pub culture

trypewriter · #1

Which footballer was given a pub as a reward for helping his team gain promotion?

Which footballer asked for (and got) a transfer because his club wouldn't let him run a pub?

#2

George Best drank every pub dry in Manchester !

#3

Stuck on this one unless Neil Franklin comes into it.

Has the second part something to do with the Bosman ruling?

trypewriter · #4

Nah, miles out

#5

must be "Bite yer Legs" then?

trypewriter · #6

A bit before his time but probably hewn from the same quarry. The one given the pub was said to have taken a gun with him on wage negotiations when he went non-league - as players were inclined to in those days, there being no maximum wage in non-league.

red_herb · #7

tevez

#8

There used to be a jock named Willie Woodburn (honest) who played for Rangers and Scotland.

If you take into consideration todays "hardmen" could they compare with this guy? He was banned for life in the 50s, - it has never happened since

#9

In fact Willie Woodburn was one of those unlucky soles. Although he has passed away he ended up writing about football in the News of the World

#10

News of the World

Dont get me going about the NOTW , Murdoch, BskyB and Cameron FFS ...... just caused world war 3 on another website !!!!

red_herb · #11

nothing wrong with murdoch

#12

Go with the Times Dodge

#13

Go with the Times Dodge

Is that the Times news paper that murdoch owns but loses £50 million a year just to get the toffs in power and the BskyB deal through ? sh!t they have been rumbled and it aint happening !

#14

Anybody seen me rod?

joffmiester · #15

proper chub bite there bill

red_herb · #16

cracker bill laughed so loud the wife noticed i was still in and gave me a job

#17

Yes, you really have got to look at the SUNny side of life

#18

Mirror Mirror on the wall .......

Drynet · #19

cracker bill laughed so loud the wife noticed i was still in and gave me a job

Good un

trypewriter · #20

The man given a pub...
Frank Barson was born in Grimesthorpe. He first came to prominence playing for Barnsley, where he had already served a two month suspension following an incident in a friendly against Birmingham, and on one occasion had to be smuggled out of Goodison Park to avoid a large crowd who had gathered outside the ground to discuss with Barson his behaviour in an FA Cup tie with Everton.
Barson moved to Villa in October 1919.
Barson undoubtedly played a large part in the Aston Villa team during his three seasons at the club, but it is his run-ins with authority for which he is best known. He maintained a business in Sheffield and refused to move to Birmingham despite the Villa’s insistence that he should do so.
Opposing crowds hated him, so much so that Barson was forced to publicly defend himself on the grounds that he had been “brought up to play hard and saw nothing wrong with an honest to goodness shoulder charge.”
Probably the most famous story about Frank Barson concerned the 1920 FA Cup Final, when he was warned about his behaviour by referee Jack