September
1999
News
27th September, 1999
News Next Generation
update
Yet another Ian Lawson
goal in Bury's 1-1 draw away to Bournemouth, which is his
7th for the season. See Sons and Daughters
25th September, 1999
News Todd Sacked
Yet another sacking of
the 70-71 players to report I'm afraid. Earlier this
week, Colin Todd (Sunderland) left his son behind at Bolton,
following a poor start to the season. See Bolton Wanderers FC
20th September, 1999
News Robson's Great
Eight Starter.
At the risk of over
doing the Bobby Robson (Ipswich manager) story. I had to
include one more news item, to cover Robson's first home
game in charge at Newcastle United. After a mid-week
European victory, Robson has gone eight better with an
8-0 win against the only team below them in the
Premiership, Sheffield Wednesday. And the papers are full
of written-off England captain, Alan Shearer, scoring
five of them. See Football365.
19th September, 1999
Well, I've added a page all for Willie Morgan.
18th September, 1999
Personal hero, Terry Paine (Southampton) has now got his own page, and I've started a
listing of English Club League Appearance Record, which relates to Terry's page.
17th September, 1999
Finally decided to start an archive
today - rather than edit the news page. I'll probably do
it every two months starting with July / August 1999. The
archive can be found at the bottom of this page so that
all the site's links can be kept in tact. See News.
There's also an addition to 'Where
are they now ?' page concerning
the Southampton 1976 cup winning team.
News (1) Commentators part 3
Leeds United's
marvellous 3-1 win over Partizan Belgrade in the UEFA Cup
this week (see Leeds United FC - The Official
Web Site) was
made all the better for hearing the Radio Leeds
commentary, who's expert analysis was by Peter
Lorimer.
Lorimer was scorer in both legs in Leeds victory over
Partizan in round 2 of the same competition - then called
the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - in 1967-68. That year Leeds
ominously won the cup, their first trophy in Europe. At
half time Peter recalled that Partizan dabbled in a bit
of gamesmanship by insisting in playing in an all white
strip which Leeds had by now made their own. The tactics
didn't work, Leeds changed strips and won the match.
Whilst listening to the
football on the remarkably Leeds biased Radio Leeds, I
was watching it on the telly. There Trevor Brooking (West
Ham United
squad) was doing the analysis. Why ? There's not exactly
a shortage on ex-Leeds players, why choose a
non-connected Londoner ? Sloppy stuff from the BBC 'Match
of the Day Team. At least I had alternative commentary.
Trevor has also been heard commentating on Radio Five
Live, so he's obviously got a good agent, at the moment.
News (2) Fired Burns
I hope Tommy Burns
sacking at Reading wasn't too directly brought on by his
players scoring own goals lately. See below at Next
Generation News 12 th September !! (For news of sacking
see Hob Nob Anyone - The Reading
Football Club (Reading FC) Fanzine - DYNAMIC NEWS)
13th September, 1999
News (1) Batty Hunter
Today in 'The Times'
Sports section, Russell Kempson reports, "Batty
bounces back to win Hunter's plaudits."
' When Norman Hunter (Leeds
United) made a
tackle, his opponent stayed tackled. "Norman Bites
Yer Legs", the Leeds United banners used to
proclaim, and though it was never recorded that he sank
molar into calf, the message was clear. He was hard.
David Batty is the
modern day Hunter - Yorkshire born and bred, tough and
cussed in the extreme. Close quarters combat is his game.
He takes no prisoners, takes his punishment and gets
ready for the next contest. Batty by name, often Batty by
nature (eh ? no he isn't- Bob); he is hard (hard, yes he
is hard - Bob).
Every team needs an
enforcer and they tend to stick together, form a mutual
admiration society. Hunter, now working in the media,
watched at Highfield Road on Saturday as Batty propelled
Leeds to an enthralling victory against City by the odd
goal in seven. Age might have mellowed the old warrior,
but his verdict on Batty was spot on.
"I would always
pick David in any team of mine, " Hunter said.
