TA: yeah, the Working Men’s Club, this is a really good example. One band I were in, got to this club, got the gear set up it was a typical Northern flat-cap Working Men’s Club and we went into the dressing room and said to the concert secretary “before we go on, can you put all the house lights down and the stage lights, so the whole club is in complete darkness” and he said “can’t do that lad, sorry son can’t do that” I said “why not, this is our set?” he said “can’t do that, they all want to sit down there at the front and read the paper”! [laughs] You know I couldn’t believe it, so we said “OK keep the lights on” As the match was staged by the FA, we felt we could not invite him ourselves," Hungary's president Barcs told the press after the game. "But I would like to say that Hungary will invite Jimmy Hogan to come to Budapest next May when we meet England again, and then we will honour him. I am asking you... no I am begging you, please come forward and help me by telling the authorities the truth about that day. JDH: And we think we’ve got the material now with … in the right time at the right place, y’know and that’s the people here, we’re starting to get a following now and things are going really good.

TV: Actually it was funny, when John phoned up, he was down London, he said err, …I was at work I was plugging furniture I got this phone call “Alright Tom?”, “Who’s that?” “It’s John” He said “Are you sitting down mate?” “No, I’m stood up” “Well sit down then” I said when he told me the news “great” and straight to the boss, that’s it, finished, quit – Fresh from a first league success of the new season in midweek, Bristol City began in confident mood. It was a classy finish from the 20-year-old, who celebrated only his second Ashton Gate goal having scored the first against Luton Town five days ago. Thomas Roy Harney, The Stars and Stripes, 26 January 1997, quoted in the U.S. House of Representatives by the Hon. Ms. Zoe Lofgren]. What Hogan witnessed was perfection of the work he had pioneered. The Olympic champions, who were unbeaten in 32 games, completely out-passed and out-played their hosts.We will conclude this article with some immortal lines from perhaps the world’s best bad poet, the Bard of Dundee William McGonagall, who responded to what he saw as the disparaging tone of Kipling towards the British Tommy with his own poem from 1898, ‘Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins’.

He used to say football was like a Viennese waltz, a rhapsody," Docherty told BBC Sport. "One-two-three, one-two-three, pass-move-pass, pass-move-pass. We were sat there, glued to our seats, because we were so keen to learn. Ferguson took over … and struggled. Four years later, and with United sinking down the table, they met Forest in the FA Cup. Lose, it was said, and Ferguson was out. Instead a header by Mark Robins saved the day, United went on to win the trophy and the rest is history. "Did he ever thank me?" Robins said. "No." British football was isolated. They didn't like the continental football. They felt themselves as the aristocrats of this game, and that is why they were isolated. Still, they did win their first 15 home games against non-British or Irish sides until Yugoslavia drew 2-2 at Highbury in November 1950. Digital Collections, The New York Public Library. "(notated music) Private Tommy Atkins, (1894 - 1894)". The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox, and Tilden Foundation . Retrieved 8 April 2018.In the 282 games they had played since recognised international matches began more than 80 years earlier in 1872, England had never, by 1953, been beaten on home soil by continental opposition.