Cheers Yorkie. Now for a mundane question. PC Craig Brown was the last British Bobby to actually do this - what exactly ?
Hard this as there was a murderer with the same name seemingly.. But was it to play for the metropolitan police team.. The last serving officer?
All the best ideas come at 3.29 AM Yorkie ! PC Craig Brown was actually the last real Bobbie to play for the Bobbies - he hang up his boots in 2012. Since then the Met Police have been represented by a group of estate agents, plumbers and one male model. Apparently they had too many problems with policeman being on irregular shifts and it was a nightmare picking a team on a regular basis. But they still take the field to the music of The Clash - 'I fought the law and the law won'. My only reason for knowing all this is because they played Taunton (my non league team) last weekend in the Southern League Premier. Over to you.
Am I right in thinking that the Met Police FC would have to change their name if they ever got into the Football League because there is a ban on teams with works names?
I'm not sure NZ - isn't Arsenal a works name, at least originally, even though the 'Arsenal' no longer exists. There are enough examples of this in other European countries such as Red Bull Salzburg, Bayer Leverkusen and VFL Wolfsburg. The problem may not be in the name, but in the fact that there is still some financial connection to the Met Police. They don't actually even play in the Metropolitan area but in Surrey.
Yes one of those unsettled nights! OK... who has been caught with his hands in the works.... two possible answers here this week....
In this day and age of sponsorship, when clubs can have virtually any business name plastered all over their jerseys, I doubt there would be such a ban really. But I suspect it's more to do with tradition - I can't think of too many outside of West Ham and ManUre that were named after businesses, and both of those changed their names quite quickly. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two established clubs in the UK which still bear the name of their business origins, and I currently live halfway between the two.
Rather a strange situation - in England you can buy a club, lock, stock and barrel, but can't rename it. Whereas in Germany you can't buy it but you can rename it ! So the Pozzo's can buy everything to do with the club but can't rename us Watford Pozzos. In the rest of Europe, where there are far more restrictions on big sugar daddies taking over clubs as their playthings they have no problem with corporate naming of clubs - hence PSV Eindhoven, Red Bull Salzburg, Bayer Leverkusen and a host of others. Also any club in Israel with the name Hapoel had a connection to the trade union movement there, and can still bear the name.
Rather thankfully, I'd say... But naming rules do differ around the world - in Australia, for example, the majority of clubs were many years ago named in line with the ethnic community social clubs they represented & drew their players from. A rule change outlawing that meant that club names such Hakoah, Hellas, Hollandia, Olympic and Azzurri disappeared. Interestingly, the rule was scrapped last year, but many clubs elected not to revert to their original ethnic names - Brisbane Roar, originally known as Hollandia, being one example.
Australian Labor politician Will Fowles? Caught stealing a speech from an American TV show in the Victorian State Parliament.
You got it.... But this the one that first caught my eye https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/19/jeffrey-toobin-zoom-call-new-yorker-suspended ... and his excuse is so risible!
It surely is - lends new meaning to the Scottish slang word zoomer too. Apart from violets, what will make you, or specific parts of you, smell of violets?
No - quite the opposite in fact. Urine is half of the specific parts, but no, it's not turpentine poisoning. It's something that is eaten and is perfectly safe.
