Summer
2006
Bob's 1970 -71 Diary
30 August
Next Generation News
Neil Mellor
son of Ian Mellor (Manchester
City) moves from
Liverpool in the Premiership to the Championship side,
Preston North End. Ian played just 5 matches last season
- all on loan at Premiership side, Wigan Athletic,
scoring once, on his debut for the side.
Neil has not played
for Livepool since their 3rd round FA Cup exit away to
Burnley 18 January 2005 - over a season ago.In all
competitions he played 22 games scoring 6 goals for
Liverpool rarely staying on for the full 90 minutes. He
also played on loan to West Ham United in the 2003-2004
season.
28 August
700+ Club
News
Teddy
Sherringham, who puts the rest of us forty year
olds (+) to shame, played his 700th League game today in
a 1-1 draw away to Watford in the Premiership. He came on
in the 66th minute. This means he is now the 41st player
to play 700 English League games or more. See 700+
Club
21 August
Next Generation News
1) Stuart
Gray, son
of Eddie Gray, is reported at www.nonleaguedaily.com to have moved from Oxford
United newly relegated from the League to Unibond
Premiership side, Guiseley.
2) Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard,
plays in England's first match after the World Cup
tournament and the first under the management of Steve
McClaren. It is a home friendly at Olfd Trafford v Greece
and ends an amazing 4-0 to England. Frank scored the
second goal in the 30th minute, his 12th in his 46th game
for his country.
19 August
Next Generation News
Andy Todd,
son of Colin Todd (Sunderland), was sent off for
the 5th time in his career playing in the Premiership for
Blackburn Rovers in a 3-0 defeat away to Portsmouth. Andy
was sent off in injury time at the end of the match, it
was the club's openning game of the 2006-7 season.
16 August
Next Generation News
Steffen
Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing
Mechelen) has
missed the last 5 friendly internationals for Norway, but
is back for the friendly versus Brazil in Oslo as they
build up for the European Championship qualifiers. The
game ends as a 1-1 draw.
It is
Steffen's 60th cap for Norway, and the first since his
move to Rosenborg. He has scored 12 times for his country
in total.
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's friendly
away to Germany at Arena
AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen. The match is a 3-0 defeat for Sweden with all
the goals in the first half. Tobias was substitued in the
70th minute. This is Tobias's 63rd cap for Sweden, he has
scored once.
13 August
The 2006 Bob Awards!
As is
traditional for this site the annual 'Bob' awards are
announced on the day of the Charity Shield, sorry FA
Community Shield match.
The Top Bob of the Year
Award 2006 is awarded for outstanding achievement by a
Bob70-71 Player in the 2005-06 season. This season I
struggled to find a truely deserving Bob 70-71 player
in the English League, but then the World Cup Finals
came along and with up to 26 countries out of the 32
having managers that were almost certainly players in
the 70-71 season (some I can't yet confirm, but are
of the right age), so I was given a second chance.
An
early favourite was Portugal's
Luiz Felipe Scolari (Aimoré) as he was unbeaten in two successive World
Cups up to the semi-final and looked like he could
actually take a second country to the title, which
would have been one of football management's most
outstanding achievements of all time.
But
the quarter-final against England was a shameful
display of gamesmanship, and the disgraceful
semi-final protestations by Big Phil himself after
their fair and square elimination by France made
winning the awrd an impossibility.
Instead
the award goes to the French manager, Raymond
Domenech (Olympique
Lyonnais).
Forever
in my memory Germany 2006 will be the time that
France won the final on points, but lost on
penalties, and of course it was the penalties that
count so the trophey went to Italy. I believe Raymond
personally had much to do with France getting as far
as the final. Barely a pundit rated them, and the
weak start meant that they almost dropped out at the
group stage, but they held their nerve, and Raymond
took France right to the wire. It was a great
tournament, with a great final.
Previous
winners: 2000
Sir Alex Ferguson, 2001 John Lambie, 2002 Sir
Bobby Robson, 2003 Brian Talbot (Ipswich
Town),
2004 David Hay, 2005 Sam Allardyce
(Bolton Wanderers youth)
In
2005 I wrote... The Special Bob Award is awarded by me to the Bob
70-71 Player who distinguished themselves to the
Webmaster (me) personally. Anyone who scrutinises the
site in any detail will know that this will
inevitably go to an ex-Leeds United Player.
And
this year is no exception... The Special Bob Award
2006 goes
once again to the very first recipient, Eddie
Gray, thus becoming he first player to win
either award twice. I'll be honest I could give the
award to Eddie every year and the only real
opposition he had this year was from fellow former
winner Allan Clarke, who always gave his all to
personal appearances I've seen at Elland Road this
year.
But
Eddie it is although I did not in fact meet him this
season. The reason is he now does punitary work on
Radio Leeds, and it almost makes it worth missing the
match to hear! He always has so much enthusiasm for
Leeds United, offers criticism without being unfairly
critical, and gives all the fans he talks to in the
phone -in total respect - even those who barely
deserve it. Many thanks Eddie.
Previous
winners:
2000
Eddie Gray, 2001 Norman
Hunter,
2002 Peter Lorimer, 2003 Paul Hart (Stockport County), 2004 Allan
Clarke,
2005 Paul Reaney (Leeds
United)
Next Generation News
The season
got under way in traditional style with the FA Community
Shield at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. This year
the Shield - previously called the Charity Shield - was
won 2-1 by Liverpool. The Chelsea team that they beat
included two next generation stars, Carlo Cudicini, son of Fabio Cudicini (A.C.
Milan), and
Frank
Lampard, son of Frank Lampard (senior).
11 August
Terry's Back!
Terry
Venables (QPR) has returned to the England
set up once again as new manager, Steve McLaren's
assistant. Terry was of course Head Coach from 1994-1996.
BBC SPORT Football
Internationals Venables named England assistant reports:
"I feel
wonderful to be involved again. It is a great
privilege. I was asked and I was very interested from
the word go.
"I am not
looking to be a rival. I am looking to help Steve. We
will get the balance right."
Venables insists he
will provide McClaren with the benefit of his
knowledge but that the England boss will have the
final decision.
"I will give
him my feelings straight out and then it's up to him
to come up the answers. He's the head coach,"
said Venables.
