[theo_luddite]

Crisp Owl could send a team out one week and play the other side off the park, then the following week they wouldn't turn up at all. Despite all the noise about wanting to get to know all about Yorkshire and absorb it's culture, he never even rented a room up here. He was on the first train back to that there Larndan after every game (or certainly not on the coach back north if we played anywhere near there) and the first or second off-peak train out of Kings Cross on a Monday. It wasn't long before we were the unfittest side in the division, nobody trained at all until he turned up, and everyone we played eventually hung on until we ran out of steam 30 minutes into the 2nd half.

Fortunately, Wagbo changed all that, though I seem to recall at least one player went moaning to his agent about all the extra and "late in the day" training he was suddenly having to do.

Professional footballers eh?