Stan Bowles - The Maverick

[@lordloftus10]

Love you Stan ! As a Q.P.R. fan who moved to Essex and had to hold my own with all those west ham,back in the day,you allowed me to walk with my held high.From a time when football was magical ,and not money bullshit ,you were a giant.All true football fans know this.May God protect you and help you fight this ilness and remenber that you will always be loved by the R,s fans and all true football fans from the Q block to the Loft.Rangers till I die ! Mal the postman.

[@whiteeyes1575]

Feel privileged to have watched Stan, and the other great players of that era, football died a little when these great players hung up their boots

[@SBAYLISS]

It died completely for me I can’t stand football now and never watch it but oh the memories of the seventies will always be with me.

[@cbak12sg]

RIP the great Dave Clement and Micky Leach

[@redmanthinks]

I really enjoyed watching QPR that season, and I say that as a Chelsea fan !!!

[@mizofan]

Arrogant Hughes- how did he know QPR would falter? Derby, Notts Forest in the 70s and lots of teams have had to win the title for the first time.

[@Driver2616]

The passage of play from 0.30 is fantastic. One touch football, accurate passing, Bowles to Francis to Givens and back to Francis who passes it into the net.......

[@staceygrove5976]

I saw Stan Bowles playing for Crewe against Oldham Athletic in the old Div 4, in February 1971.

[@godsstruggler8783]

Bowles, Worthington, Marsh, Best - absolute entertainers that tried to entertain.

[@pikehead1]

The best player rangers ever had. love ya stan!

[@1998mrjake]

I'm 15 but these were the best days of football

[@MCLBossing]

They were definitely the best years

[@robertwhathisname5676]

+MCL Bossing, Bet many player from those days wish they were playing now.

[@neilwilliams8741]

bowles currie hudson best law worthington glad i seen them all and all liked a drink women and a bet when the beautiful game was working class for the working class

[@wobblyjack3971]

+neil williams Keith Weller, Charlie George, Duncan Mackenzie they were all brilliant. I've just learned about Johan Cruyf's death. Sad v sad a legend. Regards and thanks for the wonderful memories.

[@blackamoor61]

+neil williams quite right...bowles currie, hudson, worthington some great top quality English players there...all shafted and badlyunder utilized - effectively neglected - by the England national team. If they'd been born Brazilian they'd have been the first names on the team sheet. Same with Le Tissier years later. You have to wonder about the idiots who run the FA sometimes.

[@wobblyjack3971]

Pele expressed bewilderment when he saw the quality players, omitted by the England team. They have always preferred donkeys led by donkeys. Emlyn Hughes etc Regards to all true lovers of our game.

[@fredfox1764]

@@wobblyjack3971 hey i couldnt stand hughes as a person but footballer he was a great no question

[@Berkcam]

The super England squad that never was; Brian Clough coaching Bowles, Charlie George, Alan Hudson - help me out and name some more of the 'overlooked'

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

Peter Osgood. George "Geordie" Armstrong. Rodney Marsh. Dave Thomas. Harry Redknapp. Phil Boyer Duncan McKenzie. Chris Garland. John Hollins. Brian Kidd. Peter Simpson. John Radford.

[@Berkcam]

@@steffanhoffmann8937 wow... I didn't expect THAT much help Steffan.

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

@@Berkcam it's ok RESPECT. I could probably have given you many more! Poor Chris Garland tho in a care home for the "heading disease!" Alan Shearer is right about that. John Radford was totally underrated. That goal to clinch the 71 double was outstanding! He was even more incredible in real life games. Strong as an OX 💪 LIGHTING SPEED OF A GAZELLE

[@Berkcam]

@@steffanhoffmann8937 yeah I was a big fan of Radford and co. in that 70/71 season turned which me red and white forever!

[@darrenjazzfunksoul8850]

@@steffanhoffmann8937 You have put together a list without doing your due diligence or your memory has gone. Rednapp was awful ! West Ham fans used to laugh at him as he ran past the chicken run and fell over the ball. Radford was good for the Arsenal but joined West Ham and did not score for them in over 30 games. Chris Garland was promising but playing for Chelsea takes a special kind of player and Chris was not up to it. Duncan Mckenzie had loads of ability but joined Chelsea and went downhill rapidly. If you knew your football you would have named: Keith Weller Tony Currie Frank Worthington Jimmy Greenhoff Ray Kennedy Billy Bonds Bryan King

[@MrCFCarePOO]

Stan The Man. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's aged 66 June 20th 2015 . Gutted.

