Summer 2007
Bob's 1970 -71 Diary
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the latest Poll
29 August
Next Generation News
Martin
Allen - son of Dennis Allen (Bournemouth)leaves Leicester City where he was manager, see
Autumn 2007
12 August
Obituaries
The most
recent edition of Soccer History has arrived at
Bob 70-71 Towers. This is the Summer 2007 edition, issue
16, (price in UK £4-50 via cheque made payable to
'Soccer History Ltd' at 26 Saxon Street, Lincoln LN1
3HN). Once again when I get this excellent magazine, it
is tinged with sadness due to the extensive obituary
section.
The
following is a list of players who have sadly died that
has not previously been reported on this site and the
date that they died:
George
Aitken (Watford Trainer). August 1928. See Obituary
Jim
Campbell (Stranraer). 20 October 2006. See Obituary
Giacinto Facchetti (Inter
Milan). 4 September 2006. See Obituary
Charlie
Hall (Charlton Athletic Trainer). 30 January 2007
Walter
McCrae (Kilmarnock Manager). 22 September 2006.
See Obituary
Billy
McGann (St Mirren). 6 January 2007
Alberto
Spencer (Peñarol,
Uruguay) 3 November 2006. See Obituary
Ernie Tagg (Crewe
Alexandria) 29 November
2006. See Obituary
Johnny
Vincent (Birmingham City) 23 December 2006 See Obituary
All but Giacinto Facchetti are
added to the site for the first time. Following Ernie
Tagg's inclusion, the Crewe
Alexandria page has been expanded to include all the
1970-71 players and with Johnny Vincent's
inclusion, the Birmingham City page has been expanded to
include Rothamns 1970-71 players as well.
5 August
Alan Ball Cup - The Soapstar Challenge
Sky
Television in the UK broadcast the 'Alan Ball Cup - The
Soapstar Challenge' in tribute to Bob 70-71 Pages player,
Alan Ball. I believe the
match was played at the new MK Dons stadium on the same
day as the Alan Ball memorial Cup game (see below). http://www.skyone.co.uk/alanball reports
Catch the ultimate
celebrity battle royale between the stars of TV shows
such as Emmerdale and Coronation Street in the 'Alan
Ball Cup - Soapstar Challenge'.
Richard Fleeshman voted Sexiest Male at the 2006
British Soap Awards will lead out the Coronation
Street side. Richard, will be joined by Alan Halsall,
aka Tyrone Dobbs, and heartthrob Sam Robertson who
plays Adam Barlow. The Coronation Street team will
also feature Bradley Walsh, the former Brentford
professional who plays Danny Baldwin; Thomas Craig
(Tommy Harris), Ryan Thomas (Jason Grimshaw) and Andy
Whyment (Kirk Sutherland).
Playing for the Emmerdale team will be Kelvin
Fletcher (Andy Sugden), Glen Lamont (Richie Carter),
Cleveland Campbell (Danny Daggert), Jeff Hordley
(Cain Dingle), Luke Tittensor (Daz Eden) and James
Hooton (Sam Dingle).
'Alan Ball Cup - Soapstar Challenge' will be
broadcast on Sky One, Sunday 5th August at 8pm.
If you go Sky's site the site
you will see a tribute of Alan Ball
Top Bob
2007 Award Winner
Congratulations
to Sir Alex Ferguson, who was the very first winner
of the award back in 2000, for winning the coveted award
for the second time in his distinguished career. What
makes the award all the more special is that Sir Alex won
the award by public vote - the first for 3 seasons. He
won 30% of the poll with the only serious challenge
coming from another former winner, Brian Talbot
(Ipswich Town), who won 21% of the vote. For
a full list of the results see Poll
Results.
Sir Alex
no doubt won due to being the manager that won the
Premier League and nearly snuck up on a Double, but lost
the FA Cup final to arch-rivals for honours, Chelsea.
Previous
winners are: 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), 2006 Raymond
Domenech (Olympique Lyonnais).
Special
Bob Award 2007
In
2005 and 2006 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
guess what, once again, this year is no exception...
But
worse than that I'm afraid, I have no choice but to
once again give the Special Bob Award to the very first and
last year's recipient, Eddie Gray. T Eddie becomes the first
player to win either award three times, and the first
player to retain an award.
Unlike
last year Eddie did have a few challengers this time.
off the top of my head I know I also met - to talk to
- Howard Wilkinson, Norman
Hunter, Terry Dolan (Huddersfield Town), but this year I actually
met Eddie a couple of times and had a great long chat
with him, which along with his superp Radio Leeds
coverage of Leeds United, makes him a very clear
winner.
