[Football] George Cohen

[Dave the hatosaurus]

A great loss for the Fulham family - a one club man. There's already a statue of him at the Cottage (replaced the awful Michael Jackson one).

RIP George
The next time we visit the cottage i will pause at the statue and pay my respects (hoping that it is somewhere i can access)

 

[BrightonCottager]

RIP George
The next time we visit the cottage i will pause at the statue and pay my respects (hoping that it is somewhere i can access)

Only if you've got into the home end! Thank you for your kind words, though. I just heard the tribute on the BBC news and almost had a moment. He was a real old school, suited and booted, modest man. I hope Fulham do the right thing and name the new stand after him instead of something naff and sponsored.

 

[Weststander]

Lovely man, had the pleasure of meeting him twice, once in 1975 when his brother, Peter, (father of Ben) was playing for Ford Prison FC (my dear old Dad was senior probation officer at the time) and then in 2001 at the Albion's Centenary Dinner. (A tough gig for him that night, an after dinner sppech to a around 1,000 diners, 80% of whom had no interest in listening to him)

Another legend gone

I was at that Brighton Centre dinner. DK took the microphone from George and gruffly told the large audience to show respect!

RIP George, an English hero.

 

[Mitch73]

Sad news. Not only a great player but apparently a really genuinely nice bloke too. RIP.

 

[BrightonCottager]

There's an interesting biography here https://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2022/december/23/george-cohen-1939-2022/

He bunked into Fulham as a lad and was the first of the attacking fullbacks.

My rugby mate tells me his grandson played for England as well.

 

[PeterT]

There's an interesting biography here https://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2022/december/23/george-cohen-1939-2022/

He bunked into Fulham as a lad and was the first of the attacking fullbacks.

My rugby mate tells me his grandson played for England as well.

Ben Cohen - another World Cup winner in the family, nephew not grandson

 

[Thunder Bolt]

There's an interesting biography here https://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2022/december/23/george-cohen-1939-2022/

He bunked into Fulham as a lad and was the first of the attacking fullbacks.

My rugby mate tells me his grandson played for England as well.

Alan Mullery played with him.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Alan Mullery played with him.

That's a scurrilous rumour

 

[Telboy]

Can anyone tell me why the whole 66 squad aren't Knights ffs

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Can anyone tell me why the whole 66 squad aren't Knights ffs

They didn’t give out knighthoods like confetti in the 60s and 70s. It took long enough for them to get MBEs.

 

[Zeberdi]

Already a thread

Well apologies I didnt see it but it is still sad news

Mods feel free to merge or delete this thread.

 

[Wozza]

In fairness, "George Cohen" was a pretty vague thread title...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

In fairness, "George Cohen" was a pretty vague thread title...

As is this one. Maybe the two thread titles could be combined to make a half-decent one

 

[PeterT]

In fairness, "George Cohen" was a pretty vague thread title...

Not if you are setting up another thread about George Cohen dying

 

[Official Old Man]

Listening to Alan Mullery speaking about him on the radio. He said he'd been to about 18 funerals in the past year or so and how there were just the two WC heros left.