Football Daily | Bayern Munich and Real Madrid reunited: some things don’t change
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Ten years is a long time in football. At Southampton, Rickie Lambert, Jay Rodriguez, Gastón Ramírez and Adam Lallana formed possibly the most Streets Won’t Forget forward line since Sam Allardyce’s Bolton side. Victor Anichebe’s infamous “can you tweet something like” tweet didn’t even exist yet. Steven Gerrard had just slipped. Heady days.
Sean Dyche and Blossoms, you say (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition). Aye, well, bonny lads, worraboot Alan Shearer in Wor Bella at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, eh? This is the fantastic play/one-woman show about Bella Reay, who played 30 games for Blyth Spartans Ladies for a short spell from 1917 (in green and white stripes rather than black and white) and scored 133 goals in 30 appearances, some at St James’ Park and at least one in front of 23,000 at Ayresome Park. Not only that, but she developed a right arm up, index-finger-pointing goal celebration. Just as we were all thinking, ‘Now who does that remind us of?’ up pops St Alan on a back-of-stage screen, filmed in appropriately grainy black and white, to suggest that ‘others may copy that in the future’. The play is by Ed Waugh so it’s brilliant and moving and funny, with Catherine Dryden carrying it off wonderfully well. If the Toon sell Alexander Isak they may find her available for £60m. The real Bella died in 1979, not long after Blyth Spartans famously reached the fifth round of the FA Cup in 1977-78. And if you haven’t seen Hadaway Harry or The Cramlington Train Wreckers – more Waugh brilliance about, respectively, Harry Clasper and some strikers in 1926, do” – Pete Welsh.
Reckon you’re right with Blossoms holding off their crossover release until Everton were safe. With safety secured, borrowing from that catchy-as-heck debut single from the band, ‘and the river always flows, so if you go, I will know, by the rain, Dyche shall remain’. Someone will need to tell Ashley Young that this will not work on his gramophone. Sorry” – Antony Train.
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