By Ollie Irish
Photo: PA
Wives and girlfriends of the England players gather at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington,
before going to see The Black and White Minstrel Show, on the eve of the 1966 World Cup Final.
From left to right: Leslie Newton (Alan Ball's fiancee), Judith Hurst (Geoff's wife), Kay Stiles
(Nobby's wife), Norma Charlton (Bobby's wife), Mrs Wilson (Ray's wife no first name on the original
caption), Carol Paine (Terry's wife) and Ursula Banks (Gordon's wife).
So Saturday will see which one of two former top flight clubs return to the top level of English
football with the Championship Play-Off final. As neither have troubled the top division in quite a
long time, newer fans to Premiership football may be left scratching their heads as to who either
of these sides are.
One of Fabio Capello's many dilemmas going into this World Cup has been the emergence of some of
his younger squad players as potential starters in South Africa. Some situations have been forced
on him through injuries to key players but a few of the rookies have shown potential on their
own.
The Coca-Cola Championship Playoff Final is called the richest match in football as the winner
will be promoted to the so called glory land of the EPL – and with it all the riches ...
estimated at 90 million pounds sterling.
SO who are Blackpool, the team I support... because next season you could see a team you have
hardly heard of and an invasion of tangerine on your TV.
Contain your excitement, England are playing tonight. Their opponents are Hungary, and if we on
this blog ever bothered with research we might be able to tell you something about them. Luckily,
we'll be able to steal some information from The Great British Media...oh, no, they've just gone
with nostalgic references to England 3, Hungary 6, which was played in.
Blackpool commit to attacking football under Holloway the romantic is a post from: Just
Football
Several decades have passed since the last time Blackpool played top flight
football, dating back to the wonder years when players like Ray Charnley, Jimmy Armfield, Alan Ball
and Stanley Matthews graced Bloomfield Road.
Numbers have always been important to John Aldridge. Every one of the 476 career goals that made
the former Liverpool striker the most prolific marksman of English football's post-war era are
cherished possessions.
They are dusted off, polished and cross-categorized into a variety of lists and tables that
punctuate the pages of Aldridge's new book ‘Alright Aldo Sound As A Pound'.
Lembro-me de Nobby Stiles como se fosse hoje. Dentro do campo metia medo, tal a sua fogosidade e
impetuosidade. Com alguma frequência, faltavam-lhe alguns dentes, fruto dessa maneira de jogar.
Levava tudo sua frente e não olhava a meios para parar os adversários. Agora, doente, e
segundo o espn, tomou uma decisão curiosa sobre as suas físicas:
O ex-jogador Nobby Stiles, com passagem pela seleção da Inglaterra, espera conseguir 300 mil
libras para a sua família através da venda de recordações da sua carreira no futebol, incluindo
a medalha recebida pela conquista da Copa do Mundo de 1966.
By Ollie Irish
Manchester United paid £188,200 to buy Nobby Stiles' 1966 World Cup winners' medal at an
auction of football memorabilia in Edinburgh. What's that, a week's wages for Wayne Rooney now?
The price topped the £165,000 fetched by Alan Ball's World Cup medal five years ago.
Calls by Manchester United fans for the club to buy some of Nobby Stiles' football memorabilia put
up for auction have been heeded when a World Cup and a European Cup medal were bought for more
than...
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Manchester City drew 0-0 against Birmingham City at Eastlands yesterday afternoon. It wasn't the
greatest result or performance that they will manage this season, but they managed a point and kept
a third successive clean sheet. Such is the burden of expectation brought about by the amount of
money lavished on the squad over the last couple of years or so, though, that the team was booed
from the pitch.
