On Monday, May 30, 2005 9:40 PM [GMT+1=CET],
deadpigs2 <deadpigs2@...> wrote:

> To be honest Bob, I didn't really have much of a clue who Jon Sammels
> was!

Played for Arsenal for almost all of the 60s and for Leicester for almost
all of the 70s. Jimmy Bloomfield brought him to Filbert Street soon after
Arsenal's double success; I think he might even have been Bloomfiled's
first signing. Played in midfield and could slow down the most hectic of
games. When Bloomfield started his experiments, he even spent some time as
a sweeper!


> ... my parents first started taking me up to
> Highfield Road around 1975 ... one of my earliest memories is a 1-0
> win over Leicester surprisingly enough.

Goal scored by Donato Nardiello? Father of Daniel who is on the books at
Old Trafford and has been playing for Barnsley this year.


> Now if you were talking about Brian Alderson! ... ( Who of course
> started at Cov and went to Leicester )

Never the same player at Leicester as he had been at Coventry. And the
second ex-Leicester player that you have mentioned today who settled in the
US and has since died. Although everybody heard about Keith Weller's
passing recently, I suppose that not many will have heard that Alderson was
killed in an accident involving scaffolding on a building site - must have
been 6 or 7 years ago.


> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_seven_steps/
> which you may be interested in despite your allegiance to the
> dastardly Foxes!!!

Thanks for posting the pics. I'll certainly take a look at your site and
I'm glad to see that you think no more of my team than I do of yours.
;-)


--
Bob
Tiptoe through the West End
With yer handbag
And a two-bob lip-stick