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Autumn 2005Bob's 1970 -71 DiaryDecember 2005Site news: Webmaster Bob is currently in the last month of a degree, so updates are unlikely until February 2006. However, all emails should be replied to, so do please keep them coming. 15 December Let's Go Doolally!
Doolally Edited by David Gill Thanks once again to Graeme Garvey for telling me about the latest book from PDG Books. I'll review it once I've had chance to read it! Here's what the book says about itself...
In Trouble...Again! www.footballmonthlyarchives.co.uk have been in touch requesting the removal of their images that appear on this site. So expect a few gaps to appear. On the up side, the site is well worth a visit, as they provide a full electronic version of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly. In their own words...
Above all, it doesn't look too pricy, though they are naturally a bit touchy about things appearing for free... November 200530 November Tony Parkes (Blackburn Rovers) has become one of the new coaches at League One side, Blackpool. Tony was last heard of on Bob's 70-71 Pages as a coach at Blackburn Rovers around a year ago. 25 November George Best dies. 'When the football was great and I was playing well, I couldn't wait to get up in the morning and that was the foundation of my life.' George Best in Blessed. See Obituary. Also see messages in the Guestbook and email contributions at Tributes. 16 November Next Generation News Steffen Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing Mechelen) plays for Norway in a World Cup qualifier play-off 2nd leg away to the Czech Republic in Prague. The final score was 1-0 to the Czech Repulic. Steffen played the first half and the score was 1-0 when he left the pitch. This was a repeat of the score at Norway 4 days earlier, so Norway are knocked out of the World Cup for Germany 2006. It is Steffen's 59th cap for Norway, he has scored 12 times for his country in total. 12 November Next Generation News Two very late goals by Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City), in the 86th and the 90th (+2) minutes saw England turn their match into a 3-2 victory against Argentina at Geneva in Switzerland. In one of the most exciting friendly internationals played in a very long time, England showed uncharacteristic determination to win against FIFA's number two ranked country in the World. Michael's goals took him to 35 in 75 games for England (see England Leading goalscorers). Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, won his 38th cap, and he has scored 10 times. Frank came into the match having won Barclay's October Player of the Month award with Chelsea. Steffen Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing Mechelen) plays for Norway in a World Cup qualifier play-off 1st leg at home to the Czech Republic in Oslo. The final score was 1-0 to the Czech Repulic. Steffen played the first77 minutes and the score was 1-0 when he left the pitch. It is his 58th cap for Norway, he has scored 12 times for his country in total. Tobias Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's friendly away to South Korea in Seoul. Tobias is captain in the 2-2 draw. This is Tobias's 55th cap for Sweden, he has scored once. 7 November Next Generation News Paul Trollope, son of John Trollope (Swindon Town) has been appointed first team coach Bristol Rovers having taken over as caretaker manager since the reported sacking of Ian Atkins in September. Lennie Lawrence will be the Director of Football. 3 November Hutchinson's Boots The boots worn by Ian Hutchinson (Chelsea) in the 1970 FA Cup Final sold for a staggering 920 pounds on ebay today. The black Addidas boots with one stud missing, were hotly bid for from the sale's launch and the result may even exceed the total they would have fetched in a major London auction house. letscollectit, the auction seller wrote the following write up at eBay.co.uk Chelsea Ian Hutchinson 1970 FA Cup Final Boots (item 8712197552 end time 03-Nov-05 090000 GMT)
October 200531 October George Best Out of Bed Great news about George Best today as he has reportedly got out of bed for the first time since being on life-support. BBC NEWS UK Best leaves his bed but 'in pain' reports:
TV Watch Match of the Day 2 Anyone watching last night's Match of the Day 2 on BBC2 would have seen a feature on Spurs Legends doing Corporate entertainment for the club at the Spurs v Arsenal match. The legends included Cliff Jones, Pat Jennings, Martin Chivers (Spurs), Phil Beal (Spurs), John Pratt (Spurs), Alan Mullery, Ralph Coates (Burnley) and Paul Allen. Mike Bassett Manager - TV Series I hope by now anyone interested in a site like this one will have discovered Mike Basset: Manager (Click to see ITV site), the TV series version, in which Ricky Tomlinson revives his film role picking up the story a couple of seasons down the line. Now sacked by England he is brought to Wirrall County FC (sponsored by Wirrall Rubbish). I am almost certain that Mike himself is a Bob 70-71 Player, judging by the photos of him in his playing career, and by the fact that his wife (a role also revived from the film by Amanda Redmond) dated half the Leeds United team before meeting Mike. So far she has admitted to having to going out with Norman Hunter, Paul Madeley, Trevor Cherry, David Harvey and Peter Lorimer, though I suspect others, too - she used to work at a salon near Elland Road, she explained. Last week's episode, also saw a guest appearance from Jimmy Greaves. He was awarding Mike the Manager of the Month award, only for Mike to discover the giant whiskey bottle half-empty before receiving it. Jimmy and Mike have one more thing in common - they are both Co-authors with this site's favourite author, Norman Giller.
