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| 1. Author: MikeyLeonard Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 14:23 Passed away aged 85. RIP. Reply |
| 2. Author: Parboiled Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 15:11 A certain Yorkshire vet was looking for a pen name and picked his after seeing him playing for Birmingham on the telly. I don’t know if they ever met or if Jim the keeper got any thanks for that though! Reply |
| 3. Author: Raymie the Legend Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 15:33 Another one gone. A very good goalie. RIP, Jim  It`s bloody tough being a legend Ron Atkinson - 1983 Reply |
| 4. Author: WarringtonPar Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 15:38 Raymie the Legend, Sat 26 Apr 15:33 Top goalkeeper RIP Jim Herriot Reply |
| 5. Author: Buspasspar Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 15:40 Great Goalie .. thoughts and sympathy with all Family and Friends .. RIP Jim We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |
| 6. Author: OzPar Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 16:01 Sad news. He was the first Pars player I ever got an autograph from. RIP Jim Reply |
| 7. Author: kozmasrightfoot Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 16:43 💐 Pars fan. Magpies fan. Mens tennis fan. Alternative rock fan. Not a fan of much else. Reply |
| 8. Author: veteraneastender Date: Sat 26th Apr 2025. 17:31 Another boyhood hero gone. Had two spells at EEP. RIP Reply |
| 9. Author: GG Riva Date: Sun 27th Apr 2025. 20:02 Another of my 60s heroes gone. ☹️ Herriot was a brilliant shot stopper but a bit like Alan Rough on crosses. My fav story is about the 2nd leg of a Fairs Cup tie in Stuttgart. After 1-0 win at EEP, manager Willie Cunningham was confident of a clean sheet in the return. 15 mins from time, Stuttgart were awarded a pen. Their No 9 immediately punched Herriot in the face. Stretcher on, Jim Thompson donned the keeper`s jersey. Herriot jumped off the stretcher on the halfway line, grabbed his jersey back, and pushed the pen round the post. Pars got their 0-0 draw to go through. Alex Smith finished up with a blood red front after being kicked on the forehead.... Those were the days. 😁  Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
| 10. Author: veteraneastender Date: Sun 27th Apr 2025. 22:15 JH took to blackening the skin under his eye sockets to reduce glare reflected from floodlights - copying American sportsmen. Reply |
| 11. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 28th Apr 2025. 11:25 Full tribute is now on COWS. Reply |
| 12. Author: veteraneastender Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 18:11 My best pal`s Dad used to take us all over following the Pars - he reckoned that Jim Herriot`s indiscretion in a cup tie v Third Lanark contributed towards the club missing out on the double 1964-65. He whacked Max Murray off the ball, was sent off and Thirds equalised (if memory serves) from the penalty. This led to two replays and a fixture congestion including the team playing 3 competitive matches in five days - a league game on the Saturday, the second cup replay (at Tynecastle) on the Monday followed by a Fairs Cup tie on the Wednesday. This mess also scuppered his chance to play for the Scottish League in a game along with Willie Callaghan and John Lunn. Sadly JL never had another chance to represent his country again at any level, unlike the other two. Reply |
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