Happy 77th Birthday To Club Legend Joe Corrigan

Cravenvirgin said:
You’re right about Shilton but Clemence was with the beloved Dippers and I believe he got more caps than Joe despite the fact that imo Joe was better. He was also better, again imo than Shilton.
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Wasn't there a rumour about Clemence & Tom O'connors daughter who babysat for him
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Happy birthday Big Joe. Saw him in the Legends Lounge a couple of years ago. And in Cork in 1982 playing a challenge match against the local side. He walked off the pitch festooned with kids as I recall...:)
 
Cravenvirgin said:
You’re right about Shilton but Clemence was with the beloved Dippers and I believe he got more caps than Joe despite the fact that imo Joe was better. He was also better, again imo than Shilton.
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Shilton v Poland, Clemence v Norway. Massive costly howlers but they always got picked. As a youngster I couldn’t understand it. Between 76 to 81 Joe was better than both
 
Happy birthday to the big man. (10 years older than me.)

I'm a bit late to this but I first saw Joe playing for the reserves before he made his league debut. I can't remember the particular game, only that I went home enthusing about Joe to my dad - he let me go to the game without him for the 1st time with a lad from school, only because it was a reserve game and there'd be virtually no crowd.

Then a couple of years later he made his 1st team debut. Was really good at times, but then the mistakes crept in and he lost his place. He competed with Dowd, then Ronnie Heally and Keith Macrae.

But, when he eventually came back, he just got better, and better, and better and was a mainstay for so, so long. City goalies had been legendary so he had big gloves to fill, and there were so many great "home grown" goalies around at that time - Banks was still there; Shilton and Clemence; Bonetti; the Springetts; Phil Parks; Jennings; Gordon West and Stepney played for England as well in his time; Neville Southall towards the end of his career. There was a lot of competition and his bio says he got only 9 caps, but I don't think we blues would have swapped Joe for any of them after he got over that shaky start.

I was so lucky to see such fantastic goalkeepers, and others that would have been absolute superstars in this day and age.

Top man!
 
Happy Birthday Joe! I'll never forget the time I met you on the team coach outside the cinema in Waltham Cross, the night before a Spurs game. You never forget when you get to meet one of your boyhood heroes.
 
geoff hammond said:
Dodgy early part to his career (even played second fiddle to Keith Macrae for a couple of years!) but went on to become a fantastic club servant.
Unlucky not to get more England caps and I thought for a while around 1977 he was the best keeper around.
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He blamed his time as second fiddle on ‘too many chips.’
 
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