There was a house in Histon on a property programme, Histon has two pubs, a duck pond and a supermarket. The background of Histon football club is struggling currently in the United Counties league, a step above death, and many years in the eastern counties league.

Histon is a small village, five miles from Cambridge. Beck took over there, got them to the brink of the football league, 2nd in the old conference, and knocked out Leeds United in the FA cup.

The club spent the money made on a conference standard ground, now a sad monument to those days, and empty on match days apart from the families of the players.

This was after taking Cambridge to one game of the premier league getting there from div 4, and getting sacked after the board sold all the good players, being second from bottom with gates of 2,000 what you would now call the championship.

Cambridge fans decry him for his " long ball game" strangely blind to all his success, transforming british football by revolutionising fitness.

He had a spell at a higher club, Preston, but was boozing badly at the time.

This note is the only monument to a genius, sadly wasted at clubs like Cambridge and Histon. He even had a philosophy, bright, gifted, wasted, a rival to Brian Clough, indeed, he succeeded at clubs he should have failed at, he was probably an intuitive.

Like Clough he never suffered fools, and at crappy clubs like Cambridge, he won games well, goals galore, attacking football, as many goals away as at home, as many wins away as at home, where the game was played was irrelevant.

Wherever you are mate thanks, you gave me my best days in the football league, you are my hero, you took a Robin Reliant and made a Jag.

Winning is not enough for Cambridge fans, it is for me. p.s, look at the history of Leeds.....and Histon.....amazing.