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June 2000 News

This is the latest news of all the players who appeared in the 1970-71

FKS Publishers Ltd Wonderful World of Soccer Stars Album

30 June 2000

Jimmy Armfield O.B.E.

Thanks to Peter Gillatt at SEASIDERS.NET - the biggest Blackpool FC website on the planet! for this item and picture.

Jimmy Armfield, the former Blackpool and England footballer who captained his country 15 times, has been awarded an OBE. He made over 500 appearances for his club and played in the 1962 World Cup, but injury denied him a place in the 1966 side. After a brief career in management, taking Leeds to the European Cup in 1974, he went into journalism and broadcasting.

Former England captain Jimmy Armfield, once described as the greatest right-back in the world, was given an OBE the year after the final members of the 1966 World Cup-winning side were recognised. Had it not been for a cruel injury in the run-up to England's finest hour, it could well have been Armfield rather than George Cohen in the team.

The Blackpool star also enjoyed a brilliantly successful career as a manager, before joining the BBC where he is still recognised as one of the best summarisers in radio. On behalf of all of us on Seasiders.net and Pool fans online we send our congratulations to Jimmy and his family. Jimmy Armfield OBE, captain of Blackpool and England, between December 1954 and May 1971, while he was with Blackpool he played in 690 first class matches over 17 consecutive seasons. League (568), F.A.Cup (33),F.L.Cup (25), England (43), England U23 (9) Football league (12).

Go to Peter's site at SEASIDERS.NET and you'll be able to hear Jimmy talking about Blackpool's chances this coming season.

I think Jimmy deserves his O.B.E., I really do ...

This amusing letter appeared in one of this week's newspapers from Football365.

"I used to operate a spread bet on the number of times that Radio Five Live summariser Jimmy Armfield would say 'I really do' over the course of 90 minutes. As in: 'I think Blackpool are a sleeping giant, I really do.' Once every six or seven minutes was the average.

"It was scrapped after a heated disagreement over whether phrases such as 'Keane's a great midfielder... he really is' were an acceptable sub-variant of Armfield-speak or not.

Sadly the above mentioned soundbite from SEASIDERS.NET does not include such an incidence ... (go on ...) it really doesn't.

Pelé - A Message From Our Sponsor

As a spokesman for Eurocard, Pelé (Star Players From World Cup 1970) penned a piece about Euro 2000 for the Daily Telegraph. Click 'Coaches need to Show More Courage' to see.

22 June 2000

Best Flick

No, not a Subbuteo update, but a new link to the movie about George Best which is well worth a visit. See Best the Movie.

20 June 2000

Reading Ron

Big Ron Atkinson has his own regular column for the Guardian. See today's contribution at Football Unlimited Columnists A crying need for speed and fury

Best on the Box

George Best is part of the much promoted ITV programme 'Celebrity Heatbreak' where Trisha Goddard will talk to the stars. It'll be on Friday, 23 June at 10pm.

Barbie Boy and the Euro 11

Jack Charlton's column in the national Sunday sports paper' Sports First' continues to make it just about heading towards maybe being nearly sort of worth the seventy pence cover price. In this week's edition, 18 June, 2000 we were treated to two columns. In the second Jack chose his Euro 2000 team. 1. Fracesco Toldo (Italy), 2. Eric Deflandre (Belgium), 3 Paolo Maldini (Italy), 4. Marcel Desailly (France), 5. Frank de Boer (Holland), 6. Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic), 7. David Beckham (England), 8. Zinedane Zidane (France), 9. Luis Figo (Portugal), 10. Jao Pinto ((Portugal), 11. Thierry Henry (France).

Later in the article Jack bemoans todays soft tackling. Jack goes on, 'They used to call Billy Bremner a roll of barbed wire because you couldn't get him off your feet. A huge part of this game was the fierce, but fair tackle. Nowadays, though, you can't tackle from behind, or the side and soon won't be able to tackle at all." Nice one, Jack.

16 June 2000

Tonight Matthew, I will be ...

One Personality who should ask Why? or What Kind of Fool Am I ? is Terry Venables (QPR), who according to 'Heat' magazine is going to be starring as Anthony Newley in a celebrity edition of 'Stars In Their Eyes' with Matthew Kelly on ITV. Do You Mind Terry ? We could do without That Noise. I can't say I've Waited so Long for this Idle on Parade with his Saturday Night Rock a Boogie etc etc... (... And the Heaven's Cried.)

12 June 2000

Peter Shilton Talks Sport

As I write I'm listening to Peter Shilton talking about England's match today. See http--www.talksport.net-index.html which broadcasts over the net. Amusingly, Talk sport have not got the rights to commentate on the match live, so they're doing it from a t.v. monitor in the studio instead !! Peter is also involved in a phone in later tonight from 10pm to 11pm with ex-West Ham Star, Alvin Martin.

