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Just to bump the thread Here is Tommy’s description of that famous goal at Highbury in 1972 “By the time we went to Highbury in my fourth game for the club, I had already scored my first Coventry goal, a 25-yarder in a 3-1 win against West Ham. I didn’t think I would score a better goal that...

Point proven!

I’ve not seen it but it couldn’t have been as bad as Teresa May and Dancing Queen. Why not just walk out and do your speech, no fanfare needed.

As far as I can remember, Johnson got an 80 seat landslide by attracting 42% of the vote (not the total electorate). Of those people that voted, presumably 58% didn’t want him. It strikes me that to end up with the result we did shows that the first past the post system is simply wrong. The...

Ha! That’s kind of you to take the time to come on and say that. It was my first time on the radio so just pleased I was even vaguely making sense!

Below are details for an evening with Tommy Hutchison and Barry Powell. Chance to meet and have a chat and a photo with Tommy and to buy a signed book too!

Should have the info for this tomorrow.

Many of you have mentioned being at Tommy’s debut for the club, a 3-2 win over Man City. Joe Mercer and Gordon Milne had taken over as managers in the close season and were dubbed the “M Men” by the Telegraph. Mercer had left Man City at the end of the previous season, refusing to be ‘moved...

He played three seasons for Merthyr Tydfil after leaving Swansea

I thought I would place another extract from the book here just to keep the thread ticking along. Tommy played with many legendary football characters during his career. In the excerpt below he tells the story of lining up alongside George Curtis in a friendly charity match at Lichfield City...

Just been listening to Adrian Chiles on the radio. He had some ex-England rugby player on with him ( don’t know who it was). Adrian asked him why, at its inception, professional rugby hadn’t learnt from football’s mistakes and why they are making such a financial pigs ear of things. The rugby...

Thought it might be nice to give a few extracts from the book as a way of nicely bumping the thread. I’ll try and use a few from Tom’s time at City. That said this first one is from his childhood. Tommy grew up in a poor but happy family in a Fife mining village. In the excerpt below he gives...

No, first book on Hutch. Really surprising when you think that there are a few books on ex-City players, but none on the player most would agree is our best ever.

Anyone who wants to pre-order the new book about Hutch, you can use the link below. The date for publishing is Oct 17th. However, if you wanted a signed copy it would arrive after Oct 29. Tommy is down from Fife for the Blackpool game and I could get him to sign books that are going out after...

You can see lots of the Arsenal fans applauding that goal. I wasn’t there but according to Tommy, he nearly did the same thing again two minutes later. This time Barnett in the Arsenal goal saved it. The goal is described and discussed in Nick Hornby's best selling book ‘Fever Pitch’.

That is actually the book wot I wrote (to quote Morecambe and Wise). The book will sell for £25 from bookshops, Amazon etc. but Tommy and I will sell it cheaper than that and cheaper than the price quoted at Smiths, plus it will be a signed copy. Tommy will be the guest at the Blackpool game...

We totally dominated the first half and we’re in complete control. The highlights don’t show the multiple attempts at goal and the many saves Ruddy made. We should have been out of sight by half time.

Good call by the guy on there. Really gives it out with both barrels.

I agree that it was a great tackle and twenty years ago would have been legal. I don’t think that’s days that most refs would allow that. Having watched it back it certainly seems as though Hamer is being held.

My comment on him being ‘professional’ wasn’t a compliment. Another word for cheating.