On World Cup opening day, 11 June 2010, when host nation South Africa take on Mexico, my show "Finally Friday", is to be broadcast all day, 24 hours non-stop, on PCJ RADIO online.
The show plays popular music from the 60s, 70s and 80s, mainly.
Throughout the day, "Finally Friday" will include regular WC reminders, including looking at each of the teams in this year's tournament, and their chances of progressing past the First Round.
There will also be short segments on all the previous World Cup tournaments, recalling host nations, finalists and winners.
So, whether at the office OR at home.....click in for some great music memories...and regular WC features, in 'The World Cup Countdown', throughout the day !!!
24 hours of music and World Cup chatter !!! All leading up to the biggest sporting spectacle EVER to hit South African, or African soil...the kick off of the 2010 South Africa World Cup !!!
You can catch the show on www.PCJMedia.com or www.Live365.com. For a podcast of each hour long "Finally Friday" show, go to www.pcjmedia.com/finally-friday.
Click in and kick back...it'll be great to have you along for the show...the 24 hour "PCJ Radio/Finally Friday World Cup Special" !!!
May 02, 2010 Rating
THE WORLD CUP ON RADIO by: Neil Hendrickse
I produce and present an hour long radio show, called 'Finally Friday', from Cape Town in South Africa.
A show of mainly music, I also featured "World Cup Wake" in March, looking back at all previous WC tournaments, recalling host nations, finalists...and winners, from the first WC in 1930, to the last one in Germany four years' back. Thereafter, currently, to be included in the show for all of April and May, is my "World Cup Countdown", where I look at the teams in each of the eight groups making up the First Round of this year's tournament, from Group A to Group H.
The show is available as follows:
On the WWW, 'Finally Friday' is broadcast every Friday, and all week, on PCJ RADIO, part of the PCJ MEDIA network, at www.PCJMedia.com; on Weekends, via UK based southhertsradio.com, and Saturdays, via USA based kdxradio.com.
The show (and all archived shows too) are also available anytime, as a podcast or download, at the bottom of the 'Finally Friday' show page of the PCJ Media website, again...at www.PCJMedia.com, or via radio4all.net or iTunes.
On the airwaves, the show is available, at various times, on South Herts Radio, on 97.9 - 102.5 FM; KDX Radio (Seattle and Washington), KPBX Radio in Waco, Texas, on 94.5 FM; to Kenya, via Radio Kenya (the KBC); to Indonesia, via Radio Sonora; to New Zealand, via World FM Radio on 88.5 FM, and various others.
For more broadcast details, times and frequencies, go the PCJ Media website, www.PCJMedia.com.....or just google "Finally Friday with Neil Hendrickse" - a few links will appear.
England's group, Group C, is discussed in the show of April 23rd. That's "Finally Friday with Neil Hendrickse" - check it out. I'm sure you'll enjoy the music too.
Jun 19, 2009 Rating
Englis players in SA by: David Norton
Neil, I know it was'nt the seasos you talking about but who can forget the great Sir stanley Matthews who dis so much for SA football.
Jun 19, 2009 Rating
Players who graced UK & SA football by: David Norton
Neil, you forgot about Peter Whithe Aston Villa and Albert Johannson SA player for Leeds United and of course Gary Bailey.
Mar 22, 2009 Rating
THOSE HERO'S OF 66 IN SOUTH AFRICA by: Anonymous
Staying with the topic, it's quite amazing that eight of the 1966 WC winning squad played football in SA.
Goalkeeper Gordon Banks played as a guest player for Hellenic in the 1971 season.
Centre-half Jack Charlton was here in 1975, doing coaching sessions at Highlands Park, and again in 1979, when he played for the Bobby Charlton XI. Let me digress for a moment, to look at that tour. The Bobby Charlton's All Stars squad was as follows: Ron Springett, Ron Yeats, Roger Hunt, Geoff Strong, Ron Wilson, Ian Storey-Moore, Bobby Charlton himself, and brother Jack, Dave Sadler, Bobby Moore, Arfon Griffiths, Terry Paine, Keith Newton, Chris Lawler, Raymond Treacy and Eoin Hand.
Their tour itinery was:
6 July - beat Transvaal XI 1-0 in Joburg (18,000 att), Charlton (Bob) getting the only goal.
8 July - lost to Natal XI 0-1 in Durban.
14 July - lost to South African XI 0-2 at the Rand Stadium in Joburg (8,000 att) and
15 July - lost to Kaizer Chiefs 1-2 at the Orlando Stadium in Joburg (40,000 att).
Some comments from the squad (from "Soccer through the Years, 1862-2002, the first official histroy of South African Soccer" by Peter Raath):
Storey-Moore (after the Chiefs game) - "They lacked dicipline and played to the crowd. They managed only two goals against ateam whose average age is 38 and-a-half, and who had played a hard game against the national tean the day before. In our prime we would have thrashed them 10 or 15-nil!"
