GOLDEN GOALS

Today is the anniversary of the first EVER international match.

The Golden Goal wasn't used to decide a match result then, unsurprisingly,  but in 1994 it was introduced to the Auto Windscreens Trophy, Second Round tie between Huddersfield Town and Lincoln City. Iain Dunn of Town was the first player to score a "golden goal" in the 107th minute of the match. Later in the Final, Birmingham City succeeded with the Golden Goal when they beat Carlisle Utd at Wembley.


A Golden Goal was employed in the first Youdan Cup (1868) in Sheffield, described above, when the tie, having been drawn goals at full time was decided by the number of "ROUGES" scored by each team. The goal was also 4 yards wide and on either side of the posts was a rouge flag 4 yards away from each goalpost. The ball had to be touched down behind the "rouge" goal line whereas a goal could be scored by passing the ball through the two goalposts. (Imagine an Aussie Rules set of goal posts, but not as tall!
In the Youdan Cup Final, two areas in the city won their way through to the final from a starting number of 12 Sheffield clubs. Hallam beat Norfolk (2-0 in rouges) after a 0-0 draw. 

The Youdan Cup handed over to the Cromwell Cup, in 1868, a tournament sponsored by the local Alexander Theatre, the World's second ever cup competition.



Golden Goals have been employed in a variety of tournaments over history. Decided by the FA to enable the decider in cup ties, in 1993, the Golden Goal, this was preferred to  "sudden death" goals for obvious reasons.
Birmingham City beat Carlisle Utd  1-0 by the Golden Goal, scored by Paul Tait, in the 1995 Football League Cup.
In 1996, Germany beat the Czech Rep in the European Championship Final, 1-0 by the GG. Oliver Bierhoff snatching the winner.
In 1998, the World Cup tie between France and Paraguay in the Round of 16, was won by Laurent Blanc after 114 mins.
In 2001, Liverpool beat Deportivo Alaves, in a UEFA Cup Final after an own goal by Delfi Geli,
resulting 5-4.
The last Golden Goal in a World Cup match was in June 2002, a quarter-final between Turkey and Senegal 1-0, the goal coming in 94 minutes.
In 2003 the Women's World Cup between Germany and Sweden was decided 2-1 in the 98 minute by the Golden Goal.

Since then, as you know, it goes to extra time and then penalties.

You might remember the "Silver Goal" which was decided during extra time; who ever was leading after 15 minutes, would win and if no goals then the game carried on.

PUDDE(HELPS)FOOT THE BILL £££

Here is the most expensive footballer in the World at the time that he was transferred from West Ham to Falkirk. Hard to believe! Read on....
 Syd Puddefoot was born in Limehouse, The East End, London on 17th October 1894 and died on October 2nd 1972. He played for his local club, West Ham, then Falkirk (a remarkable exchange considering the history of the clubs) and then Blackburn Rovers. He also played first class cricket for Essex, his local county.

Syd played for West Ham United 158 times scoring 102 goals (1912-22), originally as an amateur. Remember that West Ham only joined the Football League in 1919 having been in the Southern and Western League previously.

He created a record by scoring a hat trick for West Ham in 7 minutes in the 1st Rd of the FA Cup, and in the same game, an individual total of 5 v Chesterfield in a "mauling" on January 10th 1914. (Chesterfield had worked their way through the early rounds of the Cup, joining the competition in the Fourth Qualifying Round. They drew with Shirebrook (one of our "local" clubs here in South Yorkshire), beat them in the replay 2-0 then did the same against North Shields Athletic (still a regional draw). The Hammers lost to Liverpool in Round 3.

During the First World War Syd worked in munitions and joined the conflict. He played in the London Combination League (originally the Reserves' League) scoring 100 goals in 126 apps, including 7 v Crystal Palace in November 1918.

Puddefoot then joined the Scots, Falkirk, having been stationed during the war at the Bridge of Allan. He played 113 apps with 45 goals (1922-25).

In 1919-20  with West Ham he played for England three times in the Victory Internationals scoring 3 goals.

On the 7th February 1922 Falkirk paid £5,000, then a World record, the only time a Scottish club has achieved this. Part of the fee was paid for through a public collection at the club. Puddefoot benefited with a £390 signing on fee. The Post recorded the sale by writing "When will this folly on the part of football clubs come to an end?"

IN THE NEXT MONTH Warney Cresswell, "The Prince of Full backs", broke this record with a move from South Shields to Sunderland for £5,500 on March 3rd 1922. By the way, Warney fought in the war, was imprisoned, played in Scotland and then in England and ended up managing at Northampton Town in 1937.

Puddefoot moved on to Blackburn Rovers, 250 apps (79 goals) (1925-1933) and back to West Ham briefly 22 apps (3) from 1932-3. This included the 1928 FA Cup Final, an unusual "personal hearing" at the FA having objected to a sending off and made his last appearance in 1933, completing his time in Football as a scout for Southend United through to 1967.
In total he played 543 times and scored 229 goals.