Yes, Norman has released his 72nd book 'Football My Arse' in which he helps Ricky Tomlinson structure his collection of amusing football stories. You can see Ricky talk about his book at Meet the Author UK Book Bites Ricky Tomlinson Football My Arse!
(Click to buy the book at Amazon) Indeed Jimmy Greaves has a new book, too, called, The Heart of the Game and at you can see Jimmy talking about his book at Meet the Author UK Book Bites Jimmy Greaves The Heart of the Game. What's more I see Amazon have a linked offer on these two books at present. Every year Bob 70-71 Players are releasing their stories, I'm losing track of them myself ! This alone year there is already a dozen 'must gets' in time for Christmas, from Archie Gemmill, Joe Royle, Ian St John, George Best, Sir Bobby Robson, Colin Bell, Tina Moore (formerly-Mrs Bobby), Frank McLintock, Joey Jones, Charlie George, plus biographies on Bill Nicholson and Bertie Mee. I'm sure there is others, too. So I have started a new page, which will ultimately list every biography and autobigraphy about players from the 1970-71 season. The page is in its early stages, but can be found at Books. 30 October Email: Subject George Best Jigsaw
Re: 'I am praying George’s fight for life is successful and resumes something like normality.' You speak for all of us there Mike. Many thanks for giving us the story behind the scenes of the George Best Jigsaw! Also see George Best 25 October Winstanley Returns Eric Winstanley (Barnsley) as assistant manager to Neil Redfearn at Conference North side, Scarborough. The last time the site caught up with Eric he was manager of St Kitts. 20 October George Best George Best releases a new book Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths: The
Inside Story of Football's Golden Era. See
Books 18 October Johnny Haynes (Durban City) dies, see Obituary. Further brief obituaries added for Eric Probert (Burnley), Ronnie Bird (Cardiff City), and Peter Firmini (Brother to Eddie Firmini - Crystal Palace). Peter Firmini is newly added to the site. 17 October
Many thanks to Dennis Ralph and Kevin Parkinson from the Juan de Fuca Masters Football Club (see www.juandefucafc.com), who tell me Alan Hinton is regularly present at their annual awards. See Where are they now? for the email from Dennis, which also has an external link to current photos of Alan. In honour of this I have dedicated two pages to Alan at Alan Hinton, and Alan Hinton: Class and Consistency. The latter is a really interesting article from Football Monthly from 1971 by Keith Fisher. One of the quirkier facts about Alan is that he wore white football boots! Hence, I have made a new addition to an ancient page on the site, Football Boots, which now includes the famous white Hummel brand. 16 October Next Generation News Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, is featured in the Sunday Times Magazine in the regular 'A Day in the Life' feature (p.90). In it he says he is has a two month old daughter called Luna with his Spanish fiancee, Elen. On the naff side (by purely my standards) he likes Coco Pops, James Blunt, chic watches and the Daily Mail, on the up side he has a blue Aston Martin, likes Frosties, Big Brother, The X Factor, U2 and Coldplay, and reads the Daily Mirror and The Sun! He mentions Frank senior saying he drummed into him the need to be fit if he wanted to be a footballer, so even as a young boy he used to go jogging with him on 2 to 3 miles round Romford, Romford, Romford, in Essex. Frank says though he got his joy of football from his dad, it is his mother he is more like in personality. Rather unusually for a footballer, Frank says he has 9 O-levels including 2 As and an A-star. He would have done A-Levels had it not been for his blossoming football career. He said he would have liked to have been a lawyer. He concludes his interview with Ria Higgins by saying, 'life right now, couldn't be sweeter'. Which given his liking for daily Coco Pops could well be the case! 15 October Next Generation News Chris Casper, son of Frank Casper has become the new manager of Bury at the age of just 30. Chris was last seen on Bob's 70-71 Pages as a player at Reading, but he had to retire due to a knee injury he had received two years earlier. Chris's began his career at Manchester United, and also had loan spells at Bournemouth and Swindon. Chris took in charge for the first time in Bury's 1-0 home win over Darlington, which leaves the club in 17th position in League Two. Chris's father, Frank, was manager of local rivals, Burnley for two spells in 1983, and from 1989 to 1991. Good luck with the new career, Chris! 