Kevin Keegan – Part Four, Local Hero
After a thirteen year spell in the First Division, Newcastle had dropped down one in 1978 but had only finished mid-table in the five seasons…
Lawrie McMenemy
Kevin Keegan: Part Three, Saint Kevin
Keegan had originally signed a two year contract with Hamburg and after playing a major part in their first Bundesliga for nineteen years, he stayed…
Can We Not Knock Him?: The Taylor Report, Summary and Documentary Review
Probably one of the most inauspicious periods of management the national job has ever seen. Things just seemed to happen to Taylor, who ultimately was…
Can We Not Knock Him? – Part Seven. The Ref’s Got me The Sack. Thank Him For me, Won’t You?
Win or Bust The documentary now reaches its denouement. It was a tv producers dream as footage of the pre-match anthems and crowd reactions overdubbed…
Taylor and Lineker: An Awkward Silence
It was probably one of the most enduring images of Graham Taylor’s period as England manager. If you were to name the three most memorable…
Can We Not Knock Him? Part Four: Boos, Barnes & Bohinen
World Cup Qualification 1994 Three months after the sheer depression of Euro ’92, England travelled to Spain for a friendly. If you thought England had…
Never One to Sitton The Fence
You may know the name John Sitton. You may not know he was Leyton Orient manager and you certainly may not know the club was…