Syd coached at Fenerbache in Turkey (1933), Galatasaray (1933-4) and exotically at Northampton Town (1935-7)......note the comment in Cresswell's paragraph..... Cobblers!!
and died in October 1972.

http://www.falkirk-football-history.co.uk/2013/07/when-falkirk-fc-broke-world-transfer.html

KIWI RESOURCEFULNESS

The next Test match begins tonight in Hamilton, NZ, with the English hoping to avoid another embarrassing defeat. Many will know that New Zealand has a population of 4.7 million (UK 12x), distributed unevenly between the more populated North and the more rural South Islands.
I worked there in Christchurch during 1984; a five minute walk to the school and a slightly longer walk to Hagley Park, a large "edge of city park".
The school was skited on the park's edge and took sport very seriously with rugby and cricket dominant and as a soccer coach I looked after the "rest".
Mind you New Zeland had just returned from the 1982 World Cup where they were pitted against, Scotland, Russia and Brazil! Not too much progress there but the National League did get a boost and there was an interest in the round ball and they did qualify for the 2010 Tournament.

The school's annual 1st XV rugby fixture against the neighbouring High School was televised and summer sports had terrific facilities and plenty of interest. Every sport had its space.

With an almost Mediterranean climate and the historic spirit of "adventure,  Kiwis "bat" above their average in every sport. I was not surprised therefore to read in my daily paper the explanation for England's demise in the last test match, lost by an innings and too many runs.

The Kiwis or Black Caps are unbeaten at home Test series since 2015-16.
They are second in the International Cricket Council's Test rankings.
They lost in the World Cup Final to England in a super over.
In Rugby Union, NZ, the All Blacks, are eight years into their dominance of World rugby, though they did lose to England recently! Their win rate is 80%.
In Women's rugby they are world champions at XV and also in 7s.
In July they won the World Cup Netball in Liverpool.
They are America's Cup (Yachting) Holders.
They have Olympic champions in rowing, canoeing and sailing (they are surrounded by sea water of course and have fabulous glacial lakes and rivers.)
The won 18 medals at the 2016 Olympics making the country the 3rd best per capita Globally.
They are ranked 9th in men's and 6th in women's World Field Hockey.

Ranked 2nd in World Netball (an old image here!)

So their national heroes are sports' people headed by Sir Edmund Hilary, a mountaineer!
From these beginnings, children are fully involved in sport at any standard and type, as I witnessed on a Saturday morning in Hagley Park, when kids played sport against neighbouring schools, state and independent, in well organised leagues, often after Saturday lessons!

Elite athletes have multi-sport backgrounds and shine in both Summer and Winter (if there ever is one!).
The lack of numbers in the population is regarded as a positive, so that resources are fully developed through the Sport NZ Accelerator Programme.

Kiwi Resourcefulness is known as "No 8 Wire", referring to the "wire" used in rural fencing, which is strong and flexible. Understandably, throughout this largely rural nation, there are thousands of acres of "paddocks" for sheep and cattle and more, and now vineyards, where rural resources are fully developed.
Head coaches of national sports frequently gather together to share best practice.
The nation is at the "cutting edge" of sports' technology for example in cycling, bungee jumping, jet boating, inventing the egg beater and the electric fence. Seriously they are geniuses.
Sharing ideas in sport with engineers and scientists enables Kiwis to compete at the Global scale, out thinking the opposition. GOOD ON YA!

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

George Farm was the Blackpool goalie during the post war period and he played in Blackpool's famous 1953 final, making over 450 appearances for the Seasiders, as well as for his Scottish club, Hibernians, ending up at Queen of the South. After playing football, he worked in journalism and for a short period became a lighthouse keeper. He died in 2004 aged 80.
Len Allchurch was one of two brothers who played in Wales and for Wales. With over 600 games under his belt and over 100 goals, he played mainly for Swansea and Sheffield Utd. Len ended up in leather goods, a shoe and bag shop in Swansea. He died aged 83 in 2016.
Ralph Coates, famed for his comb over is being mobbed here after a Spurs game; the lad is not after his wig! Ralph played for the Spurs Veterans and turned out at Charterhouse against an "MJB" mature squad celebrating my 50th birthday! He still gave us the run around. Ralph was later in travel agency, worked in leisure centres and helped with disabled folk before his death in 2010.

Roger Hunt is famed for his influence in the World Cup Final 1966 and he won 34 caps. With over 400 apps for Liverpool, Roger owned and ran a haulage company in retirement. He is 81!
Mick Channon is doing very well in horse racing, owning and running a very successful business with many important winners for horse owners like Kevin Keegan and Sir Alex Ferguson. He is famed for his "windmill" goal celebration, over 700 apps for Southampton ending his career with Finn Harps. (not for long). He is 70.
John Aston Jnr played 155 times for Man U and scored 25 goals but was a supplier rather than a scorer. He is well known for his 1968 European Cup Final performance at Wembley v Benfica. He went to Luton for 174 games (31 goals) and Mansfield and then Blackburn Rovers in a career that latest from 1965-79. His son Mark is a teacher and his father played in the 1948 Man Utd victory over Blackpool in the FA Cup Final. John Aston Junior owns a pet shop in Stalybridge. He is now 72!