12 October Next Generation News It was a Next Generation one-two for England as they win Group 6 of Europe's World Cup qualifying Groups following a 2-1 home victory against Poland at Old Trafford, Manchester. In a first half dominated by England, Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City), made it 1-0 with a 44th minute goal, only to see it cancelled out before the half-time interval. Qualification was already assured before the match, but England showed their determination to win the group when Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, scored in the 80th minute to make it 2-1, which is how the match finished. This was Frank's 10th goal for England, and the second match in a row that he had scored the winner for them. Including games for Chelsea he has now scored in his last 3 matches, and has scored 6 goals in his last 7 games! Frank has been capped 37 times. Michael was captain again, in the absence of David Beckham, who was suspended after his sending off against Austria. He has captained England at the start of the game on 8 occasions, and has a record of 5 wins and 3 draws as captain. In the list of England captains to have never ever been beaten whilst captain, only Mick Mills (Ipswich Town) can match Michael. Mick won 6 and drew 2 as captain. Whilst this is a post-War best, there is one player above them on this rather obscure list, and that's Viv Woodward, who captain England 14 times and was never defeated (12 wins, 2 draws). (See England's Captains After World War II by Name). Michael's goal was his 33rd for England (see England Leading goalscorers) and he has been capped 74 times.
Tobias Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's World Cup qualifier at home to Iceland. Sweden win 3-1 and end up as runners-up in Group 8 behind Croatia, with the same points and with a better goal difference! I'm presuming their defeat to Croatia in September gave them a lower placing. Nevertheless, this is enough to give them automatic qualification to the World Cup Finals as one of the two best runners-up along with England's opponents, Poland. This is Tobias's 54th cap for Sweden, he has scored once. 9 October The match which concluded the Sky Television series The Match 2 (see below), ended as a 2-0 victory to the Legends. Sadly Peter Shilton was unable to play due to injury, but was seen on the Legends' bench. As with the first Match, the game was played at St James' Park, in Newcastle, so there was a guaranteed good reception for Sir Bobby Robson, the Legend's manager, when he made his victory speech for the second year in a row. Once again the manager of the losing team, The Celebraties, was Graham Taylor (Lincoln City). The occasion was also joined by two other Bob70-71 favourites, Sam Allardyce (Bolton Wanderers youth) and Kenny Dalglish (Celtic squad), who were the studio summarisers for the night. In addition, Kenny's daughter, Kelly Dalglish (Next Generation), was there doing pitch-side interview!. See www.skyone.co.uk/thematch2 8 October Next Generation News Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, scores in England's World Cup qualifier against Austria in a home tie played at Old Trafford in Manchester. England had another unconvincing 1-0 victory thanks to Frank's 25th minute penalty strike. Frank fulfilled pre-match speculation that he was the team's new penalty taker, following David Beckham's triple penalty misses for England. England manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson (Karlskoga) had argued that Frank was Chelsea's regular penalty taker, whereas Beckham had not taken a penalty since the penalty miss at Euro 2004. The game turned on its head after Spanish referee, Luis Medina Cantalejo, applied the letter of the law very harshly to send off Beckham, the England captain, in the 59th minute for the second of two barely- yellow card offences committed within minutes of each other. Beckham has the dubious honour of being remembered in pub quizzes everywhere as the first man sent off twice for England, AND being the first England captain to be sent off! Frank played the complete match for his 36th cap, and he has now scored 9 times. Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City), also played the first 81 minutes of the game - and was handed the captain's band by Beckham after his sending off. He then handed the band on to Steven Gerrard when he was substituted. This was Michael's 73rd cap, and he remains on 32 goals. For all the setbacks, England hold on to second place in Group 6 just 2 points behind their next opponents, Poland. A victory in the final group match would mean England win the group! Later in the evening the Netherlands' 2-0 victory away to the Czech Republic meant that whatever the outcome of the final match in the group, England were assured their place in the World Cup Finals, as one of the two best runners up, if not as group winners.
