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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on September 05, 2020, 07:44:07 PM
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Only just spotted the following. Good to see that he's not forgotten us!
https://twitter.com/AlexStepney1/status/1289853551993221122 (https://twitter.com/AlexStepney1/status/1289853551993221122)
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I wonder how many other European Cup winners have played at Conference level or below?
*I notice on his Wikipedia page it says that he had 17 games on loan at Altrincham. Who from? Say his previous club was Dallas Tornado.
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I wonder how many other European Cup winners have played at Conference level or below?
*I notice on his Wikipedia page it says that he had 17 games on loan at Altrincham. Who from? Say his previous club was Dallas Tornado.
He was on loan from Dallas Tornado! In fact, we had two goalkeepers on loan from them.
"Of the seven members of the Robins’ second string who would make their first team debuts at the Moss Rose on that evening, the most significant was undoubtedly Billy Phillips, the promising 23-year-old 6ft 1in goalkeeper with black curly hair and a moustache who had been Alex Stepney’s understudy at Dallas Tornado in the North American Soccer League (NASL).
Born in Long Island, New York on 9th August 1956, Phillips graduated with a degree in Physical Education from Adelphi University, Nassau County, NY in 1978 but then reputedly proceeded to quit his job as a teacher to play soccer with Dallas Tornado for 50 dollars a week. The NASL club had paid his expenses to travel to England with Alex Stepney in September 1979, in order that he could continue to improve his game under the tutelage of the former Manchester United goalkeeper."
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I wonder how many other European Cup winners have played at Conference level or below?
*I notice on his Wikipedia page it says that he had 17 games on loan at Altrincham. Who from? Say his previous club was Dallas Tornado.
He was on loan from Dallas Tornado! In fact, we had two goalkeepers on loan from them.
"Of the seven members of the Robins’ second string who would make their first team debuts at the Moss Rose on that evening, the most significant was undoubtedly Billy Phillips, the promising 23-year-old 6ft 1in goalkeeper with black curly hair and a moustache who had been Alex Stepney’s understudy at Dallas Tornado in the North American Soccer League (NASL).
Born in Long Island, New York on 9th August 1956, Phillips graduated with a degree in Physical Education from Adelphi University, Nassau County, NY in 1978 but then reputedly proceeded to quit his job as a teacher to play soccer with Dallas Tornado for 50 dollars a week. The NASL club had paid his expenses to travel to England with Alex Stepney in September 1979, in order that he could continue to improve his game under the tutelage of the former Manchester United goalkeeper."
Somebody's been reading my 10-year-old programme articles!
Here's the man in question (No. 22) on a Dallas Tornado team photograph from 1980:
(http://www.nasljerseys.com/images/Tornado/Tornado%2080%20Home%20Team.jpg)
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His penalty save at Rotherham stands long in my memory in the FA Cup. ;D