Pleat's Back
David
Pleat (Peterborough
United) will act as a football consultant to Colin
Calderwood at League One side, Nottingham Forest. It
seems David had a similar role briefly working with Alain
Perrin in the 2004-2005 season at Portsmouth. He was
appointed then after Alain took over the club until the
end of the season.
10 August
Next Generation News
Kelly
Dalglish, daughter of Kenny
Dalglish (Celtic) has become a new presenter on
UK national radio station, talkSPORT. Kelly has broken
ground as being the first female presenter on the
station! See www2.talksport.net
9 August
More Big Ron
The big
return of 'Big Ron' Atkinson continues. Saturday's Leeds
United programme had pictures of him advertising his new
radio programme on Real Radio in Yorkshire.
GMG Radio - News Articles reports:-
Big Ron Returns To
The Airwaves
After almost 18
months, Ron Atkinson is set to make his return as a
football pundit, hosting Real Radio Yorkshire’s
Real Sports Phone-In. The former Sheffield
Wednesday manager, who led the club to win the League
Cup in 1991 and promotion in the same year, has
joined the station, which broadcasts across south and
west Yorkshire, and will return to the airwaves on
Monday 1st
August.
Ron will present the
weeknight drive-time sport show – an hour- long
programme (6-7pm) which provides sport fans with a
platform for their views and opinions.
Widely known as Big
Ron, the man who has been involved in professional
football for more than 40 years and was voted
‘Best Pundit’ by readers of 442 magazine,
is looking forward to getting back behind the mic.
“I can’t wait to get back to the job
I love and am really looking forward to talking to
Yorkshire’s sports fans about the days sporting
stories,” said Ron. With an enviable
career, which spans management roles at some of
Britain’s top clubs including Manchester United
and Aston Villa as well as Sheffield Wednesday, Ron
has also worked as a broadcaster at five World Cups
and six European Championships.
“Ron’s
knowledge of football is unrivalled and he has strong
links with Yorkshire. He’s a colourful character
and we are confident our listeners will want to hear
his thoughts on the day’s sporting issues and
get stuck into some lively debates,” said
Programme Director Terry Underhill. “He’s
still got a lot to offer in terms of knowledge and
sporting opinions and we believe everyone deserves a
second chance so are delighted to welcome Ron to Real
Radio.”
Also see Real Radio 106~108fm
On this site see Commentators
O'Neill and Robertson Return
Martin O'Neill
(Distillery) returns to football as manager
of Aston Villa. Martin took last season out after
resigning as manager of Celtic to look after his poorly
wife. John Robertson (Nottingham Forest) and
Steve Walford are to come as his first team
coaches.
Jhn has followed Martin
as his assistant throughout his managerial career from
Wycombe Wanderers to Norwich City, to Leicester City and
on to Celtic, and resigned at Celtic when Martin did.
http://news.bbc.co.uk reports:
O'Neill,
who spent the summer as a pundit for BBC Sport at the
World Cup, joins a club in a state of uncertainty.
There are
four consortia - led by American billionaire Randy
Lerner, lifelong fan Michael Neville, deputy judge
Nicholas Padfield QC and Sven-Goran Eriksson's agent
Athole Still - all vying to buy out current chairman
Doug Ellis (at Aston Villa).
All
reportedly approved the appointment of O'Neill and
his backroom team of John Robertson and Steve
Walford.
O'Neill
began his managerial career at Shepshed Charterhouse
before moving on to Grantham then Wycombe and finally
Leicester, who he guided to four successive top-10
Premiership finishes and three League Cup finals, of
which he won two.
That got
him the job at Celtic, where he won three SPL titles
in five years and also took the club to a Uefa Cup
final.
6 August
Next
Generation News
Robbie Kember,
son of Steve Kember (Crystal Palace), has left
Conference National side, Crawley Town, for Ryman Premier
League side, Tonbridge Angels.
2 August
Next Generation
Unbelievably, David Livermore, son of Doug Livermore
(Liverpool),
has left Leeds United for fellow Championship side, Hull
City. David had only signed for Leeds 12 days earlier,
but was informed by manager Kevin Blackwell that he was
unlikely to get first team football so he decided to move
on! David has only played a few pre-season friendlies and
joined them having previously been at Millwall for 7
years.
NB Makes his debut
for Hull City on 12 August in a 2-1 home defeat to Derby
County in the Championship, scores his debut goal on 9
September in 2-1 away defeat to Birmingham City - his
67th minute was a consolation goal for the away side.
1 August
Next
Generation News
1) Windsor
and Eton announce that their player-coach, Paul
Holsgrove, son of John Holsgrove (Wolves),
has left the club, which released their manager over the
Summer break. There is no news of his brothers, Peter
and Lee (welcome home,
wel..e..el..come...) who are now also listed on the
club's official website as 'former players'.
See Windsor and Eton Official
Website
2) Neale
McDermott, son of Terry McDermott
(Bury) has moved from Premiership
side Fulham to League One side, Carlisle United. Last
season Neale made his League debut whilst on loan at
Swindon Town and played further games on loan at
Darlington.
NB Debuts for Carlisle
United 19 August 2006 in a home League match v Leyton
Orient, that Carlisle win 3-1. He came on as a 69th
minute substitute after all the scoring was complete. He
gets his first goal for Carlisle in a 2-0 home win in the
League v Brentford. Neale's goal was scored in the 74th
minute and made it 2-0.
3) Andy Oakes nephew of Alan Oakes
(Manchester City) makes a permanent move from
Walsall who finished bottom of League One last season to
League One side Swansea City. Andy had played 34 League
games at Walsall having signed in March 2005.
NB Makes debut for
Swansea City 26 September 2006 in the League in a 2-1
home victory over Crewe Alexandria.
28 July
Next Generation News
www.betxpert.com reports that Greg Rioch,
son of Bruce
Rioch, has left
the Danish Second Division side, Křge Boldklub to join
the coaching team at Manchester City. Father Bruce is the
manager of the Danish Superliga side, Odense Boldklub.
Manchester
City's Official website reports that Greg will be taking
over the Under-17s that play in the Pontin's League. Greg
had been player-coach at Křge
Boldklub, so he has now retired from playing.
