Tim Stevens, Founder of AIM, Rest In Peace (6/2)

Post by **gooner.ed** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:56 am

http://www.onlinegooner.com/exclusive/index.php?id=523

usual thread starterâ€¦ Sad day. Do any of our slightly older forum contributors remember An Imperfect Match? Did you know Tim himself? Lovely bloke for those who didnâ€™t have the pleasure.

26may1989 · Post by **26may1989** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:08 pm

I never met Tim but I remember AIM with affection - like The Gooner, it was a source of consolation in the bad days of decline from 91 to the end of GG's reign.

All my best wishes to Tim's family.

G-Man · Post by **G-Man** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:48 pm

alanalansunderland · Post by **alanalansunderland** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:04 pm

Very sad to hear this news, yet another true Gooner gone but not forgotten.

Well remember the campaign to sign the french player, but I think you will find it was a certain Mr Cantona and not mr Ginola.

How different things might have been if GG had listened

Think I might go up in the attic and get the old AIMs down and have a little chuckle this afternoon.

RIP

donaldo · Post by **donaldo** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:17 pm

RIP Tim

Very sad news

Had many a laugh reading AIM.

Post by **gooner.ed** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:57 pm

alanalansunderland wrote: Well remember the campaign to sign the french player, but I think you will find it was a certain Mr Cantona and not mr Ginola.

How different things might have been if GG had listened

you could be right. maybe tim told me about ginola verbally rather than me reading it. it's stuck in the memory for some reason though.

Cus Geezer · Post by **Cus Geezer** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:33 pm

I never met Tim but I remember AIM with affection - like The Gooner, it was a source of consolation in the bad days of decline from 91 to the end of GG's reign.

All my best wishes to Tim's family.

Bad days that consisted of four cup finals and a season of scoring 92 goals.

That would be a golden age for Spurs.

Although granted it was mostly shit to watch

26may1989 · Post by **26may1989** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:52 pm

Cus Geezer wrote:Bad days that consisted of four cup finals and a season of scoring 92 goals.

That would be a golden age for Spurs.

Although granted it was mostly shit to watch

I know you included the bit about the football being shit to watch in the 91 to 95 period, but just so we're clear what Tim and the others in the fanzine business were saving us from, here are our league records for those four seasons:

1991-92: 4th W19 D15 L8 F81 A47 Pts72 (10 points behind champions)
1992-93: 10th W15 D11 L16 F40 A38 Pts56 (28 points behind)
1993-94: 4th W18 D17 L7 F53 A28 Pts71 (21 points behind)
1994-95: 12th W13 D12 L17 F53 A49 Pts51 (48 fucking points behind ... Blackburn!)

Not exactly pretty reading is it. And that's without the grim reality of the style of football, which was a very poor imitation of what GG produced in his first glorious few seasons.

Yes, we won a domestic cup double in 93 but they were two of the most tedious finals ever - walking away from the first FA Cup Final, I could barely remember anything from the game. The ECWC win over Parma, a far better team, was heroic but almost as boring.

Cus Geezer · Post by **Cus Geezer** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:32 pm

Think 1991/92 deserves to be exempt from the list though.

But for a bad patch around November we might have clawed back the 10 point gap. We were unbeaten from January onwards and looked better than the two challenging for the title by the end of April. Mostly attacking stuff too 4-4-2 attacking with Merse on one side, Limpar on the other, Rocky moved to the middle. Ian Wright bursting on the Highbury scene with Campbell and Smith still good enough to make Andy Cole obsolete.

Summer of 92 was were it all went pear shaped - I think it fair to say though that but for winning the league, other league positions didn't mean more than winning a cup so there was a lot for a gooner to be smug about.

Think watching England only successful.