Stan Bowles
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thehockleyhustler
Stuart Pearce
f***ing awful condition.
Getting either Alzeimers or MND would be my absolute worst nightmare
Getting either Alzeimers or MND would be my absolute worst nightmare
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winnits
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Cruel disease. My granny has dementia which has all but destroyed her short term memory, mercifully she can remember us and with carers continue to live happily at home with her dog.
However long that lasts remains to be seen.
Horrible news for Stan Bowles and his family.
However long that lasts remains to be seen.
Horrible news for Stan Bowles and his family.
Bryn Gunn
Cash is King!
Sad news.
Great player.
Great player.
Ravi
Upper Decker
Fond memories of him playing for us. Very sad.
Raymondo Ponte'
It's all about mid-table...
Very sad. Articulate player, lovely to watch.
alabamared
Stuart Pearce
Very sad for such a character.
Always remember a great goal he scored for us a t Coventry.
Always remember a great goal he scored for us a t Coventry.
Barry
Where's me hammer?
Before my time, but read his book a few years back comes across as down to earth and by all accounts decent footballer...... Sad news
Itsy-bitsy Bonatini Yellow Polkadot Bikini
Stuart Pearce
Was it Stan Bowles who scored the winner against Barcelona in the Super Cup final?
That was Charlie George in the first leg we won 1-0.
Second leg 1-1, Kenny Burns for us!
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valspoodle
Steve Chettle
Thoughts are with Stan and his family. A most distressing illness. I think most of us have experience of someone in our own family with the condition and it's heart rending.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Through association with a couple of Forest lads at the time, I had the pleasure of being in Stan's company a few times during his all-too-brief stay at the CG, and a more down-to-earth bloke I've rarely met in any circumstances, let alone from the pampered world of professional football.
Almost unbelievably - even back in those days - Stan lived in a terraced house in Logan Street in Bulwell during his time at Forest (whilst Trevor Francis enjoyed a house in the Notts countryside with a swimming pool and drove a Jaguar). According to a mate who lived in a nearby street, as Stan had never learned to drive, on occasion he wasn't averse to catching the no. 43 bus from Bulwell to Trent Bridge to get to training when funds wouldn't stretch to a taxi fare.
I just wish we could've seen him in a Forest shirt a couple of years earlier when he was at his very best, as we really only saw flashes of his brilliance.
Almost unbelievably - even back in those days - Stan lived in a terraced house in Logan Street in Bulwell during his time at Forest (whilst Trevor Francis enjoyed a house in the Notts countryside with a swimming pool and drove a Jaguar). According to a mate who lived in a nearby street, as Stan had never learned to drive, on occasion he wasn't averse to catching the no. 43 bus from Bulwell to Trent Bridge to get to training when funds wouldn't stretch to a taxi fare.
I just wish we could've seen him in a Forest shirt a couple of years earlier when he was at his very best, as we really only saw flashes of his brilliance.
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I'm Red Till Dead
Stuart Pearce
Very sad, and he's still relatively young at 66. My heart goes out to Stan and his family.
Barry
Where's me hammer?
From his book and his own words he couldnt get on with the insistence from clough of giving robbo the ball..... He felt he was good enough for it to be the other way round.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
Although he was regarded primarily as a striker at QPR, there was much more to his game in terms of involvement in building attacks. His ability to drop off and link play was exemplary.
As such, it was a gamble that unfortunately didn't pay off when Peter Taylor brought him to the City Ground as Cloughie had a proven system of play whereby Robbo was, rightly, our main catalyst. He simply wanted Stan to do his job in the opposition box. The result of this was that Stan clearly appeared a forlorn figure at times.
If he has since documented that he felt frustrated that he played second-fiddle to Robbo, he certainly didn't allow it to affect their off-field relationship, as they become good pals, as indeed he also was with Bomber, his old Man City teammate.
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Barry
Where's me hammer?
Oh no he defo didnt say hed got owt against robbo personally, he defo doesnt come accross like that at all, more like youve said he was king dick at QPR and coming to forest he wasent gonna be that and wasent used to that.
Otis Redding
Try A Little Tenderness
He was a player with a lot of confidence in his own ability to have a major affect on games, which is probably why he struggled to adapt to Cloughie's more rigid demands of him, along with the fact that his legs were beginning to go, a likely legacy of years of being kicked from pillar-to-post on mud-heaps or bonehard pitches.
Given that modern-day football has almost turned into a non-contact sport, with the protection afforded by referees these days, Stan would be virtually unplayable.
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winnits
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Logan Street! I remember going there as a kid with my mate to buy Terrapins 
Raymondo Ponte'
It's all about mid-table...
Logan Street! I remember going there as a kid with my mate to buy Terrapins
There are no Terrapin shops on Logan Street Winnits !
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winnits
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There was then
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I always thought he was a player much like Duncan McKenzie - great to watch and unpredictable as hell.
It is a shame about his suffering from Alzheimer's.
One day there will be a cur... one day.
It is a shame about his suffering from Alzheimer's.
One day there will be a cur... one day.
Alexandro Garibaldi
Bang Bang
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frankwignall
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Classic old school. Value today?
Anatoli
Stuart Pearce
I wrote a chapter about Glamour boys in my book and it was all about Stan and Charlie George. Cloughie decided that Stan could not play in Robbo's testimonial so Stan refused to travel to our second European Cup Final. This meant that we only had four substitutes on the bench, the only club to not have the full tally of subs apart from Malmo the year before who were decimated by injuries. Stan was a really talented player but had far too big a personality to play under Cloughie. They ended up hating each other.
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Francis Benali (on loan)
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Imagine a player now refusing to be part of a Champions League final squad because he wasn't given permission to play in a testimonial.