I'd take a win from a shot ricochetting off a stray pigeon at this point. As it is a local pigeon and won't be touching the grass does it still count as interference due to pitch ingress?
Would be saints all over though - score the winner only for it to be disallowed for killing wildlife...
Funnily enough we were just talking about the lack of leaders in the game these days and how in the past you'd want them throughout the spine of the team. Also talking about how players rarely go away from managers plan anymore with me using the example of the Leicester game. Matt thinks most modern players don't want to take that level of responsibility on. Funny story from Reuben about being two down at Highbury and a couple of players taking it upon themselves to make a tactical change. Lawrie apparently was going ballistic on the touchline before we got it back to 2-2 and he took all the credit afterwards Reuben is a proper sound bloke to be fair, a few decent anecdotes from him. At Northampton services now, proper Q&A on next leg. Think I might ask Matt about Nicola.
Any shot that is deflected in by an object on the pitch that shouldn't be there, be it a pigeon, beach ball, or in the case one particularly stupid contestant on The Chase, ice cream van, a goal should not be awarded.
I know - just a poor attempt at being funny to take my mind off of writing (watching chatgpt mess up writing) SQL scripts to generate some analytics reports. zzzzzzzzzzzz
Reminds me of that Sunderland goal v Liverpool years ago. The beach ball/balloon was thrown on by a Liverpool fan too iirc.
I've only ever seen random snippets posted on social sites as I've never actually watched the program - I've probably seen all the funny bits without any context. Bit like Ted lasso - I'd seen so much of it in short clips and it only made sense once I actually watched the series through last year
That was all down to the charisma of Lawrie Mac, he was not so hot on tactics but his man management was second to none.
I was pretty sure Shilton joined the year Keegan left, but I could be wrong EDIT: yes, Keegan left in 82, Shilton joined that summer in 82.
I think that was the year, or the following one, when he was in our local village pub p***ed as a handcart saying he never wanted to be a footballer and should have been a boxer. Jimmy Case was in there once in the same condition but he apologised and said he'd come back sober and chat to everyone in the pub - he didn't.
