Arsenes' Wanger- Bring back Modd
06-13-2013, 11:19 PM
I remember as a young lad in the 70's reading about Wilf Copping.
Seems he played for England, along with about 6 other Arsenal Players, against Italy. This was around 1935 when Italy were the current World Champions.
Anyway England beat Italy and Wilf created havoc on the Italians with fierce tackling. They were physically afraid of him.
The story went on that when the Second World War was on, Wilf was serving in the Navy and the ship he was on was transporting Italian POWs. The Italians were not happy about something and refused to come out of the hold and onto the deck.
The Captain of the ship told them that Wilf Copping was on board and if they didn't get above, he would loose the Arsenal player upon them.
A mad scramble to comply with the Captains wishes occurred,
their fear of Copping was so great.
I am relating this from memory from about 40 years ago so I apologise for any errors.
Anyway, he was one hard *******. Well done Wilf.
Seems he played for England, along with about 6 other Arsenal Players, against Italy. This was around 1935 when Italy were the current World Champions.
Anyway England beat Italy and Wilf created havoc on the Italians with fierce tackling. They were physically afraid of him.
The story went on that when the Second World War was on, Wilf was serving in the Navy and the ship he was on was transporting Italian POWs. The Italians were not happy about something and refused to come out of the hold and onto the deck.
The Captain of the ship told them that Wilf Copping was on board and if they didn't get above, he would loose the Arsenal player upon them.
A mad scramble to comply with the Captains wishes occurred,
their fear of Copping was so great.
I am relating this from memory from about 40 years ago so I apologise for any errors.
Anyway, he was one hard *******. Well done Wilf.