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3632_1352982335.jpg Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery.......
I will look to the moment, and miraculously, the future will take care of itself.
Radio 5 Live, Sat, April 14th, 2007,...Dave Whelan, "In Wigan, rugby will always be king"
'I was certain, positive, convinced, and yet..........unsure'
'It's only rock 'n' roll, but I like it'
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| Quote: Bilko "Why bring this up you may wonder. Well I'm wondering if anyone remembers this game at Fartown in which referee Vince Moss reduce both sides to 10 men. It was a Division 2 clash which saw both sides chasing promotion at the time.
Moss red carded Les Bolton, Alan Hodkinson and Nicky Kiss for Wigan whilst Jimmy Johnson, Glen Knight and Steve Lyons were sent off for Hudds. They all got three match bans except Johnson.
Wigan took disciplinary action against the whole team for the events that day.
After an inquiry the RFL fined Wigan £500, Huddersfield £250 plus £1,000 suspended fine for each club.
I have a question - why was George Fairbairn sacked at the end of the season despite winning promotion? Was it to do with this game?
I also read the French Championship final that year got abandoned after 5 minutes and declared void because of brawling and a French referee Guy Gatteneo was accused of bias over his officiating of a GB v France test match.
In Maurice Bamford's (who was Huddersfield coach at the time) book 'Memoirs of a Blood and Thunder Coach' he wrote it was 5 players sent off, O'Neill, Hodgkinson and Butler of Wigan, and Lyons and Johnson of Huddersfield, which is correct I cant remember ( maybe Rogue can ! ) but Bamford was destined to become our next coach replacing George Fairbairn who left to go to HKR for (then) a record fee of £75,000.
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| Was there any specific reason why Tony Johnson was "roughly treated" ?
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| Quote: TrentBarrett "Was there any specific reason why Tony Johnson was "roughly treated" ?'"
Probably cause it was 1981 and he was 'different'.
Sad but true.
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| Quote: MattyB "Probably cause it was 1981 and was 'different'.
Sad but true.'"
Shocking stuff he looked like a classy player too
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| That clip where he is on the floor after a tackle and a Wigan player looks like he is trying to pull his head off He must of been hard as nails to withstand that!
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| The lad in the clips - Tony Johnson , was the bloke who got me interested in RL , he spoke 'fondly' about his experience in that game !!!
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