Previous
winners:
2000
Eddie Gray, 2001 Norman
Hunter,
2002 Peter Lorimer, 2003 Paul Hart (Stockport County), 2004 Allan
Clarke,
2005 Paul Reaney (Leeds
United), 2006
Eddie Gray
Next Generation News
Very
regular visitors to the site know that the Top Bob and
Special Bob Awards are awarded on the day (or there
abouts) of the FA Community Shield. For the third year in
a row this match featured Frank
Lampard, son of Frank
Lampard.
The Chelsea player won in 2005, but lost in 2006 to
Liverpool. This season Chelsea lost again, this time to
Manchester United. Though it finished 1-1, Chelsea lost
on penalties thanks to three saves from Man U goalkeeper,
Edwin van der Sar.
Frank's was one of the penalties Edwin saved.
Manchester United
have now taken the record of Charity Shield / Community
Shield wins to 16, one ahead of Liverpool with 15.
Chelsea have won it 3 times.
Reserve Chelsea
goalie, Carlo Cudicini, son of Fabio Cudicini
(A.C. Milan), was also on the Chelsea bench, but did not
play.
New Format
- Bob and 1970-71 Footballers Reaches MySpace!
Regular
visitors to the site will have noticed a slight change to
the format of the site. There is several good reasons for
this.
Firstly, I
noticed that anyone navigating to the site using a mobile
phone is greeted with what seems like yards of blue
background, which was the site index on the left hand
side of the page. So I have decided to eliminate this on
all future pages. Navigation links can now be found at
the top and bottom of every new page.
Each page
on the site is individually hand crafted (!) so I doubt I
will ever completely revamp every page, but I will do
each one as I update it - as I have often done in the
past.
Also I
have decided to 'get with it, man' in a really happening
kind of way, and set up a page on MySpace. From here I
will keep a 70-71 Blog going, too. See http://www.myspace.com/bob7071, MySpace.com Groups and Bob's 70-71 Blog
29 July
Alan Ball Memorial Cup
An
All-Star England XI played a World XI for The Alan
Ball Memorial Cup in tribute to Bob70-71 Pages
player, Alan Ball. The match played at the MK
Dons new stadium was won 4-2 by the England team and was
broadcast on Sky television in the UK in the evening.
Alan's son, Jimmy Ball was given the
trophy for England by Sir Geoff Hurst, and George Cohan's
(Fulham)
nephew, the ruby player Ben Cohen, was
in the England side. www.mkdons.premiumtv.co.uk reports:
Proud
Jimmy Ball lifted the Alan Ball Memorial Cup at
stadium:mk on Sunday after England beat the World
4-2.The son of the late England legend was presented
with the trophy by World Cup hat-trick hero Sir Geoff
Hurst after a thoroughly entertaining match at the
new home of the Milton Keynes Dons.
Goals
from Kevin Campbell, Les Ferdinand, a spectacular
effort from Rob Lee and a penalty from competition
winner Mark Baker fired England to victory -
ironically by the same scoreline that Ball and co
famously beat Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final.
Italian
duo Lorenzo Amoruso and Benito Carbone hit first-half
goals for the World side but they were unable to
break the spirit of '66 as England, captained by Dons
manager Paul Ince, ran out winners.
Carbone
gave the World the lead early on, jabbing the ball
past Dave Beasant after seeing his initial effort hit
the crossbar. England responded with a fine finish
from Campbell, driving Graham Le Saux's cut-back into
the top corner for the equaliser.
But
they went into half-time trailing when Amoruso was
given space to run through midfield before firing a
low shot out of Beasant's reach. England took over
though in the second period, Ferdinand netting
another equaliser from England rugby star Ben Cohen -
nephew of '66 World Cup winner George.
Lee
gave England the lead for the first time, curling
home a beauty from 25 yards, before Baker was allowed
to finish the job following a foul on Le Saux.
Interviews
after the match can be found at www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news?articleid=3070581
25 July
Thirty Years Ago: June 1977, July 1977 and August
1977
are now available. It's an interesting time as Don Revie
leaves England
14 July
Next Generation News
The Summer
2007 update of the Next Generation page was completed today. These
days I do tend to add any news I find about the players
retrospectively at the date it happened so the various
news pages will have become slightly longer. But here is
a summary of the added news.