27 July
Next Generation News
Juan
Sebastián Verón, son of Juan Ramón
Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata) is a part of the Inter Milan
side who have been awarded the Serie A title following
Juventus being stripped of the title due to the Calciopoli scandal. It
is the club's first title in 16 years. it means the Milan
side have won the double this season. Veron has won the
title twice, the previous occasion being in 2000 with
Lazio.
21 July
Bert
Slater (Watford) dies. See Obituary
Nigel's
Webspace Tributes
Nigel Mercer's supreme site of 60s -80s
football collectables has now added a tribute to John Hollins and Brian Labone. Just
in case you have missed it, Nigel charts the careers of
players through football cards (etc), and previous
tributes have been: George Best; John McGrath; Peter Osgood; and Martin Peters.
Next Generation News
David
Livermore, son of Doug Livermore (Liverpool), has left Millwall
after 7 years to join Leeds United in the Championship.
Doug has played 273 League games scoring 12 times for
Millwall. The fee is reported as being 400,000 pounds.
18 July
Stokoe
Statue
I could be
reminded of the time when the UK unsubtly had a picture
of dying Frenchmen on their five pound note, but instead
as a Leeds fan, I am vaguely amused that Sunderland have
chosen to commemorate Bobby Stokoe (Carlisle
United manager)
in a statue that captures him at that famous moment when
he ran on to the Wembly pitch having triumphed 1-0 over Don
Revie's
Leeds United in 1973.
I suppose
it is the last time Sunderland won anything worth
winning.
BBC NEWS England Wear
Statue of club manager unveiled reports:
A statue to
honour legendary Sunderland manager Bob Stokoe has
been unveiled.
He led the
club to glory with a 1-0 victory over favourites
Leeds United in the 1973 FA Cup final.
Following
his death in February 2004 at the age of 73, there
was a wave of support to create a lasting memorial
and a drive started to raise Ł73,000.
The statue,
which has been created by sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn,
was unveiled at the Stadium of Light by Stokoe's
daughter Karen Craven.
Members of
the victorious 1973 team were also invited to
Tuesday's ceremony.
Ms Craven
said: "I'm very pleased with the statue and have
been so impressed with the efforts of the committee
and the people of Sunderland in their fundraising
efforts - it is so nice to know that my father is
still held in such high regard."
Mr
Hedges-Quinn spent hundreds of hours working from
video footage and photographs and incorporated tiny
details such as Bob Stokoe's watch having its hands
set at exactly 1650 GMT, the time the whistle blew on
the day of the final.
He said:
"Of course I have seen the statue in the foundry
but I'm excited about seeing it on the plinth in all
its glory. It has been a great project to work
on."
The project
came in slightly under budget which means there is a
surplus of more than Ł5,000 which will be donated to
the Alzheimer's Society at the request of the Stokoe
family.
See www.safc.com which has
pictures of the statue including one which has Jim
Montgomery (Sunderland), Bobby Kerr (Sunderland), Richie Pitt
(Sunderland), and Dick Malone (Ayr
United) in
front of the statue when it was unveiled.
See Statues
F******
Lazy Thick
Fr*gs ?
Ron Atkinson's rehabilitation into the
public life continues on BBC 2 on the 'Excuse My French' (click for website) programme.
Big Ron was famously kicked off telly following alledged
racist comments about the French Footballer, Desailly overheard on an ITV broadcast.
Ron is
seen here trying desparately hard to learn French from
sratch alongside broadcaster Esther
Rantzen, and comedian, Marcus Brigstocke.
Ron comes across
extremely well as a likeable bloke prepared to navigate
scenes of excruciating embarrassment recognised by any of
us who have traveled abroad with just too little a
smattering of the native language to converse.
Ultimately Ron will
have to coach a French local football side, but over four
programmes we will see the three's skills at the language
progress, or possibly not.
13 July
Brazil
Squad
Thanks to Chas
there will be some new Brazilian lines ups added to the
site soon. In preparation for this, I have added a new
page which list the Mexico 1970 Brazilian
squad.
Next
Generation News: Johanneson Becomes British Champion
Congratulations to Carl
Johanneson who last night won the British Super
Featherweight title at Bethnal Green's York Hall. Carl is
from Leeds and is the nephew of Albert Johanneson (Leeds
United). He beat Billy
Corcoran in four rounds.
Telegraph Sport
Johanneson fighting for the family name reports the
following:
"I
loved football as a kid and my uncle was the best
teacher I ever had. Now it's down to me to put the
Johanneson name back up there in lights." Carl
Johanneson, the exciting super-featherweight from
Leeds, will clearly be fighting for rather more than
the vacant British title at Bethnal Green's York Hall
on Wednesday.
The
27-year-old former soldier is the nephew of Albert
Johanneson, the celebrated Leeds United winger of the
1960s, who was subjected to some brutal tackles on
the pitch - and even more frightful racist abuse from
the terraces.
The
first black player to appear in an FA Cup final,
Johanneson's life spiralled out of control as his
career faded and he ended his days as a penniless
alcoholic living in a squalid tower block with Carl's
father Trevor.
A
somewhat haunted-looking figure and man of few words,
Johanneson nevertheless becomes noticeably more
animated when talk turns to his enigmatic uncle.
"It
wasn't the drink that killed Albert Johanneson, it
was when his wife left him and took their two kids
with her," said Johanneson softly. "He was
always very good to me and I like to think he's still
with me in spirit." Born long after his uncle
retired from playing, the fighter "always says a
little prayer for Albert" whenever he climbs
through the ropes.
Himself
no stranger to adversity, Johanneson has travelled a
long and winding road en route to this week's
compelling title clash against Wembley-based Irishman
Billy Corcoran. Having taken up boxing during an
unhappy four-year stint in the army, he launched his
pro career in the United States after a tough
apprenticeship in the tough gyms of New Jersey,
winning a WBF superfeather title.
On his
return to the UK he suffered an horrendous knockout
defeat against Russia's Leva Kirakosyan and split
from his long-time mentor John Durkin. He has managed
to rebuild his career, but like most big punchers
seems vulnerable to a big shot himself.
"It's
a great contest between two young kids who are proper
gunslingers," said Johanneson's manager Rick
Manners. "I promised Carl the British title and
have delivered it for him. Now he's got to deliver.
This is all or nothing."
