Having recently given you the league
table for long ball “merchants” in the Premier League, it was
made public recently that Tottenham fielded the youngest squad in the
PL last weekend, when they won the North London derby:- Spurs weighed
in at 24 years 37 days. Looking at the average age for squads in the
PL at the time of the transfer deadline, Newcastle had the youngest at 25 years 30 days, Man Utd, Southampton, Arsenal, Liverpool , Everton, appear in the next half dozen places. Oldest is Manchester City at 28 years and 80 days, with Palace, Stoke, WBA, QPR, Leicester, Hull and Villa in the oldest ranks.
On the theme of age, as I was
recovering from Fiona's Pilates session this morning at the gym, I
was towelling down and watching on the changing room TV,“Real Lives
reunited” on day time BBC.
It covered two past events, the tragic
sinking of the Machioness Thames party boat and the World Cup Final
in 1966. It found several of the ball boys who helped return the ball
to England and Germany during our famous 4-2 victory at Wembley. They
shared a bottle of champagne at the new Wembley and reminisced about
the fabulous day they experienced.
As I mention Wembley, I have to make
you aware of the FA Historian, David Barber, known on their website
www.The FA.com as “The Barber”. He makes it his job to gather
historic information about the national game and also has ground
hopped to over 6500 matches in his ife, mostly grass roots. You can
get him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thebarberfan) and will soon
find out that he is due to retire soon, handing over his spectacular
job to some fortunate “youngsters”, who are lucky to inherit his legacy. I first met the Barber early in the early 1970s when he travelled with Charles Hughes to FA XI representative games.
In his leisure, David is going to continue
his past interest in “underwater photography”, from which some of his photos
have been published.
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