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This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
Tributes to the Greek pensioner who killed himself outside parliament. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
The 77 year-old said he could not survive on his pension. His death | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
has prompted riots in Athens will stop --. He is a hero. If it is how | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
it is appears to be, then he is a hero. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
The economy moves centre stage in the French presidential elections - | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
and not before time, say some. As intense fighting continues | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
around Damascus, the UN Security Council backs the deadline of next | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Tuesday for Syrian forces to end their offensive. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Also coming up in the programme: A landmark birthday for one of the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
greatest footballers, Tom Finney turns 90 today. How does the part- | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
time plumber compare to the superstar players of today? | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
He invented the Marshall amp - and rock music got a whole lot louder. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
We remember Jim Marshall who died today. But he also reckoned his | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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amps never damaged anyone's hearing. The amount of guitarists I ate meat | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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worldwide, they never said to me, pardon, what did you say? | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Hello and welcome. The deep desperation being felt by Greeks | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
struggling with the country's economic crisis has now been | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
defined by the actions of one pensioner. 77-year-old Dimitris | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Christoulas shot himself dead in a square opposite the Greek | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
parliament in Athens. In a note he left behind, he accused the | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
government of reducing his pension to nothing, leaving him unable to | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
meet his debts. His death has sent demonstrators back onto the streets, | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
leading to some clashes with security forces. For more on this, | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
joining me from Athens is the BBC's Mark Lowen. Considerable anger and | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
shock at the actions of this one pensioner? | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
A lot of anger here in Athens. There is a tense atmosphere at this | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
evening, riot police are already deployed braced for possible second | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
evening of protest. Greece once had the lowest suicide rate in the | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
European Union but that has brought to have doubled since the financial | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
crisis. Still they keep coming, crowds arriving to pay their | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
respects, leaving flowers and candles at the spot where a | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
pensioner shot himself in broad daylight. 77 year-old Dimitris | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
Christoulas, apparently despairing for his financial future. He left a | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
note, I see no other solution, he said, than his dignified end so as | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
not to resort to vision through rubbish bins. This is a tragic | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
moment for Greek society, the only thing needed now is contemplation | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
and silence. We are all heading there, today I | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
got paid might Easter bonus and instead of 400 Europe, I got 180. I | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
cannot manage to live on this. Dimitris Christoulas was a retired | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
pharmacist. Colleagues said he could no longer afford his | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
medication duty cuts to his pension. The farmers see where he used to | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
work stands locked up. He should have enjoyed a comfortable | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
retirement but these are the middle classes hit by punishing austerity. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
And Labour voiced admiration for his actions. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
He is a hero, it it is how it appears to be then he is the euro. | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
It is not easy to do something like this. Who can do it? | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
The outpouring of emotion here is in part because this case seems to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
represent a collective suffering of the Greek nation, a people whose | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
social fabric is tearing apart. Suicides, homelessness all on the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
rise. And Dimitris Christoulas could yet become a rallying point | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
for the anger of this country. That anger boiled over on to the streets | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
last night. Protesters who had gathered for a vigil Major clashed | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
with riot police. They heard petrol bombs and officers responded with | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
it's done grenades and tear gas. The peer is that there could be | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
further eruptions ahead. -- the fear. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
There were some minor scuffles in here next to where Dimitris | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Christoulas took his life earlier in the evening. But for the time | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
being it seems relatively quiet. But passions are running high in | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Greece, elections are just around the corner, at times when the Greek | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
people will vent their emotions. And the dominant emotion here at | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
the moment his anger. Joining us now from Athens is | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
psyhcologist Aris Violatzis, who works for a suicide hotline. The | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
death of this one pensioner is going to have quite an impact on | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
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the Greek Psyche, isn't it? Good evening from Athens. It is | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
definitely going to have an impact but let us not lose the big picture. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
This is something that I'm afraid is going to happen. Things like | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
that has been going on in Greece day-in, day-out. There are many | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
people who have died by suicide. Gallas Moore, the suicide rate we | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
understand has gone up something like 40%. A using a kind of pattern | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
among the people who are taking their lines? | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
There are many more men who died by suicide, six times more of them | :06:23. | :06:32. | |
then of women. Women try to die by suicide three or four more times | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
higher. Is it because the male is traditionally the breadwinner in | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
the family and feels unable to look after his family? That is one part | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
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of it. And the other part of it is that Greek men are more accustomed | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
to violence, bodily pain and things like that. They have demystified | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
the idea of using a gun or taking their lives because of Greek men | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
joining the Army. What kind of hell do you offer people on your suicide | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
