What do Kevin Keegan, Neil Warnock, Sir Bobby Charlton, Harry Redknapp and Brian Clough all have in common?….<\/p>\n
They have all been on the receiving end of some defensive ‘treatment’ from former Notts County left back Bob Worthington.<\/p>\n
Worthington, a mainstay of Jimmy Sirrel’s all-conquering side of the early 1970s, lifts the lid in a revealing Magpie Circle<\/a> podcast about Notts’ fearsome defensive wall which also included Brian Stubbs and David Needham.<\/p>\n His alumni of opponents who didn’t get past him included Keegan (Scunthorpe), Warnock (Rotherham reserves), Charlton (Preston North End), Redknapp (Bournemouth) and Clough (Sunderland Reserves).<\/p>\n “Kevin Keegan christened us the ‘the land of the giants’ because we had such a tall team. I didn’t used to worry too much about marking Kevin, he was a young, small lad in those days,” recalls Worthington.<\/p>\n “Neil Warnock did a bad tackle in a reserves game on one of our lads. \u00a0I caught him and the ball at the same time and he went six feet up in the air.”<\/p>\n “When I clattered Bobby Charlton playing for Preston at the end of his career, he just looked at me from the ground in disdain.”<\/p>\n “I was 16 playing for Halifax reserves at Sunderland in Brian Clough’s comeback game from injury. I wished him all the best.”<\/p>\n “I came up against Harry in Notts v Bournemouth games which were always very tasty. \u00a0Before the warm-up as we walked onto the pitch, I threw Harry a ball and said take a touch, ‘cos you won’t get one in the game.'”<\/p>\n Worthington’s hilarious anecdotes also include how he celebrated his only goal for Notts in over 200 games by dropping his shorts and giving a V sign to Magpies supporters for barracking the team.<\/p>\n And his vain attempt to try to help younger brother Frank Worthington pass his medical for Liverpool at the second time of asking.<\/p>\n To watch the full interview simply click play below or check our Podcast<\/a> page for more trips down Meadow Memory Lane with interviews from Notts County stars of the past.<\/p>\n Thursday 19th November 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n