How Good/Bad Was.......Kevin Reeves

[BufordUSABlue]

I loved him.He was very under-rated IMO.

Ditto Oakie
I really liked Kev as well
Would be brilliant in the current team!

 

[ClaudioDeyna]

Good enough to play for England. He made his debut on the same night Glen Hoddle made his.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

He was ok but for that money in them days, we should have been buying better.

 

[john@staustell]

Extremely under rated. Didn't appear to pull up any trees but sure scored goals.

Cheated out of a perfectly good semi final goal by a corrupt chap called Alf Gray. I was sitting a few yards away in the North Stand

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

He came with a big fee on his head , and was not the world beater we thought we had signed , but still a very decent player , a cultured player , and he was underrated , deceptively quick and would now interesting to see his stats in the modern terminology for assists and goals , he was not just a goalscorer , very clever lad , who could see a pass.

 

[kas_tippler]

Wasn't very good

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

I was a nipper as well when he played for us, I vaguely remember him doing this and it causing all sorts of commotion at a family bash

 

[crazyg]

As I've said before, Allison paid a lot of money for him because he thought he was signing Christopher Reeve!

 

[LWashington]

Had many panini albums. The foil badges were best bit. Never got the city badge, always needed to send off for it ! I think we always sold a player before I had even got anywhere near finishing the page lol.

Same here, if i remember correctly the only time i completed city was the year they had 6 stickers on one of the first pages of a map of football grounds in the uk. No doubt some panini expert will tell us what year that was .

 

[baildon blue]

He was ok but for that money in them days, we should have been buying better.

I agree .
Trevor Francis was a good signing in 1981 .
Can't really say the same about Kevin Reeves in 1979 .
Peter Swales saw Kevin Reeves play for the England under 21 .

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Just a shame that Spurs equalized in 81. Otherwise, we would have remembered Reeves as the player who scored the winning goal.

 

[baildon blue]

Same here, if i remember correctly the only time i completed city was the year they had 6 stickers on one of the first pages of a map of football grounds in the uk. No doubt some panini expert will tell us what year that was .

I only completed one album and that was the 1983 album .
I always liked the team badges and team photo .
I wish I'd kept my album from back then .
The year I did it , you also had what the referee would do in the picture .

 

[petrusha]

Here's the last-minute winner against Leeds in December 1980:



Remember that quite well, as Leeds had come to 'park the bus', as people say these days. They were appallingly negative all afternoon. Poetic justice that they conceded when it looked as though they'd got the point they came for.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Here's the last-minute winner against Leeds in December 1980:



Remember that quite well, as Leeds had come to 'park the bus', as people say these days. They were appallingly negative all afternoon. Poetic justice that they conceded when it looked as though they'd got the point they came for.

The game that spawned the song "you're worse than Leeds United" to any defensive team at Maime Road for the next couple of years.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I agree .
Trevor Francis was a good signing in 1981 .
Can't really say the same about Kevin Reeves in 1979 .
Peter Swales saw Kevin Reeves play for the England under 21 .

Especially as we sold Barnes and Owen for not much more for the pair of them. Fucking horrendous decisions at the time.

 

[Blue and Proud]

From what I remember I thought he played well alongside Trevor Francis probably as defenders were drawn to Francis and he got more space. Apart from his contribution to the cup run in '81 he was distinctly average.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Here's the last-minute winner against Leeds in December 1980:



Remember that quite well, as Leeds had come to 'park the bus', as people say these days. They were appallingly negative all afternoon. Poetic justice that they conceded when it looked as though they'd got the point they came for.

Was in the Platt Lane that day...... most defensive display I have ever seen by a team

 

[Mikejl]

Great player, scored some crucial goals, great work rate, unselfish. Maybe in today's world he would be comparable to someone like Jovetic

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Here's the last-minute winner against Leeds in December 1980:



Remember that quite well, as Leeds had come to 'park the bus', as people say these days. They were appallingly negative all afternoon. Poetic justice that they conceded when it looked as though they'd got the point they came for.

Alan Clarke was Leeds' manager that day. Shockingly negative tactics.

I really liked Kevin Reeves. As others have said he wasn't especially quick, or strong, and didn't score enough goals for a striker, but he was very skillful, held the ball up well (notwithstanding his lack of strength) and was very good in the air for his height.

We overpaid for him, but when's that in itself ever stopped us appreciating a player?

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Great player, scored some crucial goals, great work rate, unselfish. Maybe in today's world he would be comparable to someone like Jovetic

Was he always injured?