Back In The Day

Send us Fan Mail Sue and Steve Kerman married for 53 years join me to look back at the UK top thirty for the week they first met, Christmas Eve 1966.

Send us Fan Mail Looking back at the F.A. Cup competition of 1963/64.  More shocks than  most years this time around. Surprises galore and a few classics leading  up to a Wembley classic.

Send us Fan Mail Me and Jackie look back at the UK chart for the week of 12th June 1968

Send us Fan Mail Game by game memories of Arsenal's memorable  1970-71 season.  

Send us Fan Mail Me and Jackie run down the UK Top 30 for the week  of 3rd September 1972.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode i'll be having a long hard look at the 1967/68 F.A. Cup competition.  From Ryhope Colliery Welfare and Tow Law Town to the holders Tottenham Hotspur,  from Round one to the Wembley showdown in May. 

Send us Fan Mail I've always been a big Beatles fan so I thought its about time I put out a Beatles episode. What set The Beatles apart from most other bands is having three great songwriters in John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. But in the early years they also recorded over twenty cover versions. It is these covers, written by legends like Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins and Buddy H...

Send us Fan Mail Along with my two guests John Brett and John Kasapi we compare the differences between the football of the 60's and 70's and the modern game.  Is football better with all seater stadiums, VAR, International breaks and Sky TV, we will discuss these and other changes in this episode.

Send us Fan Mail Me and my wife Jackie count down the UK top thirty for the week of 20th January 1985.

Send us Fan Mail The two John's are back to help me to select the greatest players of our time and then rank them 1-10. No easy task but we'll give it a go.

Send us Fan Mail Following the England football team from failure in the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 to the World cup four years later in Chile.

Send us Fan Mail My wife Jackie and I look way back to  the UK chart of 13th December 1962.

Send us Fan Mail Previous guests John Kasapi and John Brett are back on the show to help me  select the best England XI from every player to have played for England in the  past 50 years. Who do you leave out up front when you have Owen, Sherringham, Rooney, Kane, Francis, Shearer and Lineker to choose from ?  Very difficult but we'll give it a go

Send us Fan Mail Follow the progress of F.A. Cup holders West Ham United through the 1975-1976 season. Its a roller coaster ride with magical European nights under the foodlights at  Upton Park and up and down results in the First Division.

Send us Fan Mail My wife Jackie and i look at the top 30 of 14th November 1964.  1964 is one  of the great years for chart music and there's certainly some gems in there this week.

Send us Fan Mail My cousin Jeff Cook relives his ups and downs of being a Millwall fan from his first trip to the Den way back in 1963 to the present day. Promotions, relegations, play offs and even a Cup Final.

Send us Fan Mail After ten years of mediocrity could Arsenal with celebrated manager Billy Wright and expensive new centre half Ian Ure bring the glory days back to Highbury.

Send us Fan Mail Jackie and I take a long hard look at the NME Top Thirty of 26th January 1974.

Send us Fan Mail A look at the 1962/1963 season performances of Wolves. After great success in the late fifties the Wolves bubble had burst in 1961/1962  when the club could only finish 18th in the First  Division.   Would 62/63 see further decline or could they return to the top  again ?

Send us Fan Mail My wife Jackie and I take a long hard look at the UK Top 30  for the week of 26th April 1969.  With every weeks chart from the very  beginning in November 1952 there is good and bad, this week is no exception.

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Send us Fan Mail Join Dave Rivett and guest lifelong Chelsea fan John Kasapi as they look back on the highs and lows of Chelsea Football club since John first became a blues fan in 1967 the year of the first all London F.A. Cup Final.

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