George Best and Other Northern Irish Footballers, 1966

George Best and Other Northern Irish Footballers, 1966

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Details

Location

Burnley, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Newtownards

Year

1966

Date

Production 01/10/1966

Length

17min 19sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

This film is a collection of reports on Northern Irish football stars playing in English football in 1966. Among the players and teams we see are Derek Dougan playing for Leicester City against Arsenal, Johnny Crossan playing for Sunderland against Newcastle United, and Willie Irvine playing for Burnley against a Stoke City side which featured England’s international goalkeeper, Gordon Banks. There are also fantastic shots outside Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium with fans wearing rosettes and badges for George Best.

Along with players arriving for training at facilities owned by Newcastle United there is also footage of the Northern Ireland team training at the ground of Ards FC with Scrabo Tower in the background, including John Parke, Martin Harvey and the man himself, George Best.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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