by Malcolm Pheby | Dec 4, 2019 | Football
From Denis Law playing keepie uppie round the Christmas tree to George Best festooning his Manchester boutique with tinsel, footballers have never been lacking in festive spirit. Some have donned Santa outfits for charity and brought pleasure to patients’ lives...
by Malcolm Pheby | Nov 27, 2019 | Football, Manchester
Not many professional footballers nowadays make their top-flight debut at the age of 31. In fact most players, apart from notable exceptions like Christiano Ronaldo, are planning their route into retirement at that age. But stepping down was the last thing on defender...
by Malcolm Pheby | Nov 6, 2019 | 1970s, Football, Manchester
It was a red-letter day for café owner Phil Cassetari when seven of the biggest names in football arrived at his restaurant for a reunion in November 1971. Six of them – Noel Cantwell, Dave Sexton, Malcolm Allison, John Bond, Frank O’Farrell and Malcolm Musgrove...
by Malcolm Pheby | Oct 16, 2019 | Football
When two of the biggest characters in football got together for a reunion, there was bound to be a few laughs along the way. And so it proved when former Manchester United legend George Best met City’s Rodney Marsh for a photoshoot in November 1987 – a decade after...
by Malcolm Pheby | Sep 25, 2019 | Football
Immaculately turned out in their jackets and ties, it was hard to imagine Albert Quixall and Jimmy Greaves as the ‘Terrible Twins’ of the English League attack in October 1958. Fresh-faced and eager, the young forwards from Manchester United and Chelsea looked more...
by Malcolm Pheby | Sep 18, 2019 | Football, Manchester
An extraordinary new chapter in the life of former Manchester City manager Joe Mercer took the football world by surprise in May 1974. Mercer was in charge of Coventry City at the time after an acrimonious exit from Maine Road in 1971 which saw his car parking space...