1)
Club changes (date it has been added to the
site):
Oliver
Allen - grandson of Les Allen
(QPR manager) left Barnet (7 May 07) and
now is reportedly on trial at Blue Square Premier
side, Stevenage Borough. (new)
Stephen
Clemence, son of Ray Clemence
(Liverpool) has left Birmingham City
in a move to Leicester City (13 July)
Mark
Cooper, son of Terry Cooper, has left Hinkley United
for the Blue Square North side, Kettering Town to
become player-manager (16 May 07)
Darren
Currie, nephew of Tony Currie (Sheffield United), has ended his loan at
Derby County, and trasferred permanently from Ipswich
Town to join Luton Town.(2 July 07)
Stuart
Gray, son of Eddie Gray , has retired due to
injury; he was at Guiseley (new)
Paul
Hinshelwood, nephew of Martin
Hinshelwood (Crystal Palace) and son of Paul
Hinshelwood, did not have his contract at
Brighton renewed and joined Blue Square Premier side,
Torquay United (18 June 07)
Tobias
Linderoth, son
of Anders
Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF) has left FC Copenhagen for
the Turkish side Galatasaray (12 June 07)
Ian
Moore, son of Ronnie Moore
(Tranmere Rovers) leaves Leeds (10 May 07)
and signs up for Hartlepool United (11 July 07).
Andy Oakes nephew of Alan Oakes (Manchester City) left Swansea City for
Darlington (31 May 07)
Michael
Oakes ,
son of Alan Oakes (Manchester City) has left Wolverhampton
Wanderers to join Cardiff City (6 July 07)
Neil
Shipperley, son of Dave Shipperley
(Charlton Athletic) has retired due to injury; he was
playing for Brentford (25 April 07)
Andy
Todd, son of Colin Todd (Sunderland) has left Blackburn Rovers to join Derby
County (8 July 07)
Mark
Turner, son of Graham Turner (Chester City) Moved to
Solihull Borough from Alfreton Town in March '07. The
club has since merged with Moor Green to form
Solihull Moors, and the official website says that
all Borough players have moved on (new)
Daniel
Webb, son of David Webb (Chelsea) has left Yeovil and has joined Malta's
Premier League Champions Marsaxlokk,
which is currently being managed by Bob 70-71 Pages
start, Brian Talbot (Ipswich
Town) (new)
2)
Players no longer updated on the Next
Generation page, but still to be found on the Sons
and Daughters page:
Peter
Cormack, son of Peter Cormack
(Nottingham Forest) last heard of at Arbroath.
Lee,
Peter and Paul Holsgrove,
sons of John Holsgrove (Wolverhampton Wanderers) all last seen at Win dsor
and Eton around August 06 and not heard of on the
internet, at least, since!
Marc
Peters, son of Jan Peters (NEC)
Nicky
Summerbee, son of Mike
Summerbee
3)
Players added for the first time:
Jim
Bentley, son of Jack Bentley
(Telford United)
4) Louise Update
Louise Redknapp,
daughter-in-law of Harry
Redknapp / Jamie Redknapp's wife, is in promotional
hyperdrive these days. Some of the highlights since the
last update include:
Hosting
the new series of The Clothes Show the
satellite UKTV Style channel (Sky 256);
Being on BBC RadioTwo's Johnathan Ross Show
on 12 May 2007;
Launching Avon's Liiv range so she he will be
featuring in Avon brochures for the next few months;
Doing a monthly Blog for BAA Airports , see www.ukhandbag.com;
Promoting the 'healthy snack' Go Ahead by
fronting a competition, see www.goahead.co.uk;
Featuring in an edition of Top Santé 3 June 2007.
See www.louiseredknappofficial.co.uk/
13 July
Next Generation News
Stephen
Clemence, son of Ray Clemence (Liverpool) has left Birmingham City in a big £1 million
move to Leicester City. This means that Stephen will not
follow his team up into the Premiership, but rather stay
in the Championship. However, Leicester are currently
under the ambitious new management of fellow Next
Generation star Martin Allen , son of Dennis
Allen (Bournemouth).
Stephen
has played 121 League games scoring 8 goals in over 4
years at Birmingham, having joined them from Spurs in
2003.
11 July
Next Generation News
1)
Ian Moore, son of Ronnie Moore
(Tranmere Rovers) has signed for League One
side, Hartlepool United. Ian was released by Leeds United
following their relegation to League One at the end of
the season. Although something of a crowd favourite
because he never game less than 110 per cent effort, Ian
always struggled to make a first team position his own
whilst at the club.
In over
two years at Leeds United he started just 20 League
games, and came on as substitute a further 39 times,
often in the dying minutes. Consequently he managed just
2 League goals. After the announcement there was
speculation that he would join both Huddersfield Town and
Chester City, but finally settled on Hartlepool United.
