- 1. Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?
- (Stories)
- ... dressed as Batman and Robin, Starsky and Hutch or Butch and Sundance. Ted MacDougall and Phil Boyer never reached the glorious heights of strike partnerships as Francis Lee and Mike Summerbee, or Allan ...
- Created on 21 December 2017
- 2. Focus on Roland Nilsson: Sheffield Wednesday's Swedish cult hero
- (Stories)
- ... on, new player-manager Trevor Francis prepared his team for Europe by giving Nilsson a new partner down the right wing: Chris Waddle. The two proved a perfect combination, Nilsson’s tireless work and discipline ...
- Created on 06 February 2019
- 3. Caught Beneath The Landslide: Manchester City in the 1990s by Tim Rich
- (Clubs)
- ... where he pined for boardroom support (“the best set-up in football is when you get a benevolent dictator”) but found that then chairman Francis Lee “was not even the main shareholder”. The author displays ...
- Created on 18 January 2019
- 4. Black Boots And Football Pinks: 50 lost wonders of the beautiful game
- (Fandom)
- ... to grab for Francis Lee v Norman Hunter but that would be to overshadow dozens, hundreds, of other such examples that exist in footballing folk memory rather than the Match of the Day archives. Some ...
- Created on 18 October 2018
- 5. There To Be Shot At by Tony Coton
- (Players)
- ... City chairman and FA dignitary Peter Swales and a transfer add-on, is given full airing, but greater opprobrium is reserved for Swales’ successor at City, Francis Lee, who allegedly implied that Coton’s ...
- Created on 25 July 2018
- 6. How defender Paul Warhurst (briefly) became the country's most fearsome striker
- (Stories)
- ... unlikeliest purple patches. When Sheffield Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis converted young centre-back Paul Warhurst into a striker during the second half of the 1992-93 season, his goals propelled ...
- Created on 06 July 2018
- 7. WSC 376 World Cup Special with Team Guide & Wallchart out now!
- (Stories)
- ... football’s unlikeliest purple patches. When Sheffield Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis converted young centre-back Paul Warhurst into a striker during the second half of the 1992-93 season, his goal ...
- Created on 16 May 2018
- 8. From the archive ~ Why have all the homemade fan banners disappeared?
- (Stories)
- ... aint-Étienne and Swiss outfit FC Zurich en route to the final. Embed from Getty Images After Trevor Francis, bought for £1 million from Birmingham City, headed the winner for Nottingham Forest ...
- Created on 30 May 2017
- 9. Classic match ~ Manchester City 3-0 Southampton, Division One, 1971
- (Videos)
- . . Francis Lee, Colin Bell and Wyn Davies gave City victory at Maine Road, leaving their supporters believing they could win the title 21 October ~ After a defeat ...
- Created on 21 October 2016
- 10. Classic match ~ Man City 4-1 Spurs, Division One, 1967
- (February 2016)
- ... Mike Summerbee, Francis Lee, Neil Young and Colin Bell tear into the FA Cup holders – but not before going 1-0 down. Jimmy Greaves, with one of his first touches of the ball, tapped in a deflected free-kick ...
- Created on 14 February 2016
- 11. Forever Boys
- (Clubs)
- ... distinctive personalities and voices, from the no-nonsense Francis Lee to the insightful Joe Corrigan, to provide sufficient variation in tone and focus to keep things moving. The book is a celebration ...
- Created on 15 December 2015
- 12. The Manager
- (Managers)
- ... y because there aren't any best bits, or even any good bits to speak of – apart from occasional unintentionally good bits, such as the passage that starts off by quoting St Francis of Assisi and Stephen Co ...
- Created on 06 November 2013
- 13. Weekly Howl 02-08-13
- (2013)
- ... ce today. So that's Francis Jeffers and El Hadji Diouf, plus Christopher Samba again. --- Badge of the week ~ Chunnam Dragons, South Korea In the Chunnam area of Korea, long ago and far away (although ...
- Created on 14 August 2013
- 14. Weekly Howl 21-06-13
- (2013)
- ... eyesores temporarily named after him." --- Trevor Francis's son, cleared of burglary charges, makes a fair point about Lee Hendrie. --- Warrior's new boots include "ace plate instep area", "emb ...
- Created on 26 June 2013
- 15. The Biography Of Tottenham Hotspur
- (Clubs)
- ... club but he understood the balance sheet better than his heritage, hence the crushing mediocrity of the 1990s with Christian Gross, Gerry Francis and George Graham. Then again, there's nothing new unde ...
- Created on 15 April 2013
- 16. Surplus stock
- (Clubs)
- ... Francis Lee eschewed the regular after-training routine of snooker and beer to set up a recycling business that ultimately made his fortune. It is unlikely that any of City's Premier League-winning cla ...
- Created on 15 April 2013
- 17. Weekly Howl 08-03-13
- (2013)
- ... k ~ San Francisco FC, Panama San Francisco of Panama incorporate a whole morality tale into their badge. Once upon a time there lived a monk who was a very pious man and happened to be the best writer a ...
- Created on 13 March 2013
- 18. Weekly Howl 26-10-12
- (2012)
- ... . Wednesday, managed by Trevor Francis, came back to win that match through Nigel Jemson and David Hirst. The latter was also his side's top scorer (18). He won three England caps during the season but h ...
- Created on 31 October 2012
- 19. Richer Than God
- (Clubs)
- ... City and the city itself; Conn's own autobiography as a football fan; the effects of Conservative austerity measures on the city; and, following a terse five-minute interview with ex-chairman Francis Lee, a disi ...
- Created on 04 September 2012
- 20. The Black Flash
- (Players)
- ... oked out for him, and he found a friend in fellow black South African Gerry Francis, the impression is of a lonely, shy soul thrown to the wolves. It is harrowing to read about the constant abuse Johan ...
- Created on 06 August 2012
