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48 Years ago...Saw the home game...
January 13, 1973, saw Stan Bowles' QPR draw 0-0 with non-league Barnet at Loftus Road
(Won the replay a few days later at Barnet 3-0 Bowles, Leach and Mancini)
- We've NEVER been an FA Cup team. Probably haven't got past the 3rd Round more than ten times in the past 50 years!
Programme Cover
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QPR-V-BARNET-PROGRAMME-1973-F-A-CUP-THIRD-ROUND-/112664892326?nma=true&si=UVHO4la8t0vQCuf4fb1dwPq3bxo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QPR-V-BARNET-PROGRAMME-1973-F-A-CUP-THIRD-ROUND-/112664892326?nma=true&si=UVHO4la8t0vQCuf4fb1dwPq3bxo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
And from Barnet... Interview with their then player Powell, in that Cup game (and I remember him)
www.bfcsa.co.uk/0809/articles/paddy_powell.htm
Reckless Meets Colin Powell
By Reckless
This interview originally appeared in a Barnet programme. Reproduced by kind permission of the club.
Les Eason, Lou Adams and Billy Meadows, who were prolific goalscorers for the club during the late 1960's and early 1970's, will all state that their job was made simple because of the midfield skills of Barry King and Gerry Ward, but more importantly by the service and wing play of Colin Powell.
Of course it is not as simple as that but the fact is they have all said so. The press viewed Colin as the 'George Best of non-league football'. Powell is an all time favourite of many Bees fans, was without doubt one of the most exciting players to play for our club, was voted by the Barnet Football Club Supporters Association as 1970s Player Of The Decade and fully justifies the tag of a Legend Of Underhill. I met up with Colin, or Paddy as he is universally known, in the bar of the Metrogas Sports Club in Eltham where he still plays cricket in the summer and where his son David now plays as a striker in the Kent league. "I live just down the road in a nice house in New Eltham with my wife Sally and I do enjoy a Sunday at the club after matches, you must excuse me not having a drink with you Reckless but I have been up all night watching the cricket and drinking coffee!" he laughed.
....
FA trophy
"...Paddy's greatest hour in an amber and black shirt was during January 1973 and the FA Cup ties against QPR. Believe me that Phil Parkes' crossbar was shaking for a week courtesy of a Powell screamer in the last minutes which would have won the day for the Bees. "Yeah I caught it sweet, too well in fact" he chuckled. "I thought we completely outplayed them in the replay too until the last 20 minutes when the fitness told". The game at Underhill finished 0-3 in front of nearly 11,000 and the QPR team included the likes of Stan Bowles, Gerry Francis and Don Givens, it was a glorious night all the same.
Time to Move On
Shortly after this Theo Foley and Les Gore at Charlton Athletic approached Colin and offered him his first full time contract and Barnet allegedly £10,000, Paddy was 24. "Hereford Utd had shown an interest in me and we had nearly agreed terms but I said I needed time to think about moving from Hertfordshire, where I was settled, and from Barnet where honestly I was still happily playing. Anyway the money on offer from Hereford wasn't that different from my full time wages when coupled with the money from Barnet. Eventually I chose Charlton not only because the size and potential of the club (they were in the old Division 3 in 1973) but also the close proximity. I knew as did Barnet manager Tommy Coleman that the time was right to move on".
Every Barnet follower was saddened to see Paddy leave Underhill, with his mop of thick blond hair on the right wing leaving full backs for dead time and time again, but we all knew he would progress. He was an exceptional talent and we had been fortunate to witness his maturity. He never let the side down and was one of those players who would give the crowd an instant lift of expectancy when he received the ball. I honestly believe only Andy Clarke and Dougie Freedman have come close to Paddy's ability to excite an Underhill crowd in that way.
"I spent five brilliant seasons at Charlton, again hardly missing a game." He continued "I was approached by Derby County in 1977 about the same time that my mate Derek Hales moved there, Colin Murphy put a bid in for me but Charlton rejected it. I also spoke to Sheffield Utd too. I then briefly moved to America, to Boston Massachusetts playing for the New England Tea Men with my Charlton team mate Mike Flanagan. They forked out £90,000 for me! After a season there I returned to the Valley until 1981 partly because I was also offered one of the houses that Charlton owned to live in, so that was a big bonus".
