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Johnny Haynes: Portrait of a football genius by James Gardner
Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Neil Hurden
From WSC 369, November 2017
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Supporting Fulham can be frustrating – I refer you to our roll of honour in evidence – and in some ways my generation can lay claim to the most frustrating experience of all. I saw my first game at the Cottage less than a year after the club’s greatest player threaded his last inch-perfect pass on the sacred turf, at the age of 34, just weeks after the 1970s staggered into being. The wait for subsequent glory was then what might politely be called testing.
Given the persistent sense of nostalgia that enveloped the Cottage for most of my youth, I’ve long been fascinated by the Haynes legend and the contradictory strands of evidence that helped create it. Unfortunately, there’s very little film footage of the maestro in action apart from jerky, slow motion highlights of England’s famous 9-3 victory over Scotland in 1961. James Gardner’s thoughtful biography of Fulham’s tr
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Johnny Haynes
English footballer
Not to be confused with Jonny Hayes or Jonathan Hayes.
Haynes with England in 1959 | |||
| Full name | John Norman Haynes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1934-10-17)17 October 1934 | ||
| Place of birth | Kentish Town, London, England | ||
| Date of death | 18 October 2005(2005-10-18) (aged 71) | ||
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1952–1970 | Fulham | 594 | (146) |
| 1951 | → Wimbledon (loan) | 6 | (4) |
| 1961 | → Toronto City (loan) | 5 | (1) |
| 1970–1971 | Durban City | 24 | (9) |
| 1972–1973 | Wealdstone | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 632 | (160) | |
| 1955–1957 | England U23 | 8 | (8) |
| 1954–1962 | England | 56 | (18) |
| 1968 | Fulham (caretaker) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
John Norman Haynes (17 October 1934 – 18 October 2005) was an English association footballer who played as an inside forward. He made 56 appearances for his country including 22 as captain. He was selected for three World Cup finals squads playing in the latter t
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Playing over 600 games for Fulham and 56 times for England, Johnny Haynes was one of the great stars of the 1950s and 1960s. The left-footed Haynes was an inside forward of rare vision, famed for his long passing. His signature move was the diagonal through-ball, often delivered blind and on the turn, as if Haynes could sense the opening without having to see it.
The first £100-a-week footballer and one of the first to use an agent, he never won a single major honour as he spent his entire career with Fulham. For half his career he played with them in the 2nd Division and he received 32 of his International caps at that level, an indication of the value that England Manager Walter Winterbottom placed upon him. Captain of England on 22 occasions, he was at the heart of England’s historic 9-3 defeat of Scotland in 1960. In the same year he was voted Sportsman of the Year.
A precocious talent from an early age, he first caught the eye in an England Schoolboys win over Scotland at Wembley in 1950. Although Tottenham Hotspur wanted him, he opted to sign for Fulham because he felt he
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