... Sven it (ie throw their lead away by sitting back), make themselves very busy indeed. A rapid free-kick from Inigo Idiakez throws Coventry into absolute disarray, Tommy Smith nips in, slices through the ...
... Mark Hughes. Apparently Bobby laid the foundations for the subsequent improvement... Trev Wallis, Cheltenham Dear WSC The Five Minute Wrexham in WSC 203 states that in 1934: “Tommy Bamford hits 44 goals, ...
... omparing poorly in his grasp when set alongside assistant Tommy Burns), just a complete failure to get over what he expected players, often fielded out of position, to do. For all that, there are no ...
Ed Parkinson on Hartlepool United What was the key to the team’s success this past season? The midfield has been brilliant this year. Mark Tinkler, Richie Humphreys, Darrell Clarke and Tommy Widdrington ...
... Lars Lagerbäck and Tommy Söderberg should probably have asked Graham Taylor for advice before agreeing to have microphones on them during last summer’s World Cup. But they didn’t – and now sections of t ...
... Wednesday sold Tommy Craig to Newcastle. Craig, a stylish midfielder bought for £100,000 from Aberdeen some years earlier, had been Britain’s costliest teenager. His departure seemed somewhat of an admission ...
... as Newcastle keep a slim chance of qualifying by beating Juventus 1-0. TommyTaylor is sacked by Darlington, four places off the bottom of the Third. Chairman George Reynolds adds to his store of folk ...
... to results: “What counted was the chemistry, with some people getting worn out.” TommyTaylor leaves Leyton Orient, blaming the fans: “Some people were moaning and it was getting to the players.” Tuesday ...
... TV reporter in declining his request to interview me at Anfield that “when someone throws a brick through your window, you don’t invite them in for a cup of tea”. Tommy Smith, the former Liverpool ...
... football, don’t you find? Beck’s successors (Ian Atkins, Gary Johnson and TommyTaylor) oversaw our freefall and all went on to lesser things (Northampton, Latvia and Leyton Orient). And then there was ...
... hasn’t helped that some of Orient’s least successful managers of recent times (Peter Eustace, Pat Holland, TommyTaylor) have been tainted by claret and blue. However, for meaningful rivalries, Orient ...
... stars of that era – Malcolm Allison, Brian Clough, Tommy Docherty – he felt the need to create a public image of himself, a persona which may or may not have corresponded with reality. No modern manager ...
... dad’s team. They were the ones that Alan Sillitoe wrote about. They were the ones Tommy Lawton played for. As soon as the Generation Gap kicked in, Forest became the team of choice for the new breed of ...
... a whole. Was football more violent 30 years ago or was it that referees were more lenient? Yes, it was more physical. If you went past Tommy Smith or Norman Hunter you knew they were going to come in ...
... persistence with floundering manager TommyTaylor is increasingly questionable and his empathy with fans non-existent. Anyone who voices displeasure about his or the manager’s stewardship is dismissed ...
... the lifetime achievement award, which goes to Liverpool for their long tradition of using brilliant but fallible keepers, from Tommy Younger through Tommy Lawrence to James. Bruce Grobbelaar, for instance, ...
... 1994 The embodiment of modern-day Hornism, Tommy Mooney, joins from Southend – the latest in a long line of stunningly ungainly yet immensely popular strikers. 1996 At last, the Finest Living Englishman ...
... team do? On last year’s form, there’s no reason why we can’t finish second or third in the league, and win one of the cups. Most important figure? Tommy McLean. Since taking over last year he has turned ...
... of football. Ed Horton, Oxford Dear WSC Back in March when Leyton Orient had Ray Wilkins, Peter Shilton and Alvin Martin on their books I suggested in WSC that TommyTaylor was attempting to reassemble ...
... Falkirk in the Scottish Cup Semi Final. Tommy Burns will have gone straight home to pack his bags. Friday 24 Nearly but not quite for Liverpool whose 2-0 win over Paris St Germain in the CWC Semi Final, ...