hotline, what kind of problems do they come to you with? Are they | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
almost now exclusively linked to the economic crisis one way or | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
another? The economic crisis is greatly associated with the | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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phenomenon. But there is not just one calls. -- One calls. The Greek | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
social environment might now is not functioning. So the phenomenon has | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
been on the rise. That is why many people have been calling us trying | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
to ask for help, trying to break the isolation that they live in. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Because all those economic difficulties make people feel | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
burdened. That they are burden to others and others would be better | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
off without them. And the feeling of social belonging is also | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
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faltering because of the economic difficulties they face. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Another Eurozone country struggling to manage its economy is France. In | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
recent weeks, President Sarkozy has largely focussed his attention on | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
the threat of terrorism, an issue which helped him claw back ground | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
in opinion polls. Now, just under three weeks before the first round | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
of the Presidential election, Mr Sarkozy is reassuring voters that | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
the economy is on his agenda. In a campaign speech, he promised to | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
balance the budget and freeze French contributions to the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
European Union. And he said he didn't want France to suffer the | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
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same fate as what he called its European friends. | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
TRANSLATION: There is not a single French person who wishes that our | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
country should go through the same situation as that of Greece, or | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
that Spain is going through today. We should be aware of one thing. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Any let up on our commitments, any distancing ourselves from our | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
commitments, if there is any crisis of trust, we will find ourselves in | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
the same situation as that of Spain. I've been talking to Sophie Pedder, | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Bureau Chief at The Economist in Paris. She outlined for us what she | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
believes are the real challenges facing the next French President. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
The paradox about France is that it faces and is going to face some of | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the most difficult questions about the future of its welfare state, | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
what it can really afford especially at a time of crisis in | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the euro-zone. How it will finance pensions, child care. But these | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
issues are completely absent from the campaign. It will involve | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
difficult decisions for this next president, whoever is elected. It | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
will be difficult and unpopular decisions in some cases. And the | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
difficulty is that because they're not on the table during the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
campaign, the risk is there will be a lot of disappointment and | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
incomprehension on the part of the French. They feel that these | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
questions have not been discussed and therefore where are all these | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
hard decisions coming from? Today they set out their stalls. Francois | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Hollande said that this is what he would do after being elected. And | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
President Sarkozy has also spoken of his economic plans. Is this | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
campaign and to be fought on the economy? I do not figure it is, to | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
be honest. The Quested of the economy is now coming back onto the | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
agenda. And there is a responsible level of debate about reducing the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
deficit on both sides. The difficulty is how they do it and | :11:20. | :11:29. | |
both sides, in particular Francois Hollande, is focused on reducing | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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taxes. But their cautious on public spending, cautious about having to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
get across a painful message which is to say that there will be | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
spending cuts. So I do not think that that will be part of this | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
campaign at all. I think where it will be fought will be more a | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
question of will is the stronger leader, the more convincing present | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
to take France drew the next five years. Lizard that the French | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
really want to Trust as their next president. That could touch on | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
economic issues but also comes down to other things such as security | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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and social policy for stock --. United Nations-Arab League envoy to | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Syria, Kofi Annan, says he expects all fighting there to have stopped | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
within a week. He reported "alarming levels" of casualties | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
from the government's ongoing assault on rebels, despite regime | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
claims of partial withdrawals from three cities. But reports from | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
inside the country suggest clashes are continuing and more refugees | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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have been fleeing into Turkey. Jim Muir reports from Beirut. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Just 30 minutes' drive from Damascus city centre, shelling and | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
shooting in the suburb of Douma. Just four days from the deadline | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
for it to call off its crackdown, the regime seems to be pulling out | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
all the stops to finish all resistants were ever it finds it. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Activists say there is a real state of war here. Even closer to the | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
city centre, a video shows large numbers of government troops. No | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
sign here of the withdrawal that the Syrians say they have already | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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begun. And defines to the regime continues. Protesters laid siege to | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
a local government building near Damascus and tried to raise the | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
rebel flag. Far away to the bourse, government forces were also in | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
action attacking several towns including this one. Debtor to the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Lord. But the third biggest city in central Syria continues to take the | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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brunt of the battling. Clashes continue. Rebel fighters displayed | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
tenacity. Some of them took over and National Hospital. Under the | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
peace plan, rebel fighters are also supposed to stop their attacks | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
