Trevor Francis
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Nov 3, 2026
Paddy KennyGUEST
And I had a chance at the time and I forgot to mention, I've been on trial at Birmingham.
Paddy KennyGUEST
And Trevor Francis, our manager there, and they just signed, remember Dele Adebola? I don't know if you remember.
Paddy KennyGUEST
They just signed him for a million pounds, so they had like a few quid, and Berry had nothing.
Paddy KennyGUEST
And I'll never forget Trevor Staunton, who was manager at Bradford Park, who said to me, he says, where do you fancy going? I'm like, oh, Birmingham, training grounds.
Barry GlendenningPANELIST
god you'd really want that night out which is a
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
brian cluff story with trevor francis that trevor francis was on the way back from i can't remember it was an away game and trevor francis had either some family event or something i'm sure with trevor francis it wasn't a big night out but it was something he needed to do so he'd arranged to get picked up in a lay-by by a friend And the bus gets to the lay-by, and there's no car there waiting.
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
And Francis is like, I'll just stay on the bus.
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
And the club's like, no.
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
No, you want to get off the bus? Get off the bus.
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
And he makes Trevor Francis get off the bus.
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
Obviously, no mobile phones back in 1979 or whenever it was.
Jonathan WilsonPANELIST
And Trevor Francis is stranded in the lay-by.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
Gone.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
Trevor Francis was coaching Crystal Palace in 2003 when Chairman Simon Jordan phoned him and the phone call was recounted later as not going well by the Chairman Simon Jordan.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
He says, Trevor Francis didn't take it very well.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
He just sat there quietly and said, but it's my birthday.
Titus O'ReilyHOST
I had no idea.
Susannah FullerHOST
But then Clough began to work his magic.
Susannah FullerHOST
He took a group of players, a mix of those who had been there from the start, like Ian Boyer, Martin O'Neill, and John Robertson, along with some smart business like Kenny Burns and John McGovern, along with a few stars like Peter Shilton and Trevor Francis, and he made them a tremendous team.
Susannah FullerHOST
Clough took Kenny Burns, once thought to be a volatile hit-or-miss striker, and made him into one of the most feared defenders in Europe.
Susannah FullerHOST
He looked at John Robertson, and instead of seeing a pudgy average player, saw a lethal winger with immense natural talent.
Susannah FullerHOST
And Homburg was the image of tactical sophistication, ruthless conditioning and cerebral preparation that was not found in the English game.
Susannah FullerHOST
It was Homburg's engineering versus Clough's chemistry.
Susannah FullerHOST
Add in the fact that last year's European Cup hero, Trevor Francis, was injured, star goalkeeper Peter Shilton had a bum shoulder, and Forrest's traveling squad only amounted to 15 players.
Susannah FullerHOST
And on paper, this should have been a straightforward, methodical dismantling by Homburg.
RobGUEST
Italy probably with a slightly better team, but by that point Vecchini's thinking, right, no messing around.
RobGUEST
And Trevor Francis on the ATV commentary, I thought was really interesting, kind of educates the viewers by saying, this might look unusual, but this is what they do in Italy.
RobGUEST
They bring on subs to waste a bit of time.
RobGUEST
And I just, I think that kind of, there were little snapshots throughout these games and throughout the tournament of that kind of naivety, towards particularly towards well yeah towards continental football i guess i just thought that was really interesting france is really explaining it mind you we're announced so it's obviously in the world obviously
10 MINS LATER
Martin RamsayHOST
Italy make the most of it.
Martin RamsayHOST
And Mancini, and under pressure, Roberto Mancini, sweeps away.
Martin RamsayHOST
You mentioned Trevor Francis and co-coms earlier, Rob.
Martin RamsayHOST
Possibly his first gig on that, I'm not entirely sure.
Ian DanterHOST
I still think there's one or two who are being a bit mischievous in amongst all these people.
Ian DanterHOST
players that are just trying to lead us all astray and make us all look like idiots I can't I think I can trust 99% of what I hear in those phonetic pronunciations because yes they do do them for championship but there's the odd outlier and I'm thinking wait a minute this is why but again that's maybe just my ignorance shining through I do remember a great story just quickly before we start going into histories there's a commentator who I shan't name who was doing a game with Trevor Francis, my hero.
Ian DanterHOST
And I think it would have been a game at Selhurst Park when Wimbledon was still tenants there.
Ian DanterHOST
And Trevor, much like yourself, what you guys have said, he wanted to go through the pronunciations of the names with this commentator once the team sheet was out.
Craig CourtneyPANELIST
Apart from that, it's... as we keep moving forwards.
Craig CourtneyPANELIST
Some other names for number nine over the years.
Craig CourtneyPANELIST
So I think I've heard Walter Pandiani being mentioned.
Craig CourtneyPANELIST
Federico Macchiato.
Nigel SpackmanGUEST
Um, Alan McDonald, big Alan McDonald, God bless him, was there as well.
Nigel SpackmanGUEST
Um, so it was a good time to be at QPR and, uh, We had a good time and then Trevor Francis was the manager and I fell out with Trevor about an interview I did, which the journalist really slanted it badly because he asked me, how does Trevor Francis compare with Kenny Dalglish as a player manager? And I basically said, well, Kenny, you know, won everything as a player.
Nigel SpackmanGUEST
When he took over as manager, you know, they all respected him as a player and a person, I said, but then he had to do it as a manager.
Nigel SpackmanGUEST
And he's done that.
Paul TaitHOST
We got beat up at Stockport one year, 4-0 pre-season.
Paul TaitHOST
Trevor Francis said the grass was too long.
Paul TaitHOST
Do you remember? That was a famous one at Stockport, that was.
Paul TaitHOST
I played in that.
Norman RoseNARRATOR
Confusion is the second track on Discovery.
Norman RoseNARRATOR
Legend says that Jeff Lynne wrote the song while playing snooker with Birmingham City Football Club player Trevor Francis.
Norman RoseNARRATOR
Trevor described the event.
Eric Paul JohnsonHOST
We were playing snooker together and at the end of the game he disappeared and I followed into his studio.
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