chaddy the owl Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 My mate has come across him today and said he is completely on his arse in general. He asked me if I would like to help him organise some kind of do to raise a bit of help for him. Not a clue what he is thinking of doing. Any ideas welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaticsPete Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 A reminder that football can treat you like a god and then you're in the gutter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancy lad Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 My mate has come across him today and said he is completely on his arse in general. He asked me if I would like to help him organise some kind of do to raise a bit of help for him. Not a clue what he is thinking of doing. Any ideas welcome Unfortunately not........... I already paid to go to his testomonial V Liverpool. I know its harsh but, tell him he has to sort himself out like the rest of us have to. I know that sounds bad, but he has had more chances to succeed than most on here will have had! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Sinnott Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 What Lancy said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayItLivo Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 (edited) My mate has come across him today and said he is completely on his arse in general. So are millions of other people in the country but we ain't gonna arrange a benefit (no pun intended) match for them. If Chris Taylor became paralysed tomorrow, then sure. If Alex Cisak lost an arm, then yeah, arrange a benefit match, but don't see why we have to give charity to a guy who's still capable of earning a living like the rest of us, just because he had to retire from football 20 years ago. Edited April 30, 2012 by PlayItLivo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisbrogan Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Not sure what that 'help' could be. Not knowing whether he has learnt any kind of trade, the obvious thing is to suggest that he gets himself into a position where he can try and get into coaching kids football or something. That, in itself, has to be very rewarding. Also, does he have anything from his playing days (either from OAFC or LFC) that some would find of value. I presume that he's contacted the PFA (or someone else has on his behalf if he's really struggling). Finally, to throw in an inappropriate bit of flippery, is he still in touch with anyone from LFC? They're always harping on about never walking alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoafc Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Unless he's been hit with some illness or the like that stops him looking for work then..........welcome to the real world!.....I'm not exactly flush myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossrocks Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Who's Wayne Harrison? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) He was going to be what Wayne Rooney became. The article below is a decade old. Apologies for oddities of copy and paste editing! IT IS a tale of two strikers. A tale of two Waynes. They are linked by name and deed, but separated by a generation and the vagaries of fate. Now one of them is getting his teenage kicks by living out a schoolboy fantasy while the other drives a wagon for a brewery. It is a long way to fall from the top of Wayne?s world. Wayne Rooney?s winning goal for Everton against Arsenal last Saturday has established him as football?s newest wunderkind. He has won over pundits and cynics alike with his burgeoning talent and the road ahead is paved with gold. At the tender age of 17, his future looks secure. Meanwhile, on a cold, drizzly street in Stockport, Wayne Harrison delivers Robinson?s beer to a pub. The bitter cargo may seem apposite. In 1985, Harrison was the name on everyone?s lips. He had made just two appearances for Oldham Athletic, then in the old second division, but promise coursed through the 17-year-old?s veins. Manchester United, Manchester City and Aston Villa were interested, but he chose to join Liverpool, the team he still supports. The £250,000 fee was a record for a teenager and he appeared destined for international honours. But the next big thing faded to footnote status thanks to 25 operations, a shattered greenhouse and a Bradford City goalkeeper. ?It was 1991 and Graeme Souness, the manager, called me in,? Harrison said. ?He told me the doctors had said I wouldn?t play again. It was soul-destroying. My head was spinning and I didn?t know what to do. To think that was it. I got in the car and just drove around for four hours.? Some black years followed during which, by his own admission, Harrison did not do much. More operations ensued and there were dark days. ?It?s not like now, where everyone is earning big money,? he said. ?I knew I had to do something and it was tough for a bit.? He disappeared from football?s fickle theatre. In a transient world, he soon became the forgotten man as other prodigies came along to dazzle the headline writers. In October 1995, he turned out for Offerton Green reserves in the Stockport Sunday League and provided a glimpse of what might have been with a strike from the halfway line. One man and a dog were impressed, but the pain in his bad knee meant football soon became impossible. Even the most prescient of pessimists could not have foreseen the way Harrison would suffer after his move to Liverpool. Joe Royle, the manager of Oldham at the time of his transfer, still enthuses about his ability. ?He was a natural goalscorer,? he said. ?The way he timed his runs was magnificent. Bill Urmson was our youth coach then and he didn?t have to tell Wayne much. The kid was going to be a player.? Harrison struggled to settle at Anfield. Liverpool were the European champions and, within five months, Kenny Dalglish, his boyhood hero, was his manager. Harrison admits that he did not even read the contract, but such starry-eyed naivety was understandable. ?People will compare Rooney to Wayne, but they are very different,? Royle said. ?Wayne was a boy when he went to Liverpool; Rooney is a man at 17.? Joe Fagan, the Liverpool manager who signed Harrison, believed that his talent could be nurtured rather than neutered by his daunting