Hope we have a minutes applause next home game for old miller Graham Leggat , disgusted we didn't have a minute's silence for Justin Wilson last game lets put it right .
agree with the Justin thing i watched it live and remember him being a Rotherham Lad, and appropriate fro Graham too.
ill tweet RUFC See if theres a response
I remember being impressed with him when he played out wide for us. It was round about the time Docherty was manager I think - certainly late sixties anyway.
Thats right the Doc signed him , allegedly on big bonus for scoring, he scored one when millers were two up the Doc jumped up to celebrate but Eric and Lewis Purshouse (millers chairman and vice ) jumped up appealing for offside, don't know how true this is but found it funny st time, apparently the Doc used it in his after dinner stories .
Also read in book about Bill Shankly he once referred to the Purshouser's as the most honest men in football
Thats right the Doc signed him , allegedly on big bonus for scoring, he scored one when millers were two up the Doc jumped up to celebrate but Eric and Lewis Purshouse (millers chairman and vice ) jumped up appealing for offside, don't know how true this is but found it funny st time, apparently the Doc used it in his after dinner stories . Also read in book about Bill Shankly he once referred to the Purshouser's as the most honest men in football
fascinating.
I was brought up in the era when the Purshousers were being hounded and criticised for lack of will and ambition and generally being uncommunicative and above it all.
I remebber thinking, as a very young boy, that if oonly we could get rid of them the club would have a bright new modern future.
Very hilarious when I think about it and very ironic indeed.
Thanks for bringing back that memory-how odd, when we remember things with such pathos
Fabulous tale about the celebration/offside appeal Len and also the Shanks anecdote. I know an ex-Millers player who told me about dealing with the Purshouse family. He had a decent first year as a pro and bulled up by an experienced player at the club went into a meeting with the chairman fully intending to come out with a much improved deal. The meeting lasted about ten seconds and went like this: 'Well done lad. It'll be same as last year'. Reply: 'Yes, thank you'. As a young player he was totally intimidated but he remembers the Purshouses with nothing but fondness as being careful but straight down the middle. The game has changed a lot. I can't imagine that conversation happening these days! Not that I'm suggesting that anyone at the club isn't straight (in case any lawyers are reading).
-- Edited by smiler on Monday 7th of September 2015 09:45:09 PM
