Fast forward to the present day and Sterland says he’s been impressed with the team assembled by his former Whites teammate and Steven Gerrard. As the book is called 'Boozing, Betting and Brawling' Andy couldn't let him go without asking him about two of his weaknesses... This is the second of a series of four themed programmes made by Yorkshire Television that aired in 1987 about life on the Manor Estate of council housing in Sheffield, consisting of events on the Estate and interviews with, mostly unidentified, residents. This one focuses on residents who have been made redundant and who are trying to move on. It shows four unemployed steelworkers trying to renovate a tool making workshop, Mal Middleton, who has written a script, ‘Bird Fancier’, produced by the BBC, unemployed workers who are scavenging the derelict houses, and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Mel Sterland. It was first transmitted on 10th August, 1987. I’m in Sheffield now but people still ask, ‘What’s it like to play in an Old Firm game?’ You talk about Man United v Man City, Everton v Liverpool, Sheffield Wednesday v Sheffield United, you can forget that, nothing compares to Rangers v Celtic, the atmosphere was absolutely frightening.”

While the fictional Jimmy gathers himself and his senses to slam home the script-completing winner, thus neatly mending all his personal relationships in the process, the very real Sean Bean wasn’t quite as calm at the time.Mel’s career started at Sheffield Wednesday and he went onto play for Leeds United for four years and then went to Glasgow Rangers for a short period. He also played for his country, England in his career. Alan Gomes had some news from Portugal. “I’m not sure whether this is the most emphatic total ever, but in the Portuguese league André Villas-Boas’s Porto ended 21 points ahead of their closest rivals in a 16-team league. And that actually wasn’t even the best Porto performance, depending on how you’re counting. In the 1987-88 season then-European champions won a 20-team league by a 15 point margin – but, since at that time a win only got you two points in Portugal, that lead would translate into 25 points on current standards.” United’s presumed injury crisis is such that Jimmy’s straight on to the bench for the FA Cup quarter-final at home to Arsenal, and then again for a league game against Leeds (who should be a division above, but those daft Americans won’t care about that, etc), but he’s still waiting for his chance to shine. But that’s football, you have to get on with life but it did hurt me, my wife and also my kids. I was disappointed in Graeme Souness, he told a couple of porky pies telling me to do everything that I asked and then he bombed me out which was disappointing for me and the family. I was absolutely gutted when I left.” Sterland lines up alongisde his Rangers teammates before the 1989 Scottish Cup final against Celtic

I’m sure my mum was watching over me and I heard her talk to me. She reminded me that I had a wife and two kids! She swore at me and told me to get a grip of myself and I just stopped and cried and thought about everything. I got a letter, I’ve still got it. It’s superb. In the letter you also get a list of players who were in the squad with you.Melvyn Sterland (born 1 October 1961 in Sheffield) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United and in the Scottish Football League Premier Division for Rangers, and was capped once for England. [1] [2] Club career [ edit ] I played with Terry Curran, Chris Turner, Andy McCulloch, Jeff Johnson, Roger Wilde – they were all real characters. Lee Carsley’s young players join the likes of Mark Hateley, Steve Hodge and Mel Sterland as winners of the tournament from when England had previously won in 1984. Gareth Southgate was watching on from the stands and he will have seen a positive future for the senior team, not least with their goalkeeper. Bean’s no stranger to the rough and tumble of it all, though, as he told the Mirror while promoting the film: There is more archive film of the Sheffield steelworkers, and it is noted that now there is 35% unemployment on the Manor. Resident Tom Ismay, now unemployed, tells about how he has always been a hard grafter. Another resident, Betty Houlden, is interviewed, explaining how her recently deceased husband, who died within 48 hours of retiring, only got a small token after 34 years of working for his firm.

In 1981–82, when the Owls emerged as promotion challengers but were eventually beaten out of the top three, Sterland was selected in the league on 27 occasions. He remained a regular player as the Owls continued to progress, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1983 and winning promotion to the First Division a year later after a 14-year exile. In 1985–86 he enjoyed arguably the finest season of his time at Sheffield Wednesday, if not his whole career, when he played 38 league games and scored eight goals for a side who finished fifth in the First Division but were denied UEFA Cup action due to the ban on English clubs in European competitions following the Heysel disaster of May 1985. The football choreography is refreshingly unspectacular – there are no impractical flying volleys here – and that works to the film’s credit. Bean himself recognises the problems directors have always faced with trying to depict the game on the big screen:

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After departing Ibrox, Sterland would play an integral role in the Leeds United side who would win the old Second Division and First Division under Howard Wilkinson, playing alongside current Rangers assistant Gary McAllister. Neo-noir vibes from Arjan De Zeeuw. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer Top of the league and relegated

We don’t get to see what the future has in store for Jimmy – even in the final itself – which is a bit of a shame, but his emphatic finish beyond a thoroughly unimposing Manchester United goalkeeper is appropriately straightforward for a film that whistles along quite nicely from solo playground goals to a happy Mel Sterland in just ninety minutes. Boozing, Betting & Brawling: The autobiography of Mel Sterland". Goodreads . Retrieved 28 December 2020. FBref.com launched (June 13, 2018) with domestic league coverage for England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and United States. Since then we have been steadily expanding our coverage to include domestic leagues from over 40 countries as well as domestic cup, super cup and youth leagues from top European countries. We have also added coverage for major international cups such as the UEFA Champions League and Copa Libertadores.

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Jimmy bundles his way through the Premier League defence to slam home the equaliser, and the lads in the pub – with the exception of Embittered Father (below, left) – can’t contain themselves. As already explained, the FA Cup Semi-Final should be played at a neutral venue and not at the home ground of Sheffield United – as in the film. However, there is also the alarming fact that the April semi-final takes place in mid-winter. This is due to the footage from the ‘real game’ actually being an FA Cup 3rd tie in January, 1995.” There is a cameo role in the training session for a permanently fuming Mel Sterland, whose near-400 appearances for Sheffield Wednesday qualified him perfectly as a convincing captain for their cross-city rivals. England Under-21 (4-2-2-2): Trafford 7; Garner 7, Harwood-Bellis 8, Colwill 8, Aarons 7; Gomes 7 (Archer 73), Jones 7; Palmer 7 (Elliot 82), Smith-Rowe 5 (Madueke 66); Gibbs-White 7 (Skipp 73), Gordon 7 (Doyle 82) The daughter of Barry Pennington, Louis, is sat in her bedroom sewing, while her brother watches tv. She explains how she is dreading leaving school with little job opportunities and the prospect of being on YTS. Barry Pennington talks about how teenagers want to learn new skills but that there is little opportunity for this, as we see images on the cooling towers at Tinsley and of derelict areas.