RANTS & REFLECTIONS
BERTIE MEE says to DON REVIE do you fancy the job at HIGHBURY? June 1976: Rumours are rife at Arsenal and Lancaster Gate………..
REVOLUTION-CONVOLUTION-EVOLUTION: Twenty Great Albums of 1968
SOMETHING IN THE AIR – Twenty great games of 1969-70

Writing exhaustively about English football in particular and popular music as a whole has brought the conclusion rock, in general, is more straightforward to assess, if for no other other reason than Twenty Great Albums of 1971 are exactly that…
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DOWN PAYMENT – The Kinks & ‘LOW BUDGET’
ALL DRESSED UP NOWHERE TO GO – England: The Don Revie era……
OVER THE STILLS – Stephen Stills & ‘STILLS’ (1975)
SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE – Twenty great games of 1974-75…………..
Borderline sublime: Eagles & ‘ON THE BORDER’
RELE-GATE: The 1970s ‘Too good to go down’ affair……….

Just as encyclopedias are full of events that through the ages it was believed could never happen, so the annals (or annuals in my case), of English football history are filled with instances of teams widely thought to be relegation…
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