Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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It's amazing what a couple of pints and a bad joke about a Portuguese footballer can lead to. Here are some of the old time players you never knew about:

Eddie Herring - Goalkeeper. In the days before modern keepers wore gloves, Herring was a pioneer. In order to protect his soft hands, he wore oven gloves. And not separate ones, but ones which were attached to each other. The was fine because this was before keepers waved their arms around.

Sir Edmund Pilchard - Centre Back & Captain. Little else is know about Sir Edmund, except that he always smoked a pipe.

Bread McMuffin - Midfield hard man. McMuffin once broke a player's leg in every home game of the 1946-47 season. All continued to play the entire 90 minutes. The good old days.

Frankie Chicken - Lightning fast winger. Died in an abbatoir after being mistaken for an actual chicken.

Sir Archibald 'Pelican' Roberts - Striker. People who hear the legend of Pelican Roberts believe he was so called just because his mouth was a bit big. What the don't realise is that he actual put the ball in his mouth and then released it when he was over the goal line. Scored 89 goals in the 1936-37 season for Ayr United. A law was passed soon after to prevent this happening. He became a landlord in Fife after he retired.

Tom Crust - Striker. Crust played with Pelican Roberts at Ayr. His chief role in the team was to loft the ball into Pelican Roberts' mouth.

God bless them all.




Johnathan Rice's new album Further North comes out in September. I haven't got an mp3 of the first single but here's the video and witty press conference.

Video: Johnathan Rice - We're All Stuck Out In The Desert (normal left click link)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What was the joke about the Portuguese footballer? You can't leave us hanging like that.

Thanks for the link by the way, Mr Hughes...