h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I woke up early, very early, this morning. Nowt new there. But as I was laying in bed waiting (two hours or so) for the alarm to go off, letting me that I might as well get up, my mind wandered here and there, and somehow ended up at Highbury, 1968(ish), Arsenal against Stoke City, which was the first professional footie match I ever went to.

This was at a time when several first division teams had so many well-known players that you could reel off almost half the team without having to think about it.
Manchester United: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, Nobby Stiles, George Best, Pat Crerand.
Tottenham: Mike England, Pat Jennings, Martin Chivers, Cyril Knowles (nice one Cyril ), Alan Gilzean, Jimmy Greaves, Alan Mullery, Terry Venables.
West Ham: Bobby Moore, Frank Lampard, Billy Bonds, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Harry Redknapp.
Liverpool: Ron Yeats, Ian St John, Ian Hunter, Roger Hunt, Ian Callaghan, Tommy Smith.
Man City: Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee, Francis Lee, Glyn Pardoe.
Leeds: Jack Charlton, Norman Hunter, Billy Bremner, Allan Clarke, Johnny Giles.
Chelsea: Peter Bonetti, Chopper Harris, Peter Osgood, Terry VenablesPeter Houseman.

And Arsenal... except I couldn't remember all those memorable names, except for one - Frank McLintock. I haven't thought of Frank McLintock for years... probably decades, until this morning at 6am. And when I did eventually get up, make myself a cuppa and sit down on the sofa to listen to Danny Baker's Saturday morning show on FiveLive, who should be his guest this week?

That's right.

Incidentally, the other Arsenal players I was failing to remember are people like Peter Storey, George Graham, Bob Wilson, John Radford, Jon Sammels, George Eastham and George Armstrong.

Yes, Terry Venables was in both Chelsea and Tottenham.

Norman Hunter... wasn't he "bites yer legs"?

I think so...you wouldn't want to spit in his Bovril, anyway. Or Billy Bremner's, either.

Nor Chopper Harris for that matter

Liverpool - Ian Hunter. Was that before or after Mott the Hoople?