Whitworth, Weller & Worthington + Shilton

[bald reynard]

With Maguire, Chilwell & Gray being in the England squad (and possibly all playing), am I right in thinking that the last time we had 3 England Internationals at the same time, was the '3 W's' ?

[OzFox]

I remember watching Shilton, Weller and Worthington play for England against Argentina at Wembley. They were all Leicester players at the time, although I think Shilton was about to leave for Stoke

 

It was a 2-2 draw. Worthington scored. 

 

Possibly that was shortly before the 3 W's played together

[Webbo]

7 hours ago, Worthington said:

Sure you're spot-on.

People sometimes mention Shilton and Nish, but they'd both skipped ship by then ! I believe it was Joe Mercer, acting as 'caretaker' who selected our three.

That being after Poland, (Tomazewski), had cost Sir Alf his job!

Unfortunately, Mercer didn't last too long and the FA brought in Don Revie, ( who'd never made any secret of his negativity towards Leicester), and our 'triumvirate' was soon split up !

Don Revie used to play for Leicester, why would be have anything against us?

[irishfoxkev]

Shame Vardy retired cos we’d have had 4 in the squad for Tues ?

[davieG]

3 minutes ago, Worthington said:

Apparently due to the circumstances of that departure … Well before my time, but my older relatives, all regulars in the '50s/'60s used to say  he had an agenda against the club !

By all accounts he wasn't a very nice person especially if the Leeds team of that time reflected his personalty, he may have had some success but they were a horrible team although in his favour it did reflect the football culture at that time both on and off the pitch. Some might argue he contributed massive to the overly aggressive style of football rather than trying to rise above it, well Brian Clough would probably accuse him of that.

All surmise and conjecture I suppose.

[ultrafox]

I could have sworn it was Weller, Worthington and Whitworth.

But having checked a website on England stats it looks like (three times)  

 

Weller (goal), Worthington (sub) and Shilton   https://www.11v11.com/matches/england-v-northern-ireland-15-may-1974-232831/

Weller , Worthington and Shilton  https://www.11v11.com/matches/scotland-v-england-18-may-1974-232836/

Weller , Worthington (goal)  and Shilton  https://www.11v11.com/matches/england-v-argentina-22-may-1974-232842/

 

I could have checked my 'Of Fossils ...' books if I was home.

Edited 10 September 2018 by ultrafox

[Guest]

1 hour ago, ultrafox said:

I could have sworn it was Weller, Worthington and Whitworth.

But having checked a website on England stats it looks like (three times)  

 

Weller (goal), Worthington (sub) and Shilton   https://www.11v11.com/matches/england-v-northern-ireland-15-may-1974-232831/

Weller , Worthington and Shilton  https://www.11v11.com/matches/scotland-v-england-18-may-1974-232836/

Weller , Worthington (goal)  and Shilton  https://www.11v11.com/matches/england-v-argentina-22-may-1974-232842/

 

I could have checked my 'Of Fossils ...' books if I was home.

In my mind whitworth played with Shilts for England but perhaps Shilts was on the bench for all 7 games that Steve played. I'm pretty sure that England didn't lose any of the games that Steve played - including beating Beckenbauer's Germany.

[1972 Fox]

1 hour ago, FIF said:

In my mind whitworth played with Shilts for England but perhaps Shilts was on the bench for all 7 games that Steve played. I'm pretty sure that England didn't lose any of the games that Steve played - including beating Beckenbauer's Germany.

Whitworth's England debut was in March 1975 in the 2-0 win against West Germany. Ray Clemence was in goal but Shilton had left for Stoke by then anyway (November 1974). Clemece played in goal in all 7 of the matches that Whitworth played in for England but you are correct that England were unbeaten in all 7 of those matches.

 

Therefore @ultrafox is right that in 1974, Shilton, Weller & Worthington were the last 3 players (and possibly the only 3 players?) to appear together for England whilst at City.

Edited 10 September 2018 by Blue Fox 72

[KingsX]

It weawwy wasn’t Whitworth with Weller and Wortho when we was wobbed at Wembwey?

 

[OLD norfox]

[MrsJohnMurphy]

1 hour ago, OLD norfox said:

Was that taken at the time? they all look about 45

[LestaAl]

2 hours ago, OLD norfox said:

Loving that picture....Childhood hero's for me.

[fuchsntf]

8 minutes ago, LestaAl said:

Loving that picture....Childhood hero's for me.

Technically...still the Best 4 from  5 (D.Gibson) ,players ,that ever played for us....

[1972 Fox]

4 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

Technically...still the Best 4 from  5 (D.Gibson) ,players ,that ever played for us....

Whitworth technically better than Mahrez? 

[surrifox]

23 hours ago, Webbo said:

Don Revie used to play for Leicester, why would be have anything against us?

I hadn't heard that but I thought he dropped Worthington because he liked a half time cigarette and Revie thought that was a bit out of order 

[Steven]

5 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

Whitworth technically better than Mahrez? 

Frank's left foot was much better than that of Mahrez. 

[Nickfosse]

19 minutes ago, Steven said:

Frank's left foot was much better than that of Mahrez. 

When did Frank Whitworth play for us? ?

[ultrafox]

11 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

Technically...still the Best 4 from  5 (D.Gibson) ,players ,that ever played for us....

Aye....that they were...

 

Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

 

But you try and tell that to the young people today ... and they won't believe ya'.

[Steven]

1 hour ago, Nickfosse said:

When did Frank Whitworth play for us? ?

Ho ho never of course.  

[Nickfosse]

55 minutes ago, Steven said:

Ho ho never of course.  

It just made me smile that replying to a post comparing Mahrez to Whitworth you compared Ryad to Frank Worthington. 

I take it from the emojis in your reply that you didn’t see the funny side of my comment. 

Not to worry. 

[Steven]

36 minutes ago, Nickfosse said:

It just made me smile that replying to a post comparing Mahrez to Whitworth you compared Ryad to Frank Worthington. 

I take it from the emojis in your reply that you didn’t see the funny side of my comment. 

Not to worry. 

The Scowy wink says it all. 

[TonyN11]

Ah, the Joe Mercer days - unfortunately he only had the home internationals and games in Bulgaria and a friendly against Argentina (Frank scored in the last 2 and Weller scored from a Worthington assist against N. Ireland).

Then we had that smug git Revie

And then (instead of McMenemy or Clough) we got Greenwood who once started a match with 9 Liverpool players plus David Johnson (before he had joined Liverpool) and Steve Coppell.

 

  

[fuchsntf]

13 hours ago, Blue Fox 72 said:

Whitworth technically better than Mahrez? 

In their own positions....dozel

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

On ‎09‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 23:44, Worthington said:

Sure you're spot-on.

People sometimes mention Shilton and Nish, but they'd both skipped ship by then ! I believe it was Joe Mercer, acting as 'caretaker' who selected our three.

That being after Poland, (Tomazewski), had cost Sir Alf his job!

Unfortunately, Mercer didn't last too long and the FA brought in Don Revie, ( who'd never made any secret of his negativity towards Leicester), and our 'triumvirate' was soon split up !

Yes, and Don Revie was an ex Leicester City player!

[1972 Fox]

2 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

In their own positions....dozel

Whitworth was a very good and dependable right back for us but he could never realistically be described as technically one of the best players that ever played for us.