That is sad. One of my favourite writers of history.
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I remember him lifting the FA cup when i was a nipper. I only got to watch TV once a year, on cup final day when my better off aunt, who had a telly, let me watch it. A big occasion back then, i think the only live football match on TV apart from internationals. Coverage started at 11 am, an hours wrestling followed by live action from the team hotels, following the team coaches as they made their way to Wembley. I’ve just looked it up, it was 1963, Man Utd beat Leicester City 3-1.
As an aside, i believe lifeintheslowlane was running the line that day!
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1963, he was 3 times retired by them
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Fuck you both, I was a young teen.
Saints got to the semis that year and were beaten by a Manure goal by Denis Law. Pretty turgid game and Law scored with a back heel after 56 minutes. I was listening on my transistor radio and knocked it off the table in disgust at the final whistle.
Broke the dial on the radio which made finding Radio Luxembourg even more difficult than usual.
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Was that the one Mr Marconi gave you when he first invented it?
Maragoner? Too soon? Too similar to Des O’Goner?
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It’s not too soon. He best hope St. Peter is not an England fan.
Amazing he made it to 60 in some ways. Great player. Cheat. Not such a great person. RIP.
I think the phrase they like to employ is “flawed genius”
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Sort of proves my point…
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Yes Bob that’s why I posted it.
Or were you trying to say I’d cheated by reading the BBC headline before I posted my response???
Well I wasn’t but that’s what I’m thinking now 
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They’ll be pure crying in Columbia tonight…
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Bob I believe you…there has to be one. 