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21. Derby County 1 Coventry City 1
(Match of the month)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 November 2005
22. Letters, WSC 204
(Readers' letters)
... 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, ...
Created on 14 February 2004
23. Back to square one
(Euro 2004)
... 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  ...
Created on 14 January 2004
24. Hartlepool United
(The five minute...)
  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 ...
Created on 14 July 2003
25. Foot–in–mouth disease
(Europe)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 March 2003
26. Sheffield Wednesday 1974-75
(Clubs)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 February 2003
27. October 2002
(Diary)
... as Newcastle keep a slim chance of qualifying by beating Juventus 1-0. Tommy Taylor is sacked by Darlington, four places off the bottom of the Third. Chairman George Reynolds adds to his store of folk ...
Created on 14 December 2002
28. October 2001
(Diary)
... to results: “What counted was the chemistry, with some people getting worn out.” Tommy Taylor leaves Leyton Orient, blaming the fans: “Some people were moaning and it was getting to the players.” Tuesday ...
Created on 14 December 2001
29. Barnes storm
(Race)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 August 2001
30. Beck review
(Clubs)
... football, don’t you find? Beck’s successors (Ian Atkins, Gary Johnson and Tommy Taylor) oversaw our freefall and all went on to lesser things (Northampton, Latvia and Leyton Orient). And then there was ...
Created on 14 April 2001
31. Gap years
(Clubs)
... hasn’t helped that some of Orient’s least successful managers of recent times (Peter Eus­tace, Pat Holland, Tommy Taylor) have been tainted by claret and blue. However, for meaningful rivalries, Orient ...
Created on 14 January 2001
32. Unclaimed baggage
(Editorials)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 December 2000
33. Haves and have Notts
(Clubs)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 June 2000
34. "Referees respond to authority"
(Players)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 April 2000
35. Barry Hearn
(And who are you exactly)
... persistence with floundering manager Tommy Taylor is increasingly questionable and his empathy with fans non-existent. Anyone who voices displeasure about his or the manager’s stewardship is dismissed ...
Created on 14 January 2000
36. Worst keepers
(Players)
... 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, ...
Created on 14 November 1999
37. Watford
(Brief guide to...)
...  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 ...
Created on 14 July 1999
38. Life at the top – Scottish Premier League
(Clubs)
... 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 ...
Created on 14 October 1997
39. Letters, WSC 128
(Readers' letters)
... 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 Tommy Taylor was attempting to reassemble ...
Created on 14 October 1997
40. April 1997
(Diary)
... 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, ...
Created on 14 June 1997

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