The Maestro - Has anyone got?

[Fernhurst]

Was Jim the inventor of the long throw as a tactic?

[res]

 I've got a treasured book called "Football Today" signed by the Maestro

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv3efEdaXO
whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vyIbR5WNfg

[Colton F.C.]

Plenty of appetising mementos here.  Superb technique by Jim Langley for the long throw (SP please note).  A masterclass in crunching tackles by Killer Keetch. A typically confusing goal from Rodney.  A five star strike by the Maestro.  And a quiet afternoon for the mop haired future white on the wing. :clap_hands:

[LittleErn]

Here is a clip I havent seen before

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/soccer-young-england-whip-italy/query/johnny+haynes

Me neither. It certainly gives a good impression of how good the Maestro's passing was - both in conception and execution - perfectly weighted.

[LittleErn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUo8CpL9OjU

After watching every home match for 10 years, I think this was the last game I watched before going off to College for three years in the midlands. Met my wife, got married in 1967 and lived in Yorkshire ever since. Visits to the cottage few and far between, alas.

[LittleErn]

Shows how memory can mislead. I remember Haynes as being left footed, but on nearly all of the clips on here his right footed passes are the killer ones.

[Dr Know]

Jimmy Greaves once said Johnny's injury up in Blackpool was a tragedy for him.
"I was on the same wavelength as Johnny and he could spot my runs quicker than anybody".
"If he stayed fit I would have made the World Cup team".

I read somewhere that Greaves thought Johnny Haynes was a better player than Bobby Charlton !

[filham]

Shows how memory can mislead. I remember Haynes as being left footed, but on nearly all of the clips on here his right footed passes are the killer ones.

He was never seen to be one footed but his right foot was the natural one that is why from the inside left position his reverse pass to the left wing looked so.so good.

[OldBrownShoe]

The Maestro was a quite wonderful and creative player. Apart from his long distance passing, his short passing had a certainty and crispness about it, he could completely turn the opposition defence with a drop of the shoulder, had a stunning and stinging shot with either foot, scored a lot of goals, formed a great partnership with our Graham Leggat, and with Bobby Smith and Jimmy Greaves for England. Even took the occasional penalty for us.
Particularly remember his hat-trick in our 5-0 route of USSR (bunked off school to watch midweek game on TV, and his two and overall contribution to England 9 Scotland 3.
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[bog]

The Maestro was a quite wonderful and creative player. Apart from his long distance passing, his short passing had a certainty and crispness about it, he could completely turn the opposition defence with a drop of the shoulder, had a stunning and stinging shot with either foot, scored a lot of goals, formed a great partnership with our Graham Leggat, and with Bobby Smith and Jimmy Greaves for England. Even took the occasional penalty for us.
Particularly remember his hat-trick in our 5-0 route of USSR (bunked off school to watch midweek game on TV, and his two and overall contribution to England 9 Scotland 3.
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On Sportsnight just before that game Kenneth Wolstenholme said that 'Haynes should be dropped as he is off form.' After the game and Johnny's three goals the next week's programme showed him sat with sack cloth and ashes on his head. A old form of penance for daft things said or suggested...  049:gif

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[Shredhead]

Thanks for the Pathe footage - great. I always wondered what Haynes was like. My dad used to rave about him.

[OldBrownShoe]

Regrettably Wolstenholme was a typical opinionated BBC fool. The Maestro was one of the best players I ever saw and rarely saw him have a poor game. He created so many goals. We have had nobody of his type since to match him. 049:gif

[bog]

You will rarely hear him mentioned because he played for Fulham. Jimmy Greaves said he was better than Bobby Charlton and Pele said he was the best passer of a ball he ever saw.

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[Fernhurst]

You will rarely hear him mentioned because he played for Fulham. Jimmy Greaves said he was better than Bobby Charlton and Pele said he was the best passer of a ball he ever saw.

Thank you Captain, best couple of quotes ever.
We have reached the stage where life before the Premier League is pretty much forgotten.
We really have to think ourselves lucky to live through a period where we witnessed Johnny Haynes playing for Fulham FC.
Thank Gawd!

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[bog]

You will rarely hear him mentioned because he played for Fulham. Jimmy Greaves said he was better than Bobby Charlton and Pele said he was the best passer of a ball he ever saw.

Thank you Captain, best couple of quotes ever.
We have reached the stage where life before the Premier League is pretty much forgotten.
We really have to think ourselves lucky to live through a period where we witnessed Johnny Haynes playing for Fulham FC.
Thank Gawd!

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As you say Fernhurst how privileged and blessed we were.  I wonder how he would have played alongside Ronnie Rooke? Before the 2-0 win over Everton last season I was by his statue and a very elderly man was being helped for a look up at this. In a very strong Scouse accent he told all within earshot that this player was the best he EVER saw.  He then made a point of placing  a palm of respect on the base.  :Haynes The Maestro: :54:


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