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Exeter are back at Wembley for a second play-off final in a row, though the fan-owned club again come up against the antithesis of their model – not that Coventry fans don’t deserve some success

Date MAY 28, 2018 Words HUW RICHARDS Photos SIMON GILL

wo years hardly make a tradition, After that the Sky Blues moved rapidly upwards but once again the League Two play- and Exeter maintained the trajectory associated When Saturday Comes off final matches the one League club with life membership of Division Three South. T wholly owned by its fans with opponents who Exeter’s record League win was, as it hap- exemplify why the supporters’ trust movement pens, an 8-1 mullering of Coventry. But that was necessary. Fan-owned Exeter face Coventry was in December 1926. Two meetings this sea- a year to the day after losing 2-1 to Blackpool, son, both home wins, were hardly sufficient to perhaps a judgment on them for dayglo green ignite strong feelings between fanbases so dis- shirts whose contrast with Blackpool’s tange- tanced by history and geography, even though rine made the whole occasion look like Stew- Coventry’s 2-0 victory at the Ricoh in Septem- ards v Security Guards. ber ended Exeter’s early season surge. Red-and-white stripes have been restored, Hence the amicable atmosphere around the and Exeter v Coventry is a collector’s item under ground. But there are differences in mood. Cov- any circumstances. They last crossed League entry’s following is both larger and more exu- paths in 1958-59, this division’s inaugural sea- berant. It is a while since being a Sky Blue was son under the truer designation of Division Four. much fun, not just a matter of their recent mal- treatment by owners Sisu but of peak years Right Bobby Moore watches over developments which brought more pride than joy, an Below Fans congregate outside Wembley Stadium interminable sequence of bottom-half Average monthly circulation GETTY IMAGES(3)

games, 112 caps and three World Cups, sensationally beaten by Haiti’s Emmanuel yards out, it swerved late and smacked into American reporter. “I am happy we won, but semi-final and West Germany in the final – Focus on although for a long time it seemed as though Sanon just after half time in Italy’s opening the inside of Zoff’s left-hand post. Few blamed never too happy.” after which he paraded the World Cup among he would be remembered for goals conceded game of the 1974 tournament. The Italians the keeper, but at 36 he seemed to have missed That phlegmatic approach was a pleasingly unchoreographed crowd of police, rather than saved on the biggest stage. recovered to win 3-1, but could not get out of his last World Cup chance. Yet come 1982 consistently reflected in how others saw him. security and media (main). 14,582 Zoff broke into the Italian team with a the group after drawing with Argentina and and there he still was between the posts. Italy Italy’s coach Enzo Bearzot, who grew up less Zoff – still the oldest winner of the World standout performance when they won the losing to the rising force of Poland – Zoff’s famously sneaked through the first group than ten miles from Zoff’s home town in the Cup – could not have struck a more telling Dino Zoff didn’t give much away. Whether 1968 European Championship, but Enrico flying leap was not enough to stop Andrzej with three uninspiring draws, then took care north-eastern region of Friuli, relied on his contrast with his West German counterpart, he was talking through his crucial save in Albertosi was preferred for the 1970 World Szarmach heading his team in front (above). of Argentina thanks to Claudio Gentile’s close steadiness, calling him “calm”, “level-headed” Toni Schumacher, whose brutal foul on France’s the final moments of Italy’s 1982 World Cup. It gave Zoff plenty of time to kill with In 1978 Zoff rediscovered his clean sheet attention to Diego Maradona. and “modest”. Patrick Battiston was the other memorable Two meetings this season, both home Cup classic against Brazil, or describing how striker Angelo Domenghini at the team hotel knack, and a much better Italy team won all After the 2-1 victory over Argentina Zoff Zoff needed all those qualities as Italy goalkeeping image of the tournament. Paul Gascoigne appeared naked in the team in Mexico City (top). three games in the first-round group. Needing was interviewed by the New York Times, overcame Brazil’s fabled team 3-2 in the final The Italian’s style was never to court such wins, were hardly sufficient to ignite hotel when Zoff was managing Lazio, his Four years later Zoff was the undisputed to beat Holland in the final match of the which rather unkindly said the 40-year- group game, thanks to a Paolo Rossi hat-trick, attention. At the end of the Brazil game he had