Blimey,  we are playing for one of my trophies in the Challenge today. Thing is, it’s in Rio. Forgot I had this one. You are all welcome to it

She gave up because your pants were on fire.

Bother, I was going to guess that you had spilled beans on her.

Derby County and Scottish international Christian Dailly used to live round the corner from our house and next door to one of our friends in Derby. At the time Derby were a top ten Premier League team.

The Luton v Fulham game was memorable because in the Fulham team that day were George Best, Rodney Marsh and Bobby Moore. Fulham won 2-0. I was selling programmes.

Indeed, I’m sure it was only Clyde Best who featured. I did see his identical twin play twice. Manchester United 1970. Fulham 1976.

Ignore this @hunnybunny.

Here is a fairly ancient football question for you @brianN. Apologies if I have asked it before. In my 1970/71 football stickers album, which covered Division One (then the top flight of course) and the best players from Division Two, and which had in the region of 350 stickers, there was only 1 (one) black player. Who…[Read more]

That’s everything. It has to be one of those.

Allergic to glass?

She couldn’t stand the ukelele?

However, 7-1 remains England’s heaviest ever defeat and they were also thumped 6-3 by Hungary at Wembley around that time. It is true that World Cup Finals rarely have any opportunity for upsets. Although there have been some unexpected teams in the semis (e.g. South Korea) it never extends to the finals themselves.

Some say that the Hungary team in 1954 was the greatest team never to win. And guess what?  They were also undone by the Germans in the Final. Given that Hungary had put 8 goals past Germany at the group stage (and 7 past England two months before), this was the greatest Final upset there has ever been.

I remember watching this live in 1970. We didn’t have a TV set then so ended up watching it at the local National Children’s Home. Why we had to go to a nearby orphanage to watch the World Cup Final is a complicated story. It would have been like for most people at that time, in black and white.

This was the pinnacle of Brazil’s brilliance. It…[Read more]