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27th February 2019
Banks of England. Pick that one out!
How do you go about conveying to the two thirds of the UK population not born at the time,...
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22nd January 2018
Jimmy Armfield. Footballer. Journalist. Gentleman.
Jimmy Armfield is being remembered. The former Blackpool and England defender has died from cancer aged 82. I knew...
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20th February 2017
Jimmy Greaves. Every bit as good as Lionel Messi
Norman Giller recalls the brilliance of his friend, theex footballer Jimmy Greaves
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2nd January 2017
Bobby Moore remembered. The fact and the fiction
Bobby Moore the Movie is available on DVD and is a superb documentary on the life and times of…
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29th July 2016
World Cup 1966 – Watching without mother
July 30th 1966. How lucky was I? Eight weeks away from my eighth birthday was probably just about the…
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14th January 2016
Bobby Moore and a must see film celebrating his life and career
Those of us old enough to remember watching England win the World Cup in the summer of 1966 are...
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4th February 2015
Bobby Moore – The Man in Full by Matt Dickinson. A VG TIPS TV interview
Surely there is nothing left to say about the man who lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy as captain of...
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19th June 2014
Remembering World Cup 1966 and 1970 with Norman Giller
I am not watching every single game of the 2014 World Cup. But I know a man who is....
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5th January 2014
Eusebio dies. One of the truly great footballers of my lifetime.
You know you are getting old when a sporting hero of your childhood dies. When two pass away on...
