Boozing, Betting & Brawling: The autobiography of Mel Sterland". Goodreads . Retrieved 28 December 2020.

That chance comes in the Cup semi-final against Manchester United, no less, but any football pedants still watching might want to prepare themselves. IMDB, normally rather matter-of-fact, actually sounds rather impatient with the whole thing by this point: Sterland's career is distinctly in two parts: 10 successful years with Sheffield Wednesday and 4 equally successful years with Leeds United split by four months at Rangers. Despite being played out of position, Sterland hit the ground running with a goal on his debut against Hamilton Accies although he jokes he never quite nailed his celebration. Wilkinson needed warriors and he got one in Sterland, who took to the task at Leeds United with an emotional and a professional commitment. He revelled in the Elland Road atmosphere and played with the sense that every day was the best of his life.The Owls were promoted to the Second Division a year later, but Sterland was still very much a fringe player, making just two league appearances. However, he emerged as a regular player in 1980–81, when still only 19 years old, playing 22 league games and scoring once in the Second Division. I didn’t know anything else but football, I had four operation on my ankle. Howard Wilkinson (Manager for Wednesday at the time) offered me a new contract as long as I could prove myself fit but I couldn’t do it, I didn’t want to cheat myself to get the contract. I hung my boots up early. It’s all true. 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. In a testosterone-fuelled dressing room containing the likes of Vinnie Jones, David Batty, Chris Kamara and Ian Baird, the high pursuit of good times had a ringleader in Mel Sterland. Like the coolest gang at school they prowled the outlands of the Second Division, where nothing was out of bounds and nothing was serious, until the whistle blew and it was time to go to work.

It’s easy to say ‘move on and get on with it’ and I’ve been down the road and it’s difficult.” Boozing 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 ] 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.” 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)In this game they showed streetwise maturity to see off the tournament’s top scorers. They were as adept at the dark arts as the Spaniards who are deep-rooted in clever game management. When it mattered, they had the skill level that Trafford showed to finish off the job. 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. 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: 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. 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.”