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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The youthfulness of the team and the youthfulness of the support.
It was like they were growing up together, and that's always a great combination for an atmosphere.
United, though, because, again, that naivety comes in.
The distraction of this cup run, the idea that they get into Wembley and they're going to be able to play against Southampton in the final, which they were heavily tipped as favourites, even despite that inexperience, because Southampton were in the second division.
The following week after the semi-final, they lose 3-0 at Ipswich.
Any slim hope of really challenging for the league title is dashed when they lose 1-0 at home to Stoke, a game in which Peter Shilton, who Docky has tried to sign earlier in the season to replace Alex Stemney.
Shilton is absolutely tremendous as well.
I should also mention around this time, two of those defeats against Liverpool and Arsenal
And I think United's exit from the League Cup, a lot of people blame the displacement of Alex Stepney for that because in that period of time, Docky put in Paddy Roach.
This was around the time he made these attempts to sign Peter Shilton.
He'd been rebuffed because...
Busby was putting his foot down and saying there's no way they were going to pay, I think, was it £1,000 a week?
Yeah.
It basically would have made the goalkeeper the highest paid player at the club, which Busby said that he wouldn't stand for.
And I found that so curious because everything you know about Busby is he broke the bank three times to set a world record for goalkeepers.
Step-mayor as well is.
Reg Allen was the other one.
So, yeah, he'd done that.
Obviously, he didn't sign those goalkeepers, but he put Paddy Roach in, and Roach had nowhere near the experience of Stetner.
And those two defeats to Liverpool and Arsenal would end up... I mean, yeah, Roach has got a lot of blame for that, but they would prove quite crucial in the direction of the league title at the back of the season.
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