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Former player photos 14:30 - Sep 3 with 11522 viewsjamesisaburyfan

Hi everyone, Bury fan in peace.

My uncle, Brian Williams, played for Rangers in the 70s after signing from Bury. It's his 70th this year and I'm collecting images of him throughout his career with us, you, Swindon, both Bristol teams and Shrewsbury.

Is there a Rangers fan, like I know there are Bury fans, who has a vast archive of pictures that might include some of him that I could use?

Any help in pointing me in the right direction of someone would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Former player photos on 12:18 - Sep 5 with 1865 viewsLuther

I found a couple of images of Brian in a programme for the game against Aston Villa on 20 Aug 1977 (we lost 2-1, Brian came on as a sub for Gerry Francis apparently)

The first one says it is of the Rangers squad at the beginning of the season as they fly off to Belgium before beating Derby and AEK Athens to win the Bruges Tournament Cup.

If you want me to try and get better quality versions of this images, drop me a message and I'll get one of the kids to help me!






According to Gordon Macey's record book, Brian played 19 league, 2 FA cup and 2 league cup games for Rangers.

[Fcuking hell.. now rummaging through my old programme boxes and reviving all sorts of old memories... seeing my old man's handwriting on the team lineup pages is making me a bit emotional. And I just found a copy of "Ooh, I Think It's My Groin!" fanzine... no work being done this afternoon!]
[Post edited 5 Sep 14:31]

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Former player photos on 15:16 - Sep 7 with 1148 viewsjamesisaburyfan

Former player photos on 22:07 - Sep 4 by langtoft

I've been thinking about this post and enjoying reading the replies immensely. Its what makes football outside the top division so special.

Forgive me James but

"lower league player gets lucky playing against a team playing in a higher league…….. signs for them …….. plays a relatively small amount of games for them in a team that …….. to be fair ……. is very average despite being in the top league at the time.

Almost 50 years later a relative mentions that said player is approaching a milestone birthday …… and a dozen or more people post a variety of memories and photos about that player remembering pretty remarkable things (for a player that played less than 20 games for his new club) because he played for us and he cared"

Lovely. This club is ace and happy birthday Brian thank you for for being an R and being part of our history
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Out of all the heartwarming posts on this thread, this is my favourite. Thank you.

Thank toy everyone who has contributed and offered to scan pictures in from programmes. This is definitely the football family at its best.

Keep an eye out for us. We won an FA Trophy preliminary round tie 3-0 yesterday. Earlier this season, we won an FA Cup extra preliminary game 6-0, which means we are surely the only club to have won an extra preliminary round game and an FA Cup final by the same scoreline.
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Former player photos on 15:18 - Sep 7 with 1142 viewsjamesisaburyfan

Talk about a fashion leader in that pic outside the plane!
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Former player photos on 21:20 - Sep 8 with 797 viewsHooping_Mad

Keep up the good work all, interesting read.

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Former player photos on 21:27 - Sep 8 with 769 viewsMrSheen

Former player photos on 10:56 - Sep 4 by DannyPaddox







The Bury cup game in ‘77 that led to BWs transfer. Any excuse to rummage through the old 70s programmes.


The 1970s...the age of the football Hoolickin.
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