Ian first
signed as a professional back in 1994 and including loans
Hartlepool will be Ian's 8th different club. His most
successful spell to date was as a Burnley player from
2000 - 2005.
2)
Juan Sebastián Verón, son
of Juan
Ramón Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata) plays in Argentina's
Semi-Final game of the Copa
América being held in Venezuela and played in the Polideportivo Cachamay stadium at Puerto Ordaz.
Argentina won 3-0 against Mexico to emphatically reach
the Final, which will be against holders Brazil. Brazil
beat Uruguay on penalties after a 2-2 draw in their
semi-final.
Argentina
v Brazil will be a repeat of the last final in 2004 when
Brazil again won on penalties after a 2-2 draw. Along
with Uruguay, Argentina have won the competition the most
times - 14, but have not won it since 1993, six
competitions ago.Brazil have won 3 of the last 4
competitions.
In this
match, Juan was substituited in the 78th minute when the
score was already 3-0. It was his 60th game for Argentina
and he has scored 9 times. The final is on Sunday 15 July
2007.
8 July
Next Generation News
1) Andy
Todd, son of Colin Todd (Sunderland) has left Premiership side to
join Derby County, who are newly promoted back into the
Premiership. The Todd family name is very well known in
Derby already, of course, as his father won the League
there twice as a player, and returned as a manager the
season the club were last relegated from the Premiership.
Last
season Andy played just 13 games for Blackburn Rovers in
all competitions, and has not played since February 07.
Since joining in 2002 Andy has played 88 League games for
Blackburn Rovers.
2)
Juan Sebastián Verón, son
of Juan
Ramón Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata) plays in Argentina's
Quarter-Final game of the Copa
América being held in Venezuela. The match was played in
the Metropolitano
stadium at Barquisimeto and Argentina beat Peru 4-0. It
is the third time in their 4 matches so far that
Argentina have scored 4 goals in what is turning out to
be a remarkable tournament for them.! Juan was
substituited in the 71st minute when the score was still
2-0. It was his 59th game for Argentina and he has scored
9 times.
6 July
Next Generation News
Michael
Oakes ,
son of Alan Oakes (Manchester
City) has left
Championship side, Wolverhampton Wanderers after playing
199 League games to join fellow Championship club,
Cardiff City.Last season Michael did not play a single
game for the first team. Michael's career dates as far
back as 1991 with Aston Vill, from whom he moved to
Wolves, in 1999.
5 July
Next Generation News
Juan Sebastián Verón, son
of Juan
Ramón Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata) misses Argentina's third game
in the qualifying Group C of
the Copa América, which is a 1-0 win over Paraguay. This
means Argentina win Group, and will aoid Brazil until the
Final if they reach it. Brazil are the holders and winner
of the 3 of the last 4 Copa América (...erm how do you
make that plural?)
2 July
Next Generation News
1)
Darren Currie, nephew of Tony Currie (Sheffield
United), has
ended his loan at Derby County following their promotion
to the Premiership, and trasferred permanently from
Ipswich Town of the Championship to join League One side,
Luton Town.
As a Leeds
fan I can report that the nephew of an ex-Leeds legend
was always a curse against us (meant in the nicest
possible way), and now he has joined the ex-Leeds United
management team at Luton he must be pencilled in for
hat-tricks every Leeds v Luton match henceforth!
Darren
began his career in 1993 and including loan spells this
is Darren's 11th different club.
2)
Juan Sebastián Verón, son
of Juan
Ramón Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata) plays in Argentina's second
game in the qualifying Group
C of the Copa América being held in
Venezuela. It was held in the José Encarnación (Pachencho)
Romero in Maracaibo, and was a second emphatic victory -
4-2 over 2001 Copa América
winners, Columbia.
Juan was substituited in the 80th minute when the score
was still 3-2. It was his 58th game for Argentina and he
has scored 9 times.
1 July
Derek Dougan
Following his recent
sad death, Derek Dougan now has his own page on this
site, which includes an article he wrote for his 1971
football album.
Nigel Mercer
has also added Derek to his list of tribute pages, at Derek_Dougan. To see all the tributes go to
the index page which is at Nigel's WebSpace -
English Football Cards, Player Pages
Book Club
It's been a few months
since I invited the World to read a book with me, an
offer it has so far managed to resist, but it has been
suggested by DR at Yahoo! Groups
sixtiesandseventiessoccer that I read, Steak
... Diana Ross. Diary of a Football Nobody by Notts
County player David McVay (Parrs Wood
Press, 2003).