John Connelly nearly payed for the England World Cup Final winning team but when Alf Ramsey turned to wingless wonders, he played only once against Uruguay and stayed on the bench. he did get a medal though as a squad member. Having played 265 times for Burnley (very much a popular club then) he then went to Man U and Blackburn Rovers totalling nearly 700 games with 200 goals! He played 20 games for England and scored 7 goals.
In retirement he ran a Fish and Chip shop called "Connelly's Plaice" in Brierfield.
In 2012 he died aged 74. Connelly shown below.
 Can anyone recognise this game? I know!

NOVEMBER DELAYS

BACK TO PENALTIES.....only because it happens to be the anniversary (26th November 1991) when there had been a change of the FA Laws, to stop the endless replays in the FA Cup, which caused a back log of fixtures over the winter period.

Following the change of laws, Rotherham Utd glamorously played Scunthorpe Utd in the FA Cup First Round replay, after the two teams had drawn 1-1 on November 16th at Scunny.
On the 26th they played out an exciting 3-3 draw at Millmoor. To save "time", penalties were legally in place so, with a 7-6 victory for the Millers, who went on to meet Burnley in the 2nd Round, losing 0-2.

Ironically, Burnley met Derby County in the 3rd Rd (FA Cup) on January 4th 1992 and drew 2-2. They then replayed on the 14th January at Derby and with the home  team winning 2-0, fog had the game abandoned. By 25th January, the game was replayed and Derby won 2-0, tie end! No pens but plenty of delays.

In the same competition 1991-2, the FA Cup First Rd proper, Emley AFC (then known as Emley FC, nickname the Peewits), from the moor tops, West Yorkshire, met Bolton Wanderers in a match played at Leeds Road, Huddersfield. Bolton Wanderers cruised past the non-leaguers 0-3. Bolton then beat Bradford City 3-1 in Rd 2, Reading 2-0 in Rd 3, Brighton and HA in Rd 4 2-1 finally conceding to Southampton 2-3 after a 2-2 draw.

More local results, in 1991-2, from the Cup include Huddersfield Town who beat Lincoln United at home (note not City) 7-0, then The Terriers beat Rochdale at Spotland in Rd 2, 2-1, meeting their match at home to Millwall 0-4. Lions gnaw Terriers!
In Rd 3 Aston Villa met Cup holders Spurs and beat them 1-0 away, after a 0-0.

Non-leaguers, Witton Albion in Rd 1, drew with Halifax Town ( then a League side) at The Shay, drawing 1-1 on November 16th. They met on the 27th at home and Witton won 1-2.  The reward was a 2nd Rd tie at Preston NE, Witton losing 1-5. "Do your best"

Preston went on to lose to Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 at Deepdale.

MORE FOG DELAYS


On November 27th 1948, Colchester Utd met Reading in a First Rd FA Cup tie and attracted a record crowd of over 19,000 at Layer Road. The game was abandoned due to fog after 35 minutes and everyone had to go home. It was replayed on December 4th, Reading winning 2-4.

Worse than that, in the 1904-5 season, on November 26th Everton were beating Woolwich Arsenal 3-1 when the match was abandoned due to fog after 76 minutes. No result.

The match was then scheduled for the end of the season when Everton had to play 3 games in 4 days.
Previously they played out this result on 5th April Everton v Woolwich Arsenal at home won 1-0.
April 21st Everton v Manchester City away lost 0-2
22nd Everton v Woolwich Arsenal away lost 1-2
24th Everton v Nottingham Forest away won 2-0

They lost 1-2 and if the original scoreline had remained Everton would have pipped Newcastle to the Division One championship (top div in those days). In those days there were only 2 divisions of 18 teams and 2 and a half pence (money) would have got you into the game.

In Division One then were these "historic" teams:
Small Heath ( now Birmingham) with Woolwich Arsenal.
In Div Two were Gainsborough, Glossop NE, Burslem PV (Port Vale) and Burton United.

BANK OF ENGLAND

Thank you to my Sussex agent who brought this news item to my attention.......No this is not his gaff in the shadow of the South Downs, this is the Bank of England Sports' Ground on Priory Lane, near Richmond Park, first established in 1907. It is sited in a part of south, suburban London, with easy access to anywhere, on 32 (or more) acres of flat, perfect grounds, manufactured for the use of employees of the Bank, families and friends (and for public hire). There are superb indoor facilities, both social and sporty, which rate very highly too, available to employees and on hire to the public at a competitive rate.

