Tom Finney

So there were countless... pay limitations of Stanley Matthews.

One rival, Tom Finney, who was...

Who was a left winger.

He was a left winger, a right winger.

He'd drop his left shoulder and then go down the outside of the left back.

with one quick move and either if he really comprehensive beats him take a few more touches or cross as he famously did to win the 1950 set up the winning goal for the 1953 fa cup final and so he he was the benchmark really um but it was a consequence of the the way the game was played so everybody had played Dribbling at speed, I think, we're probably moving over the decades to what today is dribbling at speed, but it is dribbling and you're right.

If it gets you behind, I mean, getting behind defences is whatever way you do, whether it's dribbling or just out sprinting or dropping the ball over the top, that's what you that will produce winning football so yeah for me of his time i mean i i did think tom finney was a superb player and also of his time all this football was played at international level it's called 30 goals for england tom finney and he was all the time working in his plumbing business the Preston Plumbing, played his whole career for Preston.

And so he definitely gets a mention in Dispatches.

Was it 99, 2000 is when I started getting taken on as a kid.

on the, on the Tom Finney.

And then I made my way to the old town end, which I absolutely loved.

But yeah, I think going into that Craig Brown here and yes, some of the players, I think back and Creswell's, yeah, the two who's Eddie Lewis, Ricardo Fuller.

Really is rolling off the tongue very nicely now.

And it's hello from me, Gordon Messina, and I'm sure a very, very warm hello from my old friend, Tommy Boyd.

I

can't

And so I think...

I think I'll let him go, wind him up and let him go and chip in very occasionally.

Over to you, Tommy.

The first manager who I realised was a giant wasn't a giant.

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I mean, they end up fourth, I think, in the table.

Liverpool beat the 5-0 Tom Finney I saw Tom Finney is at that game says it's just the greatest exhibition of attacking football I've ever seen and ever will see that kind of underlines the season yes it's still it can still be a bit chaotic teams can still just about hang on to their coattails and that's the second place Manchester United but if they go up a gear as they did in the very next game simply unplayable

Yeah, that's absolutely right.

I mean, this game just sums up Liverpool in this season.