Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, we searched high and low for an earlier match, but nothing showed up.
There had been occasional experiments with penalties, but they weren't officially sanctioned.
As far as I'm concerned, the first time penalties were officially used in a professional game was on August 5th, 1970, at Hull City.
So six weeks after the FIFA decision, tied games could now be settled by a brand new dramatic climax.
It was a 7.30 kick-off.
It was a lovely warm evening, but when I got into the ground, I didn't have a good view.
I had to look between people's heads to be able to see anything, and I was really jealous of kids who had little stools to stand on.
I remember seeing Bobby Charlton running up and down the wing.
His face was really red.
Chris Chilton scored first after 11 minutes, and the crowd went bonkers.
Fans normally love it when the floodlights come on, but this time it was bad news because that's when, unfortunately, Dennis Law equalised.
We should have won the game.
Ian Butler, one of our great players, blasted it over the bar.
Well, as extra time drained away, we realised that we may be able to go into a penalty shootout.
We were going to witness something that had never happened before.
A football match was going to be decided by penalties.
Today we're familiar with the rules and rituals of a shootout, but for these players and fans it was the first time and no one knew what to expect.
Terry Neal obviously asked for volunteers.
Neal being Hull's new player manager.
And some of the lads were reluctant to step up and take the penalties and some were brave enough to step up and say, yeah, I'll take one, I'll take one and I'll take one.
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