A report of the
fight itself can be found at Boxing - Home - Fight Reports
See Sons
and Daughters: Nephews
9 July
Lippi
v Domenech
Well the
World Cup Finals in Germany come to an end in what was a
hotly contested Bob 70-71 Final, Marcello Lippi (Sampdoria) the manager of Italy beating Raymond
Domenech (Olympique Lyonnais) the manager of France in a
penalty shootout, following a 1-1 draw after full and
extra time.
And yes
the game will be remembered through time, not as the game
Italy won, but as the game in which Zinidine Zidane: 1)
played his last ever game of football (well, unless it
isn't); 2) scored the French penalty thus getting his
third ever World Cup Final goal (the other two being in
the French victory over Brazil in 1998); and yes, 3)
headbutted an opponent in injury time leading to a
straight red card. Now that's what I call going out in
style!
Altogether
26 countries had, or may have had coaches who were
players in the 1970-71 season. Here's the other 24...
Other
Bob 70-71 players to take part as managers were:
Argentina - José
Pekerman (Argentinos Juniors)
Australia - Guus
Hiddink (PSV Eindhoven). Now manager of Russia.
Brazil - Carlos
Alberto Parreira (Fluminense)
Côte d'Ivoire
(Ivory Coast) - Henri Michel (FC Nantes)
Croatia - Zlatko
Kranjcar (Dinamo Zagreb, though aged only 14!)
Czech Republic - Karel
Brückner ??? (born in 1939 in the Czech
Republic)
England - Sven-Göran
Eriksson (Karlskoga)
Ghana - Ratomir
Dujkovic (Red Star Belgrade)
Iran - Branko
Ivankovic (born 1954 in Croatia). No longer
coach.
Japan - Zico
(Flamengo )
Mexico - Ricardo
Lavolpe ???(born in 1952 possibly Club Atlético
Banfield, Argentina)
Paraguay - Aníbal
Ruiz ??? (born 1942 in Uruguay)
Poland - Pawel
Janas (Wlókniarz Pabianice). Left after the World
Cup
Portugal - Luiz
Felipe Scolari (Aimoré)
Serbia and
Montenegro - Ilija
Petkovic (OFK Beograd)
South
Korea - Dick
Advocaat (ADO)
Spain - Luis
Aragonés (Atlético Madrid)
Sweden - Lars
Lagerbäck (born 1948)
Swizerland - Jakob
"Köbi" Kuhn (FC Zürich - to be confirmed)
Togo - Otto
Pfister (FC Chur)
Trinidad and Tobago
- Leo Beenhakker ( born 1942 in the Netherlands).
Now manager of Poland.
Tunisa - Roger
Lemerre (FC Nantes)
Ukraine - Oleg
Blokhin ( Dynamo Kiev)
United States of
America - Bruce Arena (probably Nassau Community
College)
Note: Guus
Hiddink is added to the pages for the first time, so
to allow this I have added a page for PSV
Eindhoven, which
includes all th players from the Dutch equivalent of the
FKS Soccer stars album.
All further 70-71
players not linked up to their teams above are also new
additions to the site.
Ubiquitous
Beckenbauer
Germany
have a number of World Cup heroes over the year, but it
was Franz Beckenbauer (Star Players of Mexico 1970) who was the real star of the
show in 2006.
Franz
famously won the trophy both as a player in 1974 and as a
manager in 1990, and seemed to enjoy the role as the
personal host to the entire Finals.
He
attended every game that was physically possible, and was
there handing out medals at the end as Italy picked up
the goofily glad (by Italian players) trophy - a role Pelé had in the last World Cup.
Big Ron's Podcasts
Thanks to Baddiel
and Skinner's World Cup Podcasts (see Baddiel and Skinner's World Cup
Podcasts) I see
that Bob 70-71 Player, Ron Atkinson has been doing the same at Blinkx Selfcast. I haven't had the time to
watch a complete one just yet - though I was the 74th
viewer to start his 7th one posted a couple of days ago
just now. The first in the series has so far had more
than 150,000 viewers and later ones as many as 170,000.
Big Ron
was dropped by telly following his racist remarks made
off camera in the UK, but unwittingly caught on screen by
broadcasts elsewhere in the world.
To
coincide with Big Ron's return, I have given Oxford
United their
own page, including all the Rothman's 70-71 players for
the first time, too.
Where
are they now ?
See Günter
Netzer.
This puts
Günter on the site for the firts time at Borussia
Mönchengladbach.
7 July
Sir
Bobby Honour
Sir
Bobby Robson has become the Honorary President
of Championship side Ipswich Town.
http://news.bbc.co.uk reports:
Ipswich have made
former manager Sir Bobby Robson their honorary
president.
The 73-year-old, an
adviser to Republic of Ireland boss Steve Staunton,
led Ipswich to FA Cup and Uefa Cup glory in his stint
as Town boss from 1969-1982.
"The 13 years
in charge at Portman Road were among the happiest of
my career. I still think of Ipswich as 'my baby' and
always will," said the ex-England boss.
Meanwhile, former
club secretary David Rose has been made an honorary
vice-president.
Ipswich chairman
David Sheepshanks added: "Sir Bobby Robson is
one of the great sporting heroes of our time.
"All those who
support Ipswich Town hold him in high esteem and deep
affection.
"Some such
expressions are overused in this day and age but Sir
Bobby Robson is a true football legend in his own
lifetime.
"We are
thrilled that he has accepted this honorary
position."
Former Fulham and
West Brom player Robson left Ipswich to become
England boss in 1982.
He has also managed
Fulham, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Porto,
Barcelona and Newcastle.
The last Ipswich
president was Lady Blanche Cobbold, who died in 1987.
6 July
Winstanley Leaves
Eric Winstanley (Barnsley) has left Conference North side,
Scarborough where he was Assistant Manager to Neil
Redfearn. It seems Eric was at the end of the
contract, and Mark Patterson was
appointed as a replacement. Neil did not agree with this
and opted to leave the club also, and Mark was made
manager. Eric had been at the club since October 2005,
and Neil since June 2004.
2 July
Sven-Göran
Leaves
Well,
England reach the usual Quarter-Final stage of a major
tournament, and as is also usual in recent years, went
out on penalties. As was made clear before the tournament
began, Sven-Göran Eriksson (Karlskoga) now stands down after 5 plus
years in charge. In his goodbye press conference, he
agreed that England should have got further in the
competition, and accepted that generally people wanted
him to move on.
