please log in to view this image For 104 years we waited to play an actual match at Wembley, but at least it took only a mere 88 years before a Hull City kit was legitimately on show there. League Cup sponsors Rumbelows held an inter-club competition to find the fastest footballer in the 92, with each club (apart from those who thought it was a toss idea and declined) submitting their nippiest squad member, in football kit and boots. Ultimately, a race at Wembley prior to the Rumbelows Cup final was the pinnacle. Regional heats were held, and although Jenks, the City winger renowned for being both fast and yet a carthorse (as well as slicing crosses into the South Stand with alarming regularity), was done by Huddersfield’s Iffy Onuora in his 100m semi at the Don Valley, he took him in the final and got to Wembley for the big occasion. There, with a sense of inevitability which summed up City’s fortunes in the entire 1990s (relegated twice, frequently humiliated), he came very, very last. http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/201...-jenkinson-in-the-rumbelows-sprint-challenge/
So what price did that bookie have John Williams at, I wonder? Couldn't help noticing Phil Babb, who was still at Bradford then, coming last in his heat.
Nice bloke Leigh, met him a little while doing some offshore training course. Moved from Hull to Coventry (think Coventry back then were in Old Div 1)
Heat 1 Lane 8 - "No Entrant" Leeds - ****ing sums up the White ****e that does, arrogant pricks. Anyway - ahhh...memories.
His brother. We had Marco's lad, Jules, playing for our academy for a while, but I think he's in the US now.
I went to school with a Sunderland fan so heard a bit too much about Gabbiadini at the time, I seem to remember reading about his son but thanks for the brother info. don't remember him
