Episode 2 Late Kick Off Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

And you think Michael McIntxre gets good guests. From Sirs and lords to

Football league royalty. Welcome to Late Kick`off.

Cooking up a storm, it's bedn an eventful weekend for Chesterfield.

Barnsley's best ever business ` the man who started work at Oakwell 68

years ago and is still going strong. The only pair I ever had, mx mother

knitted them. Yorkshire is going to Wembley again, Tigers V Blades in

the FA cup semis. Well, the weekend brought otr teams

the usual mix of good and b`d ` and we've got the ugly sorted! That s me

and John Hendrie anyway, I wouldn't dare say that about Chris Morgan.

You can have your say too ` we read the good ones that are sent via

twitter. @bbclkoyl is the address. Where else to start but with the FA

Cup yesterday ` a superb quarterfinal win for Hull Chty, but

staying with our Football Ldague remit, the bigger story was at

Bramall Lane. Chris ` happy days are here again. Yeah, yesterday, you

could see how much this meant to everybody, the players and

supporters and everybody connected to the club. The staff as wdll. A

great achievement ` for a ldague one club to be going into a Wembley FA

Cup semifinal is magnificent. You are better placed than anybody else

to have seen the changes as the season has gone on. Has it taken

your aback what has been happening? To be honest, Nigel has to take a

lot of credit for it. When he came in, we didn't have a great start to

the season, he came in, no big fuss, just told the players what he

wanted. He repeats it all the time. To be fair to the lads, thex have

taken it on board. We now h`ve players playing the best football

they've ever played since they came to the club. Nine wins in a row

tells it own story. Something lovely about a Clough as a manager, and a

Clough going to Wembley. Absolutely. His old man didn't get therd, never

won the FA Cup final. They got to the final. It would be great for him

if they could go all the wax. It must be a tough task. All credit to

Nigel. I love the way he works his football clubs, at Derby Cotnty he

don't have much money. He sdt solid foundations, through the ac`demy to

the first team. Given time, he would do the same at Sheffield. A good

signing as manager. My abidhng memory is of a fully bearded Adam

Cork, you have another bearded wonder, John Brayford. It is the

look now. They are going for that look. He does take stick, btt he is

a great signing for us. He has come in and just proved why he h`s come

from, a premier club, he has been excellent but he needs to look at

that beard. It is fearsome. I tell you what we're going to mention

Hull City, the Tigers a story in their own right. When the draw was

made, Manchester City were still in the competition. Both Hull `nd

Sheffield United would have wanted one another. It is a great draw for

our region. Steve Bruce has done a great job. At the start of the

season, you were sat five points above the relegation zone and taken

that. They have been excepthonal this year. Hopefully it will not be

a distraction from their le`gue form, but Chris, Europe, yot could

be in Europe? Yes, as daft `s it sounds we could be. I think it is a

great semifinal for the reghon and as we said yesterday, when xou get

to the semis, you don't want Arsenal and Man City. A big occasion like

that, at Wembley, two reallx good teams, both teams that is the draw

they both wanted, that is not us being disrespectful to Hull City.

They are a Premier League ottfit and it will be real tough game for us.

We'll look forward to it. A lot to happen till April.

Well, we move ten miles or so from Sheffield now, to another of our

region's form sides. Ahead of the weekend Chesterfield sat proudly on

top of League Two with just 12 games remaining. The man who's led the

Spireite's resurgence is manager Paul Cook, and we've been whth him

around a lively return to hhs old club Accrington.

Football in general, people come onto things too quick. If you go

somewhere and you're not re`dy to go. You'll come back. What we're

trying to do, myself and thd staff, we're trying to take the cltb

forward at a nice steady pace. Where can this club go? Let other people

answer that. I have ambitions to manage at a higher level. I have

ambitions to manage this cltb at a higher level. I do not like getting

involved and saying stuff, xou can shout your mouth off. Footb`ll puts

you on the seat of your pants quickly. This the pre`match nerves

bit. This afternoon ` Chesterfield and

Accrington Stanley! Three goals down, missed ch`nces,

penalty appeals rejected, D`n Gardener stretchered off. Accrington

down to ten men at half timd. Tempers flared. It is a hostile

game. You are always open to criticism, as a manager you have to

be able to take criticism. Hf you think you are the bees knees, I

don't think I am. You don't get everything right. If you ard not

prepared to know you have f`ults and make mistakes, you live in ` shallow

world. Cook banished from the dugout for the second half put central

defender Ian Evert up front in desperation. All we are singing is

give us a goal. The experimdnt paid off but it finished 3`1 to Stanley.

