Egil Olsen. Nowt to do with his Wimbledon days but because of that utter pile of steaming excrement which was his Norway side of the 1990's. Effective, but an utter pile of steaming excrement nonetheless.
All true, but if they hadn't been so eye-gougingly awful for so long then Alfonso's goal at Euro 2000 wouldn't have been nearly as funny.
Michael Hughes wasn't nearly so much of a dickhead as Fashanu, Jones, Sanchez et al, but he could be a proper nasty little shite when the mood took him - I saw him leave his foot in unneccessarily at least once in every game I saw him play live.
As I always say when his name comes up - Michael Hughes committed one of the all-time cunt's challenges I have ever seen live when he tried to snap Robbie Savage*'s leg in the 2004 Wales v NI qualifier.
* I know, I know - even allowing for what Savage was then and was later to become, it was a despicable foul.
Bury needed to beat already-promoted Wimbledon on the last day of 82/83 and hope that Scunthorpe lost to Chester to guarantee promotion to Division Three. We blew it, losing 3-1.
Manager Jim Iley heard incorrectly that Scunthorpe were losing even when Bury were and embarked on a touchline jig in the drizzle. Elton Welsby was doing updates from the dugout and apparently had his producer shouting "WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING?" down his ear.
Footage here, from the day my book begins. If Bury had gone up, Martin Dobson wouldn't have arrived the following season and Eric Potts and Tommy Gore would have stayed at Gigg rather than Leighton James and Trevor Ross arriving:
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