Monday, 16 September 2013

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


Friday, 13 September 2013

Our man in Sydney


Monday, 9 September 2013

"Too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis"


There I was, idly perusing the Wiki page of a certain legendary Scotsman, when I became a tad disorientated.

An Edinburgh heart throb

Many of the entries seemed to 'cross' over quite neatly into what I shall tentatively dub 'the greatest Wikipedia page yet to be written', the life, leg before's and legovers of a certain Arboretum legend.

Passages (including the title of this post) such as:

"polled as "The Greatest Living Scot" and "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". In 1989, he was proclaimed "Sexiest Man Alive" by Peoplemagazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century""

Not a CRB check in sight 

"then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.[20][21] and a coffin polisher."

Another Edinburgh heart throb

Will Hollywood ever realise what it missed?????

Monday, 2 September 2013

Caption Competition