, Ian Storey Moore, Joe Baker.........these were great players. I met Henry Newton a couple of years ago and he is a true gent and looks as fit as he did all those years ago.
TheDudeII
John Robertson
That team would have done the double if some shit didn't injure Joe Baker
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frankwignall
Guest
Happy Days.
David Layne
First Team Squad
Winfield was of that era too. I remember his scoring a wonder goal at the Bridgford End, against Blackpool I think.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Other than those you mention - especially King Joe - another favourite of mine was Johnny Barnwell. A lot of the great play produced by Carey's side went through him
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
The goal you're thinking of was in a 5-1 win against Middlesbrough.