February 2003
Ok here we
go again with the my favourite page of the website, the
latest emails.here's the highlights of early to mid
January's communications...
Hi
Bob
Great website (thanks -Bob) - fantastic info, makes
very interesting reading.
Didn't see these listed (at Sons
and Daughters): Man U's Neville
brothers, (Gary and Phil);
Chelsea's John Terry and his brother Paul (served
apprenticeship at Charlton and now plays midfield for
Dagenham & Redbridge); Chelsea's Eidur
Gudjohnsen made his debut for Finland as a substitute
for his father, Arnor;
Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini and father Fabio,
legendary 1960s AC Milan keeper, who won the
Scudetto, European Champions Cup, Cup Winners Cup,
Intercontinental Cup, etc;
Romanian Gheorge Hagi and brother-in-law of Gheorghe
Popescu have played together in the same national
team;
Arsenal striker Nwankwo Kanu and younger brother
Christopher (Ajax and loan to Alaves);
Chelsea's Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has brother Carlos
who played for FC Haarlem (had a trial with Norwich
and Wigan).
Hope they may be of some use to you.
Cheers
Gill Lester
Huge
thanks for that, Gill. Carlo Cudicini and his father, Fabio have since been added to the
site. Though the rest don't qualify for the Bob 70-71
Pages, it's a good opportunity for me to add this
information on this page for anyone else curious to know.
Indeed if anyone else knows of anyone, I'll be to keep
adding them on the email pages.
See Sons
and Daughters
Bob I hope you can help
me ? I need to know for a quiz I'm doing how many
England caps Peter Shilton earned.
Much obliged
Linda Blackpool
That would
be 125. A great site to answer such questions direct is
Peter Young's www.englandfootballonline.com
Bob -
Great Web Pages !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was wondering if you knew of any sites where I
could access old football pictures from the 20's,
30's, 40's etc.?
I have tried and can't come up with any.
Appreciate the help.
FMG - Flavio M Giust, Ex-pat in USA
Thanks for the
comment about the website. No I'm afraid football history
is very, very poorly served on the Net, especially with
pictures. The main places I've seen older football
pictures is in history sections of other sites, I've
never seen a whole site devoted to old players from the
20s to 40s. Perhaps you should do it !
If anyone reading this does come across any football
history sites, which are not featured on this site, do
please send me the link so that I can pass it on to
everyone else.
Subject: John
Osborne
Did
you realise that Ossie died from cancer about 12
months ago ?
I work as a bus driver in Wolverhampton and see
the great Peter Knowles (Wolves) around the town.
Thanks for
that. Yes, I did, though it was now over three years ago.
I didn't know how he died. The news of John's death was
reported on the site's very first news page, which is why I especially wanted him to have
his own page.
I must try and get Peter his own page, as his is one of
the more interesting football stories without doubt.
Technically he wasn't a player in 70-71 though !
Hello
Bob,
I've just stumbled on your great web site while
looking for a football expert to answer a question
and settle a heated debate concerning Paul McGrath
ex-Man Utd, when I read about Ian Hutchinson (Chelsea).
As a Chelsea fan from the late sixties I was saddened
to hear of his untimley death. Heroic in life any
member of that romantic team will be fondly regarded.
I'm an Irish musician and a man from my father's home
in Co Kerry had a pub in London where a lot of this
team used sneek away to listen to Irish music and
have a quite few pints with the Paddys.
This pub was called the Balloon, I'm not sure of the
address 'but the Irish in London at that time loved
the swaggering devil may care attitude of these
men....a great time to be in London ......
So' Bob my question is... Did Paul McGrath ever play
at center forward for United at ANY time during ANY
game for the Reds? Some of us are sure
he was an emergency recruit in that position at least
once but have no way of verifying this...maybe you
could steer me in the right direction with this..
Kind Regards
Gerry
O'Connor
Co
Tipperary, Ireland
Well to be
honest I'm not an expert in Manchester United players of
the '80s, but I can say that he never once started a
match in the centre-forward position. I've checked all
the first class matches during his career there, and
though he was famously versatile and alternated between
central defence and midfield, I don't have a record of
him moving up to centre forward.
Indeed in all his career he only scored 21 League goals,
and only 12 of them at Man U, so he could not have been a
natrual centre forward. But I
cannot offer any more than opinion I'm afraid, perhaps a
Man U site webmaster would be more helpful !
Thanks for the comment about the website. It was indeed
very sad about Ian Hutchinson's death. I wish I'd known
about that pub at the time !
One of
my favourite web sites of football nostalga that
has recently closed down was greavses.com , where (there was) an
alphabetical site of nearly all the football names
including players and managers of
the sixties and seventies.
If you could locate it, get the database and
patch it into your site there must be at least 1,000
names all alphabetically listed, including current
employment and life histories even of lots of the
lower division clubs as well as lots of soccer
obituaries .
Hope this is useful regards Jeff
Harding
I believe
you are referring to www.askgreaves.com, which cerainly fits the
description you gave. The site was put together by Andy
Pringle and Neil Fissler, who wrote the book 'Where are they now?',
which has had two editions and I remain hopeful of a
third.
I very
much doubt that they would let me have their data as I
believe they may still want to use it themselves. They
have most likely removed it from the Net altogether and I
would not be able to locate it. I did write to them to
find out what was going on, but I did not receive a
reply.
Dear
Bob,
I
have only recently found your site, which certainly
brings back memories. I collected Charles
Buchan Football Monthly during
the late sixties and early seventies, George Best era
my hero!
Out of curiosity have the magazines become
collectibles?
Thanks
Rob.
Well yes
they are very collectable, but only to the tune of being
worth 2-3 pounds each, with some special editions being
worth a bit more. www.ebay.co.uk very often has them for sale,
and they always sell. This is quite a regular question
(see FAQ)
and I gave a fuller answer last month, see January
2003. The
reason I bring it up again is that I see now there is a
dealer who has a site devoted to the magazine at Charles Buchan's Football
Monthly
Glad you liked the
site.
I am a massive football fan, and
as a boy growing up in the 90's I used to be
captivated by Ernie
Hunt's
free kick for Coventry on the credits of Match of the
Day each week.
My question to you is ; Do you know of anywhere where
it is possible to download a video clip of this goal
from ?
We used to spend hours at school trying to emulate
that goal, usually hitting the corner flag!!!
It would be nice to see it again, and so I wonder if
you could help me.
Many thanks
Ben Watson
You are
not the first person to enquire about this. In fact there
is almost no clips of old football available on the Net,
I'm afraid, FIFA do their best to crush it claiming they
have copyright on all football !
I dare say the BBC or ITV would have a thing or two to
say, too. The BBC do sometimes make this sort of thing
available on their site.
I'm not into file shaing, but it could be that somebody
has the clip if you search Napster style, but it's not an
area of expertise I have, I'm afraid.I wouldn't mind
seeing it again myself.
Questions
to answer.
As ususal
there's some questions I didn't know. If anyone knows
these I'll add them to the site later.
Who
was the first Manager to achieve 6 F.A. Cup Final
wins? I cannot find this anywhere!
Thankyou
Rosemary E. White
I
am looking for the identity of a player who went on
to play for Royal Antwerp in Belguim and also worked
in the Celtic youth development set up. The player is
Irish I think or lives there now. Thanks for any help
you are able to give me with this.
Graeme Edwards
Got me
there anyone know ?
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