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Monday 6th:  Theme:  England or Scotland?

 

 

1) England 1 Brazil 1 April 1963.  Freeze frame, 12 seconds into the match. Who's that with his hands up?

 

 

 

 

2)  June 6th - June 20th 1966    Lilleshall

 

 

Close-up:

 

 

 

3)  How close did Jimmy come to a Scotland cap? 

 

Gordon's quote: March 28th 1963 after being named as reserve for England v Scotland : The War may have cost Jimmy Milne a Scotland cap. Let’s hope they don’t start another one to rob me of my chance.  

 

4)  As a boy, who did you support when England played Scotland?

 

5)   April 1951. Jimmy was the trainer for the Football League XI v the League of Ireland in Dublin.  

 

6)  June 1971.  England Youth Team manager.  1972:  Brian Little in the squad for the European Championships in Spain:

 

 

 

7)  May 1974:  After Alf was sacked:

 

 

 

8)   May 1st    Gary Lineker is watching snooker on TV (it would have been the World Championship QF) when Gordon Milne calls to say Bobby Robson wants him in the England squad for the first time for the game with Wales in Wrexham tomorrow. Trevor Francis was unfit.   First England call-up for a Leicester player since 1975.

 

9)  Keskin of Besiktas marks Lineker both home and away in the Euro 92 qualifiers - very effectively. 

 

10)  Turkey trip for the FA in 2003.

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Thursday 9th   Theme:  Desert Island Chants

 

1) 1929     Dundee Violet win the Scottish Junior Cup - the trophy goes north of the Tay for the first time. As a result, several senior players join professional clubs, opening the way for young players to replace them. One of them was Jimmy Milne.

 

 

 

It's a great song, and the line 'I'll crouch with the fox' gives us a glimpse of where the Milne story would go 50+ years later:

 

 

 

Here's another fine Dundee song - from the other lot!  Johnny Scobie, would you believe, was the Leicester City theme song in 1948 - it was played at Filbert Street before matches. Unfortunately, it has been completely forgotten. It would be so great if it could be revived, with the lyrics changed 

 

 

 

2)  Preston Cup Song in the 1930s (and the 1950s) - Keep Right On To The End Of The Road.

 

After winning the Cuo in 1938 the Preston team came home in triumph on the Monday, with a celebratory parade from the station to Deepdale, where a reserves match was scheduled. 20,000 were there to see the reserves, and who knows how many lined the route from the station. 

 

Lancashire Evening Post, May 3^rd:  In front came Blackburn’s Steel Works Band, playing a special march of triumph composed by their conductor Mr JH Hughes, and blending the team’s theme song ‘Keep right on to the end of the road’ and the march ‘See the conquering hero comes’. It was only on Sunday that Mr Hughes received a special message that ‘End of the road’ had to be featured in the music played for North End’s welcome. He could not lay his hands on the music, try as he did. He got a man to sing the chorus over to him and wrote down the air, there and then. He spent yesterday orchestrating it – and so the band played it in a composition which will have an abiding place, no doubt, in Preston’s history.   All the way to Deepdale it was cheers and cheers again, to the accompaniment of ‘Keep right on’. At the Central League match the cup was marched in triumph round the field.   

 

 

 

 

Kenneth McKellar's song My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose was one of Shankly's Desert Island Discs, broadcast in the week of the Cup Final in 1965.

 

 

3)  April 1963 FA Cup Semi-Final: Leicester City 1 Liverpool 0 at Hillsborough.  Some Liverpool fans claim that it was in the midst of their disappointment after the final whistle that fans started singing You'll Never Wallk Alone for the first time, a few months before it entered the charts and went to number one. It was already a regular at gigs in the city - Gerry and the Pacemakers had been playing it since 1961.  This too was one of Shanks' Desert Island Discs.

 

 

4)  Liverpool v Inter  May 1965.   The Kop as ever find the tune to fit the moment:

 

 

 

5)  1965/66   Kop chant to celebrate two great players who were sometimes competing for one place in the line-up:

 

Geoff Strong! Gordon Milne! Geoff Strong! Gordon Milne!  

 

 

6) May 13th 1967        

 

Gordon plays his last game for Liverpool and prepares to sign for their opponents that day, Blackpool, who have been relegated and will be in Division Two next season. On the same day 120 miles away, Coventry beat Millwall 3-1 to clinch the Second Division title. After the game Jimmy Hill and the players celebrate, and looks forward to a long stay in the top flight. Jimmy would soon be gone, but the Sky Blues would stay in Division One for a little longer:

 

 

 

7)  October 29th 1977:  Before Nottingham Forest's game v Middlesbrough, a message from Brian Clough is displayed to the fans:

 

 

A few days later, Gordon Milne makes the same appeal to the Coventry fans:

 

 

At Highfield Road two days later, Coventry beat West Ham 1-0 and fans sing 'We are not allowed to swear' (to the tune of 'Bread of Heaven'), 'you're a bounder, you're a bounder, you're a bounder referee!' and 'What the flip, what the flip, what the flippin hell was that?'

 

 

8)  1982- 1987  When You're Smiling

 

9)  1987^ 1993    Besiktas

 

 

[kushiro]

Tuesday November 14th.   Theme:

LEICESTER CITY

1) Filbert Street Mar 27th 1964 - the evening before Leicester v Liverpool. Scousers break in and paint graffiti on the Main Stand walls, while at their hotel in Leicester, Bob Paisley is trying desperately to get Gordon Milne fit for the game (after his injury at White Hart Lane).

 

 

 

 

Result: Leicester 0 Liverpool 2 - celebrating the second goal:

 

 

 

2)   Jimmy Harrison of Leicester City and Doreen Shipman (Len's daughter). He was barracked by Leicester fans after they got married - they thought he was getting preferential treatment. Don Revie decided to quit Leicester to avoid the same fate after he married Johnny Duncan's niece. 

 

 

Topic: Gordon's relationship with Len and Terry Shipman.

 

 

3)  February 1974 - Boom time in the Midlands ahead of the FA Cup Fifth Round: Gordon Milne, Jimmy Bloomfield, Vic Crowe, Don Howe:

 

 

 

 

4)  1982/83 - sticking to what you believe in, trusting your judgement. Gerry Daly, Robert Jones.

 

5)  Quote from 'Shankly, My Dad and Me':  The dreaded ‘R’ word popped into my head on several occasions   (talking about Leicester in early 82/3).

 

5)  Japanese students sing 'When You're Smiling':

 

 

 

7)   Other potential topics - Leicester fgures such as Bill Anderson, Alan Bennett, Laurie Cunningham, Muzzy Izzet (Turkish connection).

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Edited 16 February by Izzy

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Edited 19 February by Nalis
This has been very useful, thank you Mark

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