Mild Rover wrote:I remember seeing a ‘did you know?’ thing in a football magazine (possibly Shoot!) when I was a lad that the player with the shortest name in Football League history was Ian Ure. They also gave the player with the longest name but I’ve forgotten that… also I just looked up Ian Ure on Wikipedia and he was actually John Francombe ‘Ian’ Ure. He might have succeeded Alex Ferguson as Manager of East Stirlingshire though.
Quite notable (to a trivia dullard like me, at least), therefore, that you have had Sam Moa and Tex Hoy within a few years of each other.
We also had Setaimata Sa around 2014-15. Presumably you still had to pay full price for his name on your shirt.
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Tarquin Fuego wrote:And in another dimension - ‘shabby sheek’ What a laugh that gave me
Love it though. I cannot fail to hide my excitement. A full blown Smailes and Boon piece… but on a Rovers figure rather than Pearson. I never thought I’d see the day. I haven’t even read about Pearson looking out wistfully but with enthusiasm across the verdant fields of Hull FCs training grounds in years. Truly, this must be a different dimension.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
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