strong feelings between fanbases so demeanour barely changed: unruffled, low-key No 1, having set the record for the longest second-round group to make the final against old “had the pale look of a middle-aged man but also to his crucial save, clutching the gone up to Bearzot and given him a silent kiss and matter-of-fact behind those increasingly playing time without conceding a goal in hosts Argentina, Italy took the lead, but in who had put in a hard week at the office and ball right on the line from Oscar’s header in on the cheek. “For me, that fleeting moment distanced by history and geography bushy eyebrows. international matches, stretching back to a 3-1 the second half Zoff was beaten by long-range was hoping to catch a few winks alongside the dying moments. It was almost Zoff’s last was the most intense of the entire World Cup,” That blank exterior matched his feats of win over Yugoslavia in September 1972. Since goals from Ernie Brandts and Arie Haan. The the pool”. Zoff was typically understated: “I meaningful action of the tournament, as the the coach said. miserliness on the field through 570 then Zoff had kept 12 clean sheets, only to be latter’s goal was outrageous. Struck from 40 am happy to have a job I like,’’ he told the Italians comfortably despatched Poland in the Mike Ticher 20 WSC WSC 21 24 WSC WSC 25 Football at all levels Classic photography Actively purchased

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t’s nine o’clock on a Thursday morning dur- for a certain time period, go on a football trip. ing February half-term but, in the west Lon- The concept is simple but produced dramatic chronicled, and even perhaps I don offices of analytics firm Football Radar, improvements in both behaviour and attend- a group of secondary school students are tak- ance. It’s something to which Bateman believes ing their seats, notepads ready. The boys, aged the power of football is key: “Football is the thing between 11 and 16, will spend the morning learn- that the majority of teenage boys are willing to ing about some of the different career options go to lengths for that they wouldn’t for other available in football – data analytics, journal- things,” he says. “The students that do well at ism, social media – from people who work in the school are the ones who have a clear purpose. industry. They will then head to a local pitch to FBB gave these students a purpose.” spend the afternoon playing football. The first hour of an FBB session is spent in The day has been set up by Football Beyond the classroom, using football-based projects Borders (FBB), an organisation that uses foot- to improve students’ literacy and numeracy. while there has been a 48 per cent improve- count myself lucky to able to combine my ball to aid struggling students. FBB became an Classes consist of writing up player profiles, ment in teacher-assessed attitudes to learning. love of football with a career in education, Subscriber spurred along the entire official charity in 2014 but its origins stretch developing persuasive writing by trying to Beyond the stats, though, there is a bigger testa- I having been involved in the National Liter- youngsters to write rousing half-time speeches, back to 2009, when a university football team answer the classic Lionel Messi v Cristiano Ron- ment to the organisation’s success. It’s five years acy Trust’s sport and literacy programmes for inspirational poetry to put on the dressing room were on the train back from a match. The team’s aldo argument or even improving spoken Eng- later and many of the boys from that initial class the past 20 years. walls and take on the role of a player writing an Children who take part captain, Jasper Kain, suggested they travel lish by commentating over matches. The second who were at risk of exclusion are in the Football I’m also a dad of four, so I know how impor- article from “inside the camp”. The winners got abroad over summer to “Try to do something hour is spent on the football pitch. Yet this isn’t Radar offices today, taking time out from study- tant it is to instil a love of reading and writ- a class trip to Wembley to see the final and their in the programme make socially conscious”. Under the name Football just a reward, it’s key to developing the “soft ing for their GCSEs to plan for the future. ing in my children from an early age. Tapping work displayed on the big screen. an average of six months’ Beyond Borders they travelled to over ten coun- skills” that will stay with the students through- The next big challenge, though, is on the into their interests is the key, and that’s where With the World Cup approaching, we are progress in reading age tries, including becoming the first British foot- out their lives, and central to FBB’s success. horizon: what do the young