16-10-2021, 12:09 PM
Blue tag
I watched the finest inside forward ever to wear the Blue Shirt and White shorts of Pompey i.e. Len Phillips in the pre-Championship, Championship and post- championship seasons.
Some pointers for Reeco from watching the Master at work:
All Reeco has to do is to learn how to kill a ball with either thigh or instep, pull an opponent to him and then release a perfect weighted ball anything up to 30 yards with deadly accuracy (helps of course if you have Harris or Froggatt already on the move as your targets).
Weigh in with some goals - Len was not a prolific goal scorer but a goal every 5 games wasn’t too shabby when you added in the hundreds he set up.
Sad that after a glittering football career he ended up on the shop floor at Airspeed, I met him in his declining years (fairly acute memory loss had caught him) at a Pompey book launch , a great privilege to meet one of my Back to back Championship hero’s.
A good idea for Reeco might be to spend his afternoons practicing, practicing, practicing ……and then practice some more (I don’t think he does at the moment, if he does, well, it isn’t showing). He does seem to have a bit of flair but it’s buried beneath ordinariness, his future is up to him.
I watched the finest inside forward ever to wear the Blue Shirt and White shorts of Pompey i.e. Len Phillips in the pre-Championship, Championship and post- championship seasons.
Some pointers for Reeco from watching the Master at work:
All Reeco has to do is to learn how to kill a ball with either thigh or instep, pull an opponent to him and then release a perfect weighted ball anything up to 30 yards with deadly accuracy (helps of course if you have Harris or Froggatt already on the move as your targets).
Weigh in with some goals - Len was not a prolific goal scorer but a goal every 5 games wasn’t too shabby when you added in the hundreds he set up.
Sad that after a glittering football career he ended up on the shop floor at Airspeed, I met him in his declining years (fairly acute memory loss had caught him) at a Pompey book launch , a great privilege to meet one of my Back to back Championship hero’s.
A good idea for Reeco might be to spend his afternoons practicing, practicing, practicing ……and then practice some more (I don’t think he does at the moment, if he does, well, it isn’t showing). He does seem to have a bit of flair but it’s buried beneath ordinariness, his future is up to him.