Tubby Football Players

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 3:41 pm

fidelcastro wrote:3 month ban?

Don't be daft

Okay 6 months then.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 3:43 pm

Just found this great piece on Wiki about Fatty Foulke - I'm still p!ssing myself.

He also won a single international cap for England in 1897 against Wales.

At the end of the first match in the 1902 FA Cup Final, Foulke protested to the officials that Southampton's equalising goal should not have been allowed. Foulke left his dressing room unclothed and pursued the referee, Tom Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard. Foulke had to be stopped by a group of F.A. officials from wrenching the cupboard door from its hinges to reach the hapless referee.
He then moved to Chelsea for a fee of £50 and was made club captain. Foulke by now was remarkably temperamental. If he thought his defenders were not trying hard enough, he would walk off the field. Opposing forwards who incurred his displeasure would be picked up and thrown bodily into his goal. He was, however, a great crowd puller, and Chelsea decided to exploit this. To draw even more attention to his size, they placed two small boys behind his goal in an effort to distract the opposition even more. The boys would sometimes run and return the ball when it went out of play, and quite by accident, ball boys came into being.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 3:47 pm

houseboy wrote:Okay 6 months then.

Yeah, if he kungfu kicked him as well

Tricky Trevor · Post by **Tricky Trevor** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:00 pm

houseboy wrote:What a great pic. Talk about a man's game then. If a player grabbed someone like that now he's be banned for 3 months. McKay probably just got a 'now then lad' from the ref.

I wish he’d put the head on the little sh1te.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:08 pm

fidelcastro wrote:Yeah, if he kungfu kicked him as well

Trust me the way things are going players will soon get a ban for a look of displeasure at an opposition player and Lineker and the team will be saying 'yes there was a distinct look of malice in his eyes, should have been a red, definitely'.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:10 pm

Tricky Trevor wrote:I wish he’d put the head on the little sh1te.

It looks like Bremner he's about to kill, yeah? They had more than a few run-ins as I recall.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:13 pm

houseboy wrote:It looks like Bremner he's about to kill, yeah? They had more than a few run-ins as I recall.

McKay and Bremner had s love/hate relationship...

They definitely loved hating each other

The Vin · Post by **The Vin** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:16 pm

Dean Windass

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:18 pm

Bosscat wrote:McKay and Bremner had s love/hate relationship...

They definitely loved hating each other

If McKay, Bremner and Hunter had been in the same team I think a few teams would have refused to take the field for fear of death. The Krays wouldn't have taken that trio on.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:25 pm

houseboy wrote:Trust me the way things are going players will soon get a ban for a look of displeasure at an opposition player and Lineker and the team will be saying 'yes there was a distinct look of malice in his eyes, should have been a red, definitely'.

I got dragged out of the queue at Turf Moor turnstile 39 by a 5'1" jobsworth because my gloves bulged in my pocket...

So when he looked disappointed as I showed him the gloves, I shook my head and gave him a withering look as I turned away....

Blow me the next thing .... I was dragged out of the queue again by same Jobsworth.....

I asked politely "what now" he said "because you had looked at me"... I laughed and said "you can't be serious" ... he said "yes I am".

So I asked to speak to his superior in a very loud voice making as much of a scene as possible... people were laughing as I said "this ones pulled me out of the queue because 'I looked at him' and I have bulgy gloves in my pocket.... " waving the offending gloves in the air....

His superior turned up and so I explained as the mini Steward was looking at his own boots with a shamed face and getting redder and redder by the second... The superior ushered me through the turnstile and I could hear the dressing down the steward got outside.

We still joke in JU3 about "The Gloves of Doom" funnily enough have never seen the shorty steward about since either...

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:51 pm

McKay was a tough player, broke his legs about three times but still came back from his injuries.
The photo of him with Bremner is famous, but the pair of them were not big lads, bremner around 5'4" and McKay only appears to be slightly taller.

edlass · Post by **edlass** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:55 pm

When I was a kid a player came on loan from City called Gerry Creaney, I am sure he scored quite a few goals in his spell but in my head I remember him being a bit larger.

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:25 pm

edlass wrote:When I was a kid a player came on loan from City called Gerry Creaney, I am sure he scored quite a few goals in his spell but in my head I remember him being a bit larger.

Yep he had a great loan spell with us. He was also back end of his career and had put some timber on.

Clarets4me · Post by **Clarets4me** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:42 pm

TVC15 wrote:Yep he had a great loan spell with us. He was also back end of his career and had put some timber on.

He was only 27, and scored 8 goals in 10 appearances for Burnley .... legend has it that we didn't pursue the deal, because the board had heard he was fond of a few sherberts ... rather ironic, considering some we've had playing for us over the years ..

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:50 pm

Clarets4me wrote:He was only 27, and scored 8 goals in 10 appearances for Burnley .... legend has it that we didn't pursue the deal, because the board had heard he was fond of a few sherberts ... rather ironic, considering some we've had playing for us over the years ..

Are you sure it wasn't just because we were skint at the time?

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 5:53 pm

Clarets4me wrote:He was only 27, and scored 8 goals in 10 appearances for Burnley .... legend has it that we didn't pursue the deal, because the board had heard he was fond of a few sherberts ... rather ironic, considering some we've had playing for us over the years ..

Wow 27 - didn’t realise that. Don’t think he did much after that and he was defo overweight

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:18 pm

My all time Burnley nemesis John "Fatboy" Parkin

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:27 pm

Everyone who ever played for Redrose!! (Except me! ......And except the ones who you couldn't ever really say were footballers!!!)

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