within two days of the government seizing all by events next Tuesday. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
So everything depends on the government itself complying with | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
that Tuesday deadline. Kofi Annan was clearly concerned at the | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
continuing bloodshed. All points of the planet are | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
crucial. But one his most urgent - the need for the cessation of | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
violence. Clearly the violence is still continuing. Alarming levels | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
of casualties and other abuses continued to be reported daily. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Military operations and civilian operations. Rasho plays a key role | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
in securing Sirin compliance and is critical of Western and Arab | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
support for the opposition, especially those calling for it to | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
be unarmed. TRANSLATION: even if the opposition | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
is armed to the teeth there will not defeat the Syrian army and | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
there will simply be slaughter and mutual destruction for many years. | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
Despite the supposedly imminent peace agreement, frightened | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
civilians are still fleeing across the border such as these families | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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Thousands of others have fled to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. If the | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
plan fails, there may be many more to follow. Here with me in the | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
studio, is the former Foreign Office Minister, Lord Mark Malloch- | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Brown, who also served as deputy to Kofi Annan when he was Secretary- | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
General of the United Nations. How far do you think the Syrian | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
authorities understand they would have to have the regime -- | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
ceasefire? They came up with the date of 10th April which is | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
different. It is not an outside imposed date with no exceptions. | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
This was as a result of a negotiation with Kofi Annan, it | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
usually takes a day or so for the shooting to complete the stop | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
because each side test each other and there are incidents. I think | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
they would be surprised at this final drop deadline for fighting to | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
stop. I suspect they anticipated something like that. Do you think | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
they have been racing fast at the moment to try to mop up as much | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
opposition strongholds as they can? Without a doubt. If you go to | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
before they accepted it, it was alarming, though using negotiations | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
as a cover to extend the period where they could clean up pockets | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
of armed opposition. There is a deadline now which makes the days | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
before it uncomfortable but as long as they implement it and meet the | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
commitments it does offer a date for this phase of the conflict. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Security Council said it would consider further steps if they do | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
not abide by what I have said they will. But it's not clear what can | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
be done, what is the or else? first good news is it is a UN | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
security council tentatively United with Russia and China still on the | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
outside. A unanimous presidential statement backing Kofi and an's | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
deadline. An early and important result for the diplomacy has been | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
to get Russia and China back onside. For the Syrians who look to the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Russians as their principal ally, this is a changed again. It is less | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
likely they will buck the revolution -- resolution, not | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
certain because they have broken their word lots of times in the | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
past. And knowing Kofi Annan, there was a great deal of resting on his | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
shoulders and there was scepticism the Syrian authorities might be | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
buying time by saying yes and the Turks are saying it is the only | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
show in town but they are sceptical. Will he be able to see it through? | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
Scepticism is the right thing to look at this win. He himself would | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
describe himself as sceptical. The Syrians have a terrible track | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
record of keeping their word. The opposition is fragmented and it's | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
hard to know who can guarantee the opposition is going to stop | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
fighting. It's a very tricky situation. But the major criticism | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
being made of his plan which is it does not call for regime change and | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
President Assad to sit down is unrealistic. You never start | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
negotiation asking for them to step down. That is a political death | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
warrant. It was why it was impossible to negotiate with | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
Colonel Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein. If you get everyone around the | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
table and begin negotiation that is a reasonable and after the | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
civilians who have died, an inevitable end result but Passat | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
will go. It is not the right place to start if you want negotiations | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
to get going -- President Assad. Thank you. Now a look at some of | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
the days other news: The Algerian news agency is reporting that seven | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
of the country's diplomats have been abducted in northern Mali. The | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
region has fallen to Tuareg led rebel groups. Algeria's Consul and | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
five officials were reportedly forced to leave the diplomatic | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
mission in the town of Gao by an unidentified group. The town has | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
fallen to Tuareg led rebel groups who are fighting for the autonomy | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
of the area. The Libyan government has insisted | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
that Saif al Islam Gaddafi, the son of the country's ousted ruler will | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
be tried in Libya and not handed over to the International Criminal | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Court. This follows an ICC ruling a day ago that Libya must make | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
arrangements to hand him over. Saif al Islam is wanted in connection | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
with the violent suppression of protests during last year's Libyan | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
uprising. In France, too small fires the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
breakout of the country's nuclear reactor have been put out. Smoke | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
inside the reactor triggered an automatic shutdown of installation. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
