Many years ago I was picture editor for a Leeds guide book which meant I got to write the captions on photos. One of the photos was of a giant Leeds United shirt covering half the pitch at Elland Road which I captioned "Tomas Brolin's shirt unveiled at Elland Road". I reckon about a 3rd of my captions were completely made up.
ha ha! Very good. I was just thinking of the well-built players of yesteryear: Frannie Lee, Terry Venables, John Robertson, Paul Gascoigne, Larry Lloyd. Can we come up with an XI?
I'd nominate William Foulke, one time Sheffield United goalkeeper. @micra might remember watching him play...
Just caught up with this, @Cyclops. I knew Foulke just by his nickname (derivation - an eke (also) name). We used to call him Fatty (a euphemism for the more recent and less succinct ‘you fat bastard’.
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Many years ago I was picture editor for a Leeds guide book which meant I got to write the captions on photos. One of the photos was of a giant Leeds United shirt covering half the pitch at Elland Road which I captioned "Tomas Brolin's shirt unveiled at Elland Road". I reckon about a 3rd of my captions were completely made up.
Iain Hesford the ex Fulham keeper carried some timber.
I'm not sure there's any beating former Sheffield United, Chelsea and Bradford goalkeeper William 'Fatty' Foulke
Did Les Reed ever play for the first team?
Just caught up with this, @Cyclops. I knew Foulke just by his nickname (derivation - an eke (also) name). We used to call him Fatty (a euphemism for the more recent and less succinct ‘you fat bastard’.
Whoops, didn't read the previous page!
He made 16 league appearences in the 78/79 season.
And 4 in the B&B including the cup final replay victory over Hungerford.
Micky Quinn (Coventry City).
But Fatty’s on the same page. Do pages differ between devices? And I don’t mean the one in Wiltshire.