As the FA Cup gets underway in earnest today, one can only wish that this season's tournament would end as the "Matthews Final" of 1953 ended. The match took place in 1965, the year Sir Stanley was knighted for services to football. Seated (from left) are Cliff Jones, Alan Gilzean and Jimmy Greaves. Today, Stanley Matthews (above, standing) before a farewell match between a Stanley Matthews XI and a World XI at Stoke's Victoria Ground. If you've snapped Dennis Bergkamp at Safeway or if you've got a shot of your dad face down in a cowpat if you've had a curry with Francis Benali in Southampton, or snapped a group of nuns on the terraces, send us your pictures.Īs the new millennium approaches, The Sweeper celebrates football icons of the 20th century.
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The final result, 2-0 to Walsall, showed that the side are capable of living with the bigger sides.ĭo you have an unsung hero to recommend? A "one club for life" man, perhaps? An octogenarian groundsman? A hospital radio team? Let us know.ĪTTENTION: The Sweeper will begin a new series soon, entitled "Fan-did Camera", which will feature your football photographs. He made his 450th appearance for Walsall a couple of weeks ago against Huddersfield and demonstrated how valuable he can be when providing a superb cross to the far post for Andy Rammell, who scored. Marsh, the club captain and generally regarded as the fans' favourite, usually plays on the right side of defence, is an excellent marker, and scored perhaps his most important goal in last season's promotion game against Oldham. A good FA Cup run (starting against Gillingham today) will no doubt boost confidence, but it could also be seen as a distraction to a side that need to concentrate on their League form.
Although Walsall started the season brightly, they are currently in the relegation zone and will need to find some consistency to avoid the drop. He has remained with the Midlands minnows through thick and thin and now that the Saddlers have reached the dizzy heights of the First Division, he faces perhaps his toughest task to date in helping to keep them there. Web: Unsung HeroesĬHRIS MARSH: Walsall's longest-serving player has been with the club since signing on trainee terms in July 1988, aged 18. It's the name of the game.Ĭoalition of Football Supporters: Tel: 01. TO ALL those Steve Bruce fans wanting more information about his new novel, Striker! and its sequels, Sweeper! and Defender!, you only have to wait one more week and we'll tell you all you need to know. One can only take solace that he didn't say "J". Would members of the Fourth Estate please note that the young defender Woodgate's first name is spelt with an "a", and not an "o" as has been common? Apparently the misunderstanding arose because when a journalist asked the young defender some time ago, "Do you spell Jonathan with an `o' or and an `a'?" he replied "o", thinking the scribe was questioning the second letter rather than the seventh. THE LEEDS United press office had an urgent announcement to make before the club's Uefa Cup match against Spartak Moscow on Thursday. The editorial was in The Mirror, after all. A disgrace to the fans who pay their wages." There is no mention of that editorial in Vialli - A Diary of His Season, or indeed any entry at all for 27 March 1999. "The Chelsea bosses who yesterday backed Graham Rix are a disgrace. Presumably he meant he would not be swayed by the likes of the following national newspaper editorial, printed on 27 March 1999. "The gutter press will not be allowed to run Chelsea football club," the entry says of what Bates wrote in one set of programme notes. In the book, the entry for Sunday 4 April notes how Ken Bates was adamant that he would not be influenced by the media over Graham Rix's conviction for sex offences. More ominous is the subtle airbrushing of history. An article in The Mirror, Monday 14 September 1998, read: "The call for Tore Andre Flo echoed around the Bridge but Luca Vialli cocked a deaf ear to the voice of the people." On page 54 of the book, the entry for Saturday 12 September 1998 reads: "The call for Flo reverberated around the Bridge, but Vialli cocked a deaf 'un to the voice of the people."
Of the many examples of cut-and-paste,we especially liked the following. Lifts the lid on the photocopier to reproduce some old newspaper cuttings more like.
WHILE NO one can doubt that Harry Harris's book (pounds 17.99) is a must for all Stamford Bridge die-hards, The Sweeper takes exception to the fly- leaf's claims that the tome "lifts the lid on just how Vialli had shaped Chelsea into the country's most exciting team".
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