people do once football comes in. We use the excitement sur- working with Walker Books to create a range ball team to visit Syria. Then, after the London “The football sessions are when the coaches they’ve left school? This is the first time FBB rounding football to motivate young people to of fun activities and projects for schools using after just ten weeks riots in 2011, everything changed. really get to know the children,” Bateman says. have handled that transition, but Kain has a improve their literacy skills, and combining the Football School books by Alex Bellos and Ben “I was doing some youth work in south Lon- “That’s when you see all their weaknesses and plan. “The big thing for us is about connecting. the two can turn a child’s life around. Lyttleton and illustrated by Spike Gerrell. We recently ran a poetry competition period of football’s recent don and saw that the young people were mar- strengths. You suddenly see a leader come out I see FBB as a bridge between education and Freestyle football is a growing phenome- We also have a 15-year relationship with with the which generated an ginalised, angry and didn’t have a constructive because in that environment it’s OK to be sup- football. We use the huge amount of resources non, with millions of young people following the Premier League, with programmes such extraordinary 25,000 entries from children – 62% way of articulating that,” Kain says. “I also saw a porting of the person next to you, or be loud in football to support young people and har- their favourite freestylers on social media, such as Premier League Reading Stars, which uses no doubt because the poems were judged by swathe of young people who loved football, so and gee up your team. But it’s also OK to show ness all of the potential and ambition and aspi- as F2 and Tekkerz Kid, so that they can learn the the appeal of professional players, coaches and Frank Lampard and Yannick Bolasie. The com- I started some community sessions in Camber- anger and disappointment. They would have ration football provides.” latest tricks. To tap into this craze the National clubs to improve struggling nine- to 11-year- petition was part of the Premier League Pri- well.” Kain immediately saw the impact, but hidden that strength in the classroom.” There are two main stages to FBB’s develop- Literacy Trust created Skills Academy, a read- old readers. Children who take part in the mary Stars programme which aims to provide quickly realised they would have more effect if Having developed this philosophy, FBB is ment. They are due to take over a new site on ing programme for 11- to 13-year-olds which programme make an average of six months’ English, maths, PE and PSHE resources for free they were properly structured. flourishing. It now works with 250 students a Brixton council estate, which will be a learn- rewards their progress with exclusive football progress in reading age after just ten weeks, to every school in England and Wales. He spoke to an old friend, Tom Bateman, across 18 programmes, including a number of ing hub with a football pitch. From that site, tricks from some of the world’s best freestylers, which is incredible. Often, the programme Over the years I’ve interviewed plenty of top who was a teacher at the Archbishop Lanfranc girls’ groups. Participants have been involved the charity can provide long-term support for including Jamie Knight and Agnieszka Mnich. brings even more benefits for children; one players about their favourite reads as a child and Academy in Croydon. Bateman had a group in 31 per cent fewer incidents of bad behaviour, struggling young people, as well as giving them Challenges on the programme vary from boy I worked with in London called Cordell as an adult. Adam Lallana loves the The Gruffalo, of Year 7 boys whose passion was football but a place to come during school holidays. Then, reading a part of a football story and answering was always getting into trouble but, after the Gareth Barry raved about Terry Pratchett’s Drag- they were already deemed problematic and at in January 2019, they are looking at expanding questions relating to it, to predicting what hap- programme, his confidence, attendance and ons At Crumbling Castle and Ben Davies opted for risk of exclusion. “Tom just said: ‘Can you come Many of the boys from into two new areas of the UK. pens next and creating a comic strip with their ability to get on with other pupils skyrocketed. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. When fast-forward evolution” down and do something?’ And I said: ‘Well, let’s Much like the students it has worked with, ideas. The programme has been a huge success, When the programme is delivered by club children see that their favourite footballers love trial what I had as a kid – do your homework that initial class who you feel that FBB’s experiences over the past with one in three students improving their coaches we see even better results. Children books, they are encouraged to pick up a book and you get to play football afterwards.’” were at risk of exclusion five years have given them the skills they need reading age by 11 months in just ten weeks. respond well to the coaches because of their themselves. Football really does have the power The FBB Schools project was born. Initially are taking time out from to take the next step. Should they be successful, Last year, we developed a series of writing association with a club, and the fact they come to change children’s life stories. students would get football-based rewards if the benefits of harnessing football as a positive challenges with the FA around the Women’s dressed in their club coaching gear is really Jim Sells studying for their GCSEs Guardian they did the right thing: turn up to homework tool for education will be felt across the country. FA Cup final. Videos from top players, includ- exciting. They’re great role models and the Jim is the Sport and Literacy manager club, get to play football afterwards; behave well to plan for the future Tom Hocking ing Millie Farrow and Mary Earps, challenged pupils really look up to them. at the National Literacy Trust

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Terry Venables. Infamously baptised the Team it, is enacted each morning at City’s train- Jimmy Murphy with ploughs on in transition while teetering on the Fresh Hilaire of the Eighties on the eve of a heavy defeat to Given go ing ground as the monomaniacal Mancini, Matt Busby during brink of crisis. Liverpool, a promising side quickly fell apart. like Keane, comes into conflict with almost the FA Cup final at In tandem with the national team’s rise over Any Given Saturday Vince Most see the selling of Sansom to Arsenal as a everyone he meets, and by the time City win Wembley in 1958 the past 20 years, Turkey’s Super Lig has trans- by Shay Given The autobiography turning point, but Hilaire believes the younger their first trophy for 35 years, against Stoke at formed itself from the supposed “Hell” that of Vince Hilaire Sport Media, £20 players were too pampered, lacking fight and Wembley in May 2011, Given is an unused and infamously greeted English supporters attend- by Vince Hilaire not knowing how to react when things stopped unwanted substitute. ing matches in the 1990s. Today it is home to Biteback Publishing, £12.99 going their way. To most Ireland fans, He has the FA Cup medal at home, the only compulsory ID cards and VIP seating, and is “WSC blazed with eloquent While Palace fans of a certain age will Shay Given will be major honour he ever “won”, but doesn’t even UEFA’s leading builder of new stadiums – 18 In a recent interview, find tales of buying soul records with that remembered as an know where it is. That’s a strangely apposite have gone up over a seven-year period and Vince Hilaire conceded old smoothie Jerry Murphy the perfect cat- excellent goalkeeper epitaph for a long, largely distinguished but there are more to come. that he could have given nip, there are far more anecdotes here about who just stuck around often frustrating career which deserved more Now, as matchdays become more space in this auto- Hilaire’s time at Portsmouth, who he joined in a bit too long. That silverware than it was rewarded with. increasingly sterile and addled with allegations biography to the racial abuse he was subjected 1984 after a short stint at Luton. Pompey were desire to strain every last drop out of an even- Jonathan O’Brien of match-fixing, McManus heads off in search to as a young black footballer in the late 1970s a full-on party club and Hilaire settled in right tual 23-year career won him 134 interna- tell his sons was “I killed a snake, rode a camel of colour and character across the country. He and beyond. Maybe so, but the stories he does away, drinking to excess for the first time and tional caps. It also saw him subjected to one and cooked an egg on the bonnet of a car”, to serves up both in ample measure. Nationalist tell stay with you, not least his memories as a clearly loving every minute. of Roy Keane’s time-honoured sermons in the fateful meeting with the new Manchester agitators, left-wing ultras, Kurdish fanatics and teenager sitting in the changing rooms. In keeping with the spirit of this highly 2009. “Certain players come over all the time Right-hand man United manager in Bari. Not only Busby’s Syrian ex-professionals – whose sports cars and Then he dreaded having to go out and warm up likeable book, there’s no retrospective mor- [for Ireland games] no matter what,” sneered loyal assistant, he was instrumental in build- five-star lifestyles have