I have been privileged to play and coach there on occasion, at both cricket and football, indeed the Independent Schools FA (then known as the Public Schools FA) used the grounds for their final trials at Christmas to play a "Masters XI" and eventually, annually played the FA Youth XI and Berkshire Schools FA.
Other activities available include rugby, a huge number of indoor sports, a pool and 16 tennis courts where qualification for Wimbledon also takes place.
The Football Association hired the facility prior to the FIFA World Cup in 1966. It worked! and Women's Cricket began a venture there in 1949 when the South played the Women's Cricket Association.

During the Second World War, the land was turned in allotments and the clubhouse was destroyed by bombs. The clubhouse and additions were rebuilt and the grounds returned to an excellent standard which has served the Bank of England employees, members but over time only 13% of BoE employees are now members. This "special club" comes from another era, some might say.
Of course the Bank has other attractions near its site in London and so there is no need to venture down the suburban line to Roehampton or Richmond.
There is a "company" gym for employees in Threadneedle Street, much nearer the Bank, of course.

So common sense may prevail as Lord King of Lothbury (age 71), Governor of the BoE, recollected putting a deal in place to safeguard the Sports' Ground and as a "reward" played an annual cricket match at the club with employees and friends until he retied in 2013.

Mark Carney, 54, his successor at the BoE, however wants to sell the facility, to save money and to raise capital. It's up for grabs. It is shown below with the old Records Office overlooking the main pitches.

Needless to say "social matters" come into play with an objection by some members who object to the "exclusive" annual staff cricket match, each summer, originally held by the Lord King (clearly only a few can take part) but as you can see in the photograph a jolly time can be had around the boundary and there were tennis courts and the pool to enjoy for family members!  Mind you the summer party recently cost £100,000, a reward for the Bank's 2,500 hard working staff. Annual travel expenses for Bank employees, nipping out to the States to make deals, should not be looked at but would put the summer party cost into perspective. A drop in the ocean? Not so, say the BoE, it was all accounted for...I should hope so!

Objectors would prefer the more inclusive rounders games (probably non-competitive), tug of war!!, a football kick around, Scottish Dancing and slumping in deck chairs. But there were many other activities on offer , ensuring social correctness, including a bake off, fun run, bouncy castle, BoE band and choir.

Richard Branson has his eye on the facility as "Virgin Active" could turn the whole thing into a massive money making Leisure Centre with expensive and exclusive membership.

TAUNTON TOWN TAUNT TRURO CITY FROM TWELVE.

I have done penalty kicks before but if you haven't heard/read, then you should know that Jack Rice of Taunton Town FC (the Peacocks) converted the winner in a 12-11 (34 pen total) shootout when his side outscored Truro City in the "Almost Alliteration" derby down in the South-west peninsular. (Don't understand?).
Well its an old joke about "Timothy Taylor driving a ten ton Thames Trader from Teddington to somewhere else beginning with (let's say Taunton) delivering turquoise tinted toilet tissues"....la.la.la. Its lonely here on a Sunday afternoon......

On Wednesday just gone, Taunton Town FC won a Southern League Challenge Cup second round game involving 34 penalties and 34 minutes. That seemed quite quick considering the time it takes for a penalty to be set up and psychologically attended to......not bitter! The two teams were not separated (2-2) after 90 minutes. The joyous coach said that he was pleased to see established players and youngsters share the occasion in what he described as a "lesser competition" and congratulated Lloyd Irish who saved three pens.Good on them and good on him! They were FA Vase winners in 2000-1.

Truro City FC, the Tigers, was founded in 1889 and play in the Southern League Premier South (7th Tier) are the highest ranked club in Cornwall (it doesn't get much better than that). 
In 2006-7 they won the FA Vase at Wembley (36,000+ watched) beating AFC Totton.....yes more T's.

I read that several players at Truro are on loan from clubs like Plymouth Argyle and Exeter City, where as Andreas Calleja-Stayne is dual registered with Mousehole AFC.

This equalled the record set in a Football League Trophy tie between Chelsea U23 and Oxford United in 2016.

More record holders are SK Batov v FC Frystak in a Czech Fifth Tier match in 2016. Batov winning 21-20.
KK Palace and Civics in the 2005 Namibian Cup ended 17-16 to the Palace.

Tunbridge Wells beat Littlehampton Town 16-15 (40 kicks) in an FA Cup Preliminary tie in August 2005. There had been two pens in normal time too. The match lasted 3 hours and 10 mins.....finishing at 10.55pm-yes, there were floodlights.
A 1st Round West Riding Premier Div League Cup match went to 34 kicks in December 2001 when Littletoen and Storthes Hall drew 1-1 aet. Shoot out was 17-17 when the match was abandoned due to bad light! Locals turned on car headlamps and what ever but to no avail.

https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/kicks-from-penalty-spot.html

OVER THE MOON-WELL ON IT.

 Demonstrations in the city of Santiago, Chile, over increased Metro fares, increased cost of living and inequality have led CONMEBOL, the adminstrators of South American football, to move the final of the Copa Libertadores on November 23rd (today) 2019 the Estadio Monumental Lima in Peru (as if you didn't know that). Below.