Tobias Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's World Cup qualifier at away to Croatia. Sweden lose 1-0 to a penalty in the 56th minute. Tobias came off in the 66th minute. This is Tobias's 53rd cap for Sweden, he has scored once. Sweden drop to second in Group 8 behind Croatia. 5 October
www.allfootballers.com Great news - all 1970-71 season details are now available from this fabulous site, which ultimately will list every player to ever play League football in England. Many thanks to Tim Newby and Michael Joyce for the use of the logo and for including 70-71 as one of their select seasons. Please visit the site and buy Michael's book, it is one of the top books on football statistics information, ever, and a truly remarkable achievement. Thanks to Michael, David Gormon has his own page on the site. I added this a few days ago, but forgot to tell anyone, sorry! 3 October Autobiography Frank McLintock (Arsenal) releases Frank McLintock the Autobiography. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. Click to go to Amazon. See Books 2 October Greg Struthers has produced another classic Caught In Time of Coventry City from 1970, which is very apt following the recent death of the manager of the time, Noel Cantwell (see obituary). See Coventry finish sixth in the First Division, 1970 Thanks to this Ernie Hannigan (Morton) and Gerry Baker (Margate) are added to Bob's 70-71 Pages for the first time. 1 October There is brand new pages for Roger Hunt and Joe Corrigan, plus a new picture added to Sir Alex Ferguson's page, and the Tottenham Hotspur page now has a 1970-71 season team photo. The Match 2 The Sky Television series The Match in which celebrities vie to be selected to play against a team of football legends is under way for a second time. The Celebraties are managed by Graham Taylor (Lincoln City), Sir Bobby Robson manages the Legends, and the legends' goalkeeper is World of Soccer Stars last playing player, Peter Shilton. On the website at www.skyone.co.uk/thematch2 you can watch 9 minutes of the highlights of the first Match's, er, match, which ended up as a 2-1 victory to the Legends. The managers were the same for this year's competition, but I notice that the Legend's team that time included a very grey Peter Bonetti and Trevor Francis. Peter came on for Bruce Grobbelaar, and though he let in the goal, it was quite a stunner that no goalkeeper could have saved. Beat Kenny ! First you could win Frank Lampard junior, now you can beat Kenny Dalglish (Celtic) at poker from Liverpool's website. Whilst not one to actively promote gambling on this website, this is all in aid of the Marina Dalglish Appeal for breast cancer. Here's the link to find out more...PLAY POKER WITH KING KENNY September 200530 September Email: Subject Icelandic Soccer Families
What a terrific email, Ivan thanks very much for that indeed.- Bob. 29 September Next Generation News Ian Walker, son of Mike Walker (Watford), finally makes his debut for Premiership side, Bolton Wanderers, following his free transfer from Leicester City in the Summer. The chance came in Bolton's 2-1 away victory against Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the UEFA Cup 1st round second leg. Bolton were 1-0 down in the tie and heading out of the competition until two goals in the last 10 minutes turned things around. 26 September Autobiography Sir Geoff Hurst re-launches his autobiography, 1966 and All That, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of scoring a hat-trick in the World Cup Final. See Amazon. Also see Books. 22 September
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With Balls (Click picture to go to Amazon to purchase) The true sadness of this site's webmaster is displayed for all to see on pages 70-71 (naturally). Yes, my 15 kb of fame starts here by being featured in this book by the publishers of 'Men and Sheds'. Here's the publisher's spiel... Fanatical about
football? Raving about rugby? Crazy about cricket? The
men in this book take sports enthusiasm to a new level to