David would have been
15 in 1970-71 so I'm not certain if he has his own place
on the site, though naturally the book covers an era when
many players who are were playing.
Anyone want to
join me and post a review at the ususal email address?
Two reviews have been
added for:
David Peace's The Damned United,
see Review,
and Jimmy Armfield's Jimmy Armfield the
Autobiography: Right Back to the Beginning, see Review.
Obituaries:
Added today: Derek
Dougan's
Obituary and Jack
Bentley's (Telford United) Obituary - which includes a picture of
Jack.
30 June
Ricky
George Update
Nipping
about the internet I stumbled upon a regular blog by Ricky
George (Barnet), which can be found at http://blogs.24dash.com/rickygeorge. Ricky has a regular column on
non-league football in the Daily Telegraph and
does summarising for the BBC regularly. See Where
are they now: Summer
2007
Here is
one of the blogs about the Hereford United giantkilling
team reunion in February 2007.
http://blogs.24dash.com/rickygeorge/2007/02/06/hereford-united-giantkillers-35th-anniversary/ reports:
You cannot spend
nearly half your life re-living an unspectacular yet
very famous goal that changed your life - without
paying appropriate tribute on the anniversary of the
event.
Today marks the 35th
anniversary of Hereford United’s 1972 FA Cup
third round replay defeat of Newcastle United.
Unusually, but not surprisingly, there are no plans
for any celebration to mark the famous day. No doubt
Colin Addison, our player-manager, will be in touch
with ‘phone calls and text messages. Colin, now
66, stays in regular contact with everyone throughout
the year. However, with the exception of Mike
McLaughlin who lives in the USA, the entire squad
were last together barely six months ago, to say
farewell to Roger Griffiths. ‘Griff’, the
only Herefordian amongst us, played right back in the
side that drew 2-2 at Newcastle and then played for
79 minutes with a broken leg in the historic replay.
When he finally hobbled off the muddy Edgar Street
pitch to be replaced by yours truly, the number 2
shouted words of encouragement that will live with me
forever. On the 19th July last year, Roger Griffiths
suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 61.
‘Griff’ is
the first of the Giant-Killers to leave us. First of
the twelve Hereford legends who made FA Cup history
together and came within an ace of creating the
football sensation of all time.
Prior to the
Newcastle tie, the part-time professionals of
Hereford United of the Southern League had beaten
Fourth Division Northampton Town, after two replays.
After the Newcastle tie, Hereford United drew 0-0
with West Ham United at Edgar Street, before losing
3-1 in the replay, in front of 42000 people who
crammed into Upton Park on a Monday afternoon during
the three-day week.
There had been
chances to take the lead in both games against Bobby
Moore, Geoff Hurst and company and I still have
nightmares about missing a golden opportunity very
early in the replay.
But it is the
Newcastle game that will be preserved for all time. A
headline in a Sunday broadsheet last week pronounced;
“It will never happen again”. BBC’s
Match of the Day” cameras captured the drama for
posterity. Malcolm Macdonald scored for Newcastle in
the 80th minute, Ronnie Radford equalised with the
goal of the century seven minutes later, I got the
winner in extra time and fledgling commentator John
Motson wrote himself into Hereford folklore. Two
years ago, Motty was made an honorary member of the
1971/72 squad, an accolade surely unique in football
history.
The Hereford side
had been put together by the late John Charles, who
left the club in October 1971, to be replaced by
Addison, whose quality and leadership complimented
the unquenchable team spirit that already
prevailed.
For the record, the
Giant-killers were; Fred Potter in goal, Griffiths,
McLaughlin, Alan Jones and Ken Mallender. Addison,
Tony Gough and Radford. Dudley Tyler, Billy Meadows
and Brian Owen.
For my part, that
modestly struck winning goal made up for all the
disappointments I had suffered in a previously
turbulent football career. I am proud and privileged,
thirty five years on, to be writing these words on
behalf of a magnificent group of men.
Ricky George
Visit http://blogs.24dash.com/rickygeorge
Book Club
Two reviews have been
added for:
David Peace's The Damned United,
see Review,
and Jimmy Armfield's Jimmy Armfield the
Autobiography: Right Back to the Beginning, see Review.
28 June
Next Generation News
Apologies if this
is not 100 per cent correct, but as far as I can work it
out Juan Sebastián Verón, son
of Juan
Ramón Verón (Estudiantes de La Plata), has
played his first international for Argentina since
November 2003 when injury put him out of the side, and he
never won his place back.
It was presumed his
international career was over, indeed his career
generally was presumed to be nearing its end, when he
returned from Europe to his home country to play for Estudiantes de La Plata.
