BREAKFAST TELEVISION – and the 1970 Mexico World Cup
1970 MEXICO WORLD CUP: From watching the footage there is plenty to suggest 1970 was the first World Cup of modern times.
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SUPER SUNDAY – THE BIG MATCH REVISITED…..
THE BIG MATCH REVISITED: An hour of football from the previous day, following on from a roast dinner, constituted a ‘Super Sunday.’
NORMAN TIMES – NORMAN HUNTER (1943-2020)
Few forwards found anything funny in being on the receiving end of a full-bore Norman Hunter challenge.
With The Utmost Respect – MARTIN PETERS (1943-2019)
Present day purveyors of the midfield role maybe fitter and faster, but Martin Peters was sufficiently gifted to be eye-catching in any period of football.
NOTHING TO LEARN? BECOMING CHAMPIONS – Netflix documentary (review)
‘The take on ’66 is baffling to say the least. George Cohen provides insight, but more time is given to the ’86 defeat against Argentina.’
AN ALL-ENGLAND EUROPEAN FINAL…….in 1972
Goalkeepers Phil Parkes and Pat Jennings each wear gloves in the Molineux first-leg, but for the return on May 17 both play in bare hands.
BANKS FOR THE MEMORY – Gordon Banks (1937-2019)
In denying Denis Law at Wembley in the 1967 England v Scotland international Banks actually appears to defy gravity
MOORE THAN A FEELING – ‘BOBBY’ documentary review:
Bobby Moore’s cold-shoulder treatment at the hands of The FA in the years after he finished playing was shameful.
FORWARD FROM THE PAST: Two Opening Day fixtures at Molineux – 47 years apart.
Throughout my teenage years of the early and mid seventies I could often be found, by the side of my Dad, at Molineux on the opening day of a new football season. Among the fixtures that loom large in my memory…
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LOOK HOW GOOD THE FOOTBALL WAS – IN THE 1970s
Look how good the football was in the 1970s: NEIL YOUNG: After the Goal Rush.