142. Team of the 1980s (with Steve Coppell)

Today we’ll be following on our discussion of football in the 1980s with an entirely self-indulgent session of selecting the team of that decade.  To help Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler to do so they are delighted to be able to call on the services of Steve Coppell, a man who was playing for Manchester United and England at the start of the decade and at the end of it was the manager of Crystal Palace.  It’s hard to think of anyone better suited to evaluating the talents and characters of the players of that decade.  There have been two previous podcasts on teams of the 1960s and 1970s so we can usually rely on Jon to supply the goalkeeper, the position awarded in the 1960s to Gordon Banks and in the 1970s to Peter Shilton - except that now a new rule is in operation.  Like Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year, no player can be selected more than once so what is Jon going to do now that he can’t start off his team with his client Peter Shilton again?  Listen and you’ll find out…

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