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Brian Barwick's autobiography

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Brian Barwick - Anfield Days and Wembley Ways

He has had the privilege of rubbing shoulders with countless legends and held some of the biggest jobs in the game...from Chief Executive of the FA to Editor of Match of the Day. Perhaps the only job he hasn't done is pull on the shirt of his beloved Liverpool Football Club (although he did once score a diving header on Copacabana Beach). This is a remarkable journey from the terraces of Anfield to the corridors of power at Soho Square. As a BBC boss he worked with Jimmy Hill and Des Lynam, gave Alan Hansen and Gary Lineker their big breaks, clashed with Sir Alex Ferguson and made Pavarotti a surprise World Cup hit. A controversial switch to ITV followed, his friend Des joining him there. They gave the nation an early evening Saturday football show - for a few weeks. Then there was the FA. Barwick oversaw the completion of the new Wembley stadium and went on to hire Capello - and McClaren - before leaving for his next adventure. Throughout it all, he never lost his passion for the Reds. Growing up with greats like Shankly, Paisley and 'Sir' Roger Hunt saw to that. This is a warm, witty and sometimes poignant tale of a footy-mad Kopite who climbed to the top of the soccer ladder. There's an access all areas pass waiting for you. Join him in a celebration of our beloved game.



It looks quite interesting, but what I'd like, most urgently, to know about it is this: is Vlad in any of the pictures? Weren't they school chums?
 
I will have to have a look, chums might be over-egging it a tad, he was in the year above him, we were on talking terms me and Baz. In that year there was Les Dennis, Clive Barker and Barwick. In my year there was Steve Coppell, who I was friendly with, Doug Bradley who played Pin Head in the Hellraiser films (he was a mate of Barkers) , and an opera singer Sue Bickely. There were a few others around too I

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Aha! Thanks. Barwick was on LFCTV last week and they showed him posing with his team mates at Quarry Bank. Quite a conveyor belt of talent, and Les Dennis, that school.
 
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I will have to have a look, chums might be over-egging it a tad, he was in the year above him, we were on talking terms me and Baz. In that year there was Les Dennis, Clive Barker and Barwick. In my year there was Steve Coppell, who I was friendly with, Doug Bradley who played Pin Head in the Hellraiser films (he was a mate of Barkers) , and an opera singer Sue Bickely. There were a few others around too I

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You went to school with doug bradley? My best friend is married to his niece, I've met him a few times before he eloped to America.
 
Yes, I met him a couple of years ago , at a school reunion he seems to have uneloped from America, he was last seen on an advert on the back of buses for Direct Line, he has a web site where you can catch up.
 
Holly Johnson must have been there at the same time as me too, he must have been in the first year as I was leaving.

and others.................
Quarry Bank High School

John Lennon Rock musician, singer/songwriter, author and peace activist, and one of the founding members of The Beatles (Lennon named The Quarrymen after the school's first title).
Rt Rev Jonathan Bailey, Bishop of Derby from 1995–2005
Clive Barker writer of countless books and the films Hellraiser and Candyman
Former FA chief executive Brian Barwick
David Basnett, trade union leader
Stephen Bayley, architecture writer and Chief Executive of the Design Museum from 1986-9
Prof Edmund (Ted) Bellamy, Professor of Physics at Westfield College, London from 1960–84[3]
Jim Black, former Head of Presentation at BBC Radio 4 for fourteen years who introduced the Radio 4 UK Theme and Sailing By[4]
Doug Bradley, actor, who played the 'Pinhead' character in Hellraiser
Steve Coppell, football manager
Les Dennis, the TV personality
Prof Alan Deyermond, Professor of Spanish at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London from 1969–87
Peter Goldsmith (Lord Goldsmith of Allerton) who was appointed as the Labour government's Attorney General in 2001.
Derek Nimmo, actor
Ralph Price CBE, Chairman of Honeywell UK from 1971–81[5]
Labour cabinet ministers William Rodgers (who adopted the name "Quarry Bank" as part of his baronial title) and Peter Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney.
Joe Royle, football manager
Sir James Stirling, architect

Calder High School for Girls

Judith Kelly OBE, artistic director of London's Southbank Centre
Dr Diana Walford CBE, Principal since 2002 of Mansfield College, Oxford, and haematologist

Aigburth Vale High School for Girls

Bel Mooney (briefly), journalist
Elisabeth Sladen, actress (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures).

Quarry Bank Comprehensive School

John Power, previously a member of The La's and founding member of Cast


I did not realise that Judith Kelly had gone on the be Dame Jude Kelly,


Hmmmmmmmmmm


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anyway Quarry Bank did not do me any good academically whatsoever , but Barwicks book might be interesting


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