I’ve been to places with work and you end up with a bit of small-talk and people say ‘have you ever played football or rugby’? Being able to say I played with Socrates is like my party piece because it is not something many people can say and it is a strange thing to say when you consider the career he had. I keep an eye on results and I follow Garforth on Twitter and Facebook. "He will always be special. A minute's silence before the game was drowned out by chants of "Doctor" – Socrates's nickname – and supporters also held up banners reading "Doctor Socrates, rest in peace". There’d be ball-boys stood over the fences and if the opposition were on the attack they’d kick balls over to stop the game. Club chairman Simon Clifford said the Brazilian had played a key part in securing Garforth… His courage was immense.". He got wrapped up with his hat, gloves and scarves on and went and sat in the dugout. Required fields are marked *. "He came on as a substitute [for Garforth] against Tadcaster," Clifford told BBC Radio Five Live. In the early 1980s when Brazil was under a military government he basically was behind a democracy movement in the club. Until they changed the rules you could tell which players would be getting brought off when a team was winning with a few minutes to go.

Andy Brooke, the goalkeeper. US election 2020 polls: Who is ahead - Trump or Biden? It was amazing and it was great to see him again after all these years. If we were coming up to a big game in a few weeks’ time, he’d have the main strikers wearing full-back numbers. It was totally surreal. We all had a quick chat with him and he gave us a team-talk and that was it.

He looked unbelievable and I think he scored a great goal. “We were winning 2-0 at half-time and they came back into it early into the second half to make it 2-2. We should have won the game because we took a 2-0 lead, but we let them back into it. Greg Kelly, Brett Renshaw (captain), Nick Jagger, Andy Long, Mike Longfellow, Jay Sobers, Andy Rowan, Nick Manousis, Gavin Birmingham. The referees sometimes didn’t have a clue what was going on on-the-pitch because they were just watching the dugouts. The former Brazil midfielder spearheaded a movement called Corinthians Democracy in which players protested against the long periods of confinement required by the club before matches. He didn’t speak a word of English and in a friendly he played upfront and missed an absolute sitter. It was just a matter of when. Read about our approach to external linking. There was method in the madness and if it had been that bad I wouldn’t have stayed for so long. We were very like-minded and I will miss him," he said. He’d say ‘number nine you’re rubbish’ or ‘you’re first touch is rubbish’ and ‘I knew I didn’t sign you for reason’. “With the psychological stuff, all sorts used to go on. It is crazy when you think about and even my parents thought he was absolute loon, but once as you are in a changing room with him you know why he is doing it. We were solid from back to front. “He’d get ball boys to hold onto the ball for longer than they should or get them to kick in the opposition direction. We had Brett Renshaw who was a man-mountain of a centre-half and he had a great partnership with Nick Jagger. The Garforth Town owner, Simon Clifford, remembered the Brazilian football legend and friend Socrates as "a tremendously brave and courageous" man whose legacy reached far … “I first came to Garforth when Jimmy Martin was the manager and I played for him for two years before Simon took charge of the team (in 2004). If we had been three or four-nil up he may have come on for longer. But I was the fittest I have ever been when I was with Garforth. Everyone was in it together. It is one of those stories which you think is absolutely bonkers, but it worked because we won and got promoted. “Some of the psychological stuff he did against the opposition worked an absolute treat. It was just before half-time when Gav Birmingham scored and it was a decent team goal. Yes there were neutral people there, but I think most of the Town turned out to see us play. They got left and I thought ‘I’m having these’. Subs: Jacques Joblon, Mike Tunnacliffe.

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