It is the 60th Final, this weekend between Brazil's Flamengo 
and Argentina's River Plate.

River Plate (below) was formed in 1901 by a group of British immigrants and have been the top club nationally and also one of the best on the continent. Dock workers, mainly immigrants from Europe, on the river estuary, noted the name on the imported crates which read the destination, River Plate and rather than use Rio de la Plate, they chose the English version for their "club name".



Flamengo (above) have only been to the final once and won it in 1981. River Plate have been  6 times, won 4, the last, last year!
Flamengo, originally formed as a rowing club, they were called Clube de Regatas do Flamengo. Like most clubs they had a number of sports under their wing and have developed these for the locals since 1895.

Knowing the fun and games that VAR has provided this afternoon (and previously)  the South Americans are making sure they cover all bases; The ref is Roberto Tobar from Chile and he is supported by 2 assistant referees who might be called linesmen (Chile), a 4th official, 1 VAR expert and his 3 assistants from Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. Now that Hepworth United men are in a higher division they have to have "linos" and a ref of course. It costs the club £60 a game. I wonder how much the Libertadores treasurer forks out?


How important is this cup competition? Well, there is a flag planted on the MOON belonging to Independiente de Avellenada from Buenos Aires, seven times Copa winners and last holders in 1984.
As soon as the crew for Apollo 11 was named, the club's press officer, Hector Rodriguez, proposed making Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins members of the football club. I'm not sure that they had any idea what this was all about??!! But it happened.
Membership cards revealed that Armstrong was number 80,400 and various memorabilia were sent to the astronauts. Armstrong wrote back thanking the club in May 1969, two months before they set foot on the moon.

On July 20th 1969, Armstrong took his big step and it was not known that he had included the club pennant in the "lunar" ceremony until the astronauts visited Buenos Aires in November on a World tour. It was revealed that they had planted the flag!

When Armstrong died on August 25th 2012, CAI held a minute's silence before their game against Arsenal de Sarandi.

BRIAN CLOUGH, BARRY HINES, COLIN WEIR

I had thought about doing something on Partick Thistle, since EuroMillions Lottery Winner (£161 million) has invested money into the club, has got divorced and "married" the club, but you will read about that in the press. The good news is that he has resisted allowing "foreign" investors "helping out" Thistle, a group that has interfered with Nice and Barnsley. You don't get this pair of clubs mentioned in the same sentence very often.

I also wanted to add to the Barry Hines story (see previous) that he also played for Crawley Town FC while he was in the London area for his first teaching assignment.

Some to bring you down to earth here's some quotes from Brian Clough.

'The River Trent is lovely. I know because I've walked on it for 18 years.'

'I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business....but I was in the top one.'

'Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off because they’d have worked it out for themselves

About how he dealt with anyone bold enough to disagree with him:

'We talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I was right.'

About the importance of playing on the deck

'If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds he would have put grass up there.'

About what he was going to call new signing Teddy Sheringham:

'I’m calling you Edward because that’s what it says on your birth certificate.'

'Ah yes. Frank Sinatra. He met me once you know!'

About dealing with Roy Keane:

'I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard.'

About the job he should have had:

'I’m sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I’d want to run the show. They were shrewd because that’s exactly what I would have done.'

About Sven getting his England job:

'At last we’ve appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players!'

'David Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.'

'Telling a player to get his hair cut counts as coaching as far as I’m concerned.'

About the offside rule:

'If any one of my players isn't interfering with play they're not getting paid.'

'Rome wasn't built in a day...but then again I wasn't on that particular job.'

About Eric Cantona's kink-fu attack on a fan at Crystal Palace : 

'I'd have cut his balls off.''

About his drink problem:

'Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.' 

AND FINALLY

'When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE

BBC4 showed  "Looking for Kes" at 9pm last night, a story of Barry Hine's 1968 novel "A Kestrel for Knave" which was made into the film by Ken Loach, "Kes" in 1969.
Greg Davies returns to his English-teacher's roots in South Yorkshire. Greg goes back to his old school and "takes a lesson". I am sure that most of you out there have read the book or seen the film.
Ian MacMillan added commentary.

Davies meets Hines' brother, Richard, a key influence for the character of the troubled Billy Casper, who gets to fly a kestrel for the first time.

Melvin Barry Hines lived at Hoyland Common, near Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, went to Ecclesfield Grammar School achieving 5 'O' Levels (presumably one in English). Sheffield United's successful striker, Billy Sharpe, also went to his school.

After a brief visit to the mines for work with the NCB,  Hines went back to school and took 4 'A' Levels " which led him to a teaching degree at Loughborough University. His dissertation was based on the "Flight of the Hawk" which inspired him to write his first published novel, "Billy's Last Stand", the basis for  "The Blinder" in 1966. This was about a gifted lad who was torn between football and an academic career. Of course, in those days football didn't carry the rewards that the game holds today.

