Trainspotters guide to STFC in the media

[suttonred]

Couldn't think where to put this, so what the hell. Reading  the mail today and Quentin Letts reviews  the new play Soul Sister, a biopic of Tina Turner. When describing her, he says most people will know her for a pair of thighs a Swindon Town defender would be proud of.  Thought that was pretty cool.

[Reg Smeeton]

Couldn't think where to put this, so what the hell. Reading  the mail today and Quentin Letts reviews  the new play Soul Sister, a biopic of Tina Turner. When describing her, he says most people will know her for a pair of thighs a Swindon Town defender would be proud of.  Thought that was pretty cool.

Must be a venerable chap who remembers George "Garth" Hudson....who I suspect a lot on here don't.

[Whits]

or neil ruddock 

[Bedford Red]

Must be a venerable chap who remembers George "Garth" Hudson....who I suspect a lot on here don't.

My Dad remembers him well, was one of his favourite players at the time......

[Reg Smeeton]

My Dad remembers him well, was one of his favourite players at the time......

George was a railwayman's centre half...6 ft 3, 15 stone and legs like tree trunks....Garth was a post war Daily Mirror comic strip hero of great strength, hence the nickname...400 odd League appearances for the Town, during an era of post-war austerity, the maximum wage and footballs to head like medicine balls.

Along with Sammy Burton and Maurice Owen, STFC heroes of a bygone age.

[Saxondale]

Fighting talk had a question today where they played Collins 4th goal and a clip of PDC comparing us to Barcelona.  The question was about the most innaccurate comparisons in sport.   

[reeves4england]

Fair enough really.

[DiV]

There have been worse - a certain Sabin/Henry comparison for one...

[Saxondale]

One highlighted was the barnsley fans singing 'its just like watching Brazil'.  Barnsley really isnt Brazil.

[Batch]

Barnsley really isnt Brazil.

They speak a different language and live in shanty town dwellings. If the weather was more sunny you could be in Rio.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

They speak a different language and live in shanty town dwellings. If the weather was more sunny you could be in Rio.

The same could be said of Cowdenbeath calling themselves the 'Blue Brazil'. This of course throws up the question, do Brazil fans call themselves the 'Yellow Cowdenbeath'