Hold The Back Page: Wilkinson Sacked/Graham In (1996)

Brian Woolnough, Steve Curry, James Mossop & Rob Hughes discuss Howard Wilkinson's sacking at Leeds United & George Graham being appointed as the new manager.

[@tomduggan51]

Wooddya, Thanks for this piece-'Hold the Back Page' was indeed a great show on Sky at this time with many great journalists having lively discussions such as this on a Friday night. RIP to those members who have since passed on.🙏

[@themannyproject6653]

Some of the points these guys bring up are more relevant than ever today

[@hairynews8348]

Never seen this show before, as I'd never had Sky back then. What a great show.

[@vdd]

Even in the 90's the show had the same theme tune :)

[@WOODDDDDDDYALUFC2]

Yes but it used to be on late Friday nights in the mid 90's.

[@TomRogersOnline]

This is excellent. The George Graham era starts to look more questionable in light of the allegations in that piece about Leeds keeping him on a retainer. I wonder to what extent the safety-first approach of Graham during the 1996/97 season was dictated by Caspian?

[@rshepherd45]

Is this the original Sunday Supplement?

[@PenguinDigital]

yes

[@royroyston8480]

This used to be a great show, when Brian Woolnough hosted it on Friday nights. I don’t know what the ratings were, that aside I don’t know why they then changed the format to Jimmy Hill’s Sunday Supplement.

[@dlamiss]

@@royroyston8480 Hill was considered a coup by sky when he left the BBC in 98 he himself was ditched by SKY a few years later

[@user-bk2ff4cg9e]

does anyone know the intro music?

[@NoName-jq7tj]

These were your proper tabloid hacks.

[@taranbains8535]

Graham cool arsenal manager did so much for us