Pick the most left-wing XI in history

[Guest]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

Surely Shankly can get the nod over Ferguson for the manager's job? Old Labour versus New?

[treibeis]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

I've just read that he quit Wolfburg as goalkeeper coach because he wasn't prepared to work more than three days a week.

I got the impression that he was on a part-time contract because the club wasn't prepared to employ him full-time.

They should have sacked him for his predilection for using Beate Uhse blow-up dollies during training to simulate defenders and attackers. A complete waste of money: everybody knows the Beate Uhse versions are the most expensive. You can get a no-name model in the shops round the back of the Reeperbahn for half the price of the Beate Uhse job.

[Havencheese]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

Paolo Sollier, Perugia in the 70's, their shirts red of course. He used to raise his fist before matches and celebrate goals accordingly.

Being Italian and political he'd be captain I'd say.

[ursus arctos]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

Extremely well spotted, sir.

I have a copy of that exact edition on my beside table.

[born toulouse]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

According to widespread rumours Jack Charlton quietly lent a couple of cars to Northumberland and Durham NUM members who wanted to get past the roadblocks around Notts to picket. More genuinely left wing than a lot of the posturing favoured by many footballing socialists.

[Guest]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

Charlton spent a solid decade in Ireland paying by cheque for every product he consumed, safe in the knowledge that the starstruck publican/restaurateur/car dealer would never cash that cheque and would instead get it framed on the wall of their establishment. By the early 1990s it had become a standing national joke in this country, and he kept getting away with it until the very end, and in the same situation, who of us would have acted any differently . . .

But good on him for slipping the union men a few quid back then.

[Houdi Elbow]

Pick the most left-wing XI in history

Regarding cheques, the same was said of Stanley Matthews.