Ray Clemence (Liverpool) - We're ready for lift off.

This story appears at Football365

Ray Clemence says England cannot wait to get their Euro 2000 campaign under way against Portugal in Eindhoven on Monday night.
The squad have been at their base in Spa, Belgium, since Friday and are set to travel to Holland later on Sunday for a training session in the Philips Stadium.
"The full squad trained yesterday and they all looked very sharp. I think it is a case that they cannot wait for the games to start now," said the England goalkeeping coach.
"The atmosphere inside here is very relaxed, and I think anybody who has been down to the training ground can see how much the players are enjoying everything and looking forward to the moment.
"Kevin (Keegan) feels that the build-up has gone as well as it can do, we have got the ideas into the player's minds about Monday's game.
"And it's just a case now of let's get to Eindhoven and get really focused on the job in hand tomorrow evening," said Clemence, who also revealed that the players will not be told the starting line-up until after Sunday's training session.
It emerged on Saturday night that skipper Alan Shearer had received an anti-inflammatory injection in his knee injury before England flew out to Belgium and Clemence stressed there was nothing untoward in the procedure.
"Alan did have an injection, but it was an anti-inflammatory injection and not a cortisone injection and it was one that was made in consultation with all the top people at Newcastle United as well.
"It was not something that was done just to get Alan to play for England on Monday.
"He performed very well (in training) and we are hoping there will be no reaction today, we don't expect there to be one and if that is so that when Kevin announces his squad, he will be in it."
Looking ahead to the Portugal match Clemence said: "Technically they are a very good attacking side. They have got some very, very good forward players and obviously Figo is the one everybody is talking about at the moment.
"But they have areas where you can get at them as well and have worked this week on the side's weaknesses.
"We feel there are areas where we can cause them more problems than they will cause us.
Clemence, meanwhile, rejected the criticism of Portugal assistant boss Rui Cacadore who made some negative comments about England's defence, adding: "It is up to him what he thinks, he made one particular reference to the goalkeeping side of it, but I know which goalkeeper I would rather have in goal."
The former Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper also emphasised the positive approach which has been adopted going into the tournament.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "Everybody has said we want success to be going all the way this time, not just the quarter-final or the semi-final and that is the positive feeling inside the squad."

Geoff Hurst (West Ham United) called up by Keeganto Inspire Class of 2000

And this story appears at Football365

Kevin Keegan has declared his determination to make the country proud of the England team at the European Championship finals ahead of their opening game on Monday.
As the squad went through their final preparations ahead of that encounter with Portugal, 1966 World Cup final hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst was there to encourage and motivate the players as a special guest of the England coach.
Keegan knows the importance of opening the tournament with at least a creditable draw and seems set to name a relatively attacking line-up, with the major gamble apparently being the selection of Steve McManaman ahead of Dennis Wise on the left flank.
With Alan Shearer expected to partner Michael Owen up front, while Sol Campbell is likely to play instead of Martin Keown at the back, Keegan wants to make an immediate impression on the tournament to give added credibility to his conviction that England can emerge as winners.
He said: "We value the support of our fans, which has been tremendous. We are a nation that loves its football and its football players.
"All they want is what we want - to go out and perform, to do well and to make them proud of us.
"I sense the fact that the players know this is an opportunity for it to be a memorable three weeks. Every team will feel that and the Germans and Romanians will feel like we do - that we have something to prove."
Keegan certainly believes it is important for the squad to have proven winners around them as they attempt to find success at international level for the first time since 1966.
The England coach, who has previously involved another World Cup winner, Alan Ball, in training sessions, said: "I think that is vitally important and I want to encourage it more and more.
"I think we could make much more use of the players who gave a great service to English football.
"I asked Geoff to come out, it's an open invitation. I asked him to stay the whole tournament with us but obviously he has a lot of other commitments, so he might leave and come back for the Germany game, for instance.
"I know he's had a really busy schedule with the 2006 World Cup bid but at least he's with us for these two days.
"I feel we can still take some tremendous confidence from having people like that around us - not interfering but just being there and making the place and the atmosphere that little bit better than it already is.
"He eats with us and travels on the coach with us. The players have been encouraging him, in fact he's already been caught up in the betting for the match this afternoon and has lost a couple of pounds!"
Keegan added: "I hope Stuart Pearce will also come out and take up my offer to be with us. He's trying to get himself fit.
"I've also left a message on Andy Cole's mobile phone to say that if he wants to come out then there's room for him. I want to keep everyone around us and that includes the players who weren't able to come out with us."
Keegan has not publicly revealed the starting line-up which he settled upon two weeks ago, but his expected selection of McManaman ahead of Wise or Nick Barmby is set to be his greatest gamble of all.

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