surroundings. He remembered the virtuoso performance that had helped Oldham to a 4-0 victory over Liverpool in the FA Youth Cup. He also knew of the 35 goals Harrison had scored for Oldham?s junior and reserve teams and how he had made his first-team debut just six months after signing apprentice forms. But the intense competition and an avalanche of injuries conspired against him. ?I had a lot of problems with my groin, then I had a hernia, knee trouble, a bad shoulder, you name it,? Harrison said. ?On a pre-season tour, I was larking about, got into a scuffle and fell through a greenhouse. I slashed my arms badly.? That there was an ambulance strike at the time seemed typical of his capacity for calamity. The run of bad luck reached its nadir in May 1990. Harrison, by now 22, was impressing in the reserves and there were signs that he might be ready to repay Liverpool?s investment. A collision with the goalkeeper during a reserve match against Bradford quashed those hopes. The ligaments in his right knee were irreparably damaged and Harrison?s career was over. ?I felt sick when I tried to get up,? he said. ?I knew it was bad because I couldn?t feel it. It was wobbling from the inside.? Several operations later, Souness summoned Harrison to his office for that fateful meeting. The injuries were so bad that Harrison could play only a cameo role in his testimonial match between Liverpool and Oldham the following year. Now, after 12 operations on his right knee, he cannot even help his friends out in their local league matches. He still lives in the house he bought in Stockport when he was a football starlet and still loves the game. ?Nobody recognises me these days, but I?m not bitter,? he said. ?I wish I?d never gone to Liverpool and that I?d had more luck. It was nobody?s fault, but you do think about it all sometimes. Steve McManaman was my friend and look at him ? he plays for Real Madrid. But I?ve been at the brewery now for 5½ years and I love it.? Rooney and Harrison could scarcely lead more different lives. One is 17 with a glittering future and the other is a 34-year-old with fading memories. But the pair were cut from the same cloth and the drayman?s story is a cautionary tale of how the sweetest dream can turn sour. 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Lags Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) All too vague Chaddy brother. For anyone to feel the desire to help, firstly we would have to know exactly what's wrong. Secondly enough people would have to feel that he couldn't possibly help himself with it. He did have a benefit years ago which Lancy lad pointed out. I am all for compassion but without knowing the details that feeling just isn't there. Edited May 1, 2012 by Lags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 play the lottery like everyone else feker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmer1 Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Well I have been made redundent this morning for the 4th time in as many :censored:in years! so :censored: him how about a collection for palmer1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Well I have been made redundent this morning for the 4th time in as many :censored:in years! so :censored: him how about a collection for palmer1? lottery tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 There must be a market for these shirts, to go with those scarves produced by Latics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancy lad Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Would you wear that? Seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcmetty Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Give Wayne Gordon's contact details - could do a piece in the programme or the Strike It Lucky draw or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 My mate has come across him today Must be making money letting blokes do that? Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancy lad Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Must be making money letting blokes do that? Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th2003 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Wayne Harrison was the Rooney of his era. I remember him scoring 5 and Mike Cecere getting 3 in a reserve game I was a ballboy at. £250000 at the time for him was a phenomenal amount of money (of which he would have got a cut?) United were interested in in him and I remember Ron Atkinson coming to a reserve game and the few Latics fans who turned up singing 'Munich' related songs. Big Joe went apoplectic at them. Horrific injury at Liverpool notwithstanding, should he not have a PFA pension and insurance payout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaddy the owl Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 TBH most have replied with what I was thinking. Life can sometimes throw a big rock at you with a large smearing of dog tish, if up to you to either dodge it or take it in the face. I thought I was helping a mate but I was wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfatjoe1 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 What's Richard Graham doing now? He was a loyal pro and a very, very pomising central defender who was forced to retire early? Last i heard he got himself a job managing a social club. Any updates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lags Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 TBH most have replied with what I was thinking. Life can sometimes throw a big rock at you with a large smearing of dog tish, if up to you to either dodge it or take it in the face. I thought I was helping a mate but I was wrong. This isn't what you was refering to on Facebook is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Sinnott Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Richard Graham was my manager at Chaddy FC in 2004 when I first started playing open age football! I was starstruck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaddy the owl Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 This isn't what you was refering to on Facebook is it? No Lags, problems elsewhere that have been brewing for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 There must be a market for these shirts Really, there isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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