Fifty Cup Finals

My Life In Football

Nick Collins

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785314193
• Year: 2018

For more than 20 years Nick Collins was one of the best-known faces at Sky Sports News, bringing audiences the fortunes of the England soccer team at World Cups and European Championships. He was also the live touchline reporter from 1992-97 as Sky Sports stunned the sports world by winning the TV broadcast rights to the newly formed Premier League. This is the story of Nick's life in soccer—from being on the Tottenham bus as it left Wembley with the FA Cup to visit Paul Gascoigne in hospital, through to the early days of the Premier League and beyond as he witnessed the drama first-hand at 11 major tournaments, nearly 300 England games, 25 FA Cup finals, plus Champions League, World Cup and Euro finals. Nick also recalls being with George Best in Manchester as United won the first Premier League, getting the hairdryer treatment from Fergie, and falling off a TV platform live on air outside Wembley.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword by Steven Gerrard
• Live on Air When the Axe Fell
• Bristol Days
• The Aldershot News
• County Sound and TVS
• BSB 1990: ‘It’s Smart to be Square’
• ‘A Whole New Ball Game’
• Blackburn’s Turn
• England and the Road to EURO ’96
• Glenn Hoddle’s England
• Kevin Keegan: For Club and Country
• The Arrival of Arsene Wenger
• The Invincibles
• England – The Sven Years Part One
• England – The Sven Years Part Two
• Jose Mourinho and the Rise of Chelsea
• England Fail to Qualify
• Champions League Odyssey
• ‘Benvenuto, Fabio’
• Roy Hodgson Takes Charge
• From Perfect 10 to 0/10
• Fifty Cup Finals
• Appendix
• Photo