.....
www.bfcsa.co.uk/0809/articles/paddy_powell.htm
48 Years ago...Saw the home game...
January 13, 1973, saw Stan Bowles' QPR draw 0-0 with non-league Barnet at Loftus Road
(Won the replay a few days later at Barnet 3-0 Bowles, Leach and Mancini)
- We've NEVER been an FA Cup team. Probably haven't got past the 3rd Round more than ten times in the past 50 years!
Programme Cover
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QPR-V-BARNET-PROGRAMME-1973-F-A-CUP-THIRD-ROUND-/112664892326?nma=true&si=UVHO4la8t0vQCuf4fb1dwPq3bxo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QPR-V-BARNET-PROGRAMME-1973-F-A-CUP-THIRD-ROUND-/112664892326?nma=true&si=UVHO4la8t0vQCuf4fb1dwPq3bxo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
And from Barnet... Interview with their then player Powell, in that Cup game (and I remember him)
www.bfcsa.co.uk/0809/articles/paddy_powell.htm
Reckless Meets Colin Powell
By Reckless
This interview originally appeared in a Barnet programme. Reproduced by kind permission of the club.
Les Eason, Lou Adams and Billy Meadows, who were prolific goalscorers for the club during the late 1960's and early 1970's, will all state that their job was made simple because of the midfield skills of Barry King and Gerry Ward, but more importantly by the service and wing play of Colin Powell.
Of course it is not as simple as that but the fact is they have all said so. The press viewed Colin as the 'George Best of non-league football'. Powell is an all time favourite of many Bees fans, was without doubt one of the most exciting players to play for our club, was voted by the Barnet Football Club Supporters Association as 1970s Player Of The Decade and fully justifies the tag of a Legend Of Underhill. I met up with Colin, or Paddy as he is universally known, in the bar of the Metrogas Sports Club in Eltham where he still plays cricket in the summer and where his son David now plays as a striker in the Kent league. "I live just down the road in a nice house in New Eltham with my wife Sally and I do enjoy a Sunday at the club after matches, you must excuse me not having a drink with you Reckless but I have been up all night watching the cricket and drinking coffee!" he laughed.
....
FA trophy
"...Paddy's greatest hour in an amber and black shirt was during January 1973 and the FA Cup ties against QPR. Believe me that Phil Parkes' crossbar was shaking for a week courtesy of a Powell screamer in the last minutes which would have won the day for the Bees. "Yeah I caught it sweet, too well in fact" he chuckled. "I thought we completely outplayed them in the replay too until the last 20 minutes when the fitness told". The game at Underhill finished 0-3 in front of nearly 11,000 and the QPR team included the likes of Stan Bowles, Gerry Francis and Don Givens, it was a glorious night all the same.
Time to Move On
Shortly after this Theo Foley and Les Gore at Charlton Athletic approached Colin and offered him his first full time contract and Barnet allegedly £10,000, Paddy was 24. "Hereford Utd had shown an interest in me and we had nearly agreed terms but I said I needed time to think about moving from Hertfordshire, where I was settled, and from Barnet where honestly I was still happily playing. Anyway the money on offer from Hereford wasn't that different from my full time wages when coupled with the money from Barnet. Eventually I chose Charlton not only because the size and potential of the club (they were in the old Division 3 in 1973) but also the close proximity. I knew as did Barnet manager Tommy Coleman that the time was right to move on".
Every Barnet follower was saddened to see Paddy leave Underhill, with his mop of thick blond hair on the right wing leaving full backs for dead time and time again, but we all knew he would progress. He was an exceptional talent and we had been fortunate to witness his maturity. He never let the side down and was one of those players who would give the crowd an instant lift of expectancy when he received the ball. I honestly believe only Andy Clarke and Dougie Freedman have come close to Paddy's ability to excite an Underhill crowd in that way.
"I spent five brilliant seasons at Charlton, again hardly missing a game." He continued "I was approached by Derby County in 1977 about the same time that my mate Derek Hales moved there, Colin Murphy put a bid in for me but Charlton rejected it. I also spoke to Sheffield Utd too. I then briefly moved to America, to Boston Massachusetts playing for the New England Tea Men with my Charlton team mate Mike Flanagan. They forked out £90,000 for me! After a season there I returned to the Valley until 1981 partly because I was also offered one of the houses that Charlton owned to live in, so that was a big bonus".
.....
www.bfcsa.co.uk/0809/articles/paddy_powell.htm