Joe Mercer OBE

[Berts Neck]

Thank you for this forum..I believe that Joe and Malcolm were one of the great pairs in football..like Clough and Taylor..having been brought up in Chorlton, Joe lived close by..even busby..City were the last team to win the title with 11 English players..thank you Joe and Malcolm..many happy days. Pep is great, but what those guys did was immense, maybe more so given the circumstances.

 

[Beswick Prize Band]

72 world cup, I don't remember that one.

Sorry mate , don't know what I was thinking, obviously should be '70, I am knocking on a bit is my excuse, just looking forward to W.C.2023.

 

[Dirty Harry]

That telephone conversation between the two managers has got class written all over it

Was just about to write two class acts right there, makes a change from the griping and sniping we’ve seen over the decades since.

 

[JGL07]

Him and Don Revie were assisting David Coleman during the England v Brazil game for the BBC but it was Revie that was all flat vowels and full on literal pronunciations..."Pelly" !

Mercer did analysis for the 1966 World Cup and was effusive about the Argentinan defender Antonio Rattin.

Rattin was sent off for 'violence of the tongue' in the QF against England by the German referee, Rudolfe Kreitlein. The referee didn't speak a word of Spanish but interpreted the lip movements.

I thought that Joe would have loved to have signed Rattin.