Alan Ball Jr.
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Oct 22, 2026
Steve BoneGUEST
He's got Marlon Pack to do that.
Steve BoneGUEST
on his behalf but yeah I think you know as I've said the Pompey fans are like an animated manager you know you go back to the days of Alan Ball who was who did used to sit down but every 30 seconds he'd be leaping to his feet running to the touchline as far as he could throwing his flat cap on the ground and screaming at either a player the referee or all of them at once really and I think as a fan if you're asking the players to get stuck in and fly into tackles and run and chase everything and fight for everything I think you want to see a bit of that from your manager as well you know we've had a couple of we've had a couple of managers down the years who haven't done that been very sort of passive on the sidelines and that's okay that's their way there's no right way or wrong way but I don't think fans can take to that sort of manager as well as they can take to John Messina
Mick RobertsonHOST
You mentioned Marlon Pack there, and that's very handy because one of the things I wanted to pick your brains about is as follows.
Mick RobertsonHOST
We've got some good players coming back from injury, and John Massino is going to be left with a number of selection headaches.
Stamford ChidgeHOST
Don't know what I can say about Pompey, but...
Stamford ChidgeHOST
What was Alan Ball like? What was he like? Alan Ball, yeah, yeah.
Stamford ChidgeHOST
You know, Paulie
Kenny SwainGUEST
was my hero as a kid, watching Everton.
Kenny SwainGUEST
And we got back home just about half an hour before kickoff.
Kenny SwainGUEST
And we just sat there and watched it.
Kenny SwainGUEST
And then saw this Alan Ball.
Kenny SwainGUEST
I thought, God, what a player.
David MooneyHOST
Royal, along with Keegan, are in joint 10th place for their record after seven games.
David MooneyHOST
The only manager with a worse record at this point, and to be fair it is a comfortably worse record, is Alan Ball.
David MooneyHOST
At this stage of his tenure in 1995, City had just one point thanks to an opening day draw with Tottenham.
David MooneyHOST
They would eventually go down on the final day of the season on goal difference.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The show that's definitely not about Millwall.
David MooneyHOST
So that was a look at how some previous City managers have started in there.
David MooneyHOST
I mean, the only outlier really, Chris, for City managers starting Premier League seasons is Alan Ball.
David MooneyHOST
I didn't really put this in the feature, but it was quite remarkable that they only went down on goal difference after taking one point from their opening 10 games, really, wasn't it?
Matt JonesHOST
So what next for Mr Wanda and 777 Partners?
Paddy BoylandHOST
Josh Wander of kind of Alan Ball fame, I believe.
Paddy BoylandHOST
Massive, massive man of Alan Ball.
Paddy BoylandHOST
Oh, yeah.
Paddy BoylandHOST
Has really fond memories from what we're told of Everton in the 1960s.
Paddy BoylandHOST
yeah, I've been writing about Josh Wanda today, Monday, for anybody listed.
Paddy BoylandHOST
It just feels like a fever dream.
Paddy BoylandHOST
Some of the things that I was recalling that happened around that time, including the Alan Ball statement.
Neil PricePANELIST
I know it's a long way, but we shouldn't be nervous about going there and sort of not winning or not getting, like, losing and stuff.
StuartHOST
OK, excellent link there, Neil, to Alan, who is the BBC Devon commentator for Exeter, who I got his perspective on Exeter's game against Crewe.
StuartHOST
Hi, Alan.
StuartHOST
Welcome to the podcast.
Alan TongueSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hi, Stuart.
Alan TongueSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, sure.
Alan TongueSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My main connection really, going back quite a number of years now, but I was a player down there way back in the early 90s.
Alan TongueSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So my sort of connection with Exeter was I signed under a lad called Alan Ball, who was the World Cup winner for England.
Kieran MaguireHOST
You've only got to look at the amount of interest on Sky Sports and Talk Sports and the media in general when we start to talk big numbers.
Kieran MaguireHOST
And of course, you and I, we, we, we were both shocked when Alan Ball went for 200,000 back in 1970, and we remember Trevor Francis and Gordon McQueen and Joe Jordan as being the record transfers.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Steve Daley, uh, David Mills, all, all of these people, these people are locked in my memory, and you look at the numbers, you know, Joe got £350,000.
Kieran MaguireHOST
Never.
Dave DavisHOST
I wish I'd saved it earlier.
Dave DavisHOST
You might not remember, like, Alan Ball, one of England's 1966.
Dave DavisHOST
He used to be-
Trev DowneyHOST
Mm
Dave DavisHOST
... a pundit, like, at the end of his sort of career after management, and he sort of commentated on an FA Cup game with Liverpool, and it was brilliant because, like, they put on the screen, like, "This is Mane.
Dave DavisHOST
He's had X amount of touches," and all this.
Dave DavisHOST
And literally, Alan Ball might as well have just had a pint of mild and a fag in his mouth, because he'd brought it up and he actually had a flat cap on to do commentary in the BBC studio.
Dave DavisHOST
Brilliant it is.
Simon LipsonHOST
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Julie WelchPANELIST
Yeah, can't I? We did Alan Ball last week.
Julie WelchPANELIST
[laughs] Can't get away with it twice.
Simon LipsonHOST
[laughs] Yeah, we, we did.
Gordon MousinhoHOST
[laughs]
Tommy BoydHOST
... along, along came Alan Ball with the, the-
Gordon MousinhoHOST
There were, there were...
Gordon MousinhoHOST
Well, we could move on to Alan Ball-
Tommy BoydHOST
... his white boots [laughs]
Gordon MousinhoHOST
...
Steven AllisonHOST
Who was manager then? Was that Frank Clark?
Jay MottyHOST
I, I, I think it was Alan Ball.
Steven AllisonHOST
Alan Ball.
Jay MottyHOST
Alan Ball, wasn't it? Hey.
Steven AllisonHOST
Forgot about that one.
Steven AllisonHOST
Yeah.
Jay MottyHOST
I'll never forget that.
Jay MottyHOST
That's, that's when-
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