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Welcome to soccertrivia.org.uk Welcome to
Soccer Trivia, the site featuring everything you would ever want to know about
Britain’s passionate game of football. We offer a little bit of something for
every football fan that has an interest in those quirky, off-the-wall, abstruse
facts about the game. We’re an all-inclusive site when it comes to the sport. Whether you know it as footy, football, or, like the Americans love calling it, soccer, Soccer Trivia is a virtual encyclopedia of sporting knowledge. We deal with more leagues than a roulette wheel has numbers: The Premier League, Scottish and Irish, International, Welsh, and many more, all found here. Football fans are diehard sportsmen, taking the game very seriously and pulling no punches when it comes to the players and teams they admire. But even the faithful are surprised to learn obscure facts and little tidbits of trivia about their favorites. Come on in, search around, and learn some interesting facts about the world’s most popular game. Ian Maxwell
With his
flowing blonde hair and his predatory instinct in the box, Tommy Tynan was a
cult hero at Plymouth Argyle during the 1980s and is still remembered as one of
the club’s greatest players. Tommy was
signed for Liverpool by legendary manager Bill Shankly after winning a talent
contest run by the Liverpool Echo. Shankly had a profound influence on the young striker: ‘It
is quite surprising how much of the Liverpool way rubbed off on me really.
Shanly’s style of pass, move and wait for an opening, or create one
yourself, didn’t always produce the prettiest football but it got results, and
it was certainly indoctrinated in me’. Sadly
he never made a first team appearance for the club before his transfer to
Sheffield Wednesday in 1976. At
Hillsborough he scored 31 goals in 91 appearances before his transfer to Lincoln
City where he stayed for less than a year.
He moved on to Newport County where he formed a dynamic striking
partnership with John Aldridge as the Newport team gained promotion from
Division 4, won the Welsh Cup and reached to the quarter finals of the European
Cup Winners Cup. Tynan scored the equalizing goal in the away leg of the quarter
final in the last minute but Newport lost the home leg 1-0. In total Tynan
scored 66 goals in 183 matches during the most successful period in the club's
history. In 1983
Tynan moved on to Plymouth Argyle where he enjoyed even greater success scoring
43 goals in 80 appearances between 1983 and 1985. He was a member of the side which reached the semi-finals of
the FA Cup in 1984, scoring the goal which beat then top flight West Bromwich
Albion in the sixth round of the competition. Argyle went on to beat Derby
County in the quarter finals before losing to Watford in the penultimate stage
of the competition. In 1985, Tynan was joint top scorer in all 4 divisions of
the Football League with 31 goals, level with Tranmere's John Clayton. In total
Tynan scored 126 goals in 262 appearances for Plymouth.
His second spell with Plymouth Argyle between 1986-1990 was equally
successful with 73 goals in 173 appearances.
After a brief spell as manager Tommy is now a taxi driver in Plymouth, and writes a regular column for the local newspaper the Plymouth Evening Herald. A chance meeting in a taxi Tommy Tynan, persuaded life-long Plymouth Argyle fan Ryan Danes to write his story. And he tells the story well in this handsomely produced book. It provides a fascinating insight into Liverpool under Shankly, and to a footballer’s life in the lower divisions during the 1970s and 1980s. The author places each of the key events in Tommy’s life in their historical context, an enjoyable trot down memory lane for those who were old enough to remember the break-up of The Beatles or the year that Shergar won the Derby. Through the judicious use of quotes and pacy narrative, the author does ample justice to the career of one of British football’s greatest cult heroes. www.soccertrivia.org.uk
has two copies of this book to give away courtesy of Breedon Books. Competition
Question Tommy Tynan spent a season as player-coach of which English team in the early 1990s? Send your entries to ian.maxwell7@btinternet.com Competition ends - Friday 15 May 2009 Winners will be the first two names drawn out of the hat.
This page was last updated on 05/17/09. Launched 25 October 2008
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