Hi everyone, Just a reminder you to come and visit the Sixties and Seventies Soccer Group at Yahoo. If you have heard some news of the stars from the 60s and...
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Well I remain in a club of one, but nevertheless, I finished Peter Osgood's biography this morning. It chokes you up at the end when he says that he was really...
Whilst not a book, an interview in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks back makes surprising reading. Although he doesn't say so outright, Sir Geoff indicates...
In view of Ossie's disparaging remarks re your beloved Leeds, I thought I would redress the balance for you in two ways. This is despite what your heroes did...
hello Bob it is a great site and i do not want to get into a slanging match with a Leeds fan but i have to say that i have read lots of books by and about...
Hello I'm new to the group ( an Orient fan!) I've been collecting footage and biographies of the great Leeds side for a while now. They were all the things...
I have been enjoying lately some of the neat classic world cup video clips on fifa/yahoo world cup site, and found very interesting the ambience at all the...
... was ... seem to remember hearing them ... I think the horns were German, they used to ba advertised in Shoot and Match during the late seventies as 'Munich...
... Yeh i fondly remember the 1974 WC as it was the first one I can remember, I was 6 or 7 i guess. Didn't it rain a lot in Germany during the tournament??...
Yes I remember Craven getting clogged, but the one incident in my mind was a game at Stamford Bridge (1970?) where Chopper Harris cynically took our leftback...
What you say does not surprise me, despite him been a good striker, i loathed Osgood as a person, he was arrogant and loud mouthed, and to slag off other...
Hi, just a "clarification" over that goal. Jacko did not actually confirm it, but he didn't deny it either. I believe something was reported at the time. I am...
I take it from those comments that you think it's fine for players to cheat and con the players/officials, not the sort of player i admire at all. I think i...
i watched the game and was in the home team dressing room afterwards.i dont remember much fuss being made by John McCormick (the victim)......from memory wasnt...
Brian, I feel exactly ther same. I was about 7 at the time of these finals. I remember the east v west Germany game, I think that it was Jurgen Sparwasser who...
Yes, a memorable world cup. Best match was the Sweden/West Germany game. I also remember watching the East Germans beating the eventual winners in a group...
... True enough. Now how about some trivia? Which team featured a bloke from Darlington and a bloke from Swansea in their first round lineups? Any guesses?...
On Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:37 PM [GMT+1=CET], ... I was trying to think who would have been playing for Darlington - but now realise that isn't what you...
Very good!!! Giuseppe Wilson (who came on as a sub in their last two games) was born in Darlington but left as a child. Giorgio Chinaglia (started in two of...
On Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:12 PM [GMT+1=CET], ... Practical joke? Some might think that pretending to rob a jewellers shop was anything but. -- Bob...
... jewellers shop ... Indeed. It was his friend's jeweller's shop. His friend panicked and shot him. Cecco was disguised. If you knew about Cecco's...
Is it my imagination but didn't a lot more games get called off then because of frozen pitches? I seem to remember a was it Boxing Day, Palace were I think...
not sure about that game but 1962/63 season was the big freeze.no first div games from mid Dec till Feb if memory serves..............Man U v Leic C cup final...
... was ... Not just wind, rain, sleet and snow either. Anyone remember those terrific fogs we used to have? Seem to always remember watching the Tyne Tees...
... And here's mine.... 1 Bryan King (Best keeper never to have played for England) 2 Pat Rice 3 Kenny Sansom 4 Alan Hudson 5 Frank McLintock 6 Bobby Moore 7...
On Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:15 AM [GMT+1=CET], ... <sherlockholmes> Blackpool and Palace haven't been in the same division all that often - just 5 seasons...
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