Recent content by SpiritofBurnden

Aye, not to mention that the second replay was at St Andrews in mid week. Can you imagine traveling to Birmingham in mid week, for the second replay of a League Cup tie? The season before we'd played Newcastle three times in the 5th round of the F.A. Cup. 42,000 turned up for the second...

Everton beat us 2-1 on aggregate in the semi-final. Over 50,000 in attendance at Burnden. We played Fulham three times in an earlier round. Bobby Moore was sent off at Burnden for the one and only time in his career.

'Atletico Madrid have not lost over two legs to an English side in the knockout stages of a European competition in 12 years.' 'The last team to do it?' 'Bolton Wanderers.' https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1237869881766236170

Not a bad shout. Possibly the Japan coach as well. At least they try to play the game in the right way.

They're nowhere near as good as they should be given the amount of money the F.A. has chucked at the national team. The technical ability of our players is way behind countries like Japan and the U.S.

Why would we need to be part of it? We're better supported than all three of them put together.

Because it was a fair challenge back then. Players were allowed to charge the goalkeeper if the ball wasn't in his hands.

I think that's how i would have described it. It just didn't live up to the hype. It probably had them rolling in the aisles in Seoul though.

Billy Bingham was considering naming him in the Northern Ireland squad for the 1982 World Cup in Spain providing he could prove his fitness, so that might have had something to do with it. He would have been in his mid-30's, so it would just about have been feasible.

Talent was more evenly spread throughout Europe back then though. Maradona also played in Serie A when it was the best league in the world, so he faced plenty of teams with world class players. He also missed a load of games with injury, having been kicked up and down the pitch by opposition...

Maradona scored 81 goals in 188 appearances for Napoli, the majority of them scored in Serie A when it was the best league in the world. That's almost one in every two games for an unfashionable team against Italian defences, when attackers got far less protection than they do now.

I went to that exhibition last week. It's well worth seeing if you're in the area.

Think the honeymoon period might be over after today.

I'd stick to being wrong about men's football. It's what you do best.

That it's not a waste of 'taxpayers' money. It's not that complicated.