CRANNY
Cranny the Key
man in defence, locked out the opposition forwards keeping most of
them in his pocket (don't know how he managed it considering the amount
of keys he also kept in there). It was rumoured he had a key for the
referee's room where he (allegedly) removed the lenses from the ref's
specs and swapped the red and yellow cards for playing cards. The
Rosevale Rangers went on to win the match 11-0 with Tam scoring
the first Ten Goals (Told you Martin) and Drew taking his customary
half chance. Cranny being Cranny ended up with a full suit of Spades,
the two of Hearts, seven of Diamonds plus the Joker.
"The World No Serious" Cup Final referee, said it was the
dirtiest game he had ever been in charge of, and had never before
booked eight players from each side in a match. Known as
the "Not Full Strength Cup Final" after the cigarette sponsors of
the time (they had wanted ten players.....to help with promoting
the brand name). It was also remembered as the match that never
was, why I can't remember and the referee couldn't remember a face
neither so Cranny just gave one of their players names for
every second one of his bookings (again allegedly).
Banned sine die |
