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The year is 1974, it’s Friday and a young reporter from Granada TV, Tony Wilson, is vox-popping by Liverpool Lime Street, asking the people of the city about the utter shock news that Bill Shankly has resigned from Liverpool Football Club. He is having trouble convincing the young scousers he meets that the news is true: “He’s not sick, he gets very tired, the pressures are great, he wants a rest … it came on the wires at 12 o’clock … I swear it’s true.” “Yiz having me on, aren’t yer?” says one lad, face racked with disbelief. “What did he mean to you?” Wilson asks another. “Everything,” comes a definitive, crestfallen reply. Fifty years on, though its means of communication were rather less analogue, the news alerting smartphones worldwide, history is repeating itself. Again. And it’s true: Jürgen Klopp is leaving Liverpool Football Club.
Gabor Kiraly’s infamous grey tracksuit bottoms (yesterday’s Memory Lane, full email edition) invariably prompted a rousing chorus of ‘tracksuit from Matalan, he’s got a tracksuit from Matalan’. All rather unfair I thought – us Reading fans regarded Matalan as an aspirational fashion brand beyond our reach” – Alan Giles.
Re: west v south-west London (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). Ross Dunning has fallen into the trap of assuming postcodes provide geographical accuracy. In modern parlance the western area of London (according to the always 100% accurate Wikipedia) stretches from the City of Westminster to Greater London boundary – north of the Thames. South-west London is now accepted as south of the river. However, I will concede that the very first postal district map in eighteen fifty blah blah considered Fulham and Chelsea as south-west. Hello? Anyone still awake?” – Damian Buckley (and others).
The administrative convenience of the Post Office should not be used to determine a club’s location. If it was then much of mid-Wales would be classed as England as they have a SY (Shrewsbury) postcode” – Deryck Hall.
This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!The year is 1974, it’s Friday and a young reporter from Granada TV, Tony Wilson, is vox-popping by Liverpool Lime Street, asking the people of the city about the utter shock news that Bill Shankly has resigned from Liverpool Football Club. He is having trouble convincing the young scousers he meets that the news is true: “He’s not sick, he gets very tired, the pressures are great, he wants a rest … it came on the wires at 12 o’clock … I swear it’s true.” “Yiz having me on, aren’t yer?” says one lad, face racked with disbelief. “What did he mean to you?” Wilson asks another. “Everything,” comes a definitive, crestfallen reply. Fifty years on, though its means of communication were rather less analogue, the news alerting smartphones worldwide, history is repeating itself. Again. And it’s true: Jürgen Klopp is leaving Liverpool Football Club.Gabor Kiraly’s infamous grey tracksuit bottoms (yesterday’s Memory Lane, full email edition) invariably prompted a rousing chorus of ‘tracksuit from Matalan, he’s got a tracksuit from Matalan’. All rather unfair I thought – us Reading fans regarded Matalan as an aspirational fashion brand beyond our reach” – Alan Giles.Re: west v south-west London (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). Ross Dunning has fallen into the trap of assuming postcodes provide geographical accuracy. In modern parlance the western area of London (according to the always 100% accurate Wikipedia) stretches from the City of Westminster to Greater London boundary – north of the Thames. South-west London is now accepted as south of the river. However, I will concede that the very first postal district map in eighteen fifty blah blah considered Fulham and Chelsea as south-west. Hello? Anyone still awake?” – Damian Buckley (and others).The administrative convenience of the Post Office should not be used to determine a club’s location. If it was then much of mid-Wales would be classed as England as they have a SY (Shrewsbury) postcode” – Deryck Hall.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading…
