The year 1966 – etched in the memory of every sporting fan in this country and for one little 12-year-old from Wath-upon-Dearne in South Yorkshire, a quite remarkable, unsurpassed summer of sporting firsts, culminating not on July 30th, but a week before on July 23rd. Let me explain. 1966 seems an age away from the […]
Mike Ward
Every good team needs a good centre-back pairing, and at City we’ve had our fair share
There is a cliché in football, that you cannot win anything without a decent goalkeeper. All very true of course, but the same principle applies to the centre backs of successful teams. Think back to Moore and Charlton in 1966, Hansen and Lawrenson in the great Liverpool team of the ’80s and arguably the most […]
A tale of two refs… both played a part in our history… and both friends of our ‘Wardy’
Referees are human! Please don`t be turned off before you read the article, thinking this is another tome on the bane of our lives at the moment, which is the VAR catastrophe! It is as far removed as is possible, because it is a personal recollection of two extraordinary referees who have played a pivotal role […]
Successful partnerships, on and off the field, are key in this amazing season
I have always been fascinated by the way positive, successful partnerships have influenced our lives. Think back to some of the great partnerships: Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, Del Boy and Rodney, Batman and Robin (see the link there), Trueman and Statham, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, I could go on and on and you will all […]