Sufferingfool Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 11 minutes ago, IslandExile said: @RoyMac5 I think @Sufferingfool may have been referring to the coverage on the BBC 6 o'clock TV news which showed the goal at Maine Road but didn't mention Derby. Yep scoring for Derby against City but no mention on the TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jourdan Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 A sad day for the club, the city, and football as a whole. Thoughts go out to his family and everyone associated. It was obviously before my time (and my Dad’s too) but I am sure such a passing is felt keenly by every fan young and old. Watching clips of that 74-76 team with Hector, George and Lee is so enchanting. The kind of which can inspire a whole generation of fans to dream and dream some more. Hopefully the boys can put in a fantastic performance and get a win tomorrow as a fitting tribute. 🐏 SKRam, jono, angieram and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimeram Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 3 hours ago, Elwood P Dowd said: I remember that day they started fighting again going down the tunnel after being sent off. RIP That is exactly right and Franny pummelled him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickD Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Great player, and businessman and was rightly rewarded for his charity work. Dressed in the dark too. 😊 Then maybe we all did in those days. IslandExile, Alan Ramage 4 EVA, angieram and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 3 hours ago, Old Spalding Ram said: Lee’s last match a 6-2 away win at Ipswich. fantastic memories, one of a kind……in the best possible way. A stonewall penalty and the commentator said it was soft. Mind you it was the 1970s. Why didn't Franny take it? That would have given him a hattrick. jono 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Ramage 4 EVA Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 21 minutes ago, MickD said: Great player, and businessman and was rightly rewarded for his charity work. Dressed in the dark too. 😊 Then maybe we all did in those days. Brilliant photo never seen this before SKRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Ram Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 7 minutes ago, PistoldPete said: A stonewall penalty and the commentator said it was soft. Mind you it was the 1970s. Why didn't Franny take it? That would have given him a hattrick. Was in the home end with my Derby colours, wasn’t a very popular 10 year old 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 (edited) Edited October 2, 2023 by RoyMac5 europia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dordogne-Ram Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Remember in 1966 when working in Manchester, a Bolton fan who had watched Franny playing for them since he was 17 years old said he was destined to go to the very top of the game - how right he was! Superb for us over two seasons, and will be ever greatful for the free tickets he gave us outside the ground in Geneva in 1974 for the away UEFA cup tie against Servette , against who he scored in both legs of the tie. Thanks for the memories Franny, and RIP. Carl Sagan, RoyMac5, Kathcairns and 7 others 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nishfan Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 RIP Franny I feel privileged to have seen you play at the Baseball Ground, although that fight left me a bit stunned at the time - I’d never seen anything like it! such a Derby legend also reflecting on a time a Man City player came from them to us & then we won the top flight for the second time. Unlike now where we’re thinking it’s progress to get a nil nil draw at home, in the third division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europia Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Very sad news indeed. Francis Lee, a Derby County legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S8TY Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 RIP Franny Lee A proper character and was brilliant for us for 2 seasons we really were a good side in those years and he contributed massively …Thankyou uttoxram75 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramzabac Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Gutted. RIP Franny. One of my heroes from the great days. Question, is Franny the first of our title winning squads to pass away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee SCREAMER !! Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 3 minutes ago, Ramzabac said: Gutted. RIP Franny. One of my heroes from the great days. Question, is Franny the first of our title winning squads to pass away? John Robson I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 7 hours ago, SKRam said: Heard he and Hunter met for a meal on anniversary every year. Hope that was true. Maybe folklore I spoke to Roy McFarland and Roger Davies recently and asked about the fight. They confirmed that Frannie was good mates with Hunter through England and remained so afterwards. SKRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellafella Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 (edited) https://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2023/oct/02/francis-lee-a-life-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_link Edited October 2, 2023 by Ellafella IslandExile, uttoxram75, RoyMac5 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 7 hours ago, Old Spalding Ram said: Lee’s last match a 6-2 away win at Ipswich. fantastic memories, one of a kind……in the best possible way. Wonderful memories. I was there that day, hundreds of Derby fans amongst the Ipswich half of that end where Frannie scored his two goals. We finished 4th in the League, knocked out of the European Cup by Real Madrid and lost in the FA Cup Semi-Final. Dave Mackay got the sack the following season in November. He'd finished 3rd, 1st and 4th in the League in the previous three seasons, signing players like Frannie and Charlie George along the way. Its a lifetime ago but i don't recall any clamour for Mackay's dismissal from the fans. Wtf were the then owners doing? RIP Frannie, you played with a swagger and a smile and will always be loved by Rams of that age. Foreveram, Nishfan, angieram and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 3 hours ago, Dordogne-Ram said: Remember in 1966 when working in Manchester, a Bolton fan who had watched Franny playing for them since he was 17 years old said he was destined to go to the very top of the game - how right he was! I remember 1964-65 as the only season we chased promotion from the Second Division under Tim Ward. Newcastle, Northampton, Bolton and Derby were the leading four for most of the season. Frannie had played quite a few games in the First Division for Bolton as a teenager before they had been relegated. He partnered Wyn Davies up front for Bolton. The game was electric and Derby led 2-0 at half time. We were young and in dreamland because we thought the Rams were going up . Our dream was shattered in the second half as Frannie took us apart, scoring two and laying another on for Wyn Davies and we lost 3-2. From that game on we tailed off to finish 9th and Bolton were pipped for promotion behind Newcastle and Northampton. We were two years away from Clough and when he joined us, Frannie left Bolton to join Man City where he won the League, FA Cup and Eurpean Cup Winners Cup with them between 1968 and 1970 by which time we we were competing at the top of the First Division with City and we won the title in 1972 and again in Franny's first season here in 1974-75. Tonight's sad because of Franny's passing but it makes you think of just how exciting and different that era was. Such a pity we can't just turn the clock back and enjoy it all again. It was such a privilege to see Frannie Lee swagger across the Baseball Ground. I hope he's enjoying a pint with Dave Mackay tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 (edited) Interesting.....very Interesting. A fitting tribute from the Daily Mail to a Legend: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12585799/FRANNY-LEE-OBITUARY-immortalised-Barry-Davies.html Just Look at his face! Edited October 3, 2023 by Brailsford Ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S8TY Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 6 hours ago, uttoxram75 said: Wonderful memories. I was there that day, hundreds of Derby fans amongst the Ipswich half of that end where Frannie scored his two goals. We finished 4th in the League, knocked out of the European Cup by Real Madrid and lost in the FA Cup Semi-Final. Dave Mackay got the sack the following season in November. He'd finished 3rd, 1st and 4th in the League in the previous three seasons, signing players like Frannie and Charlie George along the way. Its a lifetime ago but i don't recall any clamour for Mackay's dismissal from the fans. Wtf were the then owners doing? RIP Frannie, you played with a swagger and a smile and will always be loved by Rams of that age. Brilliant to watch highlights of that game, still had some great players at that time and would we not give our right arm now for someone like Rioch to be marauding from midfield, most of our mids now seem to forget they can get forward and score angieram, Dordogne-Ram and uttoxram75 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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