News about Phil Thompson

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY IAN LADYMAN: Sitting on a small wooden chair in a small wooden hut in the grounds of a garden centre in Staffordshire is one of a select group of special footballing men. To his side - gleaming a little as the light filters through the door - is proof of his membership. Dennis Mortimer and the European Cup. Forty-two years after Aston Villa shocked Bayern Munich in the final in Rotterdam, they still look quite at home together. Mortimer is 72 now, a little grey. He was Villa's captain back then, back when they did what nobody thought possible. When he lifted the trophy that night in 1982, he was only the fourth Englishman to do so, after Bobby Charlton, Emlyn Hughes and Phil Thompson. Others have followed. Not many, as far as we know, have paid to have a full-size replica of the trophy made for their home.

Liverpool legends Robbie Fowler and Phil Thompson paid their respects at the scene of the Southport stabbing on Tuesday as the town continues to grieve in the aftermath of the tragic knife rampage. A 17-year-old boy, from the nearby village of Banks in Lancashire, remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

IAN HERBERT and SIMON JONES: There have been moments in the recent history of collisions between Manchester United and Liverpool, where grace under pressure from a promising young talent was all it took to prevail. This week, a teen Phil Thompson made his Liverpool debut for Bill Shankley's Old Trafford and almost immediately discovered George Best running toward him. Not bad for a replacement who had come on for John Toshack in an unaccustomed No 10 role. Shankham's players were imbued with such self-confidence. United's struggling under Frank O'Farrell after Sir Matt Busby stepped away, fielded Bobby Charlton and Denis Law, but the team lost 3-0. On Sunday, it is not a completely different dynamic.

Matt Le Tissier has denied having regrets over his inflammatory behavior on social media, despite admitting that it cost him his punditry work at Sky Sports. Tissier was shot by the broadcaster in August 2020, alongside fellow Soccer Saturday panelists Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson, who later blaming his dismissal for his inability to wear a BLM badge and his views on Covid-19. Professor Keith Neal, an expert in public health at the University of Nottingham, said the former Southampton striker was chastised for releasing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories in 2021, risking people's lives by urging them not to get the jab.

MATT BARLOW: As he ducks through the door, Mick Lyons imitates the Everton legend. A regal presence with a warm smile, solid handshake, and the club emblem on his rain jacket was absorbed in tales of how he fell in love with the club. On matchdays, he and his brother Joseph would ride the 44D bus to make sure they were outside Goodison Park when the gates opened so they could dash to the old scoreboard. 'We'd be in there dead early, and we'd run to sit in the old box where they changed the scores,' Lyons says. We'd watch the game from there.' They were crowned 1963-63 in the league. Alex Young, a great player.'

Throughout the pandemic, the Southampton legend made headlines by expressing Covid-19 conspiracy theories on Twitter. Among his assertions was that PCR tests "weren't the largest crime ever perpetrated on mankind," former Covid patients in Italy "weren't actors" and that the government's interference in people's lives during lockdown was an "injustice." In a GB News interview, the 54-year-old believed he could have paid the price for his views with his previous work with Sky Sports, and that his relatives and close friends thought he'gone a little crazy.'

EXCLUSIVE: When in Rome said that their relationship with the host had come to a'natural end,' the presenter's wine was still available on their website after the scandal surrounding his time with ITV came to an end. It was only after they received media reports that Schofield's wines had been abruptly removed from the company's website last night that a statement on behalf of the company was sent to the media this afternoon.

Sky are engaged in a major cost-cutting campaign after losing nine percent of its UK subscribers last year, with a number of their football journalists facing redundancy, and a large-money recruit from outside the company is seen as inappropriate in the circumstances. Stelling originally called time on his 2021 stint after announcing that he would leave at the end of that season, but the veteran broadcaster later returned for a new season.

SIMON JONES: David Johnson, the first England striker to score for both Everton and Liverpool in Merseyside derbies, has died at the age of 71. Johnson, also known as 'the Doc,', played eight times for England and scored six goals, two in a 3-1 victory over Argentina, Diego Maradona et al., in 1980. The tributes were paid to Phil Thompson, Johnson's former Liverpool and England colleague. 'Johnno used to carry a bag full of everything, including headache tablets and anti-inflammatories,' Thompson said. 'Terry McDermott was rifling through it one day and said, 'It's like a doctor's bag this's stuck.'

Mark Lawrenson has said he believes his expulsion from the BBC was due to him being '65 and a white male'. The former Liverpool defender spent three decades with the corpoation, including 25 years with Football Focus, before being alerted of the show's layout changes in March. The Beeb are certainly the worst at giving you bad news,'lawrenson told The Sunday Times. It was just, "We are going to the road next season with Focus." We don't think it's really something for you.

Matt Le Tissier has been reunited with his former colleagues from Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday's show. After being a regular viewer of Soccer Saturday, which is hosted by well-known host Jeff Stelling, the former Premier League star, 53, was fired by Sky in August 2020. Le Tissier, a 15-year veteran of Sky, posted a picture with the caption on Twitter with his former coworkers: 'Work with my mates, nothing better.' In the photo included on social media, Stelling, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson, and Charlie Nicholas are among the Southampton legends, with Thompson and Nicholas also seen the door by Sky at the same time as Tissier.

Phil Thompson, a Liverpool fan, has praised Fabio Carvalho, believes the Reds midfielder will be a celebrity and'shock everybody.' Carvalho, an attacking midfielder, joined Liverpool after his deal with Fulham came to an end. Fulham defeated the Cottagers last season, scoring ten times and adding eight assists in 36 games. On Saturday, the 19-year-old came off the bench in both the Community Shield and Premier League opener against his former club.

CRAIG HOPE (independent BY) CHRISTIHAM HOPE:Chris Kamara has both good days and bad. That's the way with apraxia of speech, a disorder that he revealed and finally confronted earlier this year - you never know when there will be a disconnect between voice and brain. 'A bad day is trying to get the words out,' he says. 'You talk, and then a new word comes out.'