A Sticker's Worth 500 Words

There are many signs you are getting old. It could be the three days of exhaustion you suffer after daring to take part in something resembling social activity. Maybe it’s the insidious emergence of more and more grey hairs everywhere and anywhere. Perhaps it’s the increasing level of effort needed to vacate a chair. Following any form of professional sport is unhelpful too. In this year’s County Championship the children of former England captains Mike Atherton, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff have all made telling contributions across the various cricketing formats. A few months earlier the progeny of both Neil Danns and Jason Koumas scored for Liverpool in their FA Cup win over Southampton while Ipswich Town celebrated their return to the Premier League by signing Rory Delap ’s son Liam to join David Hirst ’s lad George. Apparently Manchester City’s Norwegian goal robot also had a father who played in the English top flight but that would suggest he was in anyway human. Footba...

Our new post sees Emlyn Shepherdson-Jones step off the hallowed turf and into the squared circle. There is a lot of commonality between the two and perhaps both worlds could learn more from each other. Perhaps the road to Wrestlemania 41 could see the WWE’s superstars complaining about fixture congestion or VAR intervening to sort out some steel chair skulduggery. The introduction of the aforementioned folding furniture could add even more to those “scenes no one (literally everyone) wants to see” on the football pitch. Today’s subject might have some pointers. Over to Emlyn. Professional Football and Professional Wrestling have crossed over more often than one might expect. In 1998, the World Wrestling Federation held a live event in London known as Capital Carnage. Keen to generate some buzz around the event, the PR machine decided to try and attract some of those 'soccer' fans to watch some grappling. Which glamorous player would they go for from the available London clubs?...