Football Nostalgia

Friday, 4 September 2020

Goal

Really wanted one of these when I was a kid, ended up with a swing sourced from the local dump 😠

Signings

Always been a bit suspicious of anyone who wears a football shirt over a collar and tie, and maybe I was right.
This magazine cover shows 4 of the many dubious signings by Harry Redknapp.

Florin Raducioiu, Paulo Futre, Richard Hall and Mark Bowen managed just 44 games between them.

Giants

Derby County V Man City from 1973.
Man City 6'4" keeper Joe Corrigan and Tony Book towering over Derby's 5'3" forward Willie Carlin.

World Cup 1958

The World Cup in 1958 was held in Sweden, and eventually won by Brazil with the young Pele becoming the star of the show.

For the only time all 4 home nations qualified with Wales and Northern Ireland making it to the Quarter finals.

Here are a selection of newspaper cuttings from the time.

Fixtures

Brazil v Russia

Wales v Mexico

Northern Ireland v Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia v West Germany

Brazil playing Wales in the Quarter Finals of the 1958 World Cup, Brazil won 1-0. Pele obviously and Welsh keeper Kelsey, not sure about the other Wales player?

Brazil v Russia

Brazil Winners

Kevin Keegan of Liverpool.
Always wondered what all the fuss was about until I saw him play in the flesh. For a small guy he could outjump most tall defenders and never stopped running.
I was impressed.

Sir Trevor Brooking

My favourite player ever? again so many to choose from.
But as he was the star turn in so many of my early big match experiences it has to be Sir Trevor Brooking.
One of the few players I've actually touched, patted him on the back when he was taking a throw in once

Ed Stewart

George Best and Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart.
Ed was famous as a DJ, Top of the Pops and Crackejack presenter, and was an Everton fan.
Everyone knows George.

FIFA Games

The regular release of FIFA games have been a big thing now for over 25 years, I gave up about FIFA 2007 although I know my boys still get them.

The first FIFA game in our family from 1993/4 was this one, got my eldest a Game Boy for Christmas and it came with one game this one, all I remember was it was really hard to play.
Cover stars are David Platt and Piotr Swierczewski from Poland?

Sunday Football

In 1974 it was the first time league football was played on a Sunday, Power shortages meant games had to be played during daylight. Some of the previous weeks F.A Cup games had been used as a trial.

The law at the time was that teams couldn't charge admission on Sunday so they made it entry by higher priced programme only.

Some people weren't happy.