Tony Woodcock

This is not a scrub we're talking about.

It is, of course, Tony Woodcock.

Striker extraordinaire.

I didn't realise, actually, how embedded he was in Cologne.

He had a couple of birds in Cone cause he kept going back there.

yeah he did keep going back but i you know he also played in the greatest england kit of all time that spain 82 kit you know the white with the stripes across the top i think it might be made by admiral um and that is the greatest england kit of all time it beats out the blue away shirt from like 92 was it 92 with that one i remember i always remember dennis wise scoring the winner in turkey in that kit But yeah, I think that my pictures...

When I picture Tony Woodcock in my head, right, I don't picture him in an Arsenal shirt.

I picture him in an England shirt.

48 years.

So, we, as Tony Woodcock, I played together with England and Forest.

He sent me a picture of us playing Ipswich in the, uh, Charity Shield, and he says [laughs] 44 years ago, [laughs] and I went, "What?" It goes like that.

So enjoy it, Wes.

There was a great set of players at that time.

Uh, Brian Clough got a, a set of players together that w- won two European Cups back to back, you know? It's unheard of, really.

And, uh, they were a great set of lads, and they, they helped me and another lad called Tony Woodcock, who got in the team at the same time as me.

Uh, throughout our career, they were great.

Take a look.

And trivia fans will note that it was Cologne, as they were called back in the 70s, was where Tony Woodcock went.

I mean, I think the city is still called Cologne in English.

So that would just be English commentators at the time.

I think if you saw them on English TV, if ITV or Sky were covering them, I think they'd probably still call them Cologne.

Yes, I think if you'd mentioned an Unlautern Kern to someone at the time of Tony Woodcock being at Cologne, you'd have been told to stop being rude or something of that nature, such as our ignorance.

But yes.

But anyway, the point being that Tony Woodcock was, I think he might have been, I think he went to Germany in the Bundesliga before Keegan even did I think he was one of the very first and he built quite a career for himself at Cologne so yes all good thumbs up to that one

They had Kenny Sampson.

scored the winner, didn't he?

That's right.

He scored the goal.

You had Paul Davis, David O'Leary, Brian Talbot, Kenny Sampson, Alan Sunderland, Graham Ricks, Tony Woodcock.

That was your debut.

Yeah.

But when, when crit- criticism was quite rough, 'cause if, if we, if we lost, I always got the headline.

It was c- really my fault, and we had people like Graham Rix and Kenny Sansom, all international players, David O'Leary, Pat Jennings, uh, Tony Woodcock, who were never really getting any criticism whatsoever.

Yeah.

And I don't, I don't have a problem with that with the boys.

But I do remember one game in particular, I hadn't scored for I think about nine games or something, and we beat Villa 7...

I think we beat them 7-1, 7-2.

And I think Woody, Tony Woodcock, scored five.

And the headline the next day was not, "Tony Woodcock scores five." "Charlie doesn't score again." I was like, "Oh my God, that's ridiculous." It really is taking it in a personal level.