pikeysrobins Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 The greatest ever City player according my late father and he watched City from 1950 until 2000! I have a collection of Atyeo memorabilia that I'm very proud of including programmes from significant games in his career - all his internationals for examples. Football cards, autograph, books etc. Never saw him play but Atyeo will always have a place in my heart due my father. Here's that goal again...http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2820/u7z.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy1968 Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 All I remember of the great man was seeing him at city games in the late 80's. It was still a thrill seeing him sat in the grandstand and doing the occassional h/t draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashton_fan Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Here's John Atyeo's first game for England in 1955: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYHp5Lssrcg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerly known as ivan Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 Here's John Atyeo's first game for England in 1955: thanks for that was going to ask if anyone had any footage of Ateyo. love hearing the stories even if it was well before my time. Must to a privilege for those who were around to see him play for both city and England. Maybe one day we might be fortunate to have someone get even close to what he achieved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Here's John Atyeo's first game for England in 1955: Uploaded by some guy called BS15RED! Never realised it'd had over five thousand views! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bar BS3 Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 on equal terms his record will never be beaten ........ much as Carey has done for us, how many of his games were as a sub ? in the great mans day, games he played he started, thats a big difference .. so yes i will applaud Carey when he beats the total, but it will not be the same achievement as JA Only about 25/30 of Carey's appearances have been from the bench, which I thought was surprisingly low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizoon Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 And if not for injury Paul Cheesley way well have been another great great Bristol City centre forward. Sadly, we will never know. Arsenal 0-1 Bristol City People throw the word "tragedy" around carelessly, but that was one. He could and should have had a great England career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 The hero next door is great, and humbling also. We will never see anyone like that play for us again. The header v Ireland is still well known in Irish football, it's called the atyeo silence, or something similar. In one of the games he played in a front five including Matthews, Finley, lofthouse and motensen I believe. Hadn't heard the story before, so looked it uphttp://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1411-radio-sports-commentary/1450-philip-greene/365144-international-soccer-ireland-v-england/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippy273 Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 One of the greatest disappointments of his career was not getting a Directorship at City. He imagined that he would be greatly in demand for his footballing knowledge on the Board. He assumed that HD would smooth the way for this but HD made it clear that Atyeo would have to put in serious money, probably all of his Testimonial money and then some. Atyeo just wasn't prepared to do that. Real shame, the legacy could have carried on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In the Net Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Obviously I had heard about the legendary John Atyeo, and was thrilled to meet him when he attended matches at Twerton Park - I think he was writing a Sunday newspaper column. He used to sit just in front of us in the Grandstand, and we shared our sweets with him, he was a true gent and very modest. He was shown great respect by everybody, and seemed almost embarrassed to be recognised, I doubt that we will see his like again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bristol Born & Red Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 England beat Ireland 5-1 earlier in the World Cup that year with Atyeo getting two; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEduNmg6t0 He scored the third and fourth (I think thats him with the 4th anyway, could be mistaken) - that second header is a peach, taking out a few players in the process. According to stats, Atyeo (No.8) got the third (the diving header), and the last minute goal, Tommy Taylor (Man Utd) got the other three. The England side contained Stanley Matthews, Duncan Edwards, Tom Finney, Billy Wright, Johnny Haynes..shows that John was regarded as a player of that incredible standard. Sadly, Taylor, Duncan Edwards and Roger Byrne (who also played in that game) were victims of the Munich Air Crash less than a year later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedUn Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 According to stats, Atyeo (No.8) got the third (the diving header), and the last minute goal, Tommy Taylor (Man Utd) got the other three. The England side contained Stanley Matthews, Duncan Edwards, Tom Finney, Billy Wright, Johnny Haynes..shows that John was regarded as a player of that incredible standard. Sadly, Taylor, Duncan Edwards and Roger Byrne (who also played in that game) were victims of the Munich Air Crash less than a year later. Irish goal also scored by a City player (Dermot Curtis) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brockleb Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Similar story. Having a haircut in Larne, NI. Talking football and mentioned City. The only thing the barber knew about our team was that they had once had great player called Ateyo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddevon Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Had the pleasure of watching Atyeo in in his last few seasons from 1963 alongside another favourite of mine Brian Clark, who incidently I saw score the winner for Cardiff against Real Madrid at Ninnian Park in 1971. Whilst Louis is probably my favourite " modern day " player (remember him scoring the first of "many"!) goals at Swansea his upcoming record achievement will be no match for big John's. Having said all that - John Galley has still got to be my all time favourite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 As LC has said himself, equaling the appearance record is an honour but there is no way he has matched what big John did club wise,,,,,,,JA put BCFC on the football map again , the club having drifted back into obscurity following the early 1908/9 success era of the Bristol Babes,..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdave60 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 on equal terms his record will never be beaten ........ much as Carey has done for us, how many of his games were as a sub ? in the great mans day, games he played he started, thats a big difference .. so yes i will applaud Carey when he beats the total, but it will not be the same achievement as JA It must also be remembered, that John retired earlier from the game to take up teaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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