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Summer
2007
Ricky George (Barnet)
The following biography
appears at: http://blogs.24dash.com/rickygeorge/biography
Ricky is a former
professional footballer who made 439 first team
appearances during his career, he also writes a
weekly non-league column for the Daily Telegraph and
co-presented ‘Matchday with Motty’ for BBC
Radio Five Live with the legendary football
commentator John Motson.
Ricky is a former
professional footballer who made 439 first team
appearances during his career which started at White
Hart Lane as a Tottenham Hotspur apprentice in
the early 1960s. Unable to break into the double
winning Spurs side Ricky gained Football League
experience at Watford, Bournemouth and Oxford United
in addition to a successful period in the non-league
scene with Barnet, Hereford United and
Hastings.
Following his career
in soccer Ricky built up a sizeable retail business
- notably in association with Adidas, but
maintained close connections with competitive
sport and was part of a six-man partnership which
owned the racehorse Earth Summit who memorably
won the Grand National at Aintree on April 4th
1998. He maintains extremely close ties to the racing
industry, this enabling him to operate as a
racing tipster and pundit via the Beat the
Bookie website.
Ricky writes a
weekly non-league column for the Daily Telegraph
and co-presented ”Matchday with
Motty” for BBC Radio Five Live with the
legendary football commentator John Motson. He
is also a regular BBC radio and conference
television match summariser, notably alongside
24dash.com reporter, journalist and commentator
Keith Hall.
His colourful career
is perhaps best captured in his autobiography
”One Goal, One Horse” with his finest
moment having passed into football folklore. On
a quagmire of a pitch he was part of arguably
the greatest FA Cup giantkilling side of all
time when non-league Hereford United dumped First
Division Newcastle United out of the
competition by two goals to one on the 5th February
1972, in a 3rd Round replay.
BBC’s
”Match of the Day” cameras captured Ronnie
Radford’’s 35-yard ”Goal of the
Century” as Hereford fought back to equalise
after Malcolm MacDonald had put the Magpies
ahead. However, it was Ricky who grabbed the winner
in extra-time!
Mike Pejic (Stoke
City):
Whizzing around
Wikepedia football pages as I do occasionally, I see that
MikePejic is now Head of Youth Coaching at
Championship side, Plymouth Argyle. The last time this site caught up with
Mike was October 2002 when he was assessing coaches.
Wikepedia says Mike was 'the regional director for the
North East FA and has coached such stars as Jermaine
Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Stewart
Downing. He then taught FA coaching courses at
NWHC in Nuneaton.'
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pejic
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