Wayne Barton
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7,831 appearances
70 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Wayne Barton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He provided the back on there as well.
So, Doc, he often refers to the repositioning, or he referred when he was alive to repositioning as Brian in the centre-half position.
as an accident, as something that was a happy stroke of fortune.
But it was really a stroke of genius in the way that it helped this side set up in terms of the way, the very core principle of the way that they played.
And this was very prominent in the game against Derby County.
The other thing that should be mentioned about, we're talking about Coppel and Hill in particular,
But Hill was the first time that United had had a standout extrovert in the side since George Best in the manner that, and I'm not going to compare him to George Best or Duncan Edwards, but at their best, United had always been a team that played a specific style of football, a specific way, and they accommodated one standout individual.
that front six of Dockett basically all played with industry apart from Hill, who was the Cavalier standout Maverick in that side, which made it kind of like,
It was a reminiscent and nostalgic side for this United fan base who were getting behind.
Obviously, a lot of these United fans had grown up in the post-68 era.
They'd started to travel to games and everything like that, so they wanted a hero, and Hill fell into that.
So the game against Derby at Hillsborough,
It was such a massive event.
United fans travelled in holds, obviously.
It was more like a home game.
And then midway through the first half, Brian brings the ball out from the back, plays the ball to Gerry Daly.
Daly has a look around.
Gordon's popped up on the right wing.
plays the ball to Gordon, Gordon cuts in, hits an absolute belter of a shot into the top corner.
And the crowd go absolutely crazy because it's looking like United are going to go back to Wembley.
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