Hines was first employed in London, he returned to Barnsley to teach and write. This produced a number of novels related to education, unemployment, coal mines and football.

Two TV plays about football included "Shooting Stars" where three friends hold hostage a local football star striker for a ransom. This aired in Channel 4. He also produced a BBC1 film in 1992 "Born Kicking" about a professional female footballer. These weren't his only novels and TV  scripts whihc ranhged from a nuclear attack to the price of coal.

Hines loved football and played for Barnsley Grammar Schoolboys and then England Grammar Schoolboys as well as being at Barnsley FC Youth and briefly for Manchester United Youth.

He was awarded an honorary degree at Loughborough in 2009 and an Honorary Doctorate at Sheffield in 2010.
Hines, was struck with Alzheimers and died on March 18th 2016 aged 76.
The famous scene at the PE lesson and the Bobby Charlton impersonator!!

PUSH AND RUN

 Frank Brettell, the first manager of Spurs in 1898-99 was a full back for Everton and then a Sports' Journalist at the Liverpool Mercury, a secretary at Bolton Wanderers in 1896, before moving to London and getting the Spurs job! He then went to Portsmouth for a couple of years and then Plymouth Argyll, retiring in 1905.
Before football he was a teacher and fathered 10 children, helped by Lavinia Spearman! His % record is the best in Spurs history 63 matches 37 wins 58.7%.
Poch comes 4th with 293/159 54%.

The longest serving manager was Bill Nicholson who looked after the Spurs from 1958 till 1974. This period included 832 games winning 408 and covering a hugely successful period in the club's history included the League and Cup Double, more FA Cup wins and success in Europe. Bill's record with Spurs was 832 games 408 wins 49%. (see below)

Nicholson had learned his game from following "The Spurs Way", a possession based game involving what was known as "push and run" inspired by Arthur Rowe (1949-55). Spurs won the Second Division in 1949-50 and then the First Division title the following year. They came second in 1951-2.


I met Arthur Rowe (above) who when in retirement became the Football Coach at Ardingly College in Sussex, a school Charterhouse still play against.

One of the Charles Buchan annuals from the 1950s had a series of photographs to show young readers what this meant.

Nicholson learned this from Robert Smyth McColl, who learned his trade from Peter McWilliam. a Scot who played at Newcastle United and managed at Spurs from 1913-27 and  1938-42.  He oversaw 750 games, winning 331 games.
The Spurs "nursery" side, Northfleet FC, included Bill Nicholson as a player.

Party to this style of football was Vic Buckingham, another player under McWilliam, who took his coaching ideas to Ajax and Barcelona, establishing what is now known as Total Football. Some of you close to my age may remember the Dutch style in the 1974 World Cup Finals.

In history "The Directors" ran the Spurs side in 1908-13 with a 42% win rate.

ALBERT SHEPHERD - BOLTON TEMPERANCE-PUB LANDLORD

November 19th 1960. Jimmy Greaves scored 3 for Chelsea against Manchester City in a 6-3 Division One victory. This was his 100 top flight league (First Division) goal achieved at the age of 20 years and 290 days. He is youngest to score a 100 goals in the top flight league in the 20th century.

He reached this total being top scorer for Chelsea in 6 seasons ending in 1959, 1960 and Spurs in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969. Other centurians include:
Steve Bloomer of Derby achieved 5 top scores in 1896, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1904.
Thierry Henry of Arsenal: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006.
John Campbell, a Scot, of Sunderland 1892, 1893, 1895
Gary Lineker: Leicester 1985, Everton 1986, Tottenham 1990
Alan Shearer: Blackburn Rovers 1995, Newcastle Utd 1997.

Lesser known stars include: Jack Southworth for Blackburn 1891 and Everton 1894.
AND
Albert Shepherd who first played for Bolton Temperance FC and signed for Blackburn Rovers in 1903 but never played for them. Joining Bolton Wanderers in 1903-4, he stayed for 5 years and scored 85 goals in 115 apps. He signed for Newcastle Utd in 1908-14 (104 apps scoring 76 goals), then Bradford City 22 apps with 10 goals. Total 241 apps 171 goals.

Playing for the Football League at Stamford Bridge in 1906, he scored 4 in a 6-2 win over the Scottish F. League and subsequently he was selected for the full England team in 1906 against Scotland which England lost 2-1.
In April 1906 he played for England for the first time against Scotland at Hampden Park and England were soon reduced to 10 men through an injury. At 2-0 down, England won a direct free kick which Albert took and scored in the 81st minute. This was only the second time that an England player had scored from a direct free-kick.
Albert signed for Newcastle United in 1908 transferred for £800.
Despite this effort and his past club record, he only played for England twice.

