Astonishing FIFA story

[MrGongGong]

The only thing (IMV of course) worth bothering about with regard to football was the potentially brilliant piece played by 50,000 people on Bb plastic trumpets at the World Cup which was ruined by some idiots running around chasing an imitation sheeps bladder for 90 minutes

having grown up on Merseyside in the 1970's I make strenuous efforts to avoid both The Beatles and Football
had enough for one lifetime thank you very much

[Norfolk Born]

I've just seen Tommy Docherty's FIFA joke on HIGNFY: 'It's well named is FIFA ... it's a fee for this, a fee for that'.

[Magnificat]

I have just been told by a friend who works in the Cabinet Office that next weekend's Queen's Birthday Honours List will include an honorary knighthood for Sepp Blatter. One of the promises made by Prince William during our failed bid for the 2018 World Cup coming home to roost no doubt!!

VCC.

[scottycelt]

Scotty forgets (or maybe doesn't know) that English cricket's most notorious captain, Douglas Jardine, was a Scot.

You are being atypically uncharitable as ever, amateur51 ....

Jardine was about as Scottish as Tony Blair and described as 'English' in Wikipedia which is never wrong. He was also born in India.

As for Denness he was indeed Scottish by birth and and because few in Scotland were particularly interested in the game, that country didn't even have a national side when he was chosen and accepted to play for England. The poor man has had to live with his conscience ever since.

What does a 'Welshman' with an English accent and living in London know about such private and deeply sensitive Scottish matters, in any case ... ?

[amateur51]

Scotty, being unusually free with a written text, fails to mention that both Jardine's parents were Scottish. Oh the sins of omission

As to my accent, it is not surprising that I have a London accent, living here as I have since 1971 but I'm surprised to be attacked on such a point by an erstwhile 'Scot' living in England's North West

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Jardine was about as Scottish as Tony Blair and described as 'English' in Wikipedia which is never wrong.

Tony Blair - wasn't that the man who claimed to have watched Jackie Milburn, sitting at the Gallowgate End of St James' Park? (Spot the undeliberate mistakes there)

[antongould]

As a firm believer in the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction I have no doubt that ACL Blair sat on his standing father's shoulders in 1956 watching Wor Jackie!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As a firm believer in the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction I have no doubt that ACL Blair sat on his standing father's shoulders in 1956 watching Wor Jackie!

That's about the only possible explanation.

[Flosshilde]

I was on a tourist bus tour of Glasgow with some visitors once & was astonished to hear that TB's parents were married in the Barony Church - http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...onyChurch2.jpg & http://www.rescat.strath.ac.uk/img/bar_dinner2.jpg - now the ceremonial hall of Strathclyde Uni.