Personally,
I believe once a year or two passes, emotions calm down,
and a bit more objectivity is employed, I think people
will come to remember the great things Sven-Göran has
done for England. For one he did at least get England to
all three tournaments in his charge, and that's no mean
feat. When he took over England were in disarray.
Secondly,
the Press have done almost everything they can to cause
disharmony in the England squad prior to all the major
competitions, but he soaked it all up and kept people
thinking about the football, no other person could have
done that as successfully as he has done.
And
thirdly, he really made us believe England could win a
major competition, yet the reality is that the England
squads available to him really have been only in the top
8 of Europe / the World, not the top, or even the top
four.
The Press
has also made much of the fact that Luis Felipe
'Big Phil' Scolari (Aimoré) beat Sven-Göran Eriksson at
the quarter-final stage of all three of the tournaments.
In the 2002 World Cup it was Scolari's Brazil that beat
England 2-1 before going on to win the Cup. In Euro 2004
Scolari's Portugal knocked England out after a dodgily
disallowed England goal in the last minute, and Rooney
had been dispensed with a broken foot. And in this year's
World Cup it was Portugal again after penalties, and
after winding up Rooney sufficiently for him to get
himself sent off. Scolari 3 Sven 0 as the papers say.
Scolari
was named at Sven-Göran's replacement at one point only
for the news to be denied the next day. To my mind this
would have been the perfect appointment, but the public
reputably wanted an Englishman, so Steve McLaren
it is. Let's hope Sven-Göran has at least left us with a
legacy on which to build.
Even if I
stand alone, I will state I will miss him - his calmness,
his confidence, his loyalty to his team, - but I do agree
it is time for someone else to give it a go and see if
England can ever win another competition in my lifetime.
1 July
Next Generation
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard,
plays in England's Quater-Final match in the World Cup
tournament v Portugal at the Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. For the third major competition in a
row, England are knocked out in the quater-final to a
team managed by Luiz
Felipe Scolari (Aimoré). The score was 0-0 after after
90 minutes and after the 30 minutes extra time, but
England lost once again on penalties. Frank took
England's first, which was saved, and they went out 3-1
overall.
This was
Frank's 45th cap in which he has scored 11 goals. This
proves to be Sven-Göran Eriksson's (Karlskoga) last game as England manager.
28 June
Shirts
of '66
UKTV, the
satelitte television channel in the UK, has just
completed a six part series where Ricky Tomlinson
(aka Jim Royle and Mike Bassett) looks for the
whereabouts of the shirts that the 1966 team wore in the
World Cup final.
Apart from
'Lost' and World Cup Finals itself this has been the best
programme on telly this last month. If you like this
site, , and if you haven't seen it yet, you MUST watch
it. All 10 living players are individually
interviewed,and most of the shirts are located.
The
programme also reviews the '66 competition with the
players, which is worthy of watching aside from the
diversion of looking for the shirts, but actually the
shirt hunt does throw up some great stories that I've
never heard before in relation to the team.
The
personal highlight for me was the interview with '66
squad player, and non-finalist, Ian Callaghan
(Liverpool), who said it was him who had Nobby
Stiles
(Man U) teeth in his pocket and couldn't get to him
before the celebrations began. He would have made history
so much duller if he had!
Sir Bobby Charlton sounded almost upset that his
shirt had been thrown away by Uwe Seeler
(Hamburger SV) at the end of his career. Made
all the more upsetting by the fact that he had looked
after Uwe's so carefully!
The
programme seemed to be responsible for turning up George
Cohen's shirt, which was a bit moth-eaten and
had been in a box in Lothar
Emmerich's
loft. Lother died in 2003, so his son showed the shirt as
if he were showing us one of his Dad's old bottle top
collection. He looked shocked when he found out how much
it is worth and the next time we see it is in the
Christies showroom!
The
programme also showcased Stan Boardman's
xenophobic/humourously ironic (depending on your
perspective) World Cup single, in which he sings the line
'Aye,aye yippy, da Jeer-mans bombed our chippy' to the
tune of She'll be Coming Around the Mountains. I
noticed Stan was one of the programme's exectutive
producers, but more impressively than any of this, Stan
owns a World Cup shirt itself. It was one of Alan
Ball's
white ones, and thus wasn't worn in the final.
He had
been given to him by Alan Ball Senior (Preston
North End manager)
- who was also responsible for Alan Ball himself losing
Nobby Stiles shirt (Alan and Nobby having swapped with
each other on the day). He'd lent it to a local TV hire
shop in exchange for a colour telly, but never claimed it
back!
Anyway,
there will be no point in watching it if I go on, but so
I'll just say it gets a 10/10 from this site, and I
strongly recommend you see it.
See Shirts of '66
On this
site see World Cup 1966 Team.
Uwe Seeler
is added to the sitefor the first time at Hamburger
SV. Incidentally, Uwe's
late brother, Dieter Seeler, and their
father, the late Erwin Seeler, also both
played for Hamburger SV, and this information has been
included as ever on the Sons and Daughters page.
Where are
they now?
The Shirts of
'66 article is archived in case they move it.See
Where are they now? Summer 2006. See the original at UKTV UKTV Gold The 1966 England Squad
27 June
World Cup
and Bob 70-71 Pages (continued)
Chart
CDs
Well it
wouldn't be the World Cup without a host of rubbish World
Cup records. This year's official England Team offering, World At Your Feet by Embrace is half decent as a song, but
doesn't really match the foot-stomping chant that the
fans want, so everyone and their famous brother is having
a go at addressing this particular oversite. As if it
needed addressing...
Hence, the
official UK Singles chart is literally littered with
football songs, led chiefly by the old favourite, Three
Lions by Baddiel and Skinner, and the
Lightning Seeds (click for Wikipedia entry !), which surely even they
must be sick of now. This release includes both versions
of the song and is its fourth major visit to the charts.
It was orginally released for Euro 1996 as the official
song when England were the hosts and got to number 1,
then it was re-released for the World Cups in 1998
(getting to number 1 again in a new version) and 2002.
This time around it has peaked higher than all but the
official release again.
To be fair
Three Lions is a masterpiece compared to We
are the Champions (Ding A Dang Dong) by the Crazy
Frog, or Stan's World Cup Song by Stan Boardman, or (Is this the Way) To the
World Cup by Tony Christie - a re-working of the Amarillo
song that was first a hit in November 1971. But hear any
of them enough and you end up singing it all day - which
exactly what they want...
