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English World Cup champ Norbert Stiles:
Further historic World Cup images here.
When you think of the state of British dentistry at the time , he doesn’t look that much out of place.
Posted by Quidnunc Savant on 2006 06 19 at 11:41 AM • permalinkI think that’s going to be the cover for the next edition of that staple of Springfield dentists’ offices, “The Big Book of British Smiles.”
Posted by Percy Dovetonsils on 2006 06 19 at 01:06 PM • permalinkActually, paco, it’s the morning martini that truly gets me cooing.
Posted by Percy Dovetonsils on 2006 06 19 at 04:25 PM • permalinkTim! It was Nobby Stiles if you don’t mind.
If memory serves, he was a Manchester United mid-field player and an utter legend of the day - infamous kicked in teeth not withstanding.
Soccer was much more of a man’s game in those days and, as Mrs Kensington noted in Austen Powers, “Back then a man with bad teeth could still be a sex symbol.”
—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 06 19 at 04:53 PM • permalinkGee. Poor bloke.
And I thought no one could look uglier than Ronaldo and Ronaldhino.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 06 19 at 07:25 PM • permalinkIn most parts of the world dentists are wealthy, respected citizens. In the UK they beg for change on the tube.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 06 19 at 09:39 PM • permalinkGood old Norbert or as he was fondly known as Nobby the Manchester United and England defender. The attachment below shows Vinnie Jones still trying to tackle Nobby who seems to have also given Paul gascoigne the slip. http://www.weirdpicturearchive.com/pics/vinniejones.html
You can just picture this guy on the bench at a game - “One, one nil, uh uh. Two, two nil, uh, uh. Three, three nil, uh, uh, uh. I love it. (Sound of thunder and lightning, throws head back in rapture, wraps dark cloak around himself, sits back on the bench, eagerly awaiting his team’s next goal or twenty).
I happened to see another World Cup historic image the other day. The entire English team giving a nazi salute just before a match with Germany at the new Olympic Stadium in Berlin in 1938.
Well not quite World Cup. England had been invited to replace Austria in the competition that year after Austria had done the inconsiderate thing and suddenly become a non-country. England declined.
Never mind. Just to show there were no hard feelings, England and Germany played a “friendly” two or three weeks before the first World Cup fixture.
And so on the “advice” of the Foreign Office, the national football team of England lined up for all the world to see and gave the nazi salute.
As this match had nothing whatsoever to do with sport, I will not bother noting the result.
I wonder how many of those young men survived the war?
You just gotta love that Foreign Office.
Nobby won the Stanley Cup? That beats the standard image of footy - guys keeling over as if shot by tanks, only to leap back up and sprint full-speed twelve seconds later. In hockey that’s just an invitation to get your helmet wedged up your fundament by the opposition. (One more reason why it’s the Lord’s Own sport.)
Well, hardy ha ha. It is to laff. That’s a good one, I’ll say.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 06 21 at 09:50 PM • permalink
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More proof that soccer is a sport for degenerates.