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Eddie McCreadie RIP

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,631
in Other Football and Sports

Talented Scottish defender who was part of the Chelsea team that won the 1970 FA Cup. So many good players in that team.

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  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,481
    Another of my favorite players passes away.

    Both Eddie and Charlie Cooke played for Scotland together.

    RIP Eddie
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,135
    Hate to say it but Chelsea had a great team back then. RIP Eddie.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,631
    Lewis Coaches said:
    Another of my favorite players passes away.

    Both Eddie and Charlie Cooke played for Scotland together.

    RIP Eddie
    Charlie Cooke was a fantastic player to watch.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,631
    LargeAddick said:
    Hate to say it but Chelsea had a great team back then. RIP Eddie.
    Great players and plenty of characters...
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,626
    Bonetti, Hollins, McCreadie, Harris, Hinton, Webb, Cooke, Hollins, Hudson, Tambling, Osgood to name but a few in the days when it wasn't all about the money

    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,494
    RIP
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,175
    Addick Addict said:
    Bonetti, Hollins, McCreadie, Harris, Hinton, Webb, Cooke, Hollins, Hudson, Tambling, Osgood to name but a few in the days when it wasn't all about the money

    RIP

    Not forgetting Ian Hutchinson - the original long throw exponent (can't think of any before him anyway).

    That was indeed a great side, of which McCreadie was an integral part.

    RIP Eddie
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,751
    RIP Eddie. So few of that Chelsea team left now.
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,224
    RIP - a very fine player.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,804
    A fantastic player who may have made a great manager. 

    He saw Chelsea relegated, but got them promoted the following season and then had the audacity to ask for a contract and a car.  The Chelsea boss Brian Mears refused, but later bowed to pressure.  However, it was too late, McCreadie a man of honour had already gone.  I read that he didn't return for 40 years!  Different times eh?

    RIP Eddie.

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  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,614
    Never saw him play myself but just listened to a very heartfelt tribute by John Sitton (who was a youngster at Chelsea when Eddie McCreadie was the manager). 

    Sitton said the real reason McCreadie left, wasn't really the car business but more to do with a bit of hands-on stuff after someone in the Chelsea hierachy criticised one of his players once too often. Sitton cited Alan Hudson as the source of that explanation. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,545
    Member of a very good Chelsea team back in time .. R I P
  • BerkshireBob
    BerkshireBob Posts: 96
    Was he their manager when we beat them 4-0 at The Valley in about 1976? What a game that was! Did their ‘fans’ set fire to the turnstiles?!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,417
    BerkshireBob said:
    Was he their manager when we beat them 4-0 at The Valley in about 1976? What a game that was! Did their ‘fans’ set fire to the turnstiles?!
    Lit fires on terraces behind both goals.
    Knocked down turnstiles and smashed up The Valley Club.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,409
    And that is why they were kettled in last Saturday.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,663
    Covered End said:
    BerkshireBob said:
    Was he their manager when we beat them 4-0 at The Valley in about 1976? What a game that was! Did their ‘fans’ set fire to the turnstiles?!
    Lit fires on terraces behind both goals.
    Knocked down turnstiles and smashed up The Valley Club.
    The good old days.

    1970 and 71 were great days for a real,Chelsea team. They were my team before I was "infected" by the bug of Charlton. Bonetti still my all time fav player, Os-god. Even now I can recite the teams of the two 1970 FA Cup final.  Eddie, Ron "chopper" Harris, David Webb great defenders of their time, although today they would have a  full deck of red cards.

    RIP 
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,928
    edited January 15
    A great player. Wasn’t it Macreadie that ran head on into Bonetti when we played there which ended up with both players on the ground and the ball just sitting there on its own for Killer to trot over and put it into the back of the net ?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,417
    Kap10 said:
    Covered End said:
    BerkshireBob said:
    Was he their manager when we beat them 4-0 at The Valley in about 1976? What a game that was! Did their ‘fans’ set fire to the turnstiles?!
    Lit fires on terraces behind both goals.
    Knocked down turnstiles and smashed up The Valley Club.
    The good old days.

    1970 and 71 were great days for a real,Chelsea team. They were my team before I was "infected" by the bug of Charlton. Bonetti still my all time fav player, Os-god. Even now I can recite the teams of the two 1970 FA Cup final.  Eddie, Ron "chopper" Harris, David Webb great defenders of their time, although today they would have a  full deck of red cards.

    RIP 
    I'd be very close to naming both the Chelsea & Leeds teams from the 1970 Cup Final.
    I'd struggle to name a few of most teams now.

  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 12,123
    RIP Eddie. 

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