show their commitment to their beloved clubs. The
devotees show off their passion along with their
costumes, collections, unique stories and obscure
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Next Generation News Darren Royle, son of Joe Royle has left Radcliffe Borough. Presently Darren does not have a new club. Paul Trollope, son of John Trollope (Swindon Town) has been appointed caretaker manager of Bristol Rovers following the reported sacking of Ian Atkins. 19 September Next Generation News Well done to Paolo Maldini (Italy / AC Milan), son of Cesare Maldini (AC Milan) and Frank Lampard (England / Chelsea), son of Frank Lampard, who were both voted into FIPRO's first World Team of the Year. The team was voted for by a pole of 38,000 professional players in 40 countries selecting from a list of 55 nominees. The full team was: Dida (Brazil/AC Milan); Cafu (Brazil/AC Milan), Alessandro Nesta (Italy/AC Milan), John Terry (England/Chelsea), Paolo Maldini (Italy/AC Milan); Frank Lampard (England/Chelsea), Claude Makelele (France/Chelsea), Ronaldinho (Brazil/Barcelona) Zinedine Zidane (France/Real Madrid); Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon/Barcelona), Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine/AC Milan). The result was announced by the President of FIFPro, Gordon Taylor (Bolton Wanderers) 18 September Next Generation News Flicking through the radio channels you would have thought they were re-running an old World Cup England match when you heard Alan Shearer score, then Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City) getting a second 4 minutes later. But this was an FA Premiership match, Blackburn Rovers v Newcastle United, and this was Michael's first goal for his new club. His goal came in the 66th minute to make it 2-0 to Newcastle United. There was still time for Newcastle United to have a player sent off and finish 3-0 winners. The last time Michael scored for the same team just a few minutes after Shearer, was five years ago back on 20 June 2000. It was Alan Shearer's 63rd and very last match for England, and they were 1-0 down to Romania in the European Championships at Charlroi. Shearer scored a penalty in the 42nd minute and Michael scored in injury time to allow England a 2-1 half time lead. Sadly England were knocked out of the competition, when they went on to lose the match 3-2. Incidentally this was Shearer's 30th England goal, and at the time he was England's highest goalscorer in the squad by some considerable way. Now, of course Michael is England's highest goalscorer in the current squad with 32 goals. 17 September Anyone hooked on the Under-17 World Championships in Peru, currently being shown live on British Eurosport may have noticed Bryan Hamilton (Linfield) commentating on the opening match on 16 September 2005, which finished Mexico 2 Uruguay 0. Radio Leeds continue to cover Leeds United matches home and away, but have replaced Norman Hunter with Eddie Gray. As Eddie is new to the channel, a fair proportion of the phone-in callers being, ' Eddie can I just say it's a privilege talking to such a legend...'. Sky Sports News continue their service of updating matches via an ex-footballer watching a monitor showing the match. today's broadcast included Phil Thompson (Liverpool) watching the latest Chelsea victory over Charlton Athletic. Next Generation News Nicky Summerbee, son of Mike Summerbee, makes his debut for Tranmere Rovers in the Football Championship League One, whilst on loan from Swindon Town.. The game was a 3-1 away defeat against Southend United, though when he left the pitch in the 77th minute they trailed just 2-1. This is only Nicky's second game of the season, his last being his debut at Swindon Town. It is Nicky's 8th different League club.. 14 September Mullery at Crawley Alan Mullery has taken on a role as consultant advisor to Crawley Town of the Nationwide National Conference League. Sport - Crawley Today News reports:
12 September Autobiography Archie Gemmill (Preston North End) releases his autobiography. Archie Gemmill: Both Sides of the Border. Go to Amazon. See Books. Next Generation News For anyone interested in this sort of thing, Tescos are currently running a tv and magazine advertising campaign in which you can win Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, for an afternoon! The idea is that he'll offer a training session to a school or club of your choosing. See Tesco Sport for Schools and Clubs, which reports...