Poor but we will still go up, no problem. Shocking referee. Can't

blame it all on him though, we had an off day. What do you do on days

like this? Go to the pub. G`ve a couple of sloppy goals and we missed

a couple of great chances and in the end we get nothing. I don't know

where we're sitting... We'rd still top. We're at Wembley and wdre

having a torrid time. But there are plenty of people who would swap with

us. Media interest in Chestdrfield is booming partly due to th`t

Wembley appointment at the dnd of the month when his crew will attempt

to emulate the class of 2012 in the Johnstons Paint Trophy final. What

an opportunity! This time bdcause no mistake.

I think about Wembley every second minute of every day, anyone who says

different is telling lies. Ht is a fantastic day for the club. Four or

five weeks before it it is just great. We look forward to it. I

don't ban talk of it. We talk about it. How can you ban talk of Wembley?

I get tickets and different stuff every day. It's great. You dream of

things like that when you'rd a young lad. Being a manager is no

different. Thank you very mtch. See you soon. It's been like a cribs but

it's not my house. See you later. Still smiling ` and with good reason

` despite us putting the mockers on Chesterfield's weekend! Mord on that

in moment, but first our other two in League Two.

Sir Ian Botham was famously once a Scunthorpe player but they seem to

be copying Sir Geoffrey by getting there in singles. They went ahead

against Northampton early in the second`half. When the visitors had

former Doncaster man Ricky Ravenhill sent off for a second yellow card,

the three points looked asstred . The Cobblers equalised throtgh the

second half for the eighth draw in ten games for Scunthorpe. All those

draws proved costly. York chty, Nigel Worthington taking his team to

Wembley, one day short of the year since its first day in charge. A

different kind of winning goal forhim this week. More chances came

for in form City but one`nil will do nicely. Mansfield away tomorrow for

Worthington's 50th game in charge. It seems like nobody wants to lead

from the front in league two. York marching up the hill, six unbeaten,

only four points off the pl`y`offs. York more points than anybody else

in 2014 so far. Back to Chesterfield, they had a bad day,

and the manager was a naughty boy as well. Yes, there at the top of the

league. Everyone has a bad day the office. It is how you react to that.

He said, let's move on here. It is difficult going back to your old

club. You want players to pdrform for you on the day. He has to go

back and get result because the local Accrington Stanley fans will

be on his back. But this is comic or that scene. He has to look `t the

big picture in saying, right boys, onwards and up words. I was

interested to hear his take on Wembley, he is not banning the W, it

is encouraged. I got asked the same words last week if we had b`nned the

word. Wednesday ex`mac the boys have worked hard. It is an opportunity so

why not talk about it. Why not look forward to it. I agree totally with

Paul Cook. You have worked hard to get the so talk about it and enjoy

it. Scunthorpe are enjoying themselves at the moment, 18 games

unbeaten. Are thes draws becoming a problem? No, if you were sat in a

promotion position. It will all come down to the last month of the

season. If you get the ball to go over the line, that's when ht

counts. Psychologically, we have not been beaten for so long, it is

massive. Big chance blown against ten men at the weekend? I know they

are down at the bottom, but they have spent a few bob and thdy have

high hopes for the rest of the season. Would you like to bd here?

He is happy with that. Chesterfield and Scunthorpe still top in league

two. Coming up... Hell and high water in the

championship. Seven! And ond sharp operator and Billy Sharp go man on.

And it's to Doncaster we go now as Neil Morrow starts his round up of

what happened in the Championship on Saturday at the Keepmoat ` where

Rovers had the upper hand on Huddersfield.

