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Classic View From The Boundary On BBC Sounds

Hello, this is Jonathan Agnew with another offering from the Test match special archive

as we go back to another classic view from the boundary.

In 1966, England were crowned football world champions of the likes of Bobby Ball, Jeff

Hurst and Gordon Banks, leading them to victory at Wembley Stadium.

Well, another linchpin of that team with his famed tenacity and toothless smile in midfield

was Nobby Styles.

Mankunian, Bournem bread, styles played for Manchester United over 300 times is a legend

in the Northwest.

As well as that old Trafford, Nobby was a regular at the cricket ground as well.

In 1997, during the Ash's test against Australia, he popped along to the old commentary

box to join Graham Fowler and Neville Oliver to take a view from the boundary.

Well, welcome back to Old Trafford and the gentleman who's sitting on my right

is at a longer sole-seation with Old Trafford but a slightly different one, the soccer one.

Nobby Styles, Nobby, welcome.

Thanks, great.

That's a big help.

You haven't exactly traveled a long way to get here today, have you?

One stop down on the Metro, nice and handy.

Well, it's probably a good job that you'd one stop down on the Metro

because if you were in the car this morning, you would have listened to Jonathan Agnew

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