Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
Wow. Just googled him. Didn't realise that he also played for Middlesex. Middle-order bat and right-arm medium fast bowler. Or that he managed the scum and it was the team he built that won them the title a couple of years after he left.
{And thinking of Middlesex-AFC connections, just googled Steve Gatting and we have the same birthday.}
Talking of all that sort of thing, Eddie has just come on for Palace. Ten minutes or so to save the game.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."