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| ANDY GRAY of VILLA, EVERTON, WOLVES, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND and SKY SPORTS |
Tuesday 31 August 2010
Thursday 26 August 2010
DAVE MACKAY - SPURS - 0084
Dave Mackay was respected by team-mates for his courage as a footballer. ‘He was the physical leader' of the Double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of the early 1960s,' Jimmy Greaves said. ‘He went into battle like a warrior.'
Mackay was ‘the greatest player in that great side,' Greaves added, ‘an individual who had just about everything: power, skill, stamina and enthusiasm. He was the best professional I ever played alongside. When he was missing we all hard to work twice as hard.'
NAT LOFTHOUSE - BOLTON AND ENGLAND - 0083
Nat Lofthouse – the ‘Lion of Vienna' – was the last great champion of a dying breed: the traditional English centre-forward – the talismanic figurehead given the job of leading the line, taking more than his share of knocks, and scoring most of the goals.
Over a period of eight years, the Bolton Wanderers forward scored 30 times in 33 internationals – and only Jimmy Greaves has been able to match that strike rate over a prolonged period.
Wednesday 18 August 2010
GARY LINEKER - ENGLAND - 0082
In 80 appearances for England, his goal total of 48 for his country places him second on the all-time list behind Sir Bobby Charlton. During his spell at Barcelona he became fluent in Spanish and while at Nagoya Grampus Eight he learnt Japanese.
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Thursday 12 August 2010
PAT JENNINGS - SPURS - 0081
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Pat Jennings will be remembered as one of the finest goalkeepers to ever grace the game.
'Big Pat' played 673 games for Spurs between 1964-1977 and another 300-plus at Arsenal before winding down his career in a second spell at White Hart Lane. He also played 119 times for Northern Ireland, including two World Cups.
Tuesday 10 August 2010
JOHNNY HAYNES - FULHAM - 0080
Johnny Haynes will probably be best remembered as the first £100 a week footballer but this tag should not deflect attention from his special abilities as a footballer or the profound way in which he influenced the game in this country.
Haynes had appeared destined for greatness as a boy, being the pick of a fine England schoolboys side in 1950. Following this he would go on to represent his country at youth, under 23, "B" and full levels.
All the time these personal glories were coming his way Haynes continued to play his club football with Fulham and they would remain his only club right up until his retirement in 1969.
JIMMY GREAVES - ENGLAND - 0079
Greaves is famous for missing out on England’s World Cup winning final due to a leg injury, which resulted in his substitute, Geoff Hurst, playing a somewhat vital role in the game. No one would have thought him replaceable though. Greavsie was one the most legendary football players England has ever seen.
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Monday 9 August 2010
ALI IN BRITAIN - JUST THE TICKET
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| EVEN WITH A WORLD TITLE FIGHT SO CLOSE, HE BOXED AN EXHIBITION MATCH - I THINK WITH JOE FRAZIER, THOUGH I'M NOT TOO SURE OF THAT |
MUHAMMAD ALI IN THE UK
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| THIS WAS JUST THREE WEEKS BEFORE HE WON THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE THIRD TIME, BEATING LEON SPINKS, THEN RETIRED (FOR THE FIRST TIME!) |
MUHAMMAD ALI TOURS THE UK, 1979
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Friday 6 August 2010
RON FLOWERS - WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS - 0078
Flowers was a regular player for England in the second half of the fifties and first half of the sixties, winning a total of 49 caps in an international career which started in 1955 and finished in 1966. Flowers featured at the 1962 World Cup, scoring 2 penalties in the group stage of the competition. Flowers gained his final England cap just weeks before the 1966 World Cup in a friendly win against Norway, and was subsequently named in Alf Ramsey's winning 22 man World Cup 1966 squad. Flowers was the oldest member of the squad at 32 years old, and the earliest capped player, however did not feature in any games. He was however close to featuring in the final itself after Jack Charlton caught a cold before the game. Ramsey told Flowers that if Charlton had not recovered by the morning then he would be in the team, however it turned out that Charlton was fit to play. Unfortunately this meant that Flowers was not awarded a winners medal for the tournament as at the time only those featuring in the actual final game would get one. On 10th June 2009, Flowers was amongst the 11 players who were awarded a winners medal at 10 Downing Street following a long campaign led by the FA for FIFA to award medals to all members of the squad.
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