Viv Anderson

Mark, last word to you? Yeah, I was going to

ask you, you're a carvery later.

I just wanted to ask you, are you one of these people, one of these savages who have all the roasts when you go to a carvery? Do you have lamb, beef and pork or do you just opt for one? I just need to know.

Yeah, Calvary tomorrow.

Ironically, I have to go into the gym.

Down inside.

Shuffling in the wrong.

A different class of carvery from all it goes to.

He was more of a bit part player that season, but yeah, he was still involved.

And of course, during this season, you have Viv Anderson also leaving the club midway through the season, joining Sheffield Wednesday.

Yes.

the first opponents in the cup winners cup adventure were hungarian side pexi munkas i'm sure i'm mispronouncing it but On paper, it should have been easy, but was there apprehension and fear of being rusty after so many years away? And more importantly, just to circle back to this idea of the unpredictability of fan behavior at a time when English clubs were trying to make a good impression for UEFA.

So it was a real, almost like defensive team.

A lot of experience.

So Viv Anderson played.

That was his only appearance of the European campaign.

Reedy was a card.

But the funniest man ever, Viv Anderson.

Really? Viv is the funniest person.

Ex-Nottingham Forest and England.

We're doing a lot of anti-immigration campaigns around football, infiltrating some stands.

And Viv Anderson was the first black player to play for England, was breaking through to the National Squad.

You also had in the 80s people like John Barnes coming through, again, facing a lot of abuse.

I guess...

Letting Paul Hart go was the clanger of the year, in Clough's own words.

Viv Anderson had gone to Arsenal, Steve Hodge to Aston Villa, Peter Davenport to Old Trafford.

Johnny Met hard was forthright about his reasons for moving to Spurs when his contract expired.

"The problem isn't purely down to cash," he said, "but it seems to me, and I've explained it all to the gaffer, that I'm the one who normally gets punished whenever we suffer an indifferent result." When his own contract was expiring like Met hard's in summer nineteen eighty-seven, Fairclough was ready to leave, and he was not applying his easygoing demeanor to his career prospects.

yeah.

And, of course, behind, on the back row, Viv Anderson, Martin O'Neill and a certain John Robertson as well.

What comes to your mind when you see that from all those years ago?

Well, yeah, I mean, it's obviously happy memories.