Paddy Barclay
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1,749 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Paddy Barclay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not not all of the problems were solved.
I mean i but football began to develop into the game we see today.
Pitches were still inadequate.
Um by today's standards certainly.
Um
But yes, there were the the the the the
clamping down on on really bad tackles was
Um
Wh which had actually bedeviled I mean, w really uh Dennis Law's career which was now coming to an end in seventy one, seventy two, or beginning the beginning of the end.
Um, you know, his career by now he was being injected into his
ankles and and knees in particular, um all the time, you know, s and and this
Clearly the the kind of punishment that was being taken by the likes of Best and uh of of S Law and George Best.
Uh at at one stage it was
It was reckoned that George Best's off the field pr uh pr problems were exacerbated by the battering he was taking from defenders all the time.
uh and that there were actually footballing reasons as well as sort of chemical reasons for it.
So
Yeah, a lot needed to be done, but at least as you say, uh there was a consciousness in the game that that something had to be done.
Jimmy Hill, there were a lot of people, Matt Busby, were all moving
In the direction of trying to make a life a little bit easier for creative players.
And I suppose laying the foundations of the
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