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Hutch on CWR at about 11.30 today if anyone wants to listen.

Just bumping this again. In this extract Tommy reflects on how luck can play a huge part in life. He tells the story of being very close by when the Birmingham pub bombs went off. “The fickleness of fate was brought home to me a week after the German game. I had been to see my family in Fife...

Also they were going to muscle in and boot the CCFC academy from the Higgs (admittedly given the opportunity by Fisher’s stupid comments about not needing the Higgs). I remember the desperate days after this of Fisher looking at school playing fields as possible academy sites. It seemed like...

After 5 years of continued success and improvement, why wouldn’t he be.,

Thanks mate. I hope you enjoy the book.

My son has found out there was a problem at the PayPal end of things. If you try again now it should work. Any problems please let me know. I’m pleased you sent this message as when my son looked, there were a few people who have tried to buy the book but had the same problem as yourself. I am...

Sorry about that mate. I will get the technical department ( my son) to have a look at it. I’ll let you know when he’s fixed it!

Just to bump the thread Here is Tommy’s description of that famous goal at Highbury in 1972 “By the time we went to Highbury in my fourth game for the club, I had already scored my first Coventry goal, a 25-yarder in a 3-1 win against West Ham. I didn’t think I would score a better goal that...

Point proven!

I’ve not seen it but it couldn’t have been as bad as Teresa May and Dancing Queen. Why not just walk out and do your speech, no fanfare needed.

As far as I can remember, Johnson got an 80 seat landslide by attracting 42% of the vote (not the total electorate). Of those people that voted, presumably 58% didn’t want him. It strikes me that to end up with the result we did shows that the first past the post system is simply wrong. The...

Ha! That’s kind of you to take the time to come on and say that. It was my first time on the radio so just pleased I was even vaguely making sense!

Below are details for an evening with Tommy Hutchison and Barry Powell. Chance to meet and have a chat and a photo with Tommy and to buy a signed book too!

Should have the info for this tomorrow.

Many of you have mentioned being at Tommy’s debut for the club, a 3-2 win over Man City. Joe Mercer and Gordon Milne had taken over as managers in the close season and were dubbed the “M Men” by the Telegraph. Mercer had left Man City at the end of the previous season, refusing to be ‘moved...

He played three seasons for Merthyr Tydfil after leaving Swansea

I thought I would place another extract from the book here just to keep the thread ticking along. Tommy played with many legendary football characters during his career. In the excerpt below he tells the story of lining up alongside George Curtis in a friendly charity match at Lichfield City...

Just been listening to Adrian Chiles on the radio. He had some ex-England rugby player on with him ( don’t know who it was). Adrian asked him why, at its inception, professional rugby hadn’t learnt from football’s mistakes and why they are making such a financial pigs ear of things. The rugby...

Thought it might be nice to give a few extracts from the book as a way of nicely bumping the thread. I’ll try and use a few from Tom’s time at City. That said this first one is from his childhood. Tommy grew up in a poor but happy family in a Fife mining village. In the excerpt below he gives...

No, first book on Hutch. Really surprising when you think that there are a few books on ex-City players, but none on the player most would agree is our best ever.