[@robertwhathisname5676]

+Inauspicious Narcoleptic (AKA MrCFCarePOO) I just found out what a real shame lets hope they can slow it down, a great player of his day or in fact any day.

[@MrCFCarePOO]

+Sid whathisname To have Alzheimer's slowed down can be an extra unbearable penance for both sufferer and carer. It's a b'staad!

[@robertwhathisname5676]

NO it's not to slow it does means you can stay within the community and take part longer, it has three stages and he is is in stage one now. They will now try to give him a few more years as a person, then he will go back into his past and then nothing. Slowing it down is what they are working on now.

[@Darwinion]

Emlyn Hughes talking bollocks. Bowyer was clearly offside for Norwich's 3rd goal. Remember back in the day you were offside if level.

[@blackamoor61]

I was only a kid then but always though QPR's Parkes was a better goalie than Shilton and Clemence.

[@colinbaker3916]

MIKE J To be fair, several Rangers players got picked for England in the mid 70s: Phil Parkes, Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, Dave Thomas, Gerry Francis, Stan Bowles. Don Revie made Gerry Francis captain.

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

These group of guys must have been the most entertaining I've ever seen.

[@boozhead]

Big up @MaverickSupporter and the rest of the QPR fans for giving such a top Benefit match yesterday for Stan, one Of Manchesters best.

[@johnwilson783]

Dave Thomas from my home village played for QPR at this time

[@w12-r7s]

Best team that season shd of won it!!!

[@wobblyjack3971]

Hughes should not sit in judgement over his fellow pros. Especially those whose boots he was not fit to lick. Regards

[@mizofan]

he was also a play-acting diver who tried to get Garner of Chelsea sent off

[@Martin63]

One of the greatest English football teams of all time. Superb, exciting skillful football - it's still hard to accept that the Championship was not won after the agonising 10 days wait at the end of the season. Thanks for uploading.

[@danielhowe7362]

Were Feyenoord told their strip had been borrowed?

[@darrenjazzfunksoul8850]

Stan the Man had Hughes sussed out. He was an out and out rat. He broke Peter Osgood's leg deliberately, slagged off West Ham fans in the 80's and was so unpopular even his own team mate Tommy Smith did not bother with him !

[@vantheman1234]

Five minutes in and Stan has done fuck all

[@briancarnival6916]

I've been following football since 1968 and I have to say my biggest disappointment in all those years was QPR not winning the title in 1976. I was a season ticket holder that season and QPR were on top of the table with all their games played. It all came down to the Wolves v Liverpool game ; Wolves needed to win to stay up and if the Reds won, the title was theirs. Wolves took the lead with 15 minutes to go - I was in Heaven ! Then what happened ? Liverpool go and score three ! QPR were so close - that's the agony and the ecstasy of football ! Stan was the main man indeed !

[@colinbaker3916]

Brian Carnival Wolves didn’t take the lead that late. Steve Kindon gave them the lead in the first half, which lasted until 14 minutes from the end ...

[@eastsurreys]

No body seems to remember that liverpool, because of their European Cup exploits, were given 10 days to 'recover,' before they played Wolves. Couldn't happen nowadays

[@johnt7630]

@@eastsurreys It's also why, these days, they play all the final games at the same time. It's fairer.

[@godsstruggler8783]

I was there as a 10 year old Wolves fan. I remember there being QPR scarves in the standing area underneath the Waterloo road stand. Liverpool fans were a disgrace that night. A conservative 10,000 more than should have been were in the South Bank after the gates were broken down by Liverpool fans. Some say there were 70,000 inside Molineux (officially 50,000). Hundreds climbed the floodlight in the Liverpool side and others got onto the roof of the South Bank - the crush must have been unbearable on the terraces. Ticketless Leeds and Manchester United fans were also famed for smashing through turnstiles in their thousands at Molineux in the 70's. They were no more individually violent than any other club's supporters - it's just that there were tens of thousands that would go to away games. Man United, Liverpool and Leeds fans were the worst for storming gates and smashing up towns. Sheer weight of numbers would overwhelm the police wherever they went. As for England, I saw Gerry Francis bag a couple at Wembley against the Scots in a 5-1 rout the year before but you could already smell the stench of FA control at International level. We know that Cloughie never got a sniff of managing England because - like Stan Bowles on the pitch - the control freaks running the game couldn't stand the thought of being undermined or having their cosy club of stuffed suits being ruffled. Five decades later NOTHING has changed. Indeed, it's got worse with corruption and hypocritical political wokeness ruling over our game. Well, what used to be our game - it now belongs to corporations.

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@eastsurreys Scandal.

