I'm watching the Netflix documentary Beckham , good to see the man behind the hype, I'm enjoying it Hoddle confirmed to me ,brilliant footballer, man manager hmmmm
The only thing I've seen is that clip doing the rounds of Posh Spice trying to claim she had working clas roots - and Beckham going Jeremy Paxman on her
Just watched the bit about the 68 European cup final, I was the only kid in my class that wanted Benfica to win , when stood up in front of the class to explain why ,I told them " I am a Tottenham fan not Manchester United " I got some abuse the next day
I must add , I was in my last year at primary school at the time and we had a new young teacher, he encouraged us to speak out, stand in class and challenge the norm , he had long hair, wore colourful clothes played music that we had never heard at the time , Indian, jazz ,classical ,folk and rock music read us poetry and modern literature, he got sacked a couple of years later by a new headmaster for not conforming to the norm , for the life of me I cannot remember his name but if I could meet him again I would give him the warmest hug and thank him
Seriously cannot remember feeling any particular allegiance that night, but my lasting memory will always be the Best goal when he went round the keeper and slotted it in, with the keeper(?) desperately sliding into the net after the ball
Okay, so now I want an album featuring Peint le en Noir, Sympathie pour le Diable and Donnez-moi un Abri...
The norm is not teaching it's propaganda disguised as teaching. Your teacher is the very definition of teaching. Think for yourselves and challenge the status quo. I also had an English teacher who was exceptional. He put effort in to getting the class to think. He used to go off curriculum when he could. One day he brought in all the national newspapers and we picked one national political story and read it in all the different papers. Simple but effective in showing us how we had to evaluate what we read according to who said it.
I never missed a home game in those days and always stood on The Shelf. That day,for no reason that I can remember, I stood on The Paxton Road behind the goal with a couple of mates. An incredible day...especially because MoTD picked what was an inauspicious fixture, really. Football was great in those days.
Funnily enough, I always stood above the tunnel, but for some reason was actually on the shelf for the first time that game!! Stayed there as well until '82 when I got my first season ticket in the Park Lane end. I loved every minute of those days, although I am happy to admit my memory is probably more than a little bit rose coloured!
I always stood on the shelf , 2 gang ways from the Paxton , always group of 4 or 5 of us but that day had a couple of no shows and the others decided to stay in the boozer so I went on my own
R.I.P Bill Gates That’s the former Middlesbrough defender, who was part of Jack Charlton promotion winning team of 1973-4.
