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The New Football Pools funds fascinating oral history project
The National Football Museum is delighted to announce that work is to commence on cataloguing and conserving Kicking and Screaming, the most important film archive on the history of English football. The ambitious project is being funded by Sportech Plc, the owner of The New Football Pools.
Kicking and Screaming is a unique archive of living voices that was the basis for the 1995 BBC television series of the same name. A book was also compiled which included extracts from the interviews compiled by researcher Rogan Taylor and Andrew Ward. The six part television series compiled 4 hours of the interviews conducted although over 200 hours worth of material has remained on VHS in the vaults at the North West Sound Archive ever since. The project will see the VHS tapes transferred into a digital format and a database compiled to enhance research access.
Kicking and Screaming portrays the magic of the world’s most popular game through the words of footballers, managers and fans. It is a unique and nationally important collection of interviews and forms an exciting part of football history that will now be preserved for generations to come. A host of football legends including Sir Tom Finney, Sir Stanley Matthews, Gary Lineker, Stan Cullis, Billy Wright and Ian Wright tell their stories about personal experiences, famous games, England internationals and much more. Supporters also talk about their experiences through the ages, from eyewitness accounts of key games, FA Cup and World Cup finals through to fanzines and the excitement surrounding local derbies.
Once the project is completed, the resulting archive will be promoted by the Museum as a resource for researchers. In partnership with The New Football Pools it will also be the source of future displays, exhibitions and publications. In the near future it is hoped the material used in the BBC television series will be on display in the galleries to show a taster of what is to come.
