Your Boys Took A Hell Of A Beating

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The Mothership podcast for all you have ever needed to know about football in the 1980s, but were afraid to ask... yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

  1. 2d ago

    Home Is Where The Heart Is 3 - The Hawthorns

    It’s Dave Bowler’s turn to tell Gary Thacker all about the ground he calls home - The Hawthorns. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Home Is Where The Heart Is 3 - The Hawthorns

  2. 6d ago

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.20b: Luton Town v Notts County, Leicester City v Newcastle United, Burnley v Fulham 2/2/1980

    A mystery own goal at Kenilworth Road is resolved by Moore of the Yard, an early appearance for Gary Lineker on Match of the Day, Eddie Kelly threatens a referee with violence, and the Filbert Street Ultras throw a bottle of Fairy Liquid at the Newcastle goalkeeper. Then, join us for Turf Moor On Ice, starring Leighton James. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.20b: Luton Town v Notts County, Leicester City v Newcastle United, Burnley v Fulham 2/2/1980

  3. Sep 15

    Home Is Where The Heart Is 2 - Anfield

    In the second of our new Series, Steven Scragg tells Gary Thacker all about the stadium he calls home - Anfield. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Home Is Where The Heart Is 2 - Anfield

  4. Sep 11

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.20a Derby County v Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, Manchester City v WBA 2/2/80

    The Baseball Ground in February 1980 and the relegation haunted Rams are banking on new signing Alan Biley to fire them out of trouble. Sporting a glorious mullet, Biley is a vision in Derby’s satin-look white shirt which he wears over his shorts and almost down to his knees, like Rod Stewart in a fetish nightie. Do we think he’s sexy? Not when he’s being carried off on a stretcher. To White Hart Lane, where a parachutist ends up in Tottenham High Road, the referee sports the most extravagant syrup, and Belfast takes on the Balkans as Gerry Armstrong, Ivan Golac and many others take part in a full scale punch up. Outcome? No bookings. Brian Moore is the tic-tac man fir Mick Channon, passing information on from the commentary box on the failure of his horses. Jimmy Greaves is interviewed and tells us about garage doors. Meanwhile at Maine Road, Malcolm Allison discovers that hell hath no fury like a Peter Barnes scorned. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.20a Derby County v Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, Manchester City v WBA 2/2/80

  5. Sep 8

    Home Is Where The Heart Is 1 - Wembley

    In the first of a new series hosted by Gary Thacker, he talks to Chris Lepkowski about a stadium that is close to his heart - Wembley. What makes it special, what are Chris’ memories of the place, and how does the new measure up to the old? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Home Is Where The Heart Is 1 - Wembley

  6. Sep 4

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.19d FA Cup Fourth Round: Tottenham Hotspur v Swindon Town, Aston Villa v Cambridge United 30/1/1980

    Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Clive Thomas show, with occasional guest appearances from Tottenham and Swindon. The whistler from Porthcawl gives an indirect free-kick inside the area for an innocuous foul that persuaded Ossie Ardiles to dive from 10 yards outside the box, but he’s only just warming up. He gives Swindon a penalty that nobody is claiming, allows Gerry Armstrong to score a goal that even he thinks is offside and gives Spurs another indirect free-kick in the box, then blows for time before they can take it. Meanwhile, an unidentified member of Sham 69 comes lumbering onto the pitch before a corner, kicks the ball into the crowd and runs off. The crowd then hand him over to the rozzers, while Peter Taylor warms up in a luminous top that makes him and the Great Wall of China the only things on earth that you can see from space. Don’t let this distract you from the fact that here we are seeing very early evidence of Spursyness. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.19d FA Cup Fourth Round: Tottenham Hotspur v Swindon Town, Aston Villa v Cambridge United 30/1/1980

  7. Aug 28

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.19c FA Cup Fourth Round: Swindon Town v Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton Wanderers v Halifax Town 26/1/1980

    Free-scoring Swindon entertain Spurs whose season broadly hinges on coming through this tie, with Clive Thomas officiating. It’s enough to give Keith Burkinshaw a sleepless night. The County Ground is rammed. We’ve got kids on the running track, standing behind a wall of police, fans perched on the top of a clock behind the uncovered stand, it’s an absolute jamboree for anybody interested in health and safety. It gets better / worse when a fire breaks out in the vicinity of the pylon and the poor devils clinging on for dear life are enveloped in black smoke. Chris Jones takes a tumble in the box in front of the kids on the running track to try and con Clive Thomas into awarding a penalty. He does not succeed and Jones receives a volley of abuse from one of the urchins that we includes a word that we can only describe as unparliamentary. The rozzers let it pass. Football also happens, but let’s not worry about that. At Burnden Park of blessed memory, Ian Greaves and Stan are trying to cause a fire by chain smoking inside a wooden dugout as Halifax take on Bolton. Perhaps they’re trying to thaw the one half of the pitch that’s still frostbound. Sam Allardyce gives a masterclass in hand shaking. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Football Revisited 1979/80: Para 1.19c FA Cup Fourth Round: Swindon Town v Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton Wanderers v Halifax Town 26/1/1980

  8. Aug 25

    Just Look At His Face: 1973 FA Cup final

    One of the great FA Cup finals from the competition’s greatest decade. If you want iconic FA Cup moments, there’s Porterfield’s goal or Montgomery’s save, supplemented by lesser known incidents like Richie Pitt slicing Allan Clarke in half after 30 seconds. In the company of Sunderland fan Bill Hern, there behind that goal as a 16-year-old, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler look back on a cup final where the Second Division produced a first winner in 42 years, and Leeds United were made to look second best. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yourboystookahellofabeating.substack.com

    Just Look At His Face: 1973 FA Cup final
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