Josimar beats Duncan Disorderly!!!

13 - Josimar - Brasil

In this part of the year where we can't/don't/won't play cricket, I feel we can entertain some chat on this venerable platform about other, possibly inferior sports.

A question in a radio show I was listening to got me thinking. It asked;

When you were growing up, or even now, who is your cult football hero?

An additional criterion is that they are not related to the club or country you support!!!

The second name that sprung to my mind (after burglar bashing Drunken Duncan Ferguson of course, excluded by being Scottish), was that of the almost too good to be true Brazilian right back at the Mexico 86 World Cup. I spraf fondly of course about the leg end that is JOSIMAR.

Drafted into the Brazil squad after an injury to regular right back Leandro, when the second choice right back Edson also became 'Dougied', Josimar stepped into the fray wearing the somehow perfect number 13 shirt and whapped in two of the best goals I can remember seeing in his first two appearances. And yet, these goals were almost eclipsed by a couple of even more perfect celebrations.

Relive them again here

v Northern Ireland

v Poland

I could watch these all day.

Anyone able to outdo the great Josimar???

Here is one of Big Dunc to keep you going.

Note the captains armband

Shifty the Craic Dealer???

Ma een near popped oot ma heid.

Shifty on the BBC

"Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend (Bates?) returns home"

"Packs a powerful punch"???

Shifty on IMDB

Next on Saturday, BBC2, 2330.

Fantasy Cricket

No!! Not that, you mucky minded Crosser!

During the winter Andy Graham has been hard at work putting a fantasy league together!

You pick your select XI from throughout the 3 teams and accumulate points during the season. The manager with the most points at the end of the 
season will receive a cash prize! The prize money will be determined by the amount of people that sign up. There will also be a small prize 
for the most valuable player!

All rules regarding the selection (how many bowlers, batsmen and all rounders etc) of your team are explained on the website.

We have decided that the cost will be £5 per team entered (You are allowed to enter more than 1 team!) to be paid to either Bainbro, 
myself, Euan, Ziggy or Ken.

The website you have to go onto is www.fantastar.com you have to register yourself and select the 'join a league' button. The league 
password is 000700HolyCrff7d41.

Participants have to enter their teams into the fantasy league the night before the 1st games of the season or your team will lose out 
on points from the set first matches.