In today’s Fiver: Scotland, plus big new deals for Everton and Crawley Town
Whenever you think of Everton, your mind immediately gravitates towards thoughts of Thomas Gravesen, Lee Carsley and Andy Johnson. Therefore it makes obvious sense they would team up with Turkish outfit and “top-tier industry professionals”, Vera Clinic as their first Official Hair Transplant Partner. One in the eye for those Old Trafford suits and then some.
. It turns out that ‘shorts’ were originally known as ‘knickers’ and in 1879, Darwen, a team of cotton mill workers, met Old Etonians in the FA Cup semi-final. Darwen were derided for wearing trousers cut off at the knee held up by braces, instead of wearing knickers. Luckily, we live in more enlightened times now and a bunch of elites from Eton would never consider looking down at the common folk …” – Noble Francis.
“Fiver Towers has long riffed of the USA! USA!! USA!!! use of the word ‘soccer’ instead of ‘football’. I recently came across a Corinthian Casuals programme from January 1984 , which notes that members of the Casuals are proud that an old Corinthian is credited with coining the word: ‘One morning at his Oxford college a friend invited old Corinthian C Wreford-Brown to “a game of rugger after brekker”. “No thanks,” said Wreford-Brown. “I prefer soccer.
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