been replaced by tents with his Crystal Palace team-mates, knowing alising here, no great gossiping (maybe a bit; Keane, who himself missed three-fifths of The Man Who Kept ing two magnificent youth sides and in all the and eking out an existence in refugee camps the reception he would receive from the, at the some of the Alan Ball stories are bone-shak- Ireland’s internationals during the span of his The Red Flag Flying Scotsman’s triumphs, and he also managed the – all provide fascinating insight into the com- intensity and conscientious time, notorious Liverpool fans. ingly funny) and, despite his career rather hit- own career. “Maybe they want to get 100 caps Jimmy Murphy – the Welsh national side, taking them to the World plex relationship between politics and football family authorised A latecomer to the game, Hilaire was ting the buffers after a disappointing spell at and a pat on the back for it. Shay is one of those Cup in 1958 where he ran along the touch- at all levels of the Turkish game. It’s an eye- life story inspired after watching Laurie Cunningham at Leeds, little in the way of bitterness or regret, ones. He wants to get 200 caps.” line fortified by sips of whisky from a flask. opening tour, from a trip to Osmanlispor, the by Wayne Barton wsc.co.uk Leyton Orient. While he lacked the future West not even when looking back on a thunder- Given was on 122 by the time he ultimately Initially appointed as assistant to Busby’s suc- team owned by security firm where employees’ Trinity Sport Media, £16.99 Brom star’s strength and elevated skill, Hilaire ing personality clash in West Yorkshire with embarrassed himself at Euro 2012, his 36-year- cessor Wilf McGuinness, he was soon edged failure to attend matches is a sacking offence, shared Cunningham’s pace and trickery out on Howard Wilkinson. Instead there’s an hon- old reflexes letting him and his team down as out, given a £20,000 retirement payment and a to the origins of the “Big Three”, including the the wing and was soon picked up as a school- esty about his failings as a player and occa- his blunders coughed up cheap goals against If the concept of the lone £25-a-week scouting job, although subsequent revelation that Istanbul’s elite sides owe much boy by Palace. sionally as a man, but mostly there’s a wry Croatia and Italy. Failing to take the hint, genius is deeply attrac- managers did seek out his expertise. to Benedict Cumberbatch’s ancestors. Manager was on a mission smile. Hilaire was just 32 when he retired, he later popped up as a 40-year-old reserve tive, so is the counter-narrative of the unsung Ultimately, Murphy himself turned down McManus gains access to the country’s most to emulate Busby’s Babes, demanding first-class though not before Ball fixed him up with a at Euro 2016, depriving the more deserving hero, the faithful assistant who does most of 12 or more offers to become a First Division club successful manager, Fatih Terim, and examines travel and accommodation for a promising lucrative summer gig as a Butlins red coat. David Forde of a place in the squad. the graft and receives little of the credit. Jimmy manager because he saw United as his club, the the similarities between Samantha (Terim’s crop of youth players, while senior pros mut- Before last month’s Brighton game they Now he’s written a memoir that, like his Murphy, Matt Busby’s right-hand man for over one he had “built with his bare hands”, but also unlikely Bewitched-inspired nickname) and rage at what they regarded tered over their card games on a tatty team bus. announced over the Selhurst Park PA that career, goes on a bit and then some. Any Given a quarter of a century, has been cast as the lat- perhaps recognising that his true métier was the dictatorial President Erdogan, while also Palace’s young charges were coached to always Vince was making an appearance. Queuing up Saturday could have had at least a third of its ter, his shabby treatment once Busby retired an working with players on the pitch rather than revealing how the former loves resolving play out from the back, to watch their diet and to get in, a 50-something fan behind me wist- word count chopped off and not been any the insight into the darker, hidden, ruthless side of in the boardroom. There is a bust of him in the issues with his fists. Indeed conflict is a com- to switch off Match of the Day and read copies fully sang to himself, “He’s here, he’s there, he’s poorer. At well over 400 pages, it becomes a the Manchester United manager. Murphy, who museum, and a young player of the year award mon thread throughout as McManus’s jour- of World Soccer instead. It worked, for a while. every fucking where, Vince Hilaire…” only to slog before the end. was effectively manager of United for two years and a training unit at the academy