The country's utilities services say the fires are caused by hot oil | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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leaking from a pump on the primary cooling circuit of the reactor. | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Ears ringing? Well, the man to blame might be Jim Marshall. The | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
famous - even iconic - Marshall Amps - were his creation. Today the | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
man who become known as the "Father of Loud" has died aged 88. Jim | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Marshall originally owned a music shop in London before he expanded | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
his business. His amps went on to be used by most of the biggest | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
names in rock including Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. Andrew | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
Plant reports. His equipment would be used by the world's most famous | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
musicians. Helping create some of the industry's most iconic music | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
and burning Jim Marshall the nickname the father of loud. How do | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
you feel when you hear people say electronically amplified sounds | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
damage people's hearing? It is over exaggerated. Because the amount of | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
guitarists I meet worldwide, and I meet them all, they never say, | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
pardon, what did you say? His first amplifier was built in a | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
small London shop in the 60s, before long it became required kit | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
for a new style of sound. Making his name around the world. Born in | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
West London in 1923, he began drumming during World War II but it | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
was the Qatada made his name. The gunfire was popular with Jimi | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
Hendrix and his iconic and a fire finding fame in This Is Spinal Tap. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
This is what we used on stage but it's very special. If you can see, | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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the numbers all go to 11. Right across the board. 11, 11, 11. | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
that mean it is louder? Well, it is one ladder. Jim Marshall donated | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
several million to charities and received the OBE in 2003. The | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
success of his amplifiers lives on, tributes have been building up on | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
the internet site twitter in their thousands spanning several | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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Now, one of the Grail legends of English football celebrates his | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
90th birthday today. The forward, who devastated defences for Preston | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
North End his entire career, also played for England 76 times, | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
competing in three World Cups. But paid just �20 a week, he had to fit | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
the games around his job as a plumber. With his beautiful | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
dribbling skills and easy charm, at least one former team-mate insists | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
the only player worthy of comparison is current Barcelona | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
player Lionel Messi. So how do the legends of yesteryear compare to | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
the highly paid megastars of today's global game? With me here | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
in the studio is the sports watcher and commentator for the London | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
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It is more like the $30, I was trying to figure it out. My | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
prismatic -- but arithmetic needs help. It was quite good money. It | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
doesn't compare to the millions of David Beckham. But, it was good | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
money in those days. Were their spin-offs where top footballers get | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
big advertising contracts, there wasn't that side to it? Tom Finney | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
did not benefit from that, no. And you showed a clip of him dribbling | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
but it is a rare club because he played when not much of it was | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
recorded. TV have not come about. YouTube was not known. A player | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
like Lionel Messi who he has been compared with, you see him almost | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
every day. Like Lionel Messi is a good player. Tom Finney was never | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
booked. He was a player he was well behaved. And his contemporaries say | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
he was the best player. He never won a medal, he got a loses FA Cup | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
medal and was part of the England team that made the debut and lost | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
to America, a fairly infamous match. Everybody you talk to of the era | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
remembers him and says he was the best player. He had the technical | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
ability, normally players are one footed, strong or the left or right, | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
he started for England on the right wing and went to the left wing. He | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
endlessly supplied goals including scoring goals with his head. He | :25:47. | :25:54. | |
played a game where you illustrated the fact he was a plumber by trade. | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
You wonder how he fitted the time to fit it in! When you look at the | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
football greats, George Best in the UK, how does he sit? Most people | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
say he is part of that quartet, Maradona, George Best and some | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
people rate him a player who has earned greater honours, Stanley | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Matthews, higher than Stanley Matthews. People have a generation | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
talk about him and now they say it Lionel Messi is the nearest to Tom | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Finney. We will be able to judge and that is the pity, you cannot | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
really Gedge... It is difficult to compare different eras. The top | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
story: vigils are being held in Athens after a 77-year-old shot | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
himself dead outside the Greek parliament. And that is all from | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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the programme. Next, the weather. The weather will take an | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
increasingly cloudy issue, not just tomorrow but also much of the | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
Easter period. Increasing cloud and occasional rain. High pressure in | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the mid-Atlantic with a north-west air flow and the weather front | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
pushing down in the float to bring thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Patchy rain sinking star puts across Scotland and Northern | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
:27:35. | :27:36. | ||
Ireland, a few spots for the coast. Isolated spots for Norfolk but | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
otherwise drive. A cold start in the south with a widespread frost | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
in rural areas. It stays sunny for most of the day with patchy cloud. | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
Sunny spells in southern Wales, and the Midlands, clouding over from | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
the north and west with isolated spots in the afternoon. For | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
Northern Ireland, a similar picture, overcast for much of the day, the | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
cloud of thick enough to give light isolated showers. More general rain | :28:08. | :28:15. |