Doncaster were beaten by five last week while Huddersfield won by the

reverse score but on Saturd`y it looked like Doncaster were the side

in form. Billy Sharp did wh`t he always does, his little toe poke

made one nil to Rovers after half an hour. They doubled their le`d

through David Cotterill ten minutes into the second period, makhng a

point about his fitness levdls. Huddersfield put in a strangely

muted performance and rarelx threatened to repeat their heroics

of last week. Rovers the thoroughly deserved winners of the Yorkshire

derby. Danny Wilson needed proof hhs side

could bounce back after thehr thumping by the Terriers. The first

half produced few chances. This shot from Djamel Abdoun was the closest

to a goal. A delightful bit of skill put the Reds in front against Forest

six minutes into the second half. The former Bayern Munich yotngster,

Dale Jennings, with this superb finish from 20 yards. Barnsley were

not comfortable and needed this terrific save by Luke Steeld but

they held on claiming three potentially vital points cole the

end of the season. Unfortunately for Barnsley,

Sheffield Wednesday couldn't do any favours for their South Yorkshire

neighbours, and relegation threatened Yeovil. In the fhrst half

of few chances in Somerset, a sweet strike from Ishmael Miller put the

Glovers ahead in the 41st mhnute. Wednesday went further behind, soon

after the second half resumdd. Again it was Miller, this time with a

wonderful strike to make it 2` nil. And Wednesday's afternoon wdnt from

bad to worse, when Sam Hutchinson was sent off later on for a second

yellow card. A bad day at the office for the Owls. Leeds were arguably

the better side in the first half against Bolton, but an injury time

goal for Joe Mason proved the game's turning point. If United cotld

consider themselves unlucky to be behind at half`time, the second half

was a horror show. Lukas Jutkiewicz doubled Bolton's lead, and soon

after, poor marking and another free kick saw Leeds' defence go @WOL

again ` Zat Knight with the finish. Jutkiewicz then turned provhder for

Wanderers' fourth, Mark Davhes handling the ball home in the 7 st

minute. Bolton's fifth came when Brazilian Andre Moritz hammdred home

Wanderers' overwhelming adv`ntage. United did grab a late goal through

Matt Smith, but it was no consolation on an awful aftdrnoon

for Leeds and Brian McDermott. Only Leeds in the top half, as f`r as we

are concerned, but only just. Non`movers at least after S`turday's

disaster. Huddersfield and Wednesday both down one, and the tablds show

just how important those wins were for Doncaster and Barnsley, with

both Yeovil and Millwall winning too.

Why is it, Chris, that some players just suit one club so well? Billy

Sharp and Doncaster just sedms to go together. Yeah, in both spells, he

scored goals. Obviously I played with Bill at Sheffield Unitdd, and

he is an out`and`out goal`scorer. I was actually at that game S`turday,

and I think he's got a good foil as well in big Chris Brown. Thdy play

well together, but, yeah, Sharp as a goal`scorer. I think he has found a

home at Doncaster. He has come back to South Yorkshire, and he looks

happy and as though he is enjoying football again. A good day for the

teams struggling at the bottom all round in the Championships, John.

Barnsley, Dale Jennings. Thhs is a boy with a big reputation. He has

had problems to overcome ` hnjury and discipline problems. Can he

fulfil his promise now? I'd like to think so. Obviously he was out in

Germany. He went to Bayern Lunich. Strength coming off the lind there.

He knows he can come inside and have a crack at goal. That has bden a

problem for Barnsley this ydar, scoring goals. It always will be. I

think the key is at the back. If they can keep clean sheets, they

have a chance of staying on. I'm not sure they've got enough goals in

there and such. He certainlx has his part to play. A cracking go`l. When

you are looking at a situathon like that, fighting for every pohnt, you

need some individuals to stdp up. He has the ability to do that. Just a

quick word on another of yotr old clubs, Leeds. We saw Chris Stirk,

the groundsman. He was like the boy with his finger in the dyke trying

to stem the water at half`thme on the weekend. The flow of go`ls

couldn't be stemmed, though. Problems after problems. It was a

shambles. They would have probably thought they had a good chance at

half`time, just one down. When you concede two free kicks and bad

marking back`to`back within minutes, then you've got problems. Brian

McDermott, we understand, spoke to the owners after the game. H would

love to have heard that conversation. It's difficult for

Brian. The sooner it gets sorted out, the better. Next meeting is on

Thursday. Hopefully the picture will become clearer for Leeds Unhted

fans. Going to League One now, and Sheffield United's Cup engagements

meant no game for Rotherham this weekend, so our only action was

Bradford's match at promotion`chasing Brentford. It

wasn't quite the curse of the old boy, but it was Bradford`born

Clayton Donaldson who put the home side in front after an hour.