Ricky's
We Are England is a more interesting
contribution that does attempt to at least sing a new
song and is in the Embrace mode.
Virgin
Radio have promoted Hurry Up England, promoted as Jimmy Pursey's
adaptation of the classic Sham
69 hit, Hurry up
Harry and performed by Sham 69 and The Special
Assembly, but it seems the song was actually adapted
by a band called Motty's Sheepskin (click to see their website), who then
approached Jimmy to do it. Whilst it was all for charity,
of course, it seems Motty's Sheepskin seem a tinsy bit
resentful that their own version isn't the version we all
know!
And Bob
70-71 Players have been in on
the act, too....
We're
England (Tom Hark)
By The talkSPORT ALLSTARS
Talksport have launched their attempt
called We're England (Tom Hark) by The talkSPORT
ALLSTARS (that's how they write it, I didn't flick the
capitals lock on!) The ALLSTARS allegdedly include Rodney
Marsh,
and his picture does appear on the inside cover of the
single.
Who do you think you are
kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?
by the Tonedef Allstars
Then
there's 'The official World Cup song of the Sun',
Who do you think you are
kidding Jurgen Klinsmann? by the Tonedef Allstars. The
song is a re-working of the Dad's Army theme
tune Who do you think you are kidding Mister Hitler?
originally sung by Bud Flanagan.
Before I
despair at the Sun promoting a song for the German World
Cup Finals that originally referrences Hitler (cue Basil
Fawlty shouting, 'Don't mention the War!'), I
should just mention that the song also features the
talents of Martin Peters and Sir Geoff Hurst! Other stars included in the
project are Frank Bruno, and Bill
Pertwee (Hodges in Dad's Army).
Incidentally,
Dad's Army twice topped the tv ratings in the UK
during the 70-71 season with the shows called 'Mum's
Army' in November 1970 and 'Something Nasty in the
Vault' in March 1971.
The song
also includes the riff 'Don't panic Mr Eriksson' (as in
Bob 70-71 Player, Sven-Göran (Karlskoga) in the style of Jonesy from
the show, and an Eriksson look-a-like features stronly in
the video. As do Martin and Sir Geoff, obviously.
My
favourite of the bunch, though, is Trinadad and Tobago's
'Scotland, Scotland, Jason
Scotland'.
Though English myself, I feel a warm glow of satisfaction
that a record like this can sell enough records to reach
the chart. It unites Scotland and Trinadad and Tobago
against England's World Cup efforts in the kind of
humourous way that only football fans could fathom.
N.B. (2
July 2006) Once, Before I Die - An
Unofficial England World Cup Song - by Chris Shendo -
2006
is worth a visit, and you can download a song to raise
money for Sports Relief. At the website, Chris links us
to no less than 59 England World Cup songs available on
the Net. As England are now out this one is more
appropriate than any!
26 June
Peter
Taylor (Southend United) has left Championship side,
Hull City, to join fellow Championship side, Crystal
Palace.
25 June
Next Generation News
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard
plays in England's Second Round game of the World Cup
tournament v Ecuador at the Gottlieb Daimler Stadion,
Stuttgart,
Germany. It ends as a 1-0 victory to England. This was
Franks's 44th cap in which he has scored 11 goals.
World Cup
and Bob 70-71 Pages
Naturally
updates on the site are going to be non-existent whilst
I'm watching all this fabulous football in the World Cup
Finals, but equally as naturally whilst watching all this
fabulous football I cannot stop the old Bob 70-71 Pages
brain ticking over, and here are some of the personal
highlights...
Commentators
So far the
following Bob 70-71 heroes have been spotted commentating
on the footballin this year's World Cup Finals in
Germany:
Alan Ball (Everton) for
BBC1
Sam
Allardyce (Bolton Wanderers) for ITV
Dave
Bassett (Walton and Hersham) for UKG2
Jimmy Armfield (Blackpool) for Radio 5 Live
Rodney Marsh (Q.P.R.) for Talk Sport
Günter
Netzer (Borussia Mönchengladbach) on German telly station ARD
(see Where are they now ?)
Martin
O'Neill (Distillery FC) for BBC 1
David Pleat (Peterborough)
for ITV
Graeme
Souness (Tottenham Hotspur) for Irish station RTÉ Television
Graham
Taylor (Lincoln City) for Radio Five
Phil
Thompson (Liverpool youth) for Sky
Terry
Venables (QPR) for ITV
On the
Next Generation front, there is also
Clive
Allen - son of Les Allen (QPR
manager) on ITV
Kelly
Dalglish - daughter of Kenny Dalglish
(Celtic), on Sky Sports News
Gabby Logan - daughter of Terry
Yorath (Leeds United), on ITV
Jamie Redknapp - son of Harry
Redknapp, on Sky
Looking
around the Net I saw this posted on a number of mailbases
and chat rooms. I'm not sure where it originates from,
but if any one knows I will give it its due credit.
BBC World
Cup: Guidelines for commentary team
1 -Within 1 minute
of kick off in the opening match (Germany v Costa
Rica), the commentator must mention England.
2 - Regardless of what two teams are contesting the
final, England have
to be mentioned within the first minute.
3 - The commentator shall refer to the Falkland Isles
in passing at
some point in the match if England playArgentina.
4 - Whenever a hat trick is scored, comparisons with
Geoff Hurst will
be made within seconds of the third goal hitting the
net.
5 - Should England wear their red jerseys, then
'1966' should be
mentioned approximately 20 times.
6 - 1966 will be mentioned approximately 10 times a
match, or only on 4
or 5 occasions for matches not involving England.
7 - Prior to the captain of the winning team lifting
the trophy, the
commentator will mention Bobby Moore. And 1966.
8 - When Germany are playing, they must be referred
to as being
arrogant by the commentator on at least 14 occasions.
This must refer to
their style, their passing, their haircuts and their
general footballing
ability.
9 - Should England play Germany, mentions of Winston
Churchill,
Dambusters, The Luftwaffe and Adolf Hitler will be
compulsory. And
1966.
10 - All Scottish members of our commentary team must
continue to refer
to England as "we" and "us".
