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  • Stuttgart88
    Capped Player
    • May 2004
    • 18973

    #1

    Steve Heighway

    I see Steve Heighway is stepping down as youth team coach at Liverpool and is upset at Benitez' interference.

    The FAI should take note. I know the Irish underage coaching is excellent (bar Givens) but his experience could be really valuable. Possible U21 coach?

    Dammit, I'd even have him as first team coach!
  • endabob1
    First Team
    • Aug 2006
    • 1501

    #2
    Owen, Carragher, Gerrard have all come through the ranks uner Heighway and they won the Youth Cup last week so he seems to have the credentials alright......You really think the FAI would want some with credentials and experience
    "Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king"
    Sideshow Bob

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    • beautifulrock
      Reserves
      • May 2004
      • 836

      #3
      very good shout Stuttgart, he would be a fantastic choice.

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      • geysir
        Capped Player
        • Apr 2005
        • 15392

        #4
        "Maybe because I have a brain and a mind, maybe that counts against you"
        Steve rules himself out of consideration for any Irish job.



        There a load of articles in the ET
        The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.


        With Benitez's status now, the exclusives have a whiff of poor timing, unlike Heighway in his playing days.

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        • Stuttgart88
          Capped Player
          • May 2004
          • 18973

          #5
          I heard him interviewd on TV a couple of weeks ago. Very articulate. Wasn't he a rarity - a footballer with a University degree?

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          • geysir
            Capped Player
            • Apr 2005
            • 15392

            #6
            " It was due to Heighway's academic achievements that he got his nickname 'Big Bamber', team-mate and fellow academic Brian Hall was dubbed 'Little Bamber' both after the television programme University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne."

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            • Stuttgart88
              Capped Player
              • May 2004
              • 18973

              #7
              "He thinks that I'm a cabbage, because I hate University Challenge"
              Last edited by Stuttgart88; 04/05/2007, 9:12 AM.

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              • paul_oshea
                Capped Player
                • Apr 2005
                • 16376

                #8
                stuts where did you get that quote from?
                I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
                And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
                I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
                Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away

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                • Stuttgart88
                  Capped Player
                  • May 2004
                  • 18973

                  #9
                  Undertones "My Perfect Cousin".

                  Lyrics are superb. Referred to the Human League years before anyone ever even heard of them.

                  "His mum bought him a synthesizer, Got the Human League in to advise her". Genius.

                  He's got a degree in economics, maths, physics and bionics,
                  He thinks that I'm a cabbage,`cos I hate "University Challenge",
                  Even at the age of ten, Smart boy Kevin was a smart boy then,
                  He always beat me at "Subbuteo",`Cos he flicked to kick, and I didn't know.
                  Last edited by Stuttgart88; 04/05/2007, 9:22 AM.

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                  • Billsthoughts
                    First Team
                    • Jun 2006
                    • 1851

                    #10
                    I thought when reading it he would be ideal for the U21s.
                    time for a change as givens has had the job years.

                    he always beats me at subbuteo,cause he flicked to kick and I didnt know..
                    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=saintpatsfc
                    http://foot.ie/forums/showthread.php...694#post651694

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                    • Stuttgart88
                      Capped Player
                      • May 2004
                      • 18973

                      #11
                      Sorry Bill, was editing & adding same line as you posted that!

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                      • geysir
                        Capped Player
                        • Apr 2005
                        • 15392

                        #12


                        "All of a sudden Liverpool had 2 of them (graduates)"

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                        • geysir
                          Capped Player
                          • Apr 2005
                          • 15392

                          #13
                          Watching that utube clip I see where we went wrong with Heighway, we should have picked just 10 players and let Heighway work both wings.

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                          • lofty9
                            First Team
                            • Jul 2005
                            • 1210

                            #14
                            I read his autobiography whilst I was supposed to be studying for my A levels. His decision to stay on at school for as long as possible and keep Liverpool's advances at bay actually spurred me on to study!! Thanks Steve.
                            As Irishmen we dilute our sense of nation by depending on the English to bring us our balls

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                            • Stuttgart88
                              Capped Player
                              • May 2004
                              • 18973

                              #15
                              I just read the same wikipedia entry that I think Geysir got the quote from. I didn't realise Heighway was born in Dublin, I always assumed he qualified under ancestry. Would love to see him take the U21s & maybe a ready made senior team manager could be groomed. That'd involve foresight however.

                              Intelligent, thinking coaches seem to be the most successful these days, not the "inject some passion" types.

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