Close But No Cigar!

I promise that my blog won't turn into a Footie-fest but I couldn't resist this. Nigel Quashie (pronounced Kwazee for some strange reason - and why is Nicky Banger pronounced Baynger?), reckons that the Lithuanian pitch where Scotland will be playing tonight, is a speedway track.









Well Nige, you obviously never played at Poole Town Stadium, home of Poole Pirates speedway and prior to the mid eighties shared with Poole Town football club. Now that really was a football pitch inside a speedway track, basically because the Pirates owned the stadium and decided that the corners of the football pitch should be cut off so that the cycle track was, well a speedway track.

When you took a corner, as I had the pleasure of doing, you became a human subutteo player. You kicked the ball from on the cinder track and because the corner of the grass had been cut off the ball went straight up in the air up the little slope that had been created.




Poole Stadium in the 70's






Poole Town also had the dubious honour of having the smallest changing rooms in the universe, so small in fact that if the manager wanted to change his mind he had to go outside (boom! boom!).

Honestly, professional footballers - they know nothing!