Dave Wagstaffe RIP

Didn't waggy have a bit of a dust up with crerand in a derby one time, some of the early sixties guys would remember, RIP waggy
 
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
laserblue said:
. A very talented winger and an early City hero for me.
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Me too
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Me too, he was my first City hero when I used to go with my Dad. We would stand on the Scoreboard End and remember my Dad shouting "Get stuck in Waggy" but he never did, great on the ball but to coin a popular phrase on here He didn`t track back.

RIP Waggy
 
I pay my respects to Waggy and condolences to his family.
A classy left winger who sometimes didn't bother beating his fullback, he would cross the ball early. He could float the ball in and our forwards and later Derek Dougan would feed on his crosses. As others have said he was one of my first heroes.
I remember it was a shock to hear he had gone to Wolves for £35000, supposedly to pay for the new floodlights.
Nelly Young and Dave Wagstaffe. Indeed it is an end of an era.
Sad losses.
 
RIP Waggy, my condolences to his family and friends. The best crosser of the ball I've seen play for City, he could drop the ball on a sixpence Derek Kevan must have loved playing with him.
 
left great memories for me-was a wizard down the line and a real shock when he went
what a left peg!
RIP and condolences to his family.
 
MEN has made a passing reference to this incident in 1963

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I was too young to see him play for City....but through his uncle, who was my dad's mate, he got us tickets for the Wolves/City League Cup Final....and I had one of his Wolves shirts too....classic long sleeved with round neck...

RIP
 
George Hannah said:
MEN has made a passing reference to this incident in 1963

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When I interviewed Waggy in April 2010 we talked about this. Here's my question and his answers:


Prior to this there was the small matter of a Manchester derby (15/5/63) which ended 1-1. Both sides were close to relegation, and Pat Crerand later went on record to say he punched you in the tunnel. What’s your view?

I think it might be impetuous youth. Jimmy Meadows used to tell me to hassle players and to get stuck in. This thing with Paddy Crerand. I must have upset him or something and we’re walking up the tunnel and he’s still in a rage. But I didn’t think he’d turn round and thump me one! We were walking up the tunnel and he was about three yards in front of me. I had my head down and I don’t know what was going through his mind but he must just have thought “I’ll hit him!” He turned round and did. I thought “what’s all that about.” I didn’t get it. I’d been involved with a few altercations on the pitch as you do, but I think he just lost it. I certainly never expected it.

Did it unsettle you?

Yeah, it did. I can’t remember much about the second half other than at one point I did a back pass and Denis Law, who was playing for them, intercepted it. Somehow Denis got a penalty as Dowd came towards him. It ended 1-1 and soon after we were relegated.

I think that I must have done something to rile Pat Crerand and a similar thing happened on another occasion with the great Bobby Moore. I niggled at him in a game and he ended up being sent off. I don’t think he’d ever been sent off before. I didn’t mean to wind him up but it happened.

He said a lot more than that but I've not got it all typed up. He talked as any City fan would about how Utd had treated him that day. I'll try and post more from the interview later today on my facebook.com/garyjames4
 
Gary James' full interview with Dave Wagstaffe from 2010 is on the site now:

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