[@tigerarmyrule]

Poor old Stan was taken by the punting bug which is a curse unless you have the self control to stop.

[@Fsavage97]

Hi, I was wondering where you got this footage from? As I am looking to make a university project on the man himself and need to find some footage to use

[@garylucas7050]

Sadly the characters of yesteryear will never be the same

[@steverawlinson9635]

Proper football

[@joenewman3705]

I see stan all the time he lives bear .each he goes in the gardeners arms greengate Moston I see him all the time walking about on Moston Lane you wouldn't no who he was top man

[@lendus.adolla]

Wow..that pub brings back some memories. I used to work down the road at Bae (Hawker/Siddeley).

[@neilbooth8510]

Still a great regret for many people that this QPR didn't win the league and the outrageously dull Liverpool team of that era did. As one commentator said, 'it was a general regret that Liverpool, who contributed so little in terms of football , finished above QPR, Utd and derby who contributed so much'. Some idiot further down questions how Hughes won so many caps if he was 'no good'. Really? After forty years of second rate players turning out time and again (and being crap time and again) for England just because they play for one of the NW reds? C'mon...

[@Ewen6177]

I loved the old away kit

[@fasthracing]

Remember seeing play at Man City in I think 1978. His wife had just left him and he City fans sane "Stanley Stanley where's your wife"

[@TheCrescentBar0961]

all the characters have gone unfortunately

[@ga-ow7yf]

What a joke Emlyn Hughes would not not talk to Stan Bowles when in the England camp.Lets be honest On football ability Hughes could not do Stan Bowles laces.

[@dodowd9913]

Fucking legend!!!

[@gregod806]

Stan the Man "I'll have yours" LMFBO way over Hughes head😂

[@carljan57]

Vale Stan

[@ashtongrist]

I love the song Stan Bowls by The Others

[@mikebarton]

Addiction. Say no more.

[@normanno8514]

emlyn "head the ball" hughes

[@mjh5437]

The ultimate Entertainer.

[@Afficionadoh]

sheepdog in goal - QPR superteam

[@mjh5437]

Phil Parkes.

[@The69ersFC]

Took me a while to figure out who the voice over was ! Minder!!

[@kdlofty]

Sort im aht terry.

[@stevenmckenzie6002]

The idea that England would have qualified for the 74, 78 world cups and 70s Euro tournaments if they had capped maverick players (Worthington, Bowles, Currie, Osgood, March, Hudson, etc.) more often is just misguided and frankly ridiculous. Is more a reflection of people's attitudes, stereotyping and UK sporting media culture nowadays. Ramsey, Revie and Greenwood would have capped players that were suited to play international football. England didn't qualify in the 70s because they didn't have enough good players suited to playing international football. It had nothing to do with not playing enough mavericks (liked to drink, party and womanise) in the team.

[@Gerard_2024]

@Steven McKenzie...I take your point, but nonetheless, do you think all those extraordinarily talented mavericks were even given a fair crack of the whip ? As far as I can remember, some of them were just given one chance and that was it. I think not enough effort was made to try and integrate them or take full advantage of what they had to offer. Going slightly off-topic (as we usually do after consuming a bottle of wine), and entering into the realm of trivia, it has just occurred to me that after qualifying for the 1962 tournament in Chile, the next time England qualified competively for the World Cup wasn´t until 20 years later in 1982 (Spain), given that they qualified automatically as hosts and champions in 1966 and 1970 respectively.

[@cuibono6872]

Very well put gentlemen, must agree, though I do feel Hudson, if maybe treated differently could have perhaps been the exception.

[@johnt7630]

I agree that these flair players would have improved the side, but not enough to win anything. The next generation: Glenn Hoddle, John Barnes, Chris Waddle, Peter Beardsley, Paul Gascogne etc all played over 50 times, but we still didn’t win.

[@blackamoor61]

Francis and Keegan were the type of semi-skilled robots who killed English football for years.

[@blackamoor61]

Francis and Keegan were the type of semi-skilled robots who killed English football for years.

[@dirkbogarde44]

Keegan a robot ? What a load of rubbish.

[@blackamoor61]

A Merry Xmas to you too. Keegan was trier, a hard working, runabout a lot mighty-mouse, His innate football skills were not of the highest quality so he worked on the other aspects of his game. That and kissing each England manager's ass. I like Keegan as a person and (later) as a motivating manager. But as a player he was the Forrest Gump of English football.

[@ericcollins8794]

dirkbogarde44 he also led Hamburg to the European cup final

[@jameshope398]

blackamoor61 if anyone worked harder at their game then it was Keegan