11 - We must ensure that nationlistic stereotypes are
adhered to. Of
course, the Germans are arrogant. The Spanish are
bottlers, The Ivory
Coast are fast but bad at defending, The Angolans are
disorganised, The
Argentinians are cheats and the French are only good
because their best
players play in England.
12 - For matches not involving England, we must only
discuss the
players that are playing in England. (eg -Holland v
Argentina should be
referred to as Van Nistelroy v Crespo).
13 - The mythical "bulldog spirit" phrase
should be used as often as
possible.
14 - Each match involving England should begin with
the phrase "England
Expects."
15 - Should any player be involved in an injury that
involves the loss
of teeth, then references to Nobby Stiles and 1966
are compulsory.
16 - If in doubt, mention 1966.
17 - Praise all of the stunning new stadiums in
Germany but emphasise
that they lack the presence of Wembley, the spiritual
home of football
since 1966.
18 - Commentators should feel free to imitate the
style of Kenneth
Wolstenholme, the hero of 1966.
19 - Should any team feature brothers playing
together, then Jackie and
Bobby Charlton should be mentioned.
20 - When England bow out after the first stage, we
must emphasise that
it is a massive blow to football and a serious loss
to the World Cup.
Adverts
As you would expect
there are a ton of adverts to do with football. Some even
have Bob 70-71 Players in them. In addition to ones
reported already on the site (see Carlesberg
Pub team and McDonalds) we now have:
1) Pelé
T-shirt
from the Puma Pelé range
Pelé plays some
sort of football ambassador in a tv advert for Puma,
advertising the Puma Pelé range. The advert runs for
some time with the identity of the ambassador hidden
until the final shots when Pelé is revealed.
The range includes
t-shirts, track suits, kit bags, training shoes, some
with his picture, all with his distinctive autograph, and
in a retro-Seventies style circa Mexico 1970 / New York
Cosmos era.One shoe, the
PUMA Tres Coracoes is supposedly inspired by Pelé’s
performance Soccer boots which he wore in the 1970 World
Cup in Mexico.
See about.puma.com. For the full range see Kitbag Your Kit Quick! and Sneaker Freaker - Puma X Pele
Signature Range.
One site puma shoes, even offers this bit of Pele /
Puma history:
In 1948, Puma
released their first shoe, the PUMA Atom to the
market and to the West German football team. By 1950
Puma had established export ties to the United
States, and in 1958 PUMA's signature formstripe was
introduced. This would begin the intense battle
between Puma and Adida to get their shoes onto the
feet of world-class athletes that would span the next
several decades.
This intense race to
market new technologies spawned copyright and
infringement lawsuits until 1960 when Puma, behind in
sales by a nine to one ratio, paid West German track
star Armin Hary to defect from Adidas and wear Puma
shoes. In 1962 Pele becomes the World Cup champion
for a second time while wearing Puma shoes.
Six years later, the
Puma leaping cat logo as we know it today was
launched. The same year Puma had a number of
successful models, including the "King"
soccer shoe worn by Eusebio at the 1968 World Cup and
the "Suede" (later called the Clyde) worn
by the Black Power runners Thomas Smith and Lee Evans
at the Mexico City Olympics.
In total, four
ahtletes bring home gold medals while wearing Puma;
Tommie Smith in the 200m, Lee Evans in the 400m,
Willie Davenport in 110m high hurdles, and Bob
Seagren in pole vaulting.
- 1969 Joe
Namath, quarterback for the New York Jets,
goes to Super Bowl III wearing Puma shoes.
- 1970 Pele wins
a third World Cup title, wearing the Puma
King.(etc)
See 1970-71 Boots
2) Bobby Moore
Meanwhile there is yet
more Bobby Moore product available, as the The Bobby Moore Fund for
Cancer Research UK have teamed up with Nestlé and
the famous World Cup winning image is on bars of Kit Kat
and Aero and such like, with the promise that money will
be given to the charity.
England's
One
by the Greasy Spoons
And one of the many
World Cup anthems available is by the Greasy Spoons, who are also aiming to sell
their World Cup single 'England's One' to raise money for the
charity.
All this is in addition
to clothes from Burtons, see Spring
2006, and
various products from Cancer Research shops, see Spring
2006.
And Next
Generation...
3) Michael
Owen -
son of Terry Owen (Bradford
City)
The injury lay off just
before the World Cup finals must have given Michael the
opportunity to sign up to every major advertising deal
going. Michael is currently seen in television adverts
for Domino's Pizza and Asda, and is in every
magazine in the country advertising Umbro, Accurist and
Northern Rock.
The Domino's Pizza ad
is quite funny and involves two lads settling down to
pizza. They argue over who likes football the most, when
one clinches the winning argument by opening a cupboard
door to reveal he has Michael there (eating pizza of
course). Michael has a line in which he confirms that it
is the door opener who likes football the most.
The Asda
ad I've only seen once and other than the fact it has
Michael in it is instantly forgetable. Like Michael Owen
shops at Asda... I know Sharon Osbourne's done their ads
previously, but frankly this was just so uncool, you
cringe. Take the money and run - patting the back pocket,
eh, Michael!
Asda Meal Deal for 4 - Michael
Owen says the
plot line is as follows:
As an acapella
version of Vindaloo
is being sung England Football star Michael Owen is
rushing through Asda to take advantage of the Meal
Deal for 4 for only Ł9.00. As he rush is avoids all
the shoppers and even saves a woman melon from
hitting the floor with some nifty footwork.
One chat room
speculates that a body double is used for most the advert
anyway!
The Umbro
magazine ads are for the XbootII - 'loved by Michael
Owen'.
The Accurist
magazine ads are just part of them being official England
sponsors and he is one of a number of England players on
show.
The Northern Rock
series of adverts relate to being a Newcastle United
player who sponsor the club. One good one had a picture
of an Ashes winner and a rugby World Cup winner also
sponsored by Northern Rock saying 'No pressure!'.
But rather ironicly the latest
ad in the series had to be pulled because it said,
“Can we have him back in one piece please?”,
which as we now know he wasn't - so that joke fell a bit
flat...
4) Frank Lampard -
son of Frank Lampard
The trailer that the BBC
used to build up for the World Cup has the commentator
saying "The whole world is watching him" and we
see Frank in a stadium with endless tiers as if a global
audience were all in the sadium together...
