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Yer, but he couldn't take it round the keeper :)

World Cup-winning team 1. Gordon Banks (goalkeeper) Lost his place at Leicester City to Peter Shilton after the World Cup and was sold to Stoke City. Career was ended when he lost an eye in a car accident in October 1972. Aged 78, he is suffering from kidney cancer. 2. George Cohen (right...

Ray Wilson worked as an undertaker after his football career was over. “It was my dad’s business and we ran it for 20-odd years,” his wife Pat says. “He liked it. He was very good at it, apparently. He likes people. He was quite happy with doing that.” Others still felt that football remained...

Even now, nine years on, Jimmy Ball can hardly believe he is talking about his father in the past tense. His father, Alan, was always so full of life until that tragic accident in the garden of his Hampshire home in 2007. At 21, he was the youngest member of the squad. He was also one of the...

Written by Oliver Kay in the Times - They think it’s all over. In one sense, it soon will be. Their achievement will endure, their legend enhanced with each passing year, but, for many of England’s World Cup-winning heroes of 1966, dinner at Wembley next Saturday will represent a last supper...

Ah, the old; 'any opinion other than my unsubstantiated view is spin' argument. Foolproof. Fool.

Isn't it funny that people who mention SISU in every post have all been fans for 30+ years...

Involved in 20 league games for Wigan last season; won 7, drew 10, lost 3. Let in 24 goals. Compared to the overall season of 46 games; won 24, drew 15, lost 7. Let in 45 goals. He's exactly the sort of error-prone defender that we've have our fill of...

I've heard Brown is Noe Bada than the players we've got... (I'll get me coat...:cigar:)

Unless anyone tells me this bullshit is bullshit, I'm claiming this bullshit is real.

My point was more that Bolton paid £3m for him only 4 years ago. How much you pay for someone hasn't got a lot to do with it these days, it's if the player gels in the team. How much were Clarke and McGoldrick?

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So if we'd paid £3m for him, you'd say 30?

That is inspired. Doffs cap.

Haha, thanks Nick :) I'll have to see if I can add the league one to it... It's remembering to predict all 552 results that I struggled with previously!

Cheers Nick! :happy: I turned down entering the work one with prize money... :oops: Although... ;)

Cheers Dutchman! I figured the only way I'd overtake slyblue57 was if Portugal won, so went for 2-1 to Portugal o_O:)