Top 25 Cult Heroes 1954-1979
So ladies and gentlemen, in the last twenty-five articles we have strolled down memory lane to meet the cult heroes of yesteryear, and relived with them some of the events ...
Standing outside the players entrance before one of his 109 appearances for the Gills, chatting and signing autographs, Mike Burgess looked like he could actually be the Queen's Equerry. A ...
Gills fans have always had a special relationship with their goalkeepers and three of them have achieved legendary cult status - Jim Stannard, celery-consuming custodian who in 1995/96 kept a ...
Once upon a time, before Posh and Becks and ‘Footballers Wives’, footballers were just ordinary blokes living ordinary lives. As far as the Gillingham players were concerned, they were usually ...
Ken! - clap, clap-clap, clap-clap - Price! - clap, clap-clap, clap-clap - Ken! - clap, clap-clap, clap-clap - Price! - clap, clap-clap, clap-clap (repeat until palms hurt).
What a chant that ...
My dad pushed the paper straight into my face as soon as I got in from work. ‘Look, we’ve signed a hippie!’ What on earth was he on about? On ...
For anyone who has supported Gills for less than 20 years, Damien Richardson was one of a string of poor managers in our slide to almost total oblivion, probably memorable ...
How much would you pay for a striker who can give you twenty goals a season, and be available to play almost every match? A bit more than the £4,000 ...
In the chequered history of Gillingham Football Club, there have been some dark moments, and June 1962 was one of them. While the rest of football was following England's progress ...
What can we do to get the passion back at Priestfield? Easy - install floodlights. The first floodlight matches at Priestfield coincided with Gills being unbeaten Fourth Division leaders, and ...
In the days when the only fashion statement footballers made was whether or not to wear Brylcreem, every team had a player or two who was really hard, and down ...
When Gills opened the 1958/59 season with a 2-1 home defeat by Millwall, many people thought they'd had a further laugh in the close season by unloading on us a ...
One of the few positives to come out of manager Basil Hayward's reign was the start-up of the youth system. David Peach was one of the first recruits, and one ...
The sale of Ron Saunders in September 1958 was a bitter blow, but amazingly Gills invested half of the proceeds in a new centre forward, paying Swansea £4,000 for the ...
In the late 1950's football was changing. The 'English style' of play, with its up-and-at-em, get-stuck-in attitudes might still be winning the cup and football league championships, but was looking ...
The number 9 shirt. Perhaps it doesn't have the magic these days when goalscorers line up with 14, 17, 24 etc, on their backs, but back then it conjured up ...
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