15th goal of the season for the former York striker. It bec`me these

two bantams when on` loan Chelsea man George Saville scored, `nd that

means back`to`back defeats for Phil Parkinson's City. John, thex are

safe enough, but is their sdason in danger of fizzling out?

Truth be told, they are onlx about six points above relegation. It was

only the two 1`nil victories over Port Vale and MK Dons. I thhnk they

still need a few victories. Fingers crossed they will still be safe as

houses. Quiz time now. Two of Don Rovers' finest get the chance to go

man`against`man in Man On. Richie Wellens, midfield. Billy Sh`rp,

striker. What is the oldest of Britain's five classic horsd races?

St Leger. Correct. I'm a galbler, aren't I? What is the capit`l of

Australia? A. LAUGHTER. Which former England player and

manager was born in Doncastdr? Kevin Keegan. Kevin Keegan. I put that

buzzer in! I got that. What, no What won this year's Oscar for best

film? 12 Years A Slave. Who will Doncaster Rovers play on thd last

day of the season? Leicester, away. Two points for that? How many

substitutes are allowed in the football league? Three. Sevdn. How

many substitutes on the pitch?! What is the name of Scooby Doo's nephew?

Oh, what is it?! I don't know. I watch it every day with the kids.

Scooby Doo's nephew. Shaggy. Scrappy! Arggh!

Calm down, Richie, it's onlx a game. Honestly, some of them take it far

too seriously. Now, the word "legend" is b`ndied

around far too easily in thd world of football. But Barnsley's Norman

Rimmington is someone who properly deserves the title. Norman hs one of

the nominees for a Football League Unsung Hero award ` and aftdr 6

years in the Tykes' service, we say he fully deserves it. Nathan Lord

has been to meet him. # Cos he gets up in the morning

# And he goes to work at night. # And he comes back home at 5:3 .

# Gets the same train every time... #.

Meet Norman Rimmington, the most loyal man in football. He's 90 years

of age and he's still working as kit man for his beloved Barnslex.

# And he's, oh, so good. And he's, oh, so fine.

And he's, oh, so healthy. # In his body and his mind... #

Good lad. How are you? Mmm. I'm all right. I've got me minion, haven't

I? Nah, you don't talk to us on a Monday. Just ignore us. I whll this

Monday for you. # A well`respected man about town...

#. Norman signed for the Reds `s a

goalkeeper during the wartile league in 1946 after leaving his job as a

fitter down in the pits. I was 3 years of age when I started here. We

had the training session, and my job was to evade incoming forwards. So

they came at you and tried to eat you. Corner kicks and everything.

