Scott Rendell: Woking fans crowdfund money for operation Supporters of National League club Woking have raised £6,000 in just over 24 hours to pay for injured striker Scott Rendell to have an operation. Rendell, 28, will miss the rest of the season with knee-ligament damage. A crowdfunding page, with a target of £10,000, was set up by Cards director and club chaplain Ian Nicholson on Tuesday. Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter and Crawley defender Joe McNerney, both ex-Woking players, have made donations. Fans of the Surrey side raised £1,234 during a bucket collection before their league game against Bromley on Tuesday. Rendell's team-mate Giuseppe Sole, who had a similar injury in 2012,has also contributed. Woking midfielder John Goddard revealed a T-shirt saying "Stay Strong Scott" after scoring in the 2-0 victory over Bromley. Rendell, who scored 24 league goals last season, was taken off on a stretcher during the first half of Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Tranmere Rovers after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament. please log in to view this image Rendell tweeted his appreciation of the fans' efforts on Wednesday morning Part-timers Woking intend for the money raised to go towards the cost of Rendell's surgery and rehabilitation. Manager Garry Hill told BBC Surrey: "To lose your top goalscorer and your talisman, with the experience he has got on and off the pitch, after 40 minutes of the new season is very hard to take. "We are looking to bring in two strikers now to add competition."
We certainly had one. He used to sing carols over the tannoys each year. Rev. Alan Bagshot? or something. Stuff of legends.
He did. I think he sang hymns at the Circle in the first year or two though this could be my dodgy memory? Ffs, I'm only fifty...
REVEREND BALLBAG’S YULETIDE CAROLS That’s SO Hull City As City moved from the near-derelict Boothferry Park to the brand-spanking KC Stadium, everything about the club seemed to move up a few gears. The image, marketing, national profile and on-pitch fortunes of the club took off, but there is still an annual reminder of our former inglorious self. Nestled away at the back of whatever the Rothman’s yearbook is calling itself these days is a list of the chaplains of a handful of clubs. Hull City’s, the Reverend Allen Bagshawe, probably has a higher profile than most. This is because of the sea of indifference that greets him every December as he ‘leads’ the half-time carol session while the KC masses queue for beer. The whole exercise is shambolically enthralling as the Reverend enjoys his yearly fifteen minutes of lame. Favourites such as Ding-Dong Merrily On High, O Little Town of Bethlehem and Hark The Herald Angels Sing are belted out with gusto as a small handful of City fans join in, usually ironically/drunkenly. Old-fashioned ‘entertainment’ is a rarity in football these days, and in many ways this festive treat would be missed if it were to be ditched, or, even worse, modernised, with the Reverend belting out the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York or E17’s Stay. And as small-time as the carol singing may seem, it is about a billionth as excruciating as Steve Jordan’s vomit-inducing pre-match one-man hysteria. http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2009/09/the-soul-of-hull-city-part-two/
I miss that daft stuff. My dad used sing along and clap his hands in time, much to my embarrassment. You don't know what you have until it's gone.
Bagshawe, yeah. It was er ... different. He was certainly enthusiastic, despite any noticeable encouragement, however ironic, from the crowd.
I think Rev Allen Bagshawe retired years ago, I'm not sure what we do now, though we do list a Rev Martin Batstone as being the academy chaplain. Maybe we just call in Stuart Elliot when we need a bit of god stuff doing.
