1962: DANNY BLANCHFLOWER Interview | Face to Face | Classic Sport Interviews | BBC Archive

"I do believe in authority, but it has got to be good authority. I see no other reason for authority unless it's good" - Danny Blanchflower.

Tottenham Hotspur and Northern Ireland footballer Danny Blanchflower faces one of the most challenging opponents of his career - the probing and incisive Face to Face interviewer, John Freeman.

Is Blanchflower as difficult and aloof as people say? Are footballers intelligent? Is the game evolving? What does he make of the sudden influx of middle-class intellectuals following soccer? Is the way the media report on football fair?

Originally broadcast 18 March, 1962.






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