Whether you are a football enthusiast or simply appreciate moments frozen in time, this print is sure to evoke nostalgia while inspiring you towards your own personal goals – be it on the pitch or elsewhere. Once again readers get to see another part of Cocker’s range of skills, with Cohen stating, “he (Cocker) knew what an individual needed, he was very good that way, spotting areas that a player might need to work on. It shows how the world of club and international football differ with the lack of regular contact that was enjoyed at Leeds not able to be replicated for England, and as Endeacott reflects, “recreating such wonderful alchemy was a romantic but implausible idea at international level.

England senior manager Sir Alf Ramsey noted this as “it showed that he (Cocker) would influence, for the better, the player’s future conduct” and was no doubt part of Ramsey’s decision to promote Cocker to trainer of the senior England squad and therefore a key part of the 1966 World Cup preparations. His rising reputation attracted the FA’s attention, and Cocker helped the England team achieve their pinnacle success in 1966. In 1969, he appeared as a substitute for Kidderminster Harriers in an FA Cup tie against Telford United at the latter's Bucks Head ground. His football career continued from 1953 to 1958 at Accrington Stanley and it was from here that he retired as a player.Interestingly, the book details how Cocker “urged him (Revie) not take it as it was the worst international squad Les had known in his career; there were too many ‘ordinary’ players around. These collection of memorabilia was sent into us by Dave Cocker the son of former Leeds United coach Les Cocker. When Revie left in 1977 to become manager of the United Arab Emirates national team, Cocker followed as his assistant.

Cocker established himself as a highly-respected trainer and coach at Leeds United, helping to build a famous footballing dynasty alongside Don Revie. Despite the England team winning the competition, Cocker was not awarded a medal, and a posthumous campaign for Cocker to be awarded one was launched by his family in February 2008. In this print from Memory Lane Prints, we are transported back to the vibrant world of Leeds United Juniors in 1963. His novels include One Northern Soul, No More Heroes, Dirty Leeds, After Extra Time (Dirty Leeds Uncut), Disrepute - Revie's England and The Gigante. Working from numerous books and biographies, as well as (more importantly) previously unpublished notes written by Don Revie and Les Cocker, DisRepute – Revie’s England tells the truth about his exit from Leeds, his time as England boss and his departure to take charge of the United Arab Emirates national team.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Chapter 4 sees Leeds start to make their make on the English game with a first appearance in the 1964/65 FA Cup Final, although ultimately losing 2-1 to Liverpool. But there is an individual that connects both, and whose name is not so familiar – that of Les Cocker.

His rising reputation attracted the FA's attention, and Cocker helped the England team achieve their pinnacle success in 1966. The departure upsets many Leeds people, he is The Don after all, while his England appointment is not exactly met with universal approval either. Seemingly forever maligned as being too ‘professional’ and obsessed with money, Revie learns that two reasons for England’s downfall have been the lack of professionalism and the mismanagement of the sport by its penny-pinching and not entirely honest rulers. Indeed throughout the book, the FA is not seen in a good light, with the institution in one incident more concerned with looking after the FA Council members than those on the frontline. This turned out to be his only appearance for Wolves' first team and he was released at the end of the season.The "Detailed stats" tab shows a player's total appearances, goals, cards and cumulative minutes of play for each competition, and indicates the season in which it occurred. Now as a non-Leeds United fan and given my view that the film is deeply fictionalised for cinematic effect, I don’t have the same misgivings or deep rooted anger towards the film as many of the Elland Road faithful have. Meanwhile Les was starting on a path to connection with the England national team set-up, becoming trainer to the Under 23 side in November 1961. The main storyline of the book consists of the trials and tribulations endured by Revie’s England from 1974 to 1977, the High Court in 1979 is revisited too to recount Revie’s appeal case against the FA after their 10-year ban on him from club management after he walked out on England. But it doesn’t take long for him to realise that there might be too many obstacles in his way to achieve the success he craves, and he can only look on helplessly as his beloved Leeds United slides alarmingly too.