May 2002
Here's a selection
of some of the best emails to come between late-March and
April.
Could you
tell me what number Roger Hunt was wearing in the
1966 World Cup Final?
Many thanks,
Simon Pontee
Well
according to the record books he was wearing the no.10
shirt ... only he wasn't because Geoff Hurst wore that !
It's hard finding pictures of the backs of people, but I
can tell you he actually wore the no.21 shirt ... good
question !
I have just
found your interesting site and thought you might be
able to help.
I
am trying to compile team lists for all league clubs
based on the number of appearances in any season. I have full lists
from the 1986/87 season to the present
and would like to go back to 1960.
Can
you suggest a web site where I might find player
appearances throughout the season ?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Graham Long
If you
were to do it I'm fairly certain it would be the only
source of it's kind on the Net at present. I'm often
asked for such information, but I don't have it myself. I
reckon you would have to buy old Rothmans and Playfairs
to get that kind of info. though there is one chap
selling it on cd Rom. See http://www.innotts.co.uk/~soccer/ Good luck with it.
Dear Bob
Please could you help clear up an argument I've had
about how they pronounce Revie (see Don
Revie), is it Reeeevie or Rev ie as in
(rev an engine). This could keep me
in beer for a few months.
Thanks
Spencer DeFriend
I've done some
research, I've listened to the tape 'The Revie Years' to
see what Billy Bremner, Allan Clarke, Peter Lorimer and
Norman Hunter called him and the answer is....
(drum roll) ..... The Gaffer. The
presenter asking them the questions said 'Rev (rev an
engine) ee' and they didn't correct him , so Rev -ie it
is.
Just found the
site....brilliant to think back to those magical days
in 1969 when I was 10 and we used to collect the
Wonderful World Of Soccer Stars stickers.
Can't remember what happened to mine but I remember
the 1968/69 album which I think had a picture cover
of a match at Hillsborough ,Sheffield and also World
Cup 1970 Soccer Stars album..Gerd Muller was one of
my faves of the time and then he sunk England in the
1/4 final.
I think the packets cost a sixpence and they were as
popular then as Pokeman cards are today.
Also enjoyed the article on Ernie Hunt and the famous
donkey-kick goal...I was actually there for that and
also have a video featuring it...magical times of
footy and moon-landings!
Keep up the good work.
Ken Stoker....Coventry
Thanks for that - for more on
Ernie Hunt's kick see Ernie Hunt
Hi, I am an Italian
collector of football albums. I see in your site that
you like the year 1970. I have a lot of album and
stickers.(Here is) an album by PANINI of the Italian
championship season 1970-71. This album contains also
a lot of stickers of world footballers. I've sent you
a photo. In this album you have 600 stickers: serie
A-B-C-D of 1970-71.
Bye MASSIMO
1970-71
Italian Panini album
Wow that's
the first I knew of this album, thanks very much.
Dear
Bob,
As a young boy in Dundee it was bad enough when
Dundee lost to A.C.Milan in the semi of the European
Cup and Ian Ure was sold to Arsenal,then just over a
year later Gillie was off to London as well!
I hate London! At least now all our players are cr*p
so you don't want them - thank heaven for small
mercies!
yours, Bill Dryden
Ho ho, thanks Bill.
Can you
please tell me the 100 most capped players in the
world. Did any of them have difficulty walking when
they were young.
Regards Finbarr
Hi Finbarr, I'm sorry I don't have a list of
the 100 most capped players in the World. Surely everyone
has difficulty in walking when they're young, depends how
young, I suppose.
Question
:
Who
scored the only hatrick in a World Cup final, what
year and against which team?
Herchell
Bryan
That is
the easiest question in the world for an Englishman ! It
was Geoff Hurst, when he got a hatrick versus West Germay in
the 4-2 victory in 1966 !
Hi Bob I had a discussion
once with a friend about Peter Houseman, I think he
played for Chelsea did he die and how ? Also I
believe a footballer died from being struck by
lightning but can't remember who.
Thanks
Pete Woodcock
Yes Peter
Houseman (Chelsea) did die whilst he was still a
player, in a car crash in 1976, but after he'd moved from
Chelsea to Oxford United. Like many people my age, I
reckon, he was the first playing player I ever knew who
died.
The player who died
after being struck by lightening is the Spurs and
Scotland player, John White, who sadly died whilst still
very much at the peak of his career.
Mike wrote to me
about football footage of Tom Finney, and I answered that
FIFA don't allow it because they own the Rights and won't
release it. Tom replied...
Thanks
for reply about film footage of Tom.
To say FIFA holds sole rights is not the story
I get from PNE. They say that the footage
belongs to the likes of Pathe News etc.
Between the parties we are missing the point.