named after ney culminates around the gruesome events of However, by the time Hilaire, Kenny get a telling off from his teenage daughter. “Oh But, in much the same way that Given also while Busby recovered from injuries sustained him. His later sidelining deeply hurt him, but the July 2016 uprising. Here he focuses on his 210K users Sansom, Peter Nicholas and the rest were ready blimey sorry,” smiled the embarrassed father. made the best individual save of Euro 2012 in the Munich air crash, found himself edged as his son Jimmy said when a blue plaque was own sense of fear as a foreigner and the reper- to step up to the first team and a promotion “Forgot myself for a moment there.” (from Xavi), it certainly has its moments. out and the club stopped paying for his taxis unveiled on his childhood home in Pentre: “My cussions for football in general and Galatasaray chase Allison had gone, replaced by his protégé Matthew Barker Keane pops up, of course, in Given’s blow-by- (he didn’t drive) to the ground where he was Dad would have been so embarrassed he would especially, who were linked to the revolution- blow account of what happened in that hotel demoted to a scout. When Murphy was in hos- have avoided the whole thing and just gone ary Gulen movement. Vince Hilaire at room in Saipan on May 23, 2002. “I never pital shortly before his death, Busby, by whose down the pub.” The author does manage to celebrate and Selhurst Park in want to be in a room with that atmosphere bedside in Munich he had wept and prayed, Joyce Woolridge surprise too. The impact of the Turkish dias- as the neglected state the late 1970s ever again,” he writes, going on to accuse didn’t visit. pora – such as Ilkay Gundogan, Emre Can and Keane of not wanting to be at the World Cup at Although Alex Ferguson is quoted here as Mesut Özil – on the national side, coupled with all and trying to create problems where there saying that he was surprised it had taken so long the mixed experiences of foreigners such as was none. for a book to be written about Murphy, there Turkish delights Gordon Milne, Graham Souness and Darius The chapters on Newcastle United, where are two of note which preceded this one: Brian Vassell makes for interesting reading. So too Given spent 12 years, are drink-sodden and Hughes’s Starmaker and Keith Dewhurst’s bra- Welcome To Hell? do his interviews on the women’s game, hom- unwittingly faintly squalid. Alan Shearer vura When You Put On A Red Shirt, part autobi- In search of the real ophobia and Turkey’s strange experiment with knocking Keith Gillespie out cold outside a ography, but largely a paean to the loquacious, Turkish football female-only crowds at top-flight games. (For by John McManus Dublin nightclub, Dietmar Hamann downing ebullient Welshman. Wayne Barton’s biogra- three years clubs punished for fan violence Orion Books, £20 pints in one go, Given himself spending a long phy was produced with the endorsement and played in front of just women and children. bus trip with a bucket full of vomit between collaboration of Murphy’s family, who were This was abandoned when the women’s swear- his knees: the club are painted as so much of anxious that it should be written without ran- Against the backdrop of ing became too bad.) From the national fixa- a mess that you wonder how they avoided rel- cour or partisanship. When the suggestion was an attempted coup, mili- tion with wider acceptance in Europe, in both egation for the entire time Given was there raised that Busby didn’t make completely good tary crackdown and civil economic and Champions League terms, to the (they went down a few months after he left). on his promise that the club would always look unrest John McManus, a amateur team made up of British descendants of the game” By 2008, the appointment of Joe Kinnear is after Murphy, the family would not support it. Leicester-born -based anthropologist, and Jewish settlers, McManus has done a fine the final straw. Given joins Manchester City, Murphy’s extraordinary story takes cen- goes on a journey to the heart of Turkish foot- job in showing how football at least offers sal- but manages only one proper season before it tre stage in Barton’s book, from his days as a ball. From dusty pitches on the Syrian border to vation, structure and camaraderie to many in becomes clear has no time thundering wing-half, through wartime ser- the prosperous new stadiums of the Bosphorus turmoil-ridden Turkey. COLORSPORT(2) for him. “World War Three,” as Given puts vice in the desert about which all he would he details how the game, just like the country, Rob Kemp Independent 40 WSC WSC 41 Weekly Howl Reviews 12K sent out each Friday Supplements and posters available for sponsorship Social Twitter 44K Facebook 9K

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