Trevor Brooking

Uh, a game where two future Knights of the Realm scored," says Keith.

Uh, Geoff Hurst and also Trevor Brooking.

Now, how often has that happened? Uh, my question is, what is the name if you score five or six goals in one game?

We've got some answers here, John, from the internet.

And then we had another email in.

we add which he's got he goes uh all right guys i know you like pro evo yeah he listens james so you'll be pleased in here that the old rubbish commentary team of brackley and trevor brooking hang on a minute what are you doing

you know i put your burps top and tail of last week's podcast did you really listen to it yeah i

didn't listen uh number seven though come on

yeah people like your flatulence do another one

So, Peter Brackley and Trevor Brooking are to be replaced by, wait for it, John Champion and Mark Lawrenson.

Hearing that has really made my day.

Woohoo, out in October.

a serious health crisis that required surgery and from which he recovered, but which inevitably disrupted the management of the club at its most critical point.

He was replaced by Trevor Brooking as caretaker, and Brooking was unable to save the club from going down.

Roda left with dignity and without bitterness.

The circumstances of his time at the club were difficult in ways that went beyond football.

He signed for Charlton Athletic, played one more season in England and eventually retired from playing in 2008.

He was, in the memory of every West Ham supporter who watched him, incomparable.

The Berlin ground had seen Bobby Moore and Jeff Hurst and Trevor Brooking.

It had rarely housed anyone quite like Paolo Di Canio.

Um, and he says he then...

His first World Cup appearance is in 1982, when he's definitely past his best, um, and sadly he's run into injuries and he gets a back injury shortly before the World Cup, and both him and Trevor Brooking, probably England's best players, um, are, are, don't really...

Well, they don't feature at all in that campaign.

They're in, they're in their sort of room injured.

My name's Kevin Slade, and today my guest is an iconic artist from the East End of London.

He painted the iconic Billy Bonds and Sir Trevor Brooking mural at Priory Road at Upton Park, and he also painted the iconic Long Live the Bowling at Upton Park.

It is Dave Nash, AKA Nasha.

How we doing, sir? You all right?

That was it.

I had, uh, West Ham quilt covers, everything.

I, I, I knew who Trevor Brooking was before I even knew who the fuck Trevor Brooking was really.

Um, so idolized Trevor Brooking without even knowing he was a football player really.

They were the academy of football.

And I said, you had the likes of Trevor Brooking and, for my money, their best player of the time, somebody who ended up coming to Watford, Alan Devonshire.

Alan Devon, Louis

Shearer, go and look it up.

Yeah.

So we had, like, Trevor Brooking on the BBC.

Yes.

Yeah, good point.

I think he was there for the whole time.

Um, but alongside that, he's also started posting content online.

And again, to go back to that thing of, like, Graeme Le Saux, Trevor Brooking, A- um, um, Andy Gray, they liked football-

Yeah

West Ham defended with discipline and intelligence.

Trevor Brooking scoring with his head the only goal of his career in the 14th minute.

Arsenal pushed and probed, but could not find a way through.

1-0 to West Ham.

Mm.

And there, there, there were players back in the day, and I think Jared's one of them, but, you know, people like Billy Bonds, Trevor Brooking, uh, Mark Noble, that's the West Ham way.

Mm.

People ask me, "What's the West Ham way?" And I say, "Players like that, who leave it all on the pitch." And, you know, the theatrics and the handbags and the pushing and the shoving and the grabbing of the shirt, you know, to stop.