Bob Willis

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

Shocked and gutted about this news, I am sure they were only saying on the verdict a couple of weeks ago that he’d be back for the South Africa series.

RIP.

derwent · **Joined:** Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:59 pm **Posts:** 12362

R I P Mr Willis.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37383

He hasn’t been looking well for a while to be fair.

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22663

I’m no cricket lover but the man always seemed to be an honest and genuine guy. A gentleman in fact. RIP Bob.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:16 pm

It might have been Botham's Ashes as far as the series was concerned, but the Headingley win was as much Bob's bowling contributions as well as Beefy's runs. RIP Bob Willis a criicketing legend.

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19670

that ashes game was a bit like the so called matthews final. bob mortenson got a hat trick to win the game but hardly gets a mention. cricket fan or not i think he,ll be missed by many.

PJPoolie · **Joined:** Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:28 pm **Posts:** 15342

accrington fan wrote:

that ashes game was a bit like the so called matthews final. bob mortenson got a hat trick to win the game but hardly gets a mention. shite rounders fan or not i think he,ll be missed by many.

It probably made Stan furious over the years that I’m sure he’s thumping his fist wherever he is now at you calling him Bob but it does prove your point :laugh:

I have been seeing some great clips of some of Stan Willis’s more acerbic summing up of poor days for England my favourite so far after a collapse against India observing that he’d see less hookers on a walk around Soho.

horden · **Posted:** Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:38 pm

Not a cricket fan at all really, but Bob Willis and myself crossed paths. As a kid the school had a trip to Headingly to watch England v Pakistan, it was rained off , so spent most of the day making a nuisance of ourselves, would've been around 78 or 79. A couple of England players were signing autographs in the stand, some bloke called Ken Barrington and Bob Willis. When I approached Willis my pen wasn't pushed down to show the nib, so he more or less told me to fuck off before he gave me his signature, I thought what a miserable bastard, the Paul Reaney of Cricket. Rather than complain I just laughed about it with my 15 year old mates, things were different then.

RIP BOB

accrington fan · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:22 pm **Posts:** 19670

[quote="horden"] I thought what a miserable bastard, the Paul Reaney of Cricket. Rather than complain I just laughed about it with my 15 year old mates, things were different then.

you could put it all over facebook and twitter nowadays and claim against the whole england team for the trauma you suffered by your incident.

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:54 pm

How come you managed to write cricket and it not be turned into shite rounders Horden?

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:55 pm

Strange it worked for me as well!!

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