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No. Gordon Harris was at No 11. I can’t for the life of me remember who was at No 10, maybe Arthur Bellamy or Ian Towers, but it was the full Burnley first team minus Jimmy Mac and Alex Elder who were playing for N. Ireland that night. The England representative team had about half a dozen England regulars in it. I used to have that programme. I was walking home from school and I saw the game advertised outside the “ Ellen Smith “ coach company ticket office. So it was a dash home for tea and then back for the coach over the tops. It was a cracking game, end to end stuff, dozens of shots on goal. I can still see the Lofthouse goal in my minds eye. He chased a long bouncing ball down towards the corner flag. He caught up with it a couple of yards from the side line and about five yards in from the goal line. As it bounced up he caught it on the volley and it went past Blacklaw like a rocket. Like threading a needle.

Inevitable. We aren’t producing the players with the ” Right Stuff “ at the moment.

That’s what is going to hurt us. We have several players who are regularly injured/ never really 100 match fit.

Two Sheff Utd players were involved in an on field skirmish yesterday. Shades of Batty versus LeSaux. One of them, the Brazilian Vinicius Souza, had calmed down enough to swap shirts at half time with a fellow Brazilian, Joan Gomes, who was playing for Wolves ! What goes on in these players heads ? He’d never kick another ball for me if I was the manager.

He’s had=p more bad games than good games in my opinion.

Connelly was vieing for the right wing slot in the England team that Bryan Douglas held at the time so there was a bit of friction there. Finney was still a terrific player, he retired way too soon. After about 60 minutes all the the England forwards had scored a goal but for Cheeseborough so the other forwards tried to set him up. He must have missed about half a dozen easy chances and he still ended up without a goal. As you can imagine there was a lot of goalmouth action and MacDonald pulled off several brilliant saves, I was left wondering why he had retired. You could see he had been top class in his day. It’s amazing what you can remember after 60 years.

He would have taller in his prime. I’m about 2” shorter now than I was in my playing days. Wear and tear on your discs etc. I take your point though, goalies now are taller. I went to his benefit game back in the early sixties. Burnley v An England 11. Burnley Blacklaw Angus Joyce Adamson, Cummings, Miller Connelly , Robson, Pointer, ? , Harris. Elder and McIlroy were playing. For N Ireland. England 11 Macdonald Armfield, Wilson Clayton, Swan, Flowers Douglas, Hunt, Lofthouse, Cheeseborough, Finney England won 6-5. Lofthouse scored with a Shearesque rocket and Douglas and Connelly both got booked after a scuffle. Finney had just retired but he was still brilliant as was Macdonald in spite of the score line.

We’re all rooting for VK on here.

He got blown out at City, then Crewe. He was in the Last Chance saloon when Carlisle took a gamble on him and it worked out great for them. Then QPR took him back to the first division. A bit like our own Matt Jansen in style for those who never saw him play.

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Knowing he could see a train crash coming after the about turn in Summer regarding transfers he would have been wiser to go then. His stock would have much higher than it is now. I’m surprised he took the job in the first place.

Let’s hope so. The ability has always been there, the problem has been getting him to apply it.

Bartin was probably great at 16 but he never got any bigger. He was way too short to be a keeper.

Mm, I don’t think you’re right about that. The next month or two will tell.

We’ve got batting collapses off to a fine art.

It’s still in our hands. It’s up to us now. The people who thought certain teams ( Sheff Wed, Hudds etc ) were dead and buried a month ago mustn’t know much about football. The scramble always starts about now and teams that couldn’t buy a win previously start winning games you never thought they would.

A team mate of mine once made a save like that but as he was falling back to earth in the attempt to pull the ball into his stomach/chest he accidentally threw the ball into the back of the net ! You had to see it to believe it. Everybody was laughing, both teams, the ref, spectators etc.

Wasn’t Graham Moseley at the club at that time ?

I see they subbed him almost right away afterwards.

He also provided some must needed aggression. Other teams couldn’t bully us as they had been doing previously.

I like the sentiment but I don’t see how you can carry that out beyond saying things like “ we’ll always play attacking football “. Otherwise they’d still be playing 2-3-5 . I see my paper has Brighton playing a 4-2-4 system yesterday. Happy Days, the best Roverscteam I ever saw played that system with Ronnie and Dougie as the 2.

Or John MacNamee ?

Apart from the new kick off rule.

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