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To Gillingham’s greatest ever left back! 70 today!
Best ever penalty taker. Never saw him miss.
Does the Mackland Arms ring any bells? That has a few Gills bits up and is near Northumberland Road / the station.My dad drove lorries for Brakes (formerly Brake Brothers) frozen foods and he used to have the regular Medway round.
He delivered to a pub where Dave Peach was often to be found helping out, presumably after morning training. Dad said he was really nice down to earth guy.
I am afraid my Dad is long gone (his 100th birthday would have been this February) so I can not ask him the name of the pub but others on this board may be old enough to have encountered him and can confirm.
He couldn't understand why we spent our money going round the country watching GFC trying to play football. Fifty years or so later, I think he may have had a point! That awayday to Bradford City still remains strong in my memory.He was what we used to call a tidy player and despite not being physically imposing, he tackled hard. I remember watching him in that FA Cup final and thinking of all the times I'd seeen him play at Priestfield. A certain person, who frequents this board, will remember a return train journey when we drunkenly imposed ourselves on Peach's good nature.
I think he missed just two and I saw both. Home to Torquay and away at Reading. Rotherhithe and I were sad enough to check this out on this site last year iirc. I had thought it was just the one at Reading but Rotherhithe corrected me and I realised I'd seen that too.Best ever penalty taker. Never saw him miss.
If he had missed one on 18/3/73 Nobby would have wet himself.Just checked scrapbook and the two misses came within 8 days of eachother, 2/3/73 and 10/3/73.
My dad drove lorries for Brakes (formerly Brake Brothers) frozen foods and he used to have the regular Medway round.
He delivered to a pub where Dave Peach was often to be found helping out, presumably after morning training. Dad said he was really nice down to earth guy.
I am afraid my Dad is long gone (his 100th birthday would have been this February) so I can not ask him the name of the pub but others on this board may be old enough to have encountered him and can confirm.
You mean they let him take another penalty after missing one a week earlier ( Great player, definitely in my all time Gills eleven)Just checked scrapbook and the two misses came within 8 days of eachother, 2/3/73 and 10/3/73.
He was apparently a regular (along with a few other players) in the Beacon Court during the early 1970s.
I heard that the Beacon had been demolished recently. I've not yet seen it gone.
Went in 2019 to make way for housing https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/historic-pub-demolished-200797/