They just went to eat you, xou know? A lot more physical. I think it s

better that they seem to protect the goalkeeper so much nowadays. It s

far better than being hit. @fter a dislocated shoulder, two broken

metatarsals, five broken fingers, and a broken leg, Norman decided it

was time to hang his boots tp in 1952. But that didn't stop him from

working at his club. For thd last 62 years, he's gone on to do jtst about

every job at Oakwell. I was player, coach, groundsman, and physho. And

kit man. So I've done 'em all. Nowadays, Norman spends most of his

time at the club in here, the laundry room. This is where all the

work is done. But it is the glory days on the pitch he likes to

remember. What about these, Norman? How have goalkeepers' gloves changed

since when you started? I ndver wore them. Never? No. We never h`d

gloves. The only pair I had, my mother knitted them. And if it was

raining, they were bloody useless anyway. But, no, they all wdar them

now. Everybody wears them, don't they? It must've stung your hand,

though, when the ball hit your hand. Well, aye. That's why I broke my

fingers. My fondest memory, I have so many, I should think when we got

two promotions, with Allan Clarke, and then when we went into the

second division, and then of course the old team in the Premier League

with Danny. They were great times, you know. But we've had rough times

as well. I've seen, in my thme, 27 managers, which is ridiculots,

really. He's a great lad. Hd knows the job. He has to work with what

he's got, though, hasn't it? He s not a magician. He is the f`bric of

the club, and without him hdre, I would've lost myself, because over

the years we've been togethdr, we would be lost without him. Not so

sure he would say the same the other way around, but there you go. He's

been fantastic, and the amotnt of high regard he is held wih `ll the

players and all the staff as well. He is tremendous. It's good to have

someone like that around. Wd call him the "Barnsley legend", "Mr

Barnsley". Someone with expdrience. He still comes in every day, first

in and last to leave. He's magnificent. When you have someone

day in and day out for that long, it gives you a boost to come in

yourself and get on with yotr job. If he's coming in at night, what

excuse do we have? Does he offer you some tactical advice? Yes. Dvery

Monday morning he gives me ` rollicking. LAUGHS. Yes, he does.

Not just now. When I first stepped into management when I came here, he

was a tremendous help as well. I think from that point of vidw, he's

never changed. He'll still offer us great words of wisdom, from my point

of view, and the rest of thd staff as well. Do you agree with lost of

his tactics? You have to. H`ve you seen the size of his hands? I had a

chance to go to Southampton, Norwich, I could have gone with

Allan Clarke to Leeds. He bdgged me to go with him, but I said no. I

said, "I'm not interested". So I didn't go anywhere. I stayed here,

cos I love Barnsley, and Was brought up in Barnsley. I've lived `t

Barnsley my whole life, and I've watched Barnsley. And I've

dedicated... Well, it's been my life, hasn't it? At Barnslex all my

life. Every football club ndeds a Norman. Absolutely brilliant

character. Chris, he's more than just a kit man. He's the cltb, isn't

he? I don't think you can s`y enough about Rimmo. What a charactdr. I owe

him a lot from when I was a young player. A great help to all the

players. Young players, all the players, and like Danny said, the

managers over the years as well Fantastic fella. A real good

football man, and a gentlem`n. A proper Barnsley man. He's lhke a

special adviser to Danny Wilson Was he like that in your ear? On Monday

morning, if you were on a downer or a low, you would walk in to Norman

and see him, and always walk out on a high. He'll always put a smile on

your face. He would always say it the way it was, but in his own way,

but we all loved him. And e`ch and every football club, didn't we,

Chris? Much revered. It's good as well for the younger players to have

a bit of history about the place, and learn about the football club

they are playing for. It puts a different slant on it for the

younger players. Sometimes they should go and ask Rimmo for his

advice. They may not take it, but every wee bit of advice helps you.

He's a great character to h`ve around the place. It is gre`t to see

him and how fit and well he's looking. He's worthy of that

accolade, if he gets the aw`rd. Chris, will we still hear your voice

booming around the corridors at 90? I'd love to look as fit as Rimmo

does when I'm 90, yeah. Lovd to Incredible character. More clubs

should have a Norman Rimmington because they are the fabric of

football, and particularly the football league.

What is coming up? We have plenty on this week. On Tuesday in thd

Championship, it's a tough one for Barnsley, with league leaders

Leicester the visitors. Doncaster Rovers play Watford, and Ledds face

Brian McDermott's old side, Reading. Could be a pivotal game, th`t. On

Wednesday, the Owls travel to Wembley`bound Wigan. In League One,

Bradford go to Colchester, `nd Rotherham are at Oldham. Both of

those games on Tuesday. The next night, Sheffield United try to make

it ten wins in a row at homd to Carlisle. In League Two,

Chesterfield are at Wimbledon. York are at Mansfield, and Scunthorpe at

home to Southend, all on Tudsday. As ever, live commentary, rdports

and everything else on the games involving our teams will be covered

on your local BBC Radio station And a quick mention too for the BBC

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to John and to Chris. Enjoy your football this week, wherever you are

watching it, and we will sed you again next Monday night. Good night.