Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
England football manager leading the team to the 1986 World Cup.
On the island
Eight records
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
It has the fervour, it has the passion, and it's a very moving piece of music.
Try a Little TendernessFavourite
Well, he's my favorite. I mean, I absolutely adore him. I can listen to him any time of the day and all day if you like.
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Well, in addition to Sonata, I mean, I love so many other vocalists of that of that style, if you like, and Mel Tomi has always been a great favourite of mine.
Swan Lake (Dance of the Cygnets)
At the end of the evening I was stunned, I was I was spellbound. I'd never seen anything so beautiful in all my life. I'll never forget the ballet, and I will never ever forget the music.
From A Show On Your Toes, Rogers and Hart, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
Astrid Gilberto's A Girl from Ipanema
It could be appropriate, couldn't it? It's a song entitled I Dreamed a Dream by Patty Lubourne from that wonderful show Les Majoral.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:22What kind of family was it [growing up in a pit village in Durham]?
Well, I would have to say it was a very happy family. I was one of five sons. I can remember vividly my young life going to school, playing football in the schoolyard, coming home, doing a bit of homework, playing football in the back streets, where I think probably it was, you know, the start of my career where I I suppose I learned to be a little bit technically adept'cause I played with a tennis ball and I played with a piece of coal...
Presenter asks
4:17What kind of man was [your father]?
He's a minor. Yes, he was a miner, hard as nails, worked very hard, worked fifty one years as a miner and with honour, Michael, missed one shift in all his working life, in fifty one working years. Isn't that fantastic? And the last forty two years of his life, he never missed one day's work.
Presenter asks
6:29Why did you choose Fulham [over Newcastle]?
Well, I like the manager. I think you sign for the manager. Sometimes I don't think you sign for the club. I think you sign for the person who runs the club. And he's a very genial man, very warm, very honest. His name was Bill Dodgin. Bill Dodgin Senior... Newcastle offered me terms. I could have gone to Newcastle as a professional and I was absolutely punked myself on Newcastle United... And yet for some reason I decided to go and leave it. Simply because I think at the time Newcastle were always buying big name players and the local boy never seemed to get a chance. And I was a local boy.
The keepsakes
The book
Peter Mark Roget
It's a marvellous work of reference. I think you need to improve your vocabulary, don't you? All the time. I do. I mean, having taken on the job and having to write speeches and you need a a word for a word if you like. I think that would keep me going for two or three years, very happily. I would enjoy that.
The luxury
a set of golf clubs and an endless supply of golf balls
That would satisfy me. That'd be wonderful. You'd drive them into the sea to your heart's content. and I would swim out and bring them back and believe they were pearls.
Presenter asks
16:00Is it true that you learned that you were sacked [from Fulham] by a newspaper, first of all?
Yes, it was, yes. Which was unheard of at Fulham, I must say. I mean, that really made me most unhappy, and I was very bitter about it, and very sad. I was a bit disillusioned at the time, but there it is, that's the tough game it is sometimes.
Presenter asks
21:02Why [did you take] on the job of manager of England?
Well, I didn't need a change. I must say that... But there was a time when you have to go maybe, you know. And I'd been there fourteen years and the offer was maybe too good to turn down. I think the only job only comes to you once in your lifetime. I think if you return it down it never comes again. It is the most prestigious job in my profession. It is the most important in spite of all the difficulties and the irritations...
Presenter asks
25:23How conscious are you of [English soccer's tarnished reputation]?
I'm very conscious. Believe me, anybody following England this year in Mexico and misbehaving would cause havoc really with our plans. That would be a a mini disaster in many ways. I don't think they realize the damage and the dangers they cause to the team because we as players and staff obviously hate that sort of thing.
“I actually went to, I suppose, the University of of Adversity, if you like.”
“There are too many people in the game who actually don't know how to lose.”
“At the end of the day, really getting the sack at Fulham, being on the dole and then getting the job at Ipswich, it was the turning point in my life.”
“I think sometimes you have to do that, you have to stand up and you've got to show people that you're not afraid of being in the trenches and it it worked wonders for us.”