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November 1999

News Archive

30th November, 1999.

News (1) Next Generation Update.(Sons and Daughters)

(a) Ian Lawson

Scored Bury's only goal - his 10th this season - in a 1-3 home defeat to Preston North End.

(b) Jamie Redknapp

Needs a knee operation so the Liverpool captain will be out for a month. Jamie should be back for England's next game, however. See 29-11-99 - Jamie Redknapp Article (The Daily Post).

News (2) Sugar and S-Pulse

Steve Perryman's (Spurs) team Shimizu S-Pulse have apparently beaten Yokohama F Marinos 2-1 to get through to the second stage of the J-League in Japan this week. The victory was secured in front of 44,000 supporters at the Yokohama Stadium which will stage the next World Cup Final.

In the article, 'Perryman looking forward in anger' by Rob Hughes in Monday's, 'The Times' newspaper. he is pictured with his team and very jolly he looks too. The article reveals that Steve is very angry towards the manner of his and Ossie Ardiles' sacking by Alan Sugar whom he sees as not having any true football knowledge. Steve believed Alan undermined the manager and got rid of loyal club members in a 'cruel' way.

Steve has children aged 3 and 4, and wants to educate them in England. So it seems he would be interested in a job back here.

27th November, 1999

A useful source of answers to the question, 'where are they now ?', has been Richard Whitehead's, 'Picture Points' in the sports section of the Saturday (London) edition of, 'The Times'. See the relevant players which are now being summarised for Bob's 70-71 pages at Picture Points.

News (1) Lots of Speculation ...

(a) Brian Kidd (Manchester United)

May be joining Manchester City as coach. This is the club which he helped to Championship runners-up in 1976-77 as a player. If he goes he'll join a more Bob 70-71 favourites, Joe Royle (Everton), Asa Hartford (WBA), Willie Donachie (Manchester City squad) and Dennis Tueart (Sunderland squad) !

(b) Alan Ball

According to 'The Sun', Alan's days as Portsmouth's manager may be limited.

(c) Terry Venables (QPR)

Is apparently wanted as coach for Aston Villa along with David Platt.

News (2) Commentators Update

ITV's coverage of Chelsea's 3-1 home victory over Feyenoord in the Champions Cup had Terry Venables (QPR) in the studio and David Pleat (Peterborough United) offering expert analysis. And whilst on the subject of Terry Venables, it seems the ex-England coach has his own radio show on Saturdays at noon on Virgin Radio, where he chats football to callers, whilst Russ Williams plays the records. See Where are They Now ?

News (3) Next Generation Update - Darren Currie (Sons and Daughters)

Earlier in the week Barnet beat Carlisle 3-0 at home and Tony's nephew scored from the penalty spot.

25th November, 1999

There's a load more details of the Ipswich Town team, and this introduces the idea of having a player by player 'where are they now ? guide. This has been lately possible due to the , 'Where Are They Now ?' book by Andy Pringle and Neil Fissler.

22nd November, 1999

In honour of the Scottish victory within defeat, there is now the first picture of one of the Celtic players, Jimmy Johnstone. Unfortunately - I'm sadly lacking in Scottish League information ...

News (1) Politician Talks Stools

This story was reported by the Football 365 media watch : "An unusual source, perhaps, but Private Eye has an amusing little story about Kate Hoey, the Sports Minister who sometimes gets in a pickle over whether she is a die-hard fan of Manchester United or Arsenal. Hoey has claimed to be mad for all things Highbury, but "in a 1994 interview she said she retained her childhood support for Manchester United, sparked by having watched George Best play for Northern Ireland. As a wee girl she had to stand on a stool to be able to see her hero," is the information relayed by Private Eye. All very sweet, but "Best's first appearance in Belfast was on 29 April 1964, against Uruguay." Kate Hoey was 18 in 1964. We can only imagine how strange she must have looked standing on a stool with all the other little kiddies. Politicians, eh? "

News (2) Next Generation Update (Sons and Daughters)

(a) Frank Lampard Jnr.Good to see that Frank is on the scoresheet for West Ham in their 4-3 home victory against Sheffield Wednesday, yesterday. Hopefully Frank will be back in the international reckoning after the disappointment of missing the 'Battle of Britain'. See West Ham United FC -org The Official Web Site

(b) Andy Todd Colin Todd's (Sunderland) son has now joined Charlton Athletic for £1 million, Andy will wear the no.19 shirt. This followed a bust up with the Bolton Wanderers coaching staff as reported on the 14th November News (4b).

News (3) Commentators Update.

My North East correspondent, Colin Pharoah, tells me that Bobby Moncur (Newcastle United) is a regular evening presenter on Century - along with a Middlesbrough player, who's name escapes him ! See Where are they now ?

News (4) Judges 70-71

Harry Kewell the Leeds United Australian player, has been named Cisco Systems Young Player of the Month, which I mention for two reasons. 1) I'm a Leeds United fan, and 2) the three of the four judges are from Bob's 70-71 pages, namely, Kevin Keegan , Bobby Robson, and Lawrie McMenemy (Doncaster Rovers manager). See Leeds United FMC - The Official Web Site.

