Red Card Roy

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As a tactic it paid off. Handsomely. In his first season he led Colchester to a double of the Conference title and the FA Trophy.

Next season,” he vowed, “I’ll keep my place and become a top-flight star.” In fact, he would never play in the First Division again. After the sort of scrap he encountered facing Bruce, Roy invariably headed to the bar. Where he would stay for most of the weekend. And the following week.Physically, I always tried to dominate the centre-half, I had not done my job if I didn’t,” he said. “Yes, I’ve left it hanging in there one or two times for those who have asked for it. He’s generous to those he respects too, without ever allowing it to affect his behaviour during a game. He idolises Southend boss Bobby Moore and when the manager gets wind of an unsettled score with Newport County’s Tony Pulis he pleads with McDonough not to let the team down. He is duly sent off after just seven minutes following a self-confessed attempt to decapitate the future Stoke manager. The career of wild man Roy McDonough was a classic snapshot of English football - sex, booze and a record 22 red cards. Look at Joey Barton - he got a 12-match ban for losing his rag, but he isn't notorious because he's hard. He has become notorious for being a p****.

Roy McDonough (born 16 October 1958) is an English former professional football player and manager in the English Football League. With Colchester United’s ‘Great Escape’ from the dreaded drop down to League Two the other week still fresh in people’s minds, my thoughts turned to events 23 years ago when the U’s were actually relegated out of the football league, only to make a triumphant under Layer Road legend Roy McDonough. So I thought I would give another airing to a post from my personal blog and publish an edited version of my 2012 interview with the big man himself. And nobody did it better than McDonough, who collected his first red card at 16 for trying to strangle the referee in a schools cup final. Although the fire in his belly is nearer smouldering charcoal now, and he has been tamed by second wife Liz - the groundsman's partner who stole his heart - is no sec par McDonough's Brummie tones still convey a wonderful trace of tyranny. If he has not traded on his exotic reputation as a player, and McDonough was nobody's slouch as a centre-forward, he is largely unrepentant. McDonough began slipping into depression, with the striker believing he was too good to be in the Third Division.I always thought I was invincible, I still do but I’ll be 64 this year and your body tells you to leave off a little bit. And while he doesn’t regret the red cards (“Iwas wholehearted but I never set out to intentionally hurt anybody”), and is philosophical about the boozing and womanising (“it ain’t big and it ain’t clever, butit got me attention”) he knows his was ultimately a career of ‘what if’s. Smyth, Rob; Dart, James (20 April 2005). "Top-flight champions as both player and manager". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 July 2016. He said: "At Southend, I was honoured to play for Bobby Moore. Alf Ramsey put me in the first team at Birmingham as a kid.

I tried to strangle a ref in a schoolboy cup final and my relationship with officials barely improved after that. When I think of why the red mist descended it was because the referee had denied me a chance to have what I desperately wanted - my dad's approval and recognition In approval and recognition. In London, I was left to my own vices - I was a confident lad but I was sitting in a picture house for five hours a day on Tuesdays and Wednesdays like Billy No Mates. It destroyed me. It was Jason Cook whose cross found Steve McGavin and when his shot was saved, big Roy was on hand to blast his shot into the net. Archive player appearances: 1996/97 season". Chelmsford City F.C. Archived from the original on 21 June 2007 . Retrieved 23 March 2022. The rivalry continued when Wycombe were promoted to the Football League the season after Colchester. McDonough goaded the Adams Park fans following his side’s 5-2 victory, prompting an attempt by Wycombe director and TV commentator Alan Parry to have him arrested for inciting a riot.

In September 1990, he returned for a second spell at Colchester, and was sent off on his first start – but after that, not again for a relatively impressive two years. McDonough wasn’t a changed man exactly, but he was a married one – since June 1988, in a strange twist after his womanising had continued unabated to that point – and at 32, playing in the Conference, he knew this was probably his final shot at areturn to the Football League. What nobody could have predicted, though, was the manner in which he did it.

London-born Whitton began his career at Coventry City in the late 1970s, before enjoying a fruitful career with West Ham, Birmingham, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich and Colchester.Walsall were relegated, with McDonough’s spell up front memorable only for a first professional red card and arun-in with legendary Liverpool hardman Tommy Smith, then at Wrexham. “The ball went down the touchline and he was favourite to get there,” says McDonough, who recalls “clattering straight through” the Kop enforcer and “dumping him in a pile of snow”. He used his family connections to win a trial at First Division club Birmingham City, and was signed to an 18-month apprenticeship after he scored four goals in two trial games. [8] He went on to sign professional forms with the club, and made his debut in the Football League in a 1–0 defeat to Sunderland at Roker Park on 7 May 1977. [9] And his thoughts on the Weston Homes Community Stadium? “The new stadium is great.” But would the kind of facilities the Us players enjoy these days at the new stadium have helped give the Boys of ’92 an even greater edge over Wycombe during the epic promotion battle 20 years ago? I’ll let Roy have the final word “To be fair we didn’t need an edge over Wycombe because we easily beat them most times when I was there.”