Juan's
contract had been with Chelsea since 2003, but after he
failed to impress there he moved on to Inter Milan in
Italy from 2004 to 2006, and then Estudiantes for last
season. The contract with Chlesea is now finally over.
Somewhat out of the
blue the Argentinian coach Alfio Basile
said he was going to pick home based Argentian players
and Juan was called back into the squad in February. I
cannot trace any other appearances, so it seems his
return match has been on the major stage of the Copa
América being held in Venezuela
Argentina's opener
was in qualifying Group C in the José Encarnación (Pachencho)
Romero in Maracaibo, and was an emphatic 4-1 victory over
the USA. Juan was substituited in the 87th minute. I
believe it was his 57th game for Argentina and he has
scored 9 times.
26 June
Barlow
Returns
Frank
Barlow (Sheffield United) has returned to top flight
football to become Chris Hutchings'
Assistant Manager at Premiership side, Wigan Athletic.
Frank was last seen on the site when he left Hull City
Assistant Manager in October 2006.
24 June
Derek
Dougan dies. See Obituary
18 June
Next Generation News
Paul
Hinshelwood, nephew of Martin
Hinshelwood (Crystal Palace) and son of non Bob 70-71 Pages player Paul
Hinshelwood, did not have his contract at
Brighton renewed and joined Blue Square Premier side,
Torquay United. Paul was at the Brighton alongside his
brother Adam, but he was unable to break through into the
first team.
17 June
New
Additions
1)
Statues
For
reasons known only to my subconscious mind, I spent the
entire weekend developing the Statues page on the site. This
essentially involved going through all 92 League club
grounds featured at www.footballgroundguide.co.uk.
It took
many hours, but it has been worth it, especially as it
has thrown up a number of new additions to the pages.
These are:
Jimmy McIlroy (Bolton
Wanderers Chief
Coach);
Harry Dolman (Bristol
City Chairman),
John Sillett (Bristol City Coach);
Dr Iven (Burnley Director), Bob Lord
(Burnley
Chairman), Albert Maddox (Burnley Secretary), Harry Potts
(Burnley General Manager);
Arthur Wait (Crystal
Palace
Chairman);
Dave Bowen (Northampton
Town General;
Manager);
Geoffry Watling (Norwich
City Chairman);
John King (Port
Vale);
Frank Walton (Southend Director);
and Tony
Horseman (Wycombe Wanderers)
2) Port Vale
Port
Vale's John King, you will note, is the only new League
player to be added, so to keep him company I added the Port
Vale
page to the site. This page includes names of the whole
70-71 squad, plus John Brodie who is
also new to the site. He arrived at Port Vale in the
middle of the 1970-71 season from Bradford Park Avenue.
3)
Others
Whilst
surfing round history sections of site generally I also
finally placed Keith Burkinshaw as
reserve team coach of Newcastle United.
And I
found out that Bertie Mee the Double winning manager in
1970-71 had an elder brother, George Mee,
who played League football. He is placed on the site at Sons
and Daughters: Brothers.
Anyway
there is a ton of new information on the page so have a
look at the Statues page and see if there's any new
info you could help add, or corrections to the info
already there.
15 June
Where are they now?
Mike
Pejic (Stoke City) update can be found at Summer
2007
12 June
Next Generation News
Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF) has joined Turkish side
Galatasaray from home FC Copenhagen.
6 June
Next Generation News
1)
England re-commenced their European Championship
qualifying campaign with an awkward must-win match away
to Estonis at Le Coq Arena, Tallinn. It ended
a comfortable 3-0 win and everyone began to wonder what
all the fuss was about
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard,
played his 55th game for his country in which he has
scored 12 goals.
Michael Owen, son of Terry
Owen,
scored for his first time since 3 June 2006, the first
time since 1998 that the England team have had to wait a
year for an England goal - though in terms of minutes
played, of course it hardly ranked as a goal drought. It
also meant Michael avoided going 5 games without a goal
for the first time in his England career. Michael came
off in the 88th minute when the score was already 3-0.
Michael
has now played 82 times for England, and has scored 37
times. Michael remains 4th in the all-time list of England's
Highest Goalscorers
Beckham
Watch - David Beckham won his 96th cap as he
gets another game closer to the magic 100th cap, a total
so far only made by three Bob 70-71 Page players Peter
Shilton
(125 caps), Bobby Moore (108) and Sir
Bobby Charlton (106), plus Billy Wright
(105). Beckham is the 5th in the all time list and
Michael Owen is 10th.