"Sure, he gets involved in a few flare-ups, but
anyone who is any good has to have that little bit of
spark in him. Getting sent off doesn't affect him; he
just gets on with it, he's that type of lad." '
News (2) Dave
Merrington
I'm a Leeds fan and yet
I'd forgotten that Dave Merrington (Burnley) was still at the club as the
youth team coach ... well actually he isn't now. He's
left to go back Southampton way. See Leeds United FMC - The Official
Web Site. I
actually found out from a Southampton discussion site at Southampton Football Club Forum
12th September, 1999
The past weeks has seen the addition of
a search, a guestbook and quizlet to the main index page
(See Bob and
1970-71 footballers), as well
as the development of the Coventry City page and
further relations added to the Sons and Daughters page. By the time you read this I hope to have
added an Allan
Clarke and Gary Sprake pages.
News (1) Match of the Day
Yesterday's MOTD
interviewed Harry Redknapp (West Ham United ) , but then it always does,
Frank Lampard (also West Ham United) had a close up, and Jamie
Redknapp
(Liverpool) was, of course featured in the Liverpool game
... all this we know ...
But how brilliant to
see a two second rather distant shot of Peter
Osgood (Chelsea) who was apparently the match
day host at the Chelsea match.
And the Chelsea v
Newcastle United match was featured because it was Bobby
Robson's (Ipswich Town manager) first game back as
manager of an English football team for 16 years. His
Newcastle team lost 1-0, but it was good to see that both
sets of fans cheered the former England manager's return.
See Newcastle United FC -org The
Official Web Site for a full match report. It was also good to
see a 1970-71 manager get a five minute interview with
MOTD host, and former England top striker, Gary Lineker.
As the UK's leading footie programme that's a fair bit of
time for such an old crony ... but as the presenters said
afterwards, what enthusiasm Bobby still has. That's
really not bad for a profession he's been involved in for
49 years !!
News (2) Commentators
part 2
Listening to
yesterday's exciting Liverpool v Manchester United game
(score : 2-3) I was able to confirm that former Leeds
United manager, Jimmy Armfield (Blackpool) is still giving his excellent
commentary analysis to the national station, Radio Five
Live. I've not seen him this season, but Bob Wilson (Arsenal) is still the front man of
I.T.V.'s football presentations.According to the Arsenal
website, he is also their goalkeeping coach. See Coaching Staff
News (3) Next
Generation news
Whoops ! Colin Todd's (Sunderland) son, Andy was sent off playing
for his Dad's team, Bolton Wanderers. For a match report
see Bolton Wanderers FC. And Chris Casper scored an own
goal in Reading's 3-1 defeat (See Reading FC Match Report (vs
Bournemouth)).
Better news for Barnet's Darren Currie who scored the
first goal in his side's 2-1 away win to Swansea.( See Sons
and Daughters.)
5th September, 1999
I decided to make 'Where
are they now ?' a page in it's
own right today.
E-mail
I have a George
Best story.
When George played with the L.A.Aztecs, he was one of my
heroes so I wanted his autograph. I have a newspaper
photo clipping of George signing my copy of a "George
Best Football Annual". See George Best Autograph
News (1) Best Headline
Good to see George
Best's picture
from the 60's in full colour on the front of a national
newspaper. The headline to today's edition of 'Sport
First' (No.78) runs, "Becks is Best says
George!", and it concerns our George reckoning David
Beckham is the best choice as the new European Footballer
of the Year.
News (2) Yet Another Geordie Homecoming
Newcastle United
specialise in getting Geordie born footballers to return
to manage / play for them. And this time it's former
England manager, Bobby Robson (Ipswich
Town manager).
See Newcastle United Official
Website for
more details.
News (3) Commentators
Good to hear Jackie
Charlton's (Leeds United) excellent commentary of the
Republic of Ireland European qualifier on Channel 5
(U.K.) last week. He obviously thought he was still on
the bench ... Likewise, Billy McNeil (Celtic) was covering Scotland's match
last night, again on Channel 5. And for anyone who
doesn't know already, Norman Hunter (Leeds
United) is
still doing his excellently Leeds biased commentary on
Radio Leeds. If you spot any other of the 70 - 71 players
on your local radio or on telly, please let me know.
News (4) Next
Generation news.
Ian Lawson got a
hat-trick for Bury last week, see Dr P's Diary 2000 for a match report. That's six
for this season already. And Liverpool captain Jamie
Redknapp is back in the England squad, but injury is
keeping him out of the team, see Football365. (See Sons
and Daughters.)
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