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Right: Terry Cooper steals the ball off Manchester City's Rodney Marsh

RIP Terry Cooper the former Boro, Leeds Utd and England Full-Back who has passed away today aged 77

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RIP Terry Cooper the former Boro Leeds Utd and England Full Back who has passed away today aged 77

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Very sad to hear. It was a pleasure to see Terry Cooper play. For me one of the classier players in Revie's Leeds side and still could play with some flair when he played with us.

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Also very sad to hear. He provided one of my most enduring Boro live at the match moments. My only visit to Anfield March 1976. He rifled a long range pile driver past Ray Clemence in the 2nd minute at the Kop End and Big John added another and we won 2-0. I had to look up the teams, they had Keegan Hughes Smith Callaghan Case etc. We had Billy Woof on the bench.

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Yes, very sad news. A top class player and a great full-back

RIP, Terry. Up the Boro! 

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@mw-in-darwin.  Yes very sad news on the loss of a great full back and a nice bloke.  

I was also at that match and took my now ex wife with me.  She was not into football but always wanted to see and hear the Kop.  She spent the whole match asking why are they not singing! 

Definitely one of the most memorable times watching away from home.😎

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So very sad to hear of the death of Terry Cooper who when playing for Boro lived in Cricket Lane overlooking Normanby Hall cricket ground near my golfing partner. Coincidentally my wife’s dearest friend bought Terry’s house when he left for Bristol and eventually retired to Tenerife. A proud Yorkshireman and rather poignant that he should die on the eve of Yorkshire Day, His son Mark only recently was appointed manager of Barrow after having spent five years at Forest Green Rovers. Condolences to his wife, son Mark, grandson Charlie and the rest of his family and friends, and may Terry now rest in peace.

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My memories of Terry Cooper are of an amusing incident just after he had joined the club.

He was known for his humour and quick wit and my wife and I attended a Boro function at the now demolished Marton Country Club which was owned by the then Boro Chairman Charlie Amer. although there was dancing to Amers resident band the “dinner” consisted of a hot buffet where we all had to stand in line to be served the hot food which consisted of saveloy sausages and pease pudding. I was stood in the queue next to Terry Cooper and Willie Maddren and TC leant over and pointed to a rather large     Phallic looking sausage. He grinned and said to Maddren “That reminds me of Platty’s tool!” We all laughed and I never had the nerve to ask Jim Platt who I got to know very well if the rumour was true !

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I’ve sent a message to Jim today and awaiting his comments !

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Just as we were pondering over Boro's lack of left-back options, sadly another one of the greats has left this mortal pitch - unfortunately, I'm too young to have remembered seeing him play for Boro as I only started going to games in 1978, which was the year after he left for Bristol City.

btw Moved OFB's Terry Cooper's post to a new thread as it will be easier for those to find and leave a comment if a new season thread starts up


   
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Yorkshire Day is quite a recent celebratory day following the protest by the Ridings Society of Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1974 which terminated the usage of North, East and West Ridings which converged at York. Parts of the former North Riding including Thornaby, Eston and Redcar merged with the South Durham towns of Hartlepool, Stockton and Billingham to form the County Borough of Teesside, which of course no longer exists today only as a region. The former West Riding towns of Ripon  and Harrogate are now part of North Yorkshire, whilst the city of Kingston upon Hull left the East Riding to join part Lincolnshire to become known as Humberside, but even that term is only a region. The Ridings Society meets every year on the 1st of August, the initial meeting having taken place in Beverley but never in Middlesbrough, although it did convene in Redcar in 2008 and also in Saltburn and Guisborough on the 1st of August and was initially known as White Rose Day. So perhaps Middlesbrough doesn’t consider itself to be part of Yorkshire today!

This information got me thinking why we don’t celebrate the birth of Middlesbrough FC. It’s now established that the Boro was NOT formed at a tripe supper. I’m pleased about that because the old joke about the Boro ALWAYS playing tripe can now be expunged from our history, even though sometimes the description might have been accurate! The fact is that the founding of our great club took place on the 20th of October 1876 by members of Middlesbrough Cricket Club wishing to form some other outlet to keeping fit during the winter months. So should be celebrating with parmos on that date every year? There have haven’t been any matches of particular significance played on the anniversary of that date, but that season was the 50th anniversary of Boro’s inauguration and they did celebrate promotion that season with promotion and scoring a record of 122 goals for the Second Division (which still stands today) and of course George Camsell accounting for 59 of them. As it happens Boro are scheduled to play away to Barnsley on the anniversary of Boro’s formation 145 years ago. Will Boro introduce a commemorative kit for that match? Or will they wait a further 5 years in the hope that they win promotion in their 150th season? The question is though can Boro fans have the patience to wait that long?

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@ken

Ken, if we still get a decent left winger and a second striker signing soon, we might get promoted. You never know - there will be a surprise team every season. Let's hope it will be Boro this season.

Imagine a player like Bolasie on the left and another proper centre forward to add to Ikpeazu. 

If the impossible happens, we all should have a party in Redcar in May. And you, Ken as a honorary guest.

We do need a left-footed defender, too. Up the Boro!

 

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One of the best Left Backs of his time and always exciting to watch. He always put me in mind of a Brazilian style Full Back rather than an English style Full Back. I used to love watching him bomb forward. 


   
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Just added a couple of photos I found of Terry Cooper in his Boro days to the start of the thread - he definitely had a seventies look!


   
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Whilst mentioning Yorkshire Day, the lyrics of  “On Ilkla Moor baht’at” was a story sung by someone chiding his friend for courting his girlfriend Mary Jane on windy Ilkley Moor on a Methodist ramble without wearing a hat, and teasing him that he’ll likely die of exposure and his corpse will probably be eaten by worms and then the ducks will eat the worms. But what many folk don’t know is that the tune is actually a hymn called Cranford and is an alternative tune especially sung by Methodists at Christmas for the carol “Whilst Shepherds watched their flocks by night “ or cheekily by choirboys ‘washed their socks at night’.

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@ken I hadn’t ever noticed a mention of the Methodists in our Anthem. Which part of the lyrics confirms that they were on a Methodist ramble? 


   
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@martin-bellamy

Meant to write that it was first sung by a chapel based choir probably with  a Halifax accent. As sources specifically mentioned ‘chapel’ instead of ‘church’  and the tune ‘Cranbrook’ is a hymn tune first printed in the original Methodist Hymn Book I think it’s safe to say that the questioner was asking his pal why he left the main ramble with his girlfriend to do a bit of courting. Sometimes ones got to use one’s imagination about these folklore lyrics. I also thought that Jarkko might need some translation, as I myself do when listening to Geordies speak even after referring to ‘Larn yarself Geordie’.

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