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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As you say, great atmosphere at Hillsborough.
and an atmosphere to which the United contingent contributed.
I mean, it's actually just dawning on us as we go through this chronologically that Manchester United is becoming bigger in terms of population than at most times under Busby.
Okay, the ground was bigger.
Manchester United's
Well, we'll get on to the crowd later, but the average was 51,000.
We'll get on later, I'm sure, to the significance of that figure vis-à-vis the rest of football.
Because during the entirety of Busby's reign as manager, Manchester United were not different in terms of, yes, the Busby Babes was the best team in the country, became it, but...
They weren't different in terms of finance.
They weren't always, for a lot of the time during Busby, they weren't the most watched team in the country.
By now, Manchester United were on a different level support-wise, both home and away, to any other club in England.
And that, as I say, was an advantage that Doherty and his successors were to enjoy
that Busby never really did to the same extent.
He did, that's right, yeah.
He did.
Ray Wood and...
Howdy, Greg.
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, not Ray Wood, Reg Allen.
You're quite right, from QPR.
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