How refreshing! That is from someone who has been out of the game longer than Jose Mourinho has been in it, and look how far he has come and gone backwards through changing strategies to both the "Simple" and "Beautiful Game" which is what arguably the worlds greatest player called it. In his piece Peter Thomas [...]
KEY TO LIFE.... No, it's not that brilliant Stevie Wonder album that smashed all records, no pun intended, but my old England Under-23 and full international team-mate Mick Channon, who played under as many managers as I did in a rather stormy career - not Mick but me. Mick was a [...]
The first two sentences Alan. Sums the player up perfectly. I liked Alan Hinton. He's mentioned a few times in SAM and ITV 7. Played for England a couple of times in the mid-sixties even though Ramsey supposedly hated wingers. There's a great story in my book regarding the other AH coming to [...]
THE WORKING MAN'S BALLET Don't insult our soldiers I wrote the Working Man's Ballet way back in 1996 a book which was what my former manager, mentor and great friend Mr Tony Waddington named the Beautiful Game of football, a beautiful game in the 60s and 70s that Tony would now find, [...]
When I was a kid I delivered the North Staffordshire Evening Sentinel for a couple of years. Or to put it another way: I had a paper round. There were two compelling local football stories during my time and one compelling national story which became local – the kidnapped heiress Lesley Whittle was found [...]
I have been impressed with what I have seen so far and keep thinking of our record breaking side playing the present team in the new stadium, because that would be very interesting. That bring me to something that happened at Stamford Bridge one day when the chairman of Chelsea, in the 80s, asked [...]
FROM CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TO CHAMPIONS RETIREMENT LOOSE BUTTON On Saturday 25 April 2015 Tony AP McCoy made his last appearance on a racecourse, but before he did Channel 4 paid tribute to the 21 time champion on the Morning Line. My interest here began, like McCoy, with Toby Balding, for as a 16-year-old Apprentice [...]
Funny thing happened to me this week amidst my bout of being ‘out of the game’, and and the first sign was a name coming up on my mobile telephone and what a lovely surprise as Tommy Jenkins name flashed up. Tommy is a gem and one of those rough diamonds that they used to [...]
HODGSON ON TRIAL….HAVING ALREADY FAILED by Alan Hudson I take a break from my new book as do the players from both the MSL and Premier League, and once again I fear that the last road to Rio was a complete disaster this one could be a Chris Rea song, ‘The Road to [...]
CLASSIC DISGRACE After watching Everton join the rest of our Premier League Chumps by crashing out of the ‘Thursday Cup’ I waited for ‘Super Sunday’ to see what the difference was between the Spanish and English league. Okay, I already knew that Barcelona and Real Madrid haves the far superior individuals, although [...]