After the game against the SA XI, Jack Charlton remarked to The Citizen - "If our chaps had been the same age, on average, we would have buried you alive. This was pretty fair English fourth division stuff today."
Terry Paine - "Your chaps have no idea of how to penetrate a defence, and they shirk responsibility by passing the buck - the ball - to someone else." Sadly, the standard of football in SA, although an improvement on then, is still not great.
Anyway, back to those hero's of 66! Half-back Nobby Stiles didn't play here in SA but skipper Bobby Moore graced these shores. He was here in 1970, doing coaching clinics, played for Hellenic in 1974 and again, as a guest player, in 1975, and, of course, was here in that same aforementioned Charlton's All Stars in 1979.
Alan Ball played for Hellenic too, in 1976, Geoff Hurst for Cape Town City as a guest in 1973, also playing for the Malcolm Allison All Stars the same year (that's another story), having coached here in 1970; Roger Hunt guested for Hellenic in 1971 and returned, eight years later, with Charlton's All Stars. Bobby Charlton, besides the All Stars tour, played for Arcadia Pepsi in 1976.
George Eastham is the other one, playing for Cape Town City in 1970 and Hellenic from 1971-74. Terry Paine, after the Charlton All Star tour, came back in 85 and is still here, very involved in the local football scene.
Mar 01, 2009 Rating
Kevin Keegan in South Africa by: Neil
Kevin Keegan, then England captain, played as a guest player for Cape Town City in 1978, along with other top UK pro's, Mick Channon and John Sissons. Channon was also a guest player but Sissons had been with City since 73. Frank Lord, who enjoyed huge success as manager of Cape Town City from 1969 to 1973, and again from 1976 until their demise in 1979, winning the BP League Championship in 76.
Feb 26, 2009 Rating
kevin keegan by: Anonymous
I'm pretty certain I saw Kevin Keegan playing for Cape Town City in the early '70s.
Feb 05, 2009 Rating
CAPE FOOTBALL MEMORIES OF ENGLISH PLAYERS by: Neil
In keeping with the UK / SA link, i'll be attending a get together of about a hundred ex-National Football League (NFL) players this coming Saturday evening, among whom are mainly English players, including George Eastham.
Two of the ex-Cape Town City players, Gary France and Tommy Claxton (both signed from Bury) have agreed to a radio interview, to chat about their years of playing football in SA.
I am an internet radio host on www.springbokradio.com and will be recording the interview for the station, probably early next week. i hope to make a series of this, and will request interviews from other attendees at Saturday night's bash.
It may be interesting to UK residents to hear the comments and memories of those halcyon days of football in the Cape, from the players themselves.
Gary France played for CT City 1969 to 1979, in that time winning two BP League Championship titles, three Castle Cup triumphs (like the UK's FA Cup), two UTC Bowls (like a Top 8 Knock Out competition)and two Champions of Champions Trophies (like the UK's Community Shield), also winning the Foreign Footballer of the Year award in 1969. He went on to become Player/Manager of amateur club Bellville City and to manage other amateur teams, Wynberg and Vasco Da Gama. In that 69 season, he had ended as leading goalscorer with 34 goals.
Claxton was a brilliant winger who played for the
City from 1969 to 1972, picking up two Castle Cup medals, one Bowl title and a Champions of Champions medal.
I'd also like to get an interview with George Eastham, who had a hugely successful career here in SA, playing for Cape Town City as a 'guest' in 1970, winning a Castle Cup medal with France and Claxton, and then as a 35 year old Player/Manager for the other Cape club, City's biggest rivals, Hellenic, less than 10 kms down the drag from City's Hartleyvale Stadium in Observatory (capacity 30,000), in Green Point at the Green Point Stadium (40,000).
With Hellenic, he guided them to the League Championship, the Coca Cola Shield (like the Carling Cup) and the Bowl, all in 1971, leading to him being named the Sunday Express Footballer of the Year. From 73 - 74, he was Assistant Manager under his father, also George, winning a Shield and a Champion of Champions.
In 1975, he moved to East London United as Manager and in 78 to Dynamos, a Durban club, ending his managerial career in SA in 1980 with Moroka Swallows.
Once the interviews have been recorded and i'm aware exactly when they'll be aired, i'll post the details as to the time of the shows and which players are to be featured in each show.
But for now, France and Claxton will be the first show - maybe some readers would be interested in their recollections of days in Cape Town when crowds of 30,000 - 40,000 were not uncommon in the Mother City.