2)
Steffen Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing
Mechelen) plays
for Norway in a European Championships qualifier at home
to Hungary in Oslo. The final score was a
magnificent 4-0 victory, Norway's second in a row.
Steffen scored the opening goal in the 22nd minute, which
is the second match in a row he has scored playing for
Norway. This was his 3rd in this European Championship
campaign.Steffen has played 68 times for his country and
he has scored 15 times.
3)
Tobias Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF)plays for Sweden intheir European Championships
qualifier away to Iceland in Råsunda.
Sweden comfortably win 5-0. Tobias played until the 62nd
minute, by which time it was already 5-0. This
was Tobias's 69th
cap for Sweden, he has scored once.
2 June
Next Generation News
1)
Steffen Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing
Mechelen) plays
for Norway in a European Championships qualifier at home
to Malta in Oslo. Steffen had missed Norway's
last match a qualifier away to Turkey. The final score
was a 4-0 victory. Steffen scored in the 79th minute to
make it 3-0. It is Steffen's 67th cap for Norway, he has
scored 14 times for his country in total.
2) Tobias
Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth
(Helsingborgs IF) is in the Swedish side that is
awarded a 3-0 victory against Denmark in their away
European Championship qualifier against Denmark at
Parken, Copenhagen. In actual fact the game was ended
when the score was 3-3, and it made the regular news
headlines internationally!
It seems
the sequence of events was that Sweden took a 3-0 lead
after just 25 minutes, but Denmark had fought it back to
3-3 by the 76th minute. Then in the 89th minute, the Danish player, Christian
Poulsen was sent off for punching Swede, Markus
Rosenberg, in the stomach and a penalty was
given. A Danish fan lost it, ran on the pitch and
attacked the referee Herbert Fandel from Germany. The
officials clustered together and decided to come off the
pitch, and UEFA decided on a 3-0 Sweden victory by way of
a punishment, along with fines and venue consequences.
Meanwhile ... this
was Tobias's 68th
cap for Sweden, he has scored once.
1 June
Three
Polls:-
Polls 1 : www.footballingfifties.co.uk
Norman Giller has been in touch with his
latest book. Over to you Norman:-
It is called Footballing
Fifties, and is an in-depth look at what I
call 'the decade when the Beautiful Game was in black and
white. I spotlight just about everything that happened in
a two-faced era when players were treated like soccer
slaves, yet provided some of the most exciting and
adventurous football ever witnessed.
I give you Matthews
and Finney, Lofthouse and Milburn,
Shackleton and Mannion, Billy Wright and
the great John Charles (he would be
worth more today than the entire Leeds team put
together!)
The final chapter
is a poll on the decade I am inviting people to vote on
their favourites players of the decade and there is a
full breakdown of all the leading contenders at www.footballingfifties.co.uk
Anybody taking part
in the poll will be offered the book (due for publication
in the Autumn) at a discount price.
Jimmy Greaves is
providing the introduction, and a 1950s 'fantasy' team -
in the good old 2-3-5 formation should be sent to \par normangiller@footballingfifties.com
I will do my best
to send a personal reply to anybody who takes the trouble
to vote.
Polls 2
It is your
chance to vote for the Top Bob of 2007.
It's been a few seasons since it last came up for public
vote:
See Poll
2 or http://ge9.pollhost.com/
Last
season's award went to the French manager, Raymond
Domenech (Olympique Lyonnais).
And prior
to this the winners were:
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)
The
closing date for this poll is traditionally the day of
the Community Shield match.
Poll 3
Winner Sir
Matt Busby
Part one
of the Great Seventies Manager's vote - for the period
1965-70 was edged by Sir Matt Busby who got 50 votes ahead of Bill
Shankly (Liverpol) with 48 and Don
Revie
with 47 out of 234 votes cast.
See full
Part One results at Results
Now vote
for your favourite manager of the 1971-75 period for Part
2 click to:
Poll 3 or http://mm7r.pollhost.com/
More Books
Peter Kitchen (Doncaster
Rovers)
The Goal Gourmet: The Peter Kitchen Story by Neilson
N. Kaufman
www.amazon.co.uk (click to see the book on Amazon)
reports
In
December 1999, Peter Kitchen was voted by fans of
both Doncaster Rovers and Leyton Orient as one of
their greatest ever players. In more recent polls
conducted by BBC's Football Focus, FourFourTwo
Magazine and other popular fanzines, he was voted as
one of their best players - some of these polls
taking place more than twenty years after he played
for them, and is today still considered a cult hero
by both sets of fans.
