No Hibs connection to my knowledge, except in opposition, but a Scotland player I always admired. BBC reporting that he is “very ill in a hospice with a long term illness”. 74 just. Sad.
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26-02-2021 07:52 PM #1
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Peter Lorimer
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26-02-2021 08:01 PM #2
yeah read that earlier :( what a shot he had on him, i'm positive some group thing in the 70's done some tests on the power of his shots with one getting measured at 107mph...boom
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26-02-2021 08:03 PM #3
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Very sad. Part of my early 70s upbringing and a great Scottish player to.
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26-02-2021 08:08 PM #4
Brain Cancer apparently, with weeks left. So very sad
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26-02-2021 08:11 PM #5
Known as the hardest shot in football in my youth. If you hit a piledriver it was a "Peter Lorimer" and that's in England.
He has my best wishes.
I guess I'm reaching an age like many of us on here when so many players we held in great esteem or have great memories of are falling by the wayside or becoming ill or suffering other health issues.
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26-02-2021 08:18 PM #6
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Broke my big toe trying a Lorimer special in the back garden after the Zaire game in 74 due to a half hidden buried brick under the ball.
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26-02-2021 08:19 PM #7
Very sad to hear
Jimmy O'Rourke was in the same Scottish Schoolboys team as Peter.
In fact,they were both in Manchester with their Dads the day Peter signed for Leeds.
They were in Manchester at the invite of Matt Busby who wanted to sign them both.
Leeds reps nipped in and got Peter.
Jimmy chose Hibs over a bunch of top English clubs !!
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26-02-2021 08:37 PM #9
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26-02-2021 09:38 PM #11
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A real legend of the game. His shot was meant to be the hardest in the game.
Sad all these players are passing on.
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26-02-2021 10:06 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Took a pen that measured over 100 mph - scary.
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27-02-2021 05:57 AM #13
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27-02-2021 06:01 AM #14
I remember when I was a kid maaany moons ago, sometimes when I was taking a shot at a goalkeeper I would scream Peter Lorimer before smashing it at the keeper, great days.
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27-02-2021 06:21 AM #15
Lorimer was in my subbuteo team in the early 70s along with Best,Law, Cormack etc.Sadly not many of my team left now.For some reason Fitzpatrick was my centre half.
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27-02-2021 07:44 AM #16
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As the old saying goes I get invited to more funerals than weddings these days.
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27-02-2021 09:26 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Loved his goal againt Zaire, so much promise at the start of that campaign. Sad to hear of another great undergoing serious illness.
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01-03-2021 10:25 AM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He died in December
John was Man Utd's first ever subLast edited by CMurdoch; 01-03-2021 at 10:46 AM.
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01-03-2021 10:37 AM #19
Greatly respected as one of Leeds great Scots when they were the best team in England.
Like his team mate, Billy Bremner, there was transfer speculation in the sixties, in this case it was that Leeds offered cash plus Peter Lorimer for Peter Cormack, an amount that would have dwarfed the 80K that we eventually got from Forest. He was reported to be the hardest shot in Britain in his day.
Thoughts with Peter and his family.
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20-03-2021 09:20 AM #21
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RIP. A real hero of my childhood.
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20-03-2021 11:01 AM #22
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Very sad. Amazed to read his senior debut for Leeds was when still well shy of his 16th birthday. Imagine a 15 year-old up against some of the hatchet men teams had back in the 60s. Tough kid.
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20-03-2021 11:13 AM #23
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Lorimer claimed in his autobiography and in subsequent interviews that the Hibs v Leeds match of 1973 was a match fixing game.
Revie tipped the wink and Lorimer and some of the "lads" bet on Hibs to win but not all the team were in on it.
I always thought he was just trying to sell his book but was surprised he kept up the story in later interviews.
I never bought into the "match fixing" but maybe "not to bothered" if we lose is more accurate.Last edited by The Baldmans Comb; 20-03-2021 at 11:19 AM.
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20-03-2021 11:54 AM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It doesn't square with the great defensive performance Leeds put in at ER.
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20-03-2021 11:56 AM #26
Before my time as a player, but a famous name as part of the great Leeds side of the early seventies and one of Scotland's best. Sad news.
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20-03-2021 01:07 PM #27
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Very sad news, especially for my generation.
Like all football daft kids in Britain, everyone down our park wanted to have a shot like the great Peter Lorimer.
My shots resembled Peter Lorre.
RIP to a legend.
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20-03-2021 04:47 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-03-2021 05:19 PM #29
absolutely was a Hibs fan
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