20th November, 1999

Possibly against my better judgement, there is now a page for Kevin Keegan, who was a Scunthorpe player back in 70-71. For no reason other than I love the picture - which sums up the 1970's sportsman - there is now a page for the prolific Hull City goalscorer, Ken Wagstaff.

The site has also picked up a fabulous link from Michael Ashford's superb Footie 51 site. See the link at Nostalgia and explore the rest of the site from there, it is well, well worth it, it's entertained me for an hour or two already. In celebration of this, I have added a Dave Mackay page.

News (1) England 0 Scotland 1

What a damp squib of a qualification for England ! Much to Jim Ross 's delight Scotland won and pi... er, rained on England's bonfire as they scraped in to Euro 2000. Jamie Reknapp was playing again, but was still being played out of position, so again failed to make a tremendous impact. For a match summary see Football365

For a general summary of the latest 'Battle of Britain' see Football Unlimited Euro 2000 Euro 2000. For a run through of how England qualified for the finals see Football365.

See how former England manager Bobby Robson (Ipswich Town manager) rated Kev's performance at Football365.

Kevin himself reckons England can go all the way and win the competition (see Football365). Yes, Kevin.

News (2) Toshack sacked

As anticipated, Kevin Keegan's old striking partner, John Toshack (Cardiff City squad) was sacked as manager of Real Madrid last week. See 19-11-99 - Toshack Article (The Independent)

News (3) 'Arry

Thanks to birthday money I finally acquired the paperback version (I missed the 'ardback) of Harry Redknapp's autobiography, " 'Arry" ghost written with Derek McGovern. I could 'ardly put it down. 'Arry tells 'is story with childlike enthusiasm, drawing you in with tales of West 'Am in the Sixties, American soccer, and breaking through into management with Bournemouth. That was all rather fun, but the end chapters dart around mopping up all the loose hends, erm, ends which would be of more interest to the tabloid fanatic and West 'Am fan. 'Arry's insights into Bobby Moore's life were infinitely more interesting than tales of gambling wins and loses. Only his fatherly worship of his son Jamie made the end chapters worth pursuing. 'Urry up and buy it for 'oliday reading this C'ristmas. It's r.r.p. is £6-99 and its printed by Collins Willow.

15th November, 1999

Pele's 1,000th goal page is fully up and running - see News (5) yesterday. As are full Third Division and Fourth Division pages following on from 12th November update below.

News (2) Tip of the Day - Part 2

Further to the news item on 12th November, Roy Evans (Liverpool squad, see Roy Time I was back in the game (Anfield Online)) and Graeme Souness (Spurs squad) have also declared their interest in the Blackburn job.

14th November, 1999

News (1) Scotland 0 England 2

All of footballing interest in Britain has ground to a halt to cover the match and an unbelievable amount of guff is being written about it. What Kevin Keegan has to say about the victory can be seen at the end of the match report at Football365. Earlier insights into Kev's preparations could be found at Soccernet.

News (2) Recounting Legends

Amongst the more interesting guff have been various legends recalling old England v Scotland games, including Alan Ball at Soccernet, Gerry Francis (Q.P.R. squad) at Soccernet, Mick Channon at Football365, Jim McCalliog (Wolves) at Soccernet, and Geoff Hurst at Soccernet.

News (3) Legendary Lunch.

At a lunch sponsored by Carling, former legends of England and Scotland met to decide on an all time England versus Scotland match. The England legends were Jimmy Armfield , Terry Venables (Q.P.R.), Mick Channon, Terry Butcher and Norman Hunter (Leeds United). Whilst the Scottish legends were Graeme Souness (Spurs squad), Archie Gemmill (Preston N.E.), Andy Gray, Asa Hartford (West Brom)and Frank McLintock (Arsenal).

Their choices were :

England: Gordon Banks ; Jimmy Armfield, Duncan Edwards, Bobby Moore, Ray Wilson (Bradford City); Sir Stanley Matthews, Sir Bobby Charlton (Manchester United), Bryan Robson, Sir Tom Finney; Gary Lineker, Jimmy Greaves . Coach: Sir Alf Ramsey (England manager).

Scotland: Andy Goram; Danny McGrain (Celtic squad), Alan Hansen, Dave Mackay , Eric Caldow; Jimmy Johnstone , Billy Bremner, Graeme Souness (Spurs squad), Jim Baxter; Kenny Dalglish (Celtic squad), Denis Law . Coach: Willie Ormond.

For the full story see Soccernet.

News (4) Next Generation Update (see Sons and Daughters)

a) Jamie Redknapp

Was, of course, a member of England's 2-0 winning team, though 3 of the 7 main Sunday English national newspapers viewed him as the weak link in the team - and he got booked, which is a reminder that the Liverpool captain still needs to make his mark at this level, though playing in his club position would certainly help.

b) Todd Off

Colin's son, Andy Todd, has been allegedly involved in an incident in which Phil Brown, required medical treatment ! Phil was the manager that temporarily replaced his sacked father at Bolton Wanderers. Andy has been suspended and an investigation is underway.

c) Lawson Goal

Good to see Ian Lawson on the scoresheet again with an 80 minute equaliser for Bury in their 1-1 draw away to Oxford United.