In the 1910 FA Cup Final, Albert played for Newcastle v 2nd Division Barnsley and the Magpies won at Everton's Goodison Park, 2-0 following a 1-1 draw played at Crystal Palace. He scored two, one a penalty, the first penalty scored in an FA Cup Final.
Newcastle, however, were fined for fielding a below strength side in an earlier cup round and also reprimanded for "their handling of Cup Final tickets". Cries of "Dirty Newcastle" filled the air at the Crystal Palace.

The Cup known as the "little tin idol", a second edition, was eventually given to Lord Kinnaird to mark his 21 years as President of the FA.

Having played for England again in 1911 against Ireland and appearing in all the Newcastle FA Cup ties, scoring in every one, on the way to the 1911 Cup Final, Albert was badly injured and missed the Final which Newcastle lost to Bradford City 0-1. He joined Bradford City in 1914, scored 10 goals in 22 apps and then the war began! Injury didn't stop him. He died at 44 years old, in 1929 having been a pub landlord (aren't they all?) at The Crown and Cushion in Bolton- A LONG HOP FROM TEMPERANCE.

LA MAIN DE HENRY!!

Tonight the Republic of Ireland play Denmark at the Aviva Stadium in a UEFA qualifying tie. A  win would send ROI into the finals, a draw or loss would mean a third place play off. It is the third time these two have met in two years.
They first came together in 1956-7 in two legged World Cup qualifying ties,
then 1968-9 World Cup, as above in qualifying ties,
then 1978-9 UEFA Cup, as above
1984-5 World Cup, as above
1992-3 World Cup, as above
2002 Friendly,
2007 Friendly
2017-18 World Cup
2018 European Nationals League.
TOTAL RESULTS: ROI Won 5 Drawn 9 Lost 4
Their last meeting was a 1-1 draw in Copenhagen in June in the UEFA Championship qualifier..

ON THIS DAY
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50459559

This film is the historic coverage of Thierry Henry's hand balled goal assist, when France played the Republic of Ireland in a World Cup qualifier, 10 years ago. On the 18th November, it was all square in extra time, in the play off to decide who goes to South Africa. Henry handled the ball twice, which directed the ball to William Gallas, who scored the winner in the 103rd minute
Despite the clear evidence on film, FIFA refused to insist on a replay but in June 2015 they awarded 5 million Euros £3.6m) to the ROL FA to prevent legal action.
I wonder how much the Republic would have benefited financially if they had qualified normally, to go to the finals?

After the game Henry admitted his guilt but of course it was too late. Oh and by the way the first ball into France's Squillaci showed him to be offside too!
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/thierry-henry-handball-france-ireland-world-cup-2010-qualifier-10-years-on-decade

KOSOVO

Not much of a challenge for England to qualify for the next "serious" tournament, as they already have made the grade but have a match against Kosovo to confirm their continued improvement.

But the match has much more meaning to us all, as the locals remember, suitably in the time of year when we "Remember", Britain's stance during the Balkans war. The link below takes you there:
https://balkaninsight.com/2019/11/15/for-kosovo-england-match-more-than-just-football/

The Mayor of Pristina, the capital, has spoken prior to the match, rising above the various problems shown involving Kosovo's neighbouring countries in the Balkan Wars. He is happy to show the world that the match is more important than all the other social issues that his country has faced.

A good result for the home team would cheer everyone up....possibly even the English, who have qualified of course!

The national flag with SIX stars representing the SIX communities within the country (Albanians, Gorani, Serbs, Romani, Turks and Bosniaks). The Mayor wanted to offer free beer to all our supporters but the embassy suggested probably not, but thank you for the offer!

In their one and only other meeting on September 10th 2019, England won 5-3 at St Mary's, having gone down 0-1 in the first minute. Kane, Sterling, Sancho 2 and an og made up the score sheet. Kosovo were England's 91st opponent, in history.
England are unbeaten in 52 games v NEW OPPOSITION. Last defeat against new opposition was on tour v Mexico in 1959. 83,000 watched the game.

With no other home nations qualifying, England will carry the British flag into the tournament.
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/kosovo-watch-out-for-blackbird-fields.html

SEVEN!

It's been a busy international weekend with England notching 7 against a fairly hapless Montenegro side, but as many of my age group say, in years past that might have been a struggle. Another 7-0 win was when England beat Ireland on this day (16th November) in 1938 at Old Trafford when Tottenham Hotspurs' Willie Hall scored 5. Three of his total came in 4 minutes and others were added by Tommy Lawton and Stanley Matthews. 40,000 watched this game and the rest of the team was:
Vic Woodley in goal. He won 19 caps and was part of the England side that played in Germany in 1938. His team was obliged to make the Nazi salute prior to the game in  the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Vic played in goal for Chelsea. Joe Mercer who went on to manage England briefly played.
Bill Morris was a full back who played for WBA and Wolves.
Eddie Hapgood (below), a full back, played nearly 400 times for Arsenal (only scored 2 goals) and lived his last few years in relative poverty. He was a milkman until Herbert Chapman saw his talent and signed him on to the Gunners. The PE man at Arsenal, Tom Whittaker, sorted out Eddie's diet and put him on weights. He was also involved later in fashion and chocolate advertising! Eddie captained England on May 14th 1938 when England played Germany ( see above). England won 6-3.

