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No, but I’m doing my badges! LFW never ceases to amaze me. When I woke up this morning I could never have imagined that Mohamed Maaroufi’s splendid goatee was about to receive such public adulation (nor, I suspect, did Mohamed Maaroufi).
That ‘awful chewing gum’ takes me back. Thin, brittle strips as I recall. I still have my collections of Beatles, Man From U.N.C.L.E and Battle cards from the 60’s, which contained the stuff. The Battle cards were rather gruesome, featuring horrific scenes from WW2. The one depicting a doomed German sailor desperately trying to open the sealed hatch of his diving U-boat, while being machine-gunned by an Allied fighter plane, gave me nightmares for weeks. One of my classmate’s mums launched an unsuccessful campaign to get them banned.
As mentioned above, I still have my Esso 1970 World Cup Coin Collection, the Esso 100 Years of Football Coin Collection (1872-1972 featuring all the FA Cup winners in that period) and a set of all the Football League club badges (minus Charlton Athletic if anyone’s got a spare one!)
I suspect this may be a trick question as I’m pretty sure footballing beards weren’t such a thing then. I consulted my Esso 1970 World Cup Coin Collection to get a general sense of hirsuteness based on the England squad. While I observed a good number of bushy sideburns, there didn’t appear to be any beards or moustaches (the pressings do lack detail though TBF). I can’t believe there were no beards at Mexico 70, however, so I’ll go with one. What’s more, I’ll venture to suggest that Morocco was the team involved.
Oh, go on then. How about these (selected) highlights from ‘Build Me Up Buttercup’ by The Foundations …
Why do you build me up (Build me up) Buttercup, baby Just to let me down? (Let me down) And mess me around And then, worst of all (Worst of all) You never call, baby When you say you will (Say you will) But I love you still I need you (I need you) More than anyone, darling You know that I have from the start So build me up (Build me up) Buttercup, don't break my heart.
Me and a couple of mates decided to pick a random team from the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round a few years ago. The idea being to follow their progress until they were knocked out and then ‘adopt’ the victorious team until they in turn were eliminated. The ‘random team’ were Cray Valley Paper Mills, who were drawn against Oxford City after a couple of early round wins. We all trooped up to Marsh Lane, where the ‘Hoops’ won 5-0. Anyway, I spent the afternoon fantasising that I was witnessing a never-to-be-forgotten QPR FA Cup victory for the ages!
This is a great thread. Respect to all those actively engaged in winkling out ever more obscure examples of blue-and-white hoopery. It’s beginning to resemble the increasingly difficult search for new prime numbers though!
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