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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Busby.
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At this point, I should raise a copy of your latest book.
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Well, actually, soon to be overtaken, True Genius, the super biography of George Best.
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But I've left it in the sitting room, so I'll just lift another copy of my book.
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I'll definitely plug one of yours.
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We're looking at a Sam McElroy book.
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Some right dives as well, yeah.
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public at the
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the feeling at the time uh was that it was you know worth a try we'd not yet seen the american version uh correct me if i'm wrong but the i went to america and like a lot of the players who went to america in the 1970s i mean we're talking about the 1970-71 season so it'd perhaps be a bit later
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when the NASL really got underway and we saw this 25 yard out yard shootout which was fantastic and to this day I would like to see those replace penalties we are talking 52 years on 52 seasons on and you're quite right it's still divisive um but at the time there was certainly
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a feeling that something needed to be tried to provide a football-related end to a football match.
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There was less and less sort of appetite for the five-match epics in cups, in which the standard of football tended gradually to deteriorate and the enmity between the sides increased.
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No, it was worth a try, particularly in something that was never taken seriously.
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I mean, Watney was a brand of beer, usually sold in four-pint cans and consumed in great quantities at student parties, although I was never a student.
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I certainly got into the parties.
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And you had to open the cans with a triangular...
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thing anyway I mean I'm a lot more pleasure was created by the four point cans I can promise you of Watney's than um than the Watney Cup itself these tournaments there was a the league and and other football authorities I mean bear in mind we're still in the infancy of the League Cup and there was a feeling that fans wanted trophies
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And it was a good theory.
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To this day, everyone wants a prize in football.
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Everyone wants success.
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