Do the Rangers loyalists want Stevie G I wonder?
Wouldnt shock me to see him back.
This is tremendous. The Huns are losing matches because their ball boys are too woke with pregnant fathers and the likes.
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Yes, Rangers, too woke. That’s definitely it
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Is there a version of this in English?
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They want professional ball boys.
You’d have to say there are very few things in life more satisfying than a Hun in meltdown.
I remember years ago, there was an FA cup game on RTE. It was Blackburn Rovers. Kevin Moran was playing with them. They were an old second division team at the time, and were playing Utd or L’pool. I can’t remember who the “big team” was. Near the end of normal time, B’burn were 1 up I think, and the “big team” got a throw in. The B’burn ballboy got criticised because he threw the ball to the “big team” player straight away, and they scored from the throw in, whereas if he waited and gave the Blackburn players a chance to organise themselves…
Loads of that goes on. Wasn’t there a ballboy ‘kicked’ at Stamford bridge or something for holding on to a ball and not releasing it to a player? Wet footballs handed over to visiting side, towel dried one to home side etc
Every small advantage that can be found I suppose
I vaguely remember this. The big team was Liverpool. Think maybe Scott Sellars had scored for Blackburn. The ball boy* naively pounced on a ball he should have let roll past him and fired it back missile-like to the Liverpool player. I’m guessing this was around 1991 or something. Perhaps when Dalglish was still manager but it could have been later either. This is really where we need @Cheasty and @mickee321 to fill in the gaps. RTE or MOTD later that night highlighted the poor ball boy too.
Not long ago, when Mourinho was at Spurs, they scored in a European game from a ball boy assist. They did some PR on the back of it, ball boy on Sky Sports News, invited behind the scenes at next home game etc.
*we should call them ball kids in this day and age though.
Can’t remember a Stamford Bridge game but there was a Swansea-Chelsea game in Swansea a few years back where Hazard drew a little dig at a teenage ball kid who was kinda lounging on the ball. He got sent off as far as I recall. Might have been League Cup.
That Swansea ballboy was nearly 20 too iirc. A ballman, if you will.
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Yeah, Liverpool I think. Probably the reason we were sat around watching it. I just remember around that time, that Oldham Athletic, Coventry City, Villa, Southampton and Arsenal had cracking jersies.
I very much doubt a good ball boy could have a pregnant father though tbf to the rangers lad. He’d have a lot going on at home and might not have his full mind on the job. Maybe the lads could get a kind of pre maternity leave payment until the child was born at least.
There was the lad that fired the ball at the French lad at Newcastle too.
Liverpool got a very late equaliser that day and won the replay 3-0.
I remember watching it on telly too. Kevin Moran got sent off. Almost sure Glenn Hysen got a red too.
1991 was the year by the way.
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That was the one I was thinking, knew Chelsea involved somewhere
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Simon Garner scored for Blackburn on the day. He was the club stalwart at the time. He might even have been there record scorer back then. Did Moran and a Liverpool player get sent off in that game?
The equaliser was an OG?
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Mark Atkins was the unfortunate Blackburn Rovers player who scored the injury time own goal that day. I was 25 miles down the road that same afternoon at Bloomfield Park, Blackpool as Spurs got their 1991 FA Cup campaign under way. A hard fought 0-1 win on a bitterly cold Lancashire January afternoon with Paul Stewart bagging the winner. It was a campaign which ended in glorious sunshine in mid May at the Empire Stadium with Paul Stewart again on the scoresheet as Spurs won a record 8th FA Cup. Practically all games were 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon kick offs back then.
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Liverpool and Everton famous 4-4 draw was the next round