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December 2001 Index

The news archive can be found below

December 2001 Headlines ...

• Steve Smith takes charge as Jim Jeffries sacked !
• Gerry Francis quits Bristol Rovers
• Bobby Robson's Newcastle United top the Premiership !
• Leeds United players news
• Roy Evans quits Swindon Town
• Michael Owen - European Footballer of the Year
• Pelé - talks with the BBC
• Kåre B has sent some A&BC posters
• Where are they now ?- Dennis Mortimer and John Pratt
• FourFourTwo - 70-71 condensed !
• John Hollins becomes manager of Rochdale
• Dick Advocaat becomes Rangers' Director of Football
• Sir Alex Ferguson - wins Lifetime Achievement Award
• Bestlander - Callum Best becomes male model
• Next Generation - Goalscorers update
• Where are they now ? - Mike Trebilcock and lots of West Brom players.
• Steve Tallents has reports on loads of players
• Trevor Francis - appointed Crystal Palace manager
• Is Football Selling Itself Too Cheaply ? - On 1970-71 ticket prices.

Also...

Officially the most pointless Football Competition ever is the Anglo-Italian Cup !!! Almost half of all the 125 votes cast on this site gave a thumbs down to the only competition Blackpool have won since 1971. It was also a rare trophy in Notts County and Newcastle United's cabinets, too. Second place was the Watney's Cup, and third, my pet-hate, the Associate Members Cup. Next season Bob's 70-71 Pages hope to co-sponsor the Anglo-Dutch Friar's-Thrust Cup, I do hope you can come along... For the full results, see Quizlet Results 3.

Saw this story at footballprogrammes.com - for collectors of football programmes - soccer programmes from around the world ...

The 1971 FA Cup Final "Replay"
In the days before modern printing and production techniques, programme publishers had to be further ahead with their planning, especially when cup replays might be on the agenda. Copy and action pictures could not be transmitted electronically like today Cup replays were always scheduled for three or four days hence as the police ruling that ten days had to elapse before the second game was still something for the future.

There had not been a Cup Final replay since 1912, though during the mid to late sixties there had been a number of near misses in 'one goal margin' Finals. In 1970 the inevitable finally happened when Chelsea beat Leeds in a memorable Old Trafford replay. The following year saw this years finalists meet in what was to be the second of their three Cup Final clashes. A replay if required, was scheduled for Hillsborough the following Tuesday.

The Sheffield Wednesday programme production team were tasked with producing a programme in case it were to be needed. Bearing in mind the 1970 circumstances they were well ahead with their contingency plans, so much so that 'proof copies' had been drafted. The 1971 Final was a tight affair with the teams going in to extra time locked at 1-1. The start of extra time was sufficient for the Sheffield print company to start the presses rolling and copies began to be churned out.

Charlie George's memorable winner was enough to see off Liverpool's challenge and complete the first leg of Arsenal's historic 'Double.' Back at the Sheffield print works the replay editions produced were now no longer required and therefore pulped, except, of course, for a copy, which somehow escaped out of the factory. This item sold for £750.00 on the footballprogrammes.com auction recently.

David Allen

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