TINA,MOORO AND A QUIZ

I am not sure that the TV reviewers liked Lauren Mclee's "Tina and Bobby", the first part of a three part drama. I enjoyed it because it brought back memories of the 1960s, which I can just remember! The drama includes some archive footage of actual football matches, there are interesting choices of actors to fulfil important roles and there are many secrets revealed from Tina's biography, telling tales of her life with England's captain. There are also one or two footballing secrets revealed too.

One of the hardest scenes to act out is the "training session" with the coach blowing his whistle and actors trying to follow instructions. Granted it was only about ten seconds long.....6 v 2? What no cones or bibs?

I liked trying to pick out who was who, especially when "Mooro's" club mates appear from nowhere to interrupt his honeymoon in Majorca. Tina had to accept that she was going to share her life with his mates! Of course Bobby disgraced himself!

The drama spans several decades of football, fashion and social change.

There were moments when the pair's parents/in-laws were shown to be either doting or snobbish about the newly formed pairing. Who would marry a footballer, who at the time was not very famous? Indeed, Tina at the time earned more as a typist at the Prudential than her husband did as footballer.

I particularly enjoyed seeing Ron Greenwood played by Louis Hilyer (the legendry manager at West Ham) and Alf Ramsey, played by David Bamber (even more legendry as manager of England's 1966 World Cup winning team) portrayed by close likenesses; both men were huge influences on Moore's life.


There are two more episodes and so far Bobby has been made captain of England, he has made sure his wife knows that football comes first and she may have learned how to roast potatoes. Oh and he has been made captain of England and been treated for testicular cancer (1965).

Tina and Bobby became football's first "celebrity couple" and Michelle Keegan, the first WAG?? famed from Coronation Street and Our Girl, has already made a gaff by stating in an interview that football was not a major sport in the those days. Many would doubt her Essex accent.

Mooro played by Lorne MacFadyen, known from Granchester and The Level, certainly had the physique and blonde looks.
NEXT EPISODE DEALS WITH THE WORLD CUP FINAL!

Ironically, most of the filming was done in Ancoats and Sale in Greater Manchester.
AND NOW A GEOGRAPHY QUIZ! well with Brexit etc we owe it to ourselves.
https://www.zoo.com/quiz/european-geography-quiz?utm_term=tmg-mirror&utm_content=Can+You+Pass+the+European+Geography+Quiz%3F&utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=UK-Zoo-EuropeanGeography%28desktop%29&mkcpgn=i600008255&sg_uid=1QtD2lQERx-p6of1zi_8CA