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Post by Headington Yellow on Mar 25, 2011 21:48:07 GMT
23 years ago on 26th of March 1988 he last took charge of The Mighty Yellows. RIP Maurice, always in our hearts.
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Post by junior1 on Mar 25, 2011 22:37:56 GMT
Echo those thoughts... Rip Maurice
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Post by Yellow River on Mar 26, 2011 8:08:26 GMT
Always came across as a decent person, well liked and respected in the football world. The likes of Graham Westley & Steve Evans could learn a thing or two about how to conduct yourself.
My main memory of Maurice is seeing him & Jim Smith leading out Oxford & QPR at Wembley. Then later telling Ken Fish to go up the famous steps to collect his medal.
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Post by baldy on Mar 26, 2011 8:46:27 GMT
I often wonder how Evans would be seen in today's football. I can remember him saying, in the wake of a defeat, things like his biggest worry was finding the time to tend his roses in his garden ! I'm sure it was just his way of relieving the pressure of a bad result but in today's cut throat football he might have had to adjust his very gentlemanly approach. Two defeats in a row nowadays is tantamount to a crisis and I think he may have had little time for the win at all costs mentality which engulfs modern day football.
Don't get me wrong I'm sure he was a winner, everyone as entrenched in football as he was has to be, but fans now almost demand their teams managers to contest every decision in the often frenzied way they do and that wasn't Maurice Evans' style.
He will always be fondly remembered though for giving the club it's finest hour. That final and the way we played probably summed him up to a tee. QPR were tense and they looked beaten coming out of the tunnel. We looked as though we were going for a kick about up Shotover and smiled our way to victory.
I know it was predominantly Jim Smiths players that won the cup and, of course, he was the real driving force behind our success at that time but could he have relaxed the players on such a big occasion in the way Evans did ? I'm nt so sure.
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Post by DodgeCitySkin on Mar 26, 2011 22:18:41 GMT
"Maurice put the kettle on.."
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Post by stokeu on Mar 27, 2011 16:33:08 GMT
Although I joined in I never understood why the song originated. Anyone know?
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Post by ox4eva on Mar 28, 2011 13:55:27 GMT
I think it says a lot about huch respect Maurice had in football, nice touch that he has been remembered at Oxford and Reading
A nice guy, but i think he knew how to get the best out of players
RIP
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Post by petechilton on Mar 28, 2011 17:20:47 GMT
Always will remember his comments during a post match interview at Wembley - "nice to see players pass the ball instead of just kicking it".
Legend and an absolute gentleman.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2011 21:10:45 GMT
I once wrote to him in the days of letters. Three days later I had a two and a half page letter in blue black fountain pen ink hand written. True gentleman and a legend RIP
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Post by junior1 on Mar 28, 2011 21:39:13 GMT
I once wrote to him in the days of letters. Three days later I had a two and a half page letter in blue black fountain pen ink hand written. True gentleman and a legend RIP What did the letters say?
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Post by Yellowbrains on Mar 29, 2011 1:34:07 GMT
Great man, responsible for bringing us our greatest honour. If only the name of Oxford United was associated most with Maurice Evans instead of of Robert Maxwell.
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Post by moobs on Mar 29, 2011 21:51:23 GMT
Is it true he never wanted the manager's job
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Post by Belgian Yellow on Mar 29, 2011 22:00:38 GMT
Although I joined in I never understood why the song originated. Anyone know? I think it was because he was always there in the background to be called upon when needed. Especially in the case of an emergency when, as you know, the first thing we do is make a cup of tea. There were a couple of times when he was asked to take temporary charge of the team (after Denis Smith left?) and I think that's when we started singing it.
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