Born in
Mexborough, South Yorkshire in 1952, Peter Kitchen
attended Mexborough Grammar School and represented
Yorkshire Senior Schools and England 'B' teams. He
was spotted by Doncaster Rovers manager, Lawrie
McMenemy, and signed up in June 1970, beating Leeds
United to his signature. He made his league debut at
Shrewsbury Town on 27 November 1970, scoring after
just ninety seconds. Between 1970 and 1985, Peter
Kitchen went onto play for five different League
clubs and scored a total of 210 senior goals from 545
appearances, even after his retirement from the
professional game, he turned out for Corinthian
Casuals Vets and knocked-in 280 goals from 228
appearances.
In this
book about one of the greatest goal scorers from the
lower divisions, author Neilson Kaufman captures the
life and times of Peter Kitchen's career. The book
also features many previously unpublished photographs
from Peter's own collection, and there is a full
statistical record on one of the great players ever
to put on a Doncaster Rovers and Leyton Orient shirt.
This book is a must for the bookshelves of any
football fan with an interest on the men who shaped
the beautiful game and in particular for the fans of
the clubs for which Peter Kitchen played.
Brain Clark (Cardiff
City) Real, Robins
and Bluebirds: The Autobiography of Goal Scorer Brian
Clark by Brian Clark and Richard
Shepherd.
http://www.amazon.co.uk (click to see the book
on Amazon) reports
Following
in the footsteps of his prolific goal scoring father
Don, Brian Clark signed for Bristol City in the late
1950s and became a firm favourite with the Ashton
Gate fans for his prowess in front of goal. Typically
'knocking in' over 20 goals a season, he established
an attacking partnership with the legendary John
Atyeo, and scored in the final game of 1964/65 to
secure the Robins' promotion to Division 2. In 1968,
after a brief sojourn at Huddersfield Town, Brian
joined Cardiff City and earned the plaudits of the
Ninian Park faithful.
He
struck up a fearsome partnership with a young John
Toshack and became a hero with the Bluebirds for his
ability to find the net, especially with his superb
headed goal against Real Madrid in the quarter-final
of the European Cup-Winners Cup. In 1975, after three
years with AFC Bournemouth and then Millwall, Brian
rejoined Cardiff City before finally moving to
Newport County for his final three seasons before
retiring from playing the game. Still involved in
football as a pundit on Cardiff City's website,
Brian's opinions on the game are often sought by
television, newspaper and radio.
Written
with football journalist and author Richard Shepherd,
"Real Robins and Bluebirds" is the
fascinating story of a true goal scorer!
Next Generation News
1)
The 'New Wembley' or more formally, the National
Stadium at Wembley hosted its first England full
international with two Next Generation stars in the side.
The match, a friendly verus Brazil, was drawn 1-1, though
Brazil's equaliser did not come until the 2nd minute of
injury time.
Incidentally,
the game was also remarkable for being the return of David
Beckham for his first match since the end of the
World Cup finals in 2006, when he resigned the captaincy
and the new manager Steve McLaren, decided to not pick
him. It was Beckham's 95th game as he homes in on that
magic 100th cap, a total so far only made by three Bob
70-71 Page players Peter Shilton (125 caps), Bobby
Moore
(108) and Sir Bobby Charlton (106), plus Billy
Wright (105). David is indeed number 5 in the
all-time list.
Frank
Lampard - son of Frank
Lampard,
played his 54th game for his country in which he has
scored 12 goals, and when he left the field in the 86th
minute England were still 1 up!
Frank was
joined by Michael Owen, son of Terry
Owen,
for his first time since 20 June 2006, the day Michael
picked up a cruel injury at the begining of the World Cup
Finals match v Sweden. It was good to see Michael back,
but his failure to score meant that he had gone 4 matches
without scoring, which is his longest spell without a
goal for his country. However, this is not a reason to
panic, as this is the fourth time in his career he has
has had such a baron spell. Michael has now played 81
times for England, and has scored 36 times. Michael also
left the field whent eh team were 1 up, in the 83rd
minute.
Incidentally,
following the information about Beckham above, Michael is
number 10 in the all-time most appearances list. Of
currently available players, there is also Gary
Neville at number 8 with 85 caps.
2)
Steffen Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing
Mechelen) plays
for Norway in a European Championships qualifier at home
to Malta in Oslo. Steffen had missed Norway's
last match a qualifier away to Turkey. The final score
was a 4-0 victory. Steffen scored in the 79th minute to
make it 3-0. It is Steffen's 67th cap for Norway, he has
scored 14 times for his country in total.
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