Vouchers for the scheme are available until 6 November 2005. Meanwhile whilst updating the Next Generation page, I stumbled upon Neil Cartwight, son of Les Cartwright (Coventry City) playing at Hinckley United. It is the first time both players have been added to the site. 10 September Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City), makes his debut for Newcastle United in the FA Premiership playing at home against Fulham. Michael played the whole 90 minutes and it finished 1-1. 8 September Noel Cantwell (Coventry City manager) dies, see obituary. 7 September Next Generation News They may not want to admit it to their grandchildren in the future, but both Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, and Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City), played for England in their shock 1-0 defeat to Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier at Belfast's Windsor Park Both players started the match and were still there when the goal went in, so they cannot duck responsibility that way, either. Frank came off in the 80th minute, but Michael stayed on to the bitter end. This was Frank's 35th cap, and Michael's 72nd. Frank has scored 8 goals and Michael 32. England should still qualify, however. They are in second place 5 points behind Poland in the European Group 6 and cannot be caught by any of the lower clubs. They will need good results against Poland and 3rd place Austria, to ensure automatic qualifiers as runners-up with the best qualification record. Both games are at home in Manchester's Old Trafford. Tobias Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's World Cup qualifier at away to Bulgaria. Sweden dramatically win 1-0, with a goal in injury time. This is Tobias's 52nd cap for Sweden, he has scored once. Sweden now head Group 8 one point ahead of Croatia, whom they play in the next World Cup qualifying match. 3 September Next Generation News Frank Lampard, son of Frank Lampard, plays in England's World Cup qualifier against Wales away at the 'Stadiwm Y Mileniwm' in Cardiff. England unconvincingly win the match 1-0.Frank played the complete match for his 34th cap, he has scored 8 times. Michael Owen, son of Terry Owen (Bradford City), sat this game out due to suspension. Steffen Iversen, son of Odd Iversen (Racing Mechelen) plays for Norway in a World Cup qualifier away to Slovenia in the Arena Petrol, Celje. Although he leaves the game with the score at 1-1, Steffen plays just the first 11 minutes before he is injured. Norway win the match 3-2. It is his 55th cap for Norway, he has scored 12 times for his country in total. N.B. Steffen's injury means he misses the next World Cup qualifier 4 days later, a 2-1 home defeat against Scotland on 7 September, 2005. With just 2 games to go Norway are still second place in the European Group 5, with a 2 goal-difference advantage over Slovenia. Italy are top with a 5 points advantage, and Scotland are in 4th place two points behind Norway and Slovenia. Tobias Linderoth, son of Anders Linderoth (Helsingborgs IF), plays in Sweden's World Cup qualifier at home in Stockholm against Bulgaria. Sweden win 3-0. This is Tobias's 51st cap for Sweden, he has scored once.. Click here to find current news on the following ... Further Autumn 2005 news can be found at ...
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