Frank is also in the Accurist
advert that Michael Owen is in. And he is also one of the
England players featured in in the Addidas'Impossible
is Nothing' campaignfor the +10 range. See www.adidas.com/football
Incidentally - related to the
Addidas advert, Frank was on the cover with four England
team mates of the June 2006 FourFourTwo
magazine, no.142, the World Cup Special edition in which
he has an interview.
Where are they now?
See Jairzinho (Star
Players of Mexico 1970)
at Summer 2006
24 June
Next
Generation News
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's Second
Roundl match in the 2006 World Cup Finals v Germany at
Allianz Arena, Münich. The match is a 2-0 defeat for
Sweden. This is Tobias's 62nd cap for Sweden, he has
scored once.
Juan
Sebastián Verón, son of Juan Ramón Verón
(Estudiantes de La Plata) is due to return to Argentinia
to re-join the side Estudiantes de La Plata, the club where he began his
career.
22 June
Webb Sells
David
Webb (Chelsea) has sold the 92 per cent share
of League One side, Yeovil Town to the club's chairman, John
Fry. He bought the club in December 2005.
21 June
Next
Generation News
Martin Allen,
son of Dennis Allen (Bournemouth) has become manager of League Two side, Milton
Keynes Dons. Martin left Brentford last month. MK Dons
have been relegated twice in three seasons, and as
Wimbledon were a Premiership side as recently
as1999-2000.
The fans' new breakaway
club, AFC Wimbledon formed in 2002 has been racing up the
non-league pyramid and are now in the Ryman Premier
League - just three divisions behind the MK Dons.
20 June
Next Generation News
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard, and Michael
Owen -
son of Terry Owen (Bradford
City) both play
in England's third group game of the World Cup tournament
v Sweden RheinEnergiestadion, Cologne. It ends as a 2-2
draw.
The main
event of the match from England's point of view was that
Michael fell down injured in just the 4th minute of the
game, and is certain to not only miss the rest of the
tournament, but much of next season also.
Frank
plays the full 90 minutes in which England looked certain
to undo the curse of playing and never beating Sweden,
but let in a sloppy 90th minute goal.. England's last win
against Sweden was 13 matches ago, in 1968!
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF) is in the Swedish team. He was
substituted in the 90th minute.
As a
result of the match, England win the Group, Sweden finish
second, and both qualify for the second round.
This was
Michael's 80th game for England in which he has scored 36
times, and Frank's 43rd game in which he has scored 11
goals. It is Tobias's 61st cap for Sweden, he has scored
once.
15 June
Next Generation News
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard, and Michael
Owen -
son of Terry Owen (Bradford
City) both play
in England's second group game of the World Cup
tournament v Trinadad and Tobago at Frankenstadion,
Nürnberg, Germany. It ends as a 2-0 victory to England.
Michael was substituted in the 58th minute by the Young
Pretender, Wayne Rooney, when the score
was still 0-0. Wayne had been taken to the World Cup even
more injured than Michael, and this was his much heralded
return - and very spectacular it was, too!
This was
Franks's 42nd cap in which he has scored 11 goals, and
Michael's 79th in which he has scored 36 goals.
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden second group
match in the 2006 World Cup Finals v Paraguay at Berlin.
The match is a 1-0 victory for Sweden.This is Tobias's
60th cap for Sweden, he has scored once.
10 June
Next Generation News
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard, and Michael
Owen -
son of Terry Owen (Bradford
City) both play
in England's opening game of the World Cup tournament v
Paraguay at the Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany. It
ends as a 1-0 victory to England after an own goal in the
4th minute.
Bloomin'
heck, it was an anxious game for the English fans!
This was
Franks's 41st cap in which he has scored 11 goals, and
Michael's 78th game in which he has scored 36. frank
played the whole match, but Michael was substituted in
the 56th minute.
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden first group
match in the 2006 World Cup Finals 's v Trinada and
Tobago at Dortmund. The match is a 0-0 draw and Tobias is
substituted in the 78th minute.This is Tobias's 59th cap
for Sweden, he has scored once.
9 June
Moore Returns
Ronnie Moore
(Tranmere Rovers) has returned to Tranmere
Rovers- the club he signed professional forms for at the
end of the 1970-71 season. Ronnie played for Tranmere
over 300 times in two spells from 1971-1979, and
1986-1988. In 1987 he began his managerial career as a
caretaker manager of the club after Frank
Worthington left.
8 June
Following Paul
Hart's (Stockport County) appointment as manager of
Conference side, Rushden and Diamonds, Ian Bowyer
(Manchester City) has been appointed as his
assistant manager. Paul and Ian previously worked
together at Nottingham Forest.
5 June
John Gorman
(Celtic)
becomes manager of League One side, Northampton Town.
3 June
Next Generation News
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard, and Michael
Owen -
son of Terry Owen (Bradford
City) both play
in England's last friendly prior to the World Cup
tournament.
The game
was v Jamaica and ended as a 6-0 victory at Old Trafford
in Manchester. Frank scored the first goal in the 11th
minute, his 11th goal for his country in his 40th game.
He was substituted in the 68th minute, when the score was
4-0.
Michael
scored his 36th goal for England to make it 4-0 after
just 32 minutes. Michael is England's fourth highest all
time Engkland goalscorer, see England
Leading Goalscorers. It was his 77th cap for England, and he stayed
on the whole 90 minutes as he aimed to get match fitness
prior the World Cup tournament.
2 June
Next Generation News
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's friendly at
home toChile in Rĺsunda. The match is a 1-1 draw.This
is Tobias's 58th cap for Sweden, he has scored once. It
is Sweden's last match before the 2006 World Cup FDinals,
and they appear in the same group as England.
1 June
Ronnie Moore
(Tranmere Rovers) leaves Oldham Athletic as
manager.Ex-player and Reserve manager John
Sheridan takes over.
Next Generation News
1) Andy
Gray, son
of Frank Gray, has joined
League One side Burnley on a permanent basis, having
spent the last part of the 2005-6 season there on loan
from the Premiership side, Sunderland.
2)
Kevin Bond, son of John Bond (Bournemouth manager), has left Portsmouth where he was Harry
Redknapp's assistant to become assistant manager to Glenn
Roeder at fellow Premiership side, Newcastle
United.
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