Marley Watkins

Billy Whitehurst would rip his head off and **** down his throat.

What are you on about?

Marley worked hard but snarling? Hard? Fouling he was not.

Steve Cooper was like.

 

imagine him n gwyn thomas in a midfield together, good honest bone crunching ;-)

 

nope, I thought he was average too.

 

He did. Hence it getting into the media.

 

True story about Billy big balls whitehurst....lol
Many years ago I used to keep company with Billy
To the fact myself and a couple of lads from Thurnscoe would often be guests of Billy at Hulls home games...he would leave tickets in the main office for us to collect ....we would then meet him after the game to have a drink in the players lounge...he would always come and sit on the terrace wall and chat to us prior to the game starting often sneaking a couple of drags on one of the lads cigs plus id have the customary fiver bet on him not scoring first half double or quits second half if he failed...
One night it was all ticket as Hull were playing Leeds ...so billy informs me the ticketswill be left in reception in main office...we get there as always in our suits no tickets left....so cut a long story short I approached the chief superintendent who was on duty explained our case and he takes us in to our regular spot near the tunnel...billy comes out sees us and mouths **** tickets are in my jacket pocket
He goes out to warm up comes and sits on the wall all apologetic we explain how we get in...kids asking for autographs...he tells them we are scouts from liverpool trying to persuade him to go and play for them...
We then get dogs abuse from some of the blokes there with their kids much to Billy's amusement
He then bets me a fiver he will be first to score....
Trudges off at half time to me laughing and mouthing you owe me a fiver.whitehurst .and rubbing my fingers together....
He then comes out 5 minutes before kick off grabs a sneaky drag or two off a cig and says double or quits second half....
To which I laughed and said it's like taking candy of a kid easy money ok....
Now knowing Billy likes to edge his bets and hates losing he says il tell you what double or quits I can black chris faircloughs eye.....I ok I i say laughing ...and with that off he trots ...
Game kicks off for second half first chance he gets he backs in to chris fairclough and as they go up for the ball up comes his elbow and smack chris goes down clutching his face....game ends in a draw....fast forward to the tunnel after the game some time later I'm stood talking with Eddie Gray when we are joined by Howard Wilkinson the leeds manager...who mistakes me for a journalist I explain who I am and Howard apologises and says hang on here and il have a drink with you...does his interviews and off we set to go upstairs to the board room allowing Billy to pass as he had been upstairs to receive the man of the match award...
So I have a couple of Gin and tonics with my new found mate Howard.....lol thank him and make my excuses and head back down to the players lounge to some **** take about being upstairs with the management from the hull lads...
Billy spots me and shouts across the room hey chris this is him who bet me I couldn't black your eye....
If it hadn't been for 3 or 4 of the hull lads getting in between me and the leeds players they'd have lynched me.....Billy just sat there raised his glass and started laughing his head off....
Chris fairclough was non impressed I can tell you...fully expected him dinking me one when he left.....happy days lol

 

Cool Story Bro’.

No seriously that is a cool story.

I know Billy pretty well from when I used to live in Goldthorpe and he used to have the Butchers.

Been p1ssed with him many a time.

He told me about the time he nearly signed for Barnsley. He said he’d never met my old man, and still to this day hasn’t but he’s spoke to him on the phone.

Apparently we’d agreed to sign him from Newcastle and my old man was the one talking to him about coming. All agreed and was due to sign on the Monday morning.

Anyway Billy rings my dad to say ‘Eric, I think the deals off. I’ve been in Police Custody since Saturday night after I punched a woman in a nightclub...‘

I think he’s got in a brawl with a bloke and tried to land one on him but ended up connecting with his Mrs instead!

 

Can’t remember seeing Whitehurst play for us.
What the hell are you on about !?!?!

 

Would have been good to see him in a Barnsley shirt , heard many stories when I used to go in butchers arms too . Definitely a plan b option with billy on bench

 

I liked Watkins. Not an individually great player but a really effective team player. Made the players around him look better through his work rate & movement & allowed us to alternate between 4-4-2 & 4-5-1.

He’d be perfect for us at the minute with his pressing as you could swap him around with Brown & Chaplin as starters & bring the other on but with his age & it been a loan deal I’d imagine he’s nowhere near our plans

 

I’m comparing him to a proper snarling, fouling centre forward.

 

I agree and when I met him I thought he was a knob.

 

Another Billy whitehurst story told by Gerry Taggart. Tags had a run in with Billy on the field. And tags could see him waiting for him in the tunnel after the game. Tags spending an eternity shaking fans hands around the ground. Mal Shotton asked him what he was playing at. He said Billy’s waiting on mi. Mal had to play mediator. And said to Billy. “Come on mate he’s only a bairn. He’ll learn “ Billy then gave Tags a friendly ( shall we say ) warning.

 

Gwynn Thomas. Alan little. Graham Pugh. Proper tigers of the game. Don’t think they would be tolerated in today’s game. Take the animal out on em and they would not have had careers in football.

 

Love the Billy Whitehurst stories....wish hed do a book.
I can remember he was on talk sport or something ages ago...hillarious. Im sure i heard when he was at hull, he did a turd in team bath and everyone had to carry it!...andy payton ran off do he threw it at him!!!

 

Yes billy nearly joined us on 2 occasions once when he left Sheffield utd and then again whilst at Sunderland terms had been agreed and I do believe he was coming down the following Monday to sign on the dotted line...unlike previous at united when wages had been the issue.and stumbling block.although both parties were close to agreement ...what TN says about the assault was whilst he was at Sunderland not newcastle....if I remember the story correctly bearing in mind we both Billy and myself had had a lot to drink.at the time when he told me........Billy was in a sunderland night club and was being pestered by a group of woman..hed told them huggins of times to go away and leave him alone ....one girl in particular who was wearing a low cut dress and let's say very busty wouldn't take no for an answer and kept repeatedly leaning in and putting her breasts very close to his face....billy told her to stop actng like a slapper and repeated I'm not interested she then started giving him dogs abuse because of the rejection...he tells her to fxxkoff and goes to wave her away with the back of his hand just as she leans in ....unfortunately due to her breast size and almost falling out of her dress to start with his hand came up under her boobs and one flops out of her dress....at that all hell breaks loose ....hes accused of sexual assault I think it was her brother who got chinned for his trouble along with his mates or that could be another story.lol.and it might even have been ian beresford the goal keeper who chinned him..anyway police get called and billy gets carted off and it's all over the papers saying hed been arrested for sexual assault..
And because of that we pulled the deal of the table....further to that I think if memory serves me right the sexual assault charges were dropped and he got done for common assault......in the free for all that took place..following her boob coming out

 

Mal and Billy head to head, that’s not an altercation you’d want to get in the way of!

 

Thought billy had done a book or there was a book written with a lot in about him