100%Red&White Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 (edited) Sad news, great memories. Part of probably the best ever Saints side, and played his part in one of the greatest goals Edited 22 August, 2022 by 100%Red&White link didn't work 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gammon cheeks Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Remember going to Blackburn on the first televised friday night game in FA Cup. ..Dave Armstrong scored the winner ! Best team we ever had ...brilliant player RIP. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stknowle Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Very sad to read this. RIP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Terribly sad news. No age at all. RIP. What a player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 The best attacking midfielder I can recall. A star in a team of stars in the early 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 RIP David Armstrong - one of our legends 😥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaptopSaint Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 What a player! Thanks for the memories David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolman Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Way too young 😥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Portsmouth 0 - 1 Southampton 1984 - Bing video 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 RIP David, too young, what a player, understated but absolutely vital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyinthesky Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 I came across Dave on a few occasions when he was working for an Office furniture company and later assisted with an event he was arranging. He was a very underrated player for Saints Found him to be a really nice man and shame he has gone so soon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer saint Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Had pleasure to sit next to David at the farewell dinner on the Dell pitch. What a gent very sad news RIP hope the club honours him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benali-shorts Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Most Players today don’t shine a light on the likes of David Armstrong these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 And why is this not a sticky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Watching the Leicester game and one of their players goes down in the box, looks up and then writhes around in pain. Can you imagine DA doing that? And the others too. Modern football isn’t real, just fuxking panto really. Shame, used to be a man’s game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted 22 August, 2022 Share Posted 22 August, 2022 Oh no! What a loss! Far too young. He was a mainstay on one of the first Saints squads I watched as a kid. Bloody great footballer, criminally underrated! RIP David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurj Posted 23 August, 2022 Share Posted 23 August, 2022 I can only echo the comments already made. I was 12 when he rocked up at the Dell. Brilliant played and bloody nice bloke. Blackburn Friday night, the cross at Pompey and that winner in the man utd game when he burst into the penalty area from nowhere at the Milton end. Definitely one of my favourite players of that era. If he was injured or suspended you knew we would be well off normal form without him. Definitely thanks for the memories Dave mate. Some of the best years of my life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 23 August, 2022 Share Posted 23 August, 2022 Loved David Armstrong, loved that team. Very sad to hear the news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted 23 August, 2022 Share Posted 23 August, 2022 Oh no! That is a shock. My sympathies to his family. One of my all-time favourites. I won't call him un-sung because all who followed his career, even remotely, will have been impressed by his performances and his record. Good for around 12 goals a season from mid field with a thumping shot- probably helped by his physique! He always seemed extremely fit and his record of consecutive appearances bears this out. I can picture him clearing off the line and moments later firing in a goal-bound shot while few had noticed his advance up the pitch. R.I.P., David, and thanks. You will always be remembered and for all the right reasons. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alehouseboys Posted 23 August, 2022 Share Posted 23 August, 2022 On 22/08/2022 at 08:03, 100%Red&White said: 29 minutes ago, Victor said: I can picture him clearing off the line and moments later firing in a goal-bound shot while few had noticed his advance up the pitch. With that goal against the scousers he was involved at the start of the move on the edge of our box and again moments later on the edge of theirs at the finish. Underrated by ‘outsiders’, admired by most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkoksaint Posted 23 August, 2022 Share Posted 23 August, 2022 Years ago I went on a Saints ‘Soccerscope’ football holiday. DA did a guest appearance with a bit of training. Receiving a pass from him which I promptly dispatched into the net is something I’ll never forget. He was without doubt one of my favourite players and what a player he was. RIP David, taken too young. