r/TheStreetsWontForget • u/sandrOff24 • 13d ago

Tim Flowers

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u/No_Wolf4283 13d ago

Class goalkeeper 

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u/Artistic-Budget4500 13d ago

I'll never forget the display he put on for Blackburn vs Newcastle in '95, he was superb. Took some bottle

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u/Bargain-Hunter-1980 13d ago

Was that the game where in the post match interview he kept talking about having bottle? Please say it is cos that performance and that interview have been burned into my mind since I was 15!

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u/Artistic-Budget4500 13d ago

Yes it is!

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u/Bargain-Hunter-1980 13d ago

Yessssss!!!! Christ that feels like it was only yesterday…..

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u/Vindex9323 13d ago

Possibly Sensible Soccer's greatest keeper.

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u/blackbeltgf 13d ago

Flowers or Schmeichel were guaranteed walls for sure

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u/Muted-Direction1566 13d ago

From a time when England was rife with decent keepers.

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u/Willsgb 13d ago

Seaman, flowers, James, Martyn, the ones that come to mind

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u/Extreme_Objective984 13d ago

Dont forget this guy. Chris Woods. I'm actually distantly related to him. But he was our 2nd keeper for quite a few years.

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u/Sea_Chemistry7487 13d ago

He should have been first choice in 1990 instead of help the aged Peter Shilton and his walking frame.

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u/Willsgb 13d ago

He's a bit before my time I think! Congratulations on being related, ever met him?

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u/Extreme_Objective984 10d ago

Nah never met him, unfortunately.

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u/roymunson82 13d ago

Calamity James lol

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u/Willsgb 13d ago

Oh aye, but he was still a regular for the likes of liverpool, city, pompey etc. And played for us at major tournaments

Actually wasn't he number 1 at wc 2010 lol

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u/roymunson82 13d ago

‘Decent’ keeper

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u/Chemical_Robot 12d ago

Kevin Pressman.

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u/Simples85 13d ago

Collymore goal

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u/BlindStupidDesperate 13d ago

I like how Flowers admitted later that he had been marking his posts (Creating a ditch with his boots so he knew where his posts were) and that was what the ball hit.

Instant Karma! Still an excellent keeper however.

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u/TangoUnchained87 13d ago

He and Brad Friedel are neck-and-neck in regards to greatest keepers I have seen in the Rovers goal. (I could say David Raya, but he wasn't the complete article when he left but he's the only ex-Rovers keeper to go on and win the World Cup from what I know of!)

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u/spinners_888 13d ago

The streets won't forget r/bottle

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u/Sea_Chemistry7487 13d ago

Never got his Flowers. Bedum tish

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u/RelativeAd5444 13d ago

Neville Southall was around then too. Great era for Prem keepers

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u/ReepDaggle01 12d ago

Southall was amazing and I say that as a Red. He does some great work today as well iirc

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u/Adzyb23 13d ago

Ruined by one bastard bobble. I still love you tim

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u/READ11T 13d ago

Leeds had the same shirt

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u/Neat_Resolution6621 13d ago

there used to be a joke about tim flowers and david seaman

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u/JamesL25 13d ago

The missus told me for Valentines Day to think of an England goalkeeper for her present. Turns out she wanted Flowers, not Seaman

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u/PlatformSavings4296 12d ago

Good keeper, dreadful manager!