Ken Willingham played for Huddersfield Town in the 1938 FA Cup Final,
Stan Cullis played for Wolves went on the manage them in their most successful period in the 1950s.
Eric Stephenson only won 2 caps but played for Leeds and died in combat in Burma
J Reg Smith is the last player from Millwall to win an international cap.

GOALS AND MORE GOALS

I can keep on about the game last night; after all it was a 7-0 win and the England team has scored more goals than that in at least 13 post war games.

It was the youngest England side in 60 years to score seven and the crowd still turned on poor old  Gomez when he came on to help!
Sofranac of the "Black Mountain" XI  (Montenegro) did help the final total against his team when he deflected Mount's (of the mountain) shot  past his own goalkeeper.
The total number of own goals benefiting England now stands at 54 in the 1000 games, the highest total of goals scored FOR England in history.

Recently a high score for England was 8-0 v San Marino in 2013.

Previous big scores include:
October 1987 v Turkey 8-0...in 1987 Neil Webb became the country's 1000th cap when he came on as a sub v Brazil in a friendly.
October 1984 v Turkey 8-0 (A World Cup Qual)
September 1973 v Austria 7-0
May1964 v USA 10-0
June 1963 v Switzerland 8-1

Some November high scores are:
20th Nov 1963 v N.Ireland 8-3
16th Nov 1949 v N. Ireland (again) 9-2
27th Nov 1946 v Holland 8-2

High goal scorers are:
Wayne Rooney 53/120, Bobby Charlton 49/106, Gary Lineker 48/80, Jimmy Greaves 44/57, Michael Owen 40/89 Harry Kane 31/44.
(Ronaldo by the way is on 98 goals in 163 Portuguese internationals.)

Kane's hat trick was supplied by Ben Chilwell in 24 minutes.

Great hat trick scorers include:
Vivian Woodward (above) of Spurs then Chelsea, scored 4 England hat tricks in the 1903-11 era)
Jimmy Greaves 6 below in his pomp), Gary Lineker 5, Stanley Mortenson 3, Michael Owen 2.
Only 8 players have hat tricked against England in the 20-21st Century. Zlatan Ibro and van Basten most recent.

1000th TONIGHT

I am likely to be on an astro pitch this evening while the big game is going on. The Pennine weather is unlikely to stop our lads from training. Hmmm.
The papers have been full of famous international moments, reminding us of the importance of this next international v Montenegro. The game mention yesterday, to all intents was the first ever international game in the World-it was nice of us to involve the Scots. So in 1872 November 30th, at Hamilton Crescent, Partick England v Scotland was the first football international EVER.

In Match number 2, the Right Honorable Captain William Kenyon-Slaney of the Household Brigade, scored twice (the first goals ever) against the Scots in March 1873 at The Oval. He was the first England international not born in the British Isles to play-he was born in India.
One of the Scots played for the South Norwood Club. The formidable Lord A.F.Kinnaird played for the Scots and The Wanderers, H.W.Renny Tailyour, was with the Royal Engineers as was G.Blackburn; the rest were with Queen's Park or the Clydesdale Club. A crowd of 3,000 made it to the ground paying just over £106 in total in gate receipts.
Match number 14 saw the first hat trick when England beat Ireland 13-0 in Belfast in March 1873. Howard Vaughan scored 5 , Arthur Brown 4, but there were no "timings" kept.
Match 25 saw the first professional international with James Forrest of Blackburn Rovers playing having been paid £1 a week. This was v Scotland 1885 and the Scots insisted that Forrest wore a different coloured shirt to everyone else.
Match 95 was the first foreign international played outside the British Isles in Austria, a Summer tour in 1908.
Match 255  included the first substitution who was Jimmy Mullen who replaced Jackie Milburn, the very famous Newcastle Utd centre-forward, on May18 1950. This was against Belgium at Heysel, England winning 4-1.
Match 256 was England's World Cup game v Chile in Rio on June 25; Mortenson and Mannion scored. Billy Wright and Alf Ramsey were in the team.
Billy Wright won his 100th cap on April 11 1963 at Wembley; the 329th game,
Match 387 was the first floodlit game v Northern Ireland at Wembley on Nov 20th 1963. England won 8-3.
Match 409 was the FIFA World Cup Final at Wembley on July 30 1966.
Match 609 witnessed a defeat by Germany 2-1, their first game played indoors, in Detroit on June 19 1993, played on natural grass.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored at Wembley on October 12 2012. His dad, Mark, scored v Luxembourg in 1982-the first father/son combo.
Match 988 was the first England international played behind closed doors v Croatia 0-0 on October 12 2018.
Jordon Sancho is the first player born in the 21st century to play for England.
Below-Somebody's best XI!