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefizzy14 Posted 23 August, 2022 Share Posted 23 August, 2022 Very sad news. A true legend. RIP Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 24 August, 2022 Share Posted 24 August, 2022 Very sad news. Armstrong scored the first goal I ever saw as a kid at The Dell against Coventry in 1985, absolute bullet header. Later that season he played in charity cricket match which I attended, someone hit a six and a pint glass smashed covering me in glass, Dave Armstrong made sure I was okay and introduced me to the whole team. Great footballer and good bloke. RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bender Posted 25 August, 2022 Share Posted 25 August, 2022 Played for Saints when I became a fan in 81. Legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 25 August, 2022 Share Posted 25 August, 2022 On 22/08/2022 at 18:08, benali-shorts said: What a goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabrone Posted 25 August, 2022 Share Posted 25 August, 2022 He was a top class attacking midfielder who scored a lot of goals for us. I'd love to see him in the current team, he'd be amazing. RIP David Armstrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 25 August, 2022 Share Posted 25 August, 2022 One of my favourite all time saints players. So sad to hear this RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooney Posted 25 August, 2022 Share Posted 25 August, 2022 Always enjoyed watching him play and I cannot recall him having a bad game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 25 August, 2022 Share Posted 25 August, 2022 On 23/08/2022 at 10:08, alehouseboys said: With that goal against the scousers he was involved at the start of the move on the edge of our box and again moments later on the edge of theirs at the finish. Underrated by ‘outsiders’, admired by most of us. That's a good observation, and typifies the workload and ground he covered. His work often went unnoticed though, especially from those outside the club, because he did it in a fairly tireless way without the histrionics you see now. Also I think appearance, people saw a balding, and fairly chunky bloke going about his work, and it didn't look athletic etc. I suspect the Opta stats for him though if they were available might have told a different story in ground covered etc At the time he signed for us I was living in the north east and friendly with a Middlesbrough ST holder who told me that the season before he left, Armstrong had been their LB, LM, and LW, dominating that side of the pitch for them. Naturally they were sorry to see him go, but I recall his return with Saints to Ayresome Park in January 1982 (game we went top of the table from) and he received a good reception from Boro fans. Same Boro fan also said that the 'word' from those close to the club was that 'Spike' was joining Sunderland with fees and contracts agreed. Then it was announced he was joining Saints, suggestion that it he wanted a really new start for him and his family. We'll never know if it was Lawrie's silver tongue that persuaded him to uproot and come south or for personal reasons. Just glad he did really, and we had the pleasure of seeing him in that team with Channon, Ball, KK and all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainchris Posted 26 August, 2022 Share Posted 26 August, 2022 On 22/08/2022 at 09:10, gammon cheeks said: Remember going to Blackburn on the first televised friday night game in FA Cup. ..Dave Armstrong scored the winner ! Best team we ever had ...brilliant player RIP. Would be in a best ever 11 without doubt. Very intelligent footballer and very skilful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 27 August, 2022 Share Posted 27 August, 2022 I must admit I got quite emotional at the 10 minute tribute 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 27 August, 2022 Share Posted 27 August, 2022 1 hour ago, whelk said: I must admit I got quite emotional at the 10 minute tribute Some of the Man U fans joined in with the applause too once they’d cottoned on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted 29 August, 2022 Share Posted 29 August, 2022 On 27/08/2022 at 18:52, Whitey Grandad said: Some of the Man U fans joined in with the applause too once they’d cottoned on. Fat bloke and son next to me stayed seated and silent. Spent rest of match trying to work out if they really were ManU. Mainly a little polite applause now and again for Saints and stayed silent for the goal so still undecided. Bloody rude and ignorant if he was Saints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ron fan Posted 29 August, 2022 Share Posted 29 August, 2022 I'm not really a fan of these 'clap in the 10th minute'-type tributes. As one of our greatest players in our greatest ever team I think he deserved a minute's applause before the game. It would be much easier for those of us who remember him to focus properly on his loss than to try to do so while the game is going on. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted 29 August, 2022 Share Posted 29 August, 2022 13 minutes ago, Big Ron fan said: I'm not really a fan of these 'clap in the 10th minute'-type tributes. As one of our greatest players in our greatest ever team I think he deserved a minute's applause before the game. It would be much easier for those of us who remember him to focus properly on his loss than to try to do so while the game is going on. Agree. And keep it for Saints players/servants; cut out the political, the over-sentimental, wasn't-it-a-tragedy ones and applauding someone you know absolutely nothing about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 21 December, 2022 Share Posted 21 December, 2022 He got a showing on BBC Sports Personality In Memoriam section. Using the younest, blondest hairiest picture they could find. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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