Posterity is missing out on footage the the
best footballer England has ever
produced.
Ask T.Docherty he played with him. And also Sir
Bobby Charlton.
Can't we get closer on the issue of a decent
footage of film of Tom
Well I couldn't
agree with you more, but that is not the view of the
powerful bodies such as FIFA. The arguments were
all fought out with www.footofgod.com, the Napster equivalent of the football
world. Basically someone lovingly set up an
excellent site of football footage, and decided he would
give it to FIFA so that they could run it legally. They
refused and the site was legally closed down. See www.dangerhere.com/issues/020301/calcio.htm .
You are right Pathe did have a site with lots of great
sporting moments on it. I haven't looked for it for a
while, because after an initial free period it started to
charge ridiculous amounts to view the clips, and to be
honest I just stopped going there and have lost the link
anyway.
Your best bet might be the BBC website, they have
fantastic amounts of their
own footage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/football/eng_div_1/newsid_1908000/1908732.stm
is one news item about him without a clip of him
playing, but they do have the odd gem occasionally.
I would love for the information to be available for the
importance of it's football history, but the people who
own it want to keep making money from it. Unlike music
the copyrights seem to be endless.
I'm pretty hopeless
with quiz questions ...
Venables,
Robson and Taylor collectively advertised which book?
Andrew
Lewis
I answered, 'Roy of
the Rovers annual ???'Andrew answered ...
Apparently
answer is Yellow Pages, I have found out, thanks
anyway!
Ahem.
And again ...
Quiz
Answer:- Would you happen to know...?
What former Man U Goalkeeper Alex Stepney (Man U) once did while
shouting at a team mate?
Would you also now which males singer has a cousin
who scored an FA cup final goal.
Thanks
John Mackley
I answered
1) No ... that hasn't come to me yet
2) Elton John - aka
Reg Dwight, who's reletive Royston Dwight scored for
Nottm Forest in 1959.
If you find the
answer to the first I would love to report it on the site. And John did ...
The anwser to
question 1 is - He dislocated his jaw while shouting
at a team mate.
Would you have an answer for this one ? - For which
club did Bruce Grobbelaar score his only league goal.
Now that one I did know, Bruce
scored for Crewe Alexandria in the 79-80 season.
Hi, my name is Gemma and I was wondering if you
could send me a picture of the World Cup trophy from
'66 because I am doing a project in art about when
England won the World Cup in '66 and I need a picture
of the trophy for the main part of my work.
The Jules
Rimet World Cup Trophy
For anyone
interested I do have a 106kb version of this picture if
you want to download it visit Geocities Exclusive ! And for the astute ones amongst you, you
may recognise it as picture on the back of the FKS World
Cup Mexico 1970 album.
Hello
Bob,
Can you settle an argument? How many players, in the
Football League & Premiership, since the end of
the Second World War have four (4) letters in their
surname, i.e. Best, Hunt, Wood etc.......
Many thanks for your time.
Kindest regards, Stuart Lydon
Well there
are 7 players called Best, 28 called Hunt, 46 called Wood
... there's Balls, Todds, Howes and Bonds ... Life is
just too short to count them all I'm afraid !
Does
anyone know what Chris McGrath (Tottenham &
Manchester united) is doing now? Bill
http://www.mehstg.co.uk/whereare.htm say that he was last heard
of working for GlaxoSmith Kine in Ware. Chris doesn't
quite qualify for the 70-71 pages unless I can prove he
was a youth team player then !
I live in Austin,
Texas. I'm the biggest collector of videos of the
North American Soccer League. I grew up watching the
Cosmos, and I've always loved that league.
I finally found a video from the 1971 season. It's
the 1971 NASL season hilight film. Would you consider
putting a link to my web site? I'm at:
http://home.talkcity.com/PlayingFields/davebrett/sportsvideos.htm
By the way, here is
a fact about 1971 football that you probably don't
know...in 1971 the NASL introduced the sudden-death
(ie. golden goal) overtime format to resolve ties.
But they didn't go to penalty kicks after a single
overtime period. They just kept playing.
The result was a match that is still the
longest game in professional soccer history. 1
September 1971 Dallas Tornado at Rochester Lancers -
176 minutes of football! I wish I could find that one
on videotape.
Thanks,
Dave Wasser
Consider it done, Dave. That's
an amazing set of videos you have there
Do you know
anywhere that I can buy the 1995/96 home Man Utd
goalkeeper top in size mediam or large? And the 1995
away black top in long slieves in the same sizes? wb
plesa thanx m8
Hi, 95-96 bit recent for me that ! I would try the
auction sites (see http://ds.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/links.htm#commercial ),
http://www.toffs.com/, or your best bet, the local
Charity/ 2nd hand shops !
Sorry I can't be of
more help.
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