News (5) Millennial Milestone.

'The Independent on Sunday' reminds us that 19th November is the 30th anniversary of Pele's 1,000th goal ! Click to see Tim Vickery report of the goal. Pele went on to score 281 more.

News (6) Franny Lee

See this Francis Lee (Manchester City) lookalike at Football365

12th November, 1999

Due to popular demand (I think I may have got a letter once several months ago ...) Bob's 70-71 pages is about to undergo a broadening of criteria, which can already be seen in effect on the Second Division Gallery pages under Cardiff and Q.P.R. I've always had squad players for the first division teams - well ultimately this will now extend across all the divisions. Sadly this will now include Kevin Keegan who was a Scunthorpe player in this season ... Never mind.

It's impossible for me to backdate the news pages, but it will mean players will start to be covered, who may not have been covered on the news pages before.The emphasis, however, will certainly remain on the players in the Soccer Stars book and their offspring !

News (1) Manager of the Month

At last ! Good news on the management front from a player from Bob's 70-71 pages !! Joe Royle (Everton) has been named October's Manager of the Month for Division One after taking Manchester City to the top of the Division with a six point lead.

News (2) Hit of the Week

'The Express' last week reported that the police were not providing extra protection to Joe Royle's old team mate, Alan Ball when his Portsmouth side travel to Manchester City. It seems Alan is receiving death threats from 'supporters' of the club he successfully relegated.

News (3) Tip of the Day

According to yesterday's 'Independant' Newspaper, Bertie Vogts (Star Players of Mexico 70) is the hottest tip to replace Brian Kidd (Manchester United) as Blackburn Rovers manager (See 5th November below). Jack Walker must be a Bob 70-71 pages fan, because the other candidates are Joe Kinnear and Colin Todd (Sunderland)

11th November, 1999

At last, here it is the "infamous" Jim Ross and George Best photo ... Click Jim's name to see our U.S. Correspondent in the days when his hair was longer than George's.

10th November, 1999

News (1): These Charming Men

What do Harry Redkapp and Morrissey, the chief misery of the pop music world, have in common ? Answer - very large pictures of Bobby Moore on the wall. As noted on August 1999 Where are they now ?, Harry has a the famous Bobby Moore picture with Pele on his wall at work (see picture). Well as seen in ,'the times magazine ' for 6 November, 1999,on page 35, Morrissey has a very large sixties photo of Bobby Moore on his wall at his home in Los Angeles !

News (2) : Big Mouth Strikes Again

The December, 1999 edition of Match of the Day Magazine, 'MOTD' has four points of interest for Bob's 70-71 pages. The '10 Minutes ' feature is with Ron Atkinson (Oxford United), Jimmy Hill's Chinwag is with Bobby Robson , Trevor Brooking (West Ham United squad) has a regular, 'Dear Trevor ...' letters page, and there is a four page interview by Pat Murphy with Brian Clough (Derby County manager) entitled, 'Big Mouth Strikes Again'. Clough has now been booze free for a year and is still ready to give his opinion on football controversies. There the interest ends, however, beyond seeing that the above mentioned are alive and well, the articles are hardly 'must see's.

7th November, 1999

Added a picture only of Trevor Hockey, in his pre-bearded days.

News Next Generation / Jamie Redknapp update.

Jamie has made it into the England squad for the big European tie against Scotland this week, though there is no place for Frank Lampard junior. See Football365. As if to celebrate, Jamie scored in Liverpool's 2-0 home defeat of Derby yesterday. See any number of match reports by going to 06-11-99 - F.A. CARLING PREMIERSHIP LIVERPOOL 2 DERBY COUNTY 0 or Liverpool 2-0 Derby County (Anfield Online). Jamie has scored for two matches in a row having got Liverpool's second in their 3-1 home defeat of Bradford City in the game before. See Liverpool 3-1 Bradford (Anfield Online) See Sons and Daughters.

6th November, 1999

There's a new picture of Billy Bremner scrapping with Manchester United on Willie Morgan's page, thus uniting two of this site's favourites. October is archived. And pages have been added for Johnny Giles and George Graham.

5th November, 1999

News Brian Bye Bye

As predicted on 31st October News, Blackburn Rovers have sacked Brian Kidd (Manchester United). Jack Walker said: "It's a sad day for me particularly and everyone connected with the club. Brian is a first class, honest man and so we wanted it to work out for him. But at the end of the day, I have to put the club first. results have not been good enough, in the end it's as simple as that." I would hardly weep for Brian, tough if the reports of £1 million compensation are true. See News Articles

Most newspaper reports concentrated on the £30,650,000 Brian had spent on 13 players in just 11 months to send his team plummeting like a stone to 19th in Division One. Some reported how Brian's old boss Sir Alex Ferguson slags Brian off in his book, saying he couldn't assess players, wouldn't make a manager, and talked behind his back. Miaow.

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