Monday, February 21, 2011

THIS YEAR SO FAR IN FOOTBALL ARCHIVES..............!

JANUARY:

...in 1977 Moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse petitions the government to send Billy Bremner back to Scotland after a series of violent challenges which she described as "symptomatic of a permissive society"

...in 2001 Conspiracy theorist Keith Gillespie tells his Blackburn teammates that 9/11 was an inside job

...in 1897 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his unpopular short story Sherlock Holmes case of the Missing Wing Back

FEBRUARY:
...in 1704 Old Etonian Casual Engineers mock "philistine" opponents Wanderers for attempting to "score" in newly-introduced "goals"

...in 1989 Sooty's sidekick Sweep is introduced to mirror the tactical adulation for sweepers at the time

...in 1994 Confused Giggs discovers loss of form is a product of a small stone in his left boot

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