Trevor Francis RIP

[Tangled up in blue.]

RIP Trev.

 

[york away to this!]

That debut... wow!

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Stoke averaged 14,635 in 81-82 and their highest attendance was 25,256 for Tricky Trev's debut

2nd Highest was 20,592 v Tottenham

In contrast, they recorded 19,662 v the rags and only 16,758 v for the eventual League Champions Liverpool.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

What sad news

 

[philiph20]

I always remember as a young kid hearing the news headlines on the ITV news at 10 saying' Francis takes the Maine Road to Manchester', a real buzz that we'd signed a world class striker.

 

[Burtonblue]

Top player and a really nice guy to boot.
Another one gone too soon.

 

[The Lone Whalley Ranger]

Seems like it was quite a coup for us to sign Francis. Before my time, but how did we manage to pull off this transfer?

 

[Andrew Keenan]

Seems like it was quite a coup for us to sign Francis. Before my time, but how did we manage to pull off this transfer?

With a large bung to Cloughie, according to rumours at the time.

 

[peter.evans]

That is a total urban myth, I'm afraid. The Maine Road gates when Francis played were mostly in the range 30,000 to 33,000. That was very much in line with the matches the season before and was actually less than matches which he did not play.

That's not true, league average was 28k 80/81 then 34k 81/82 the year we had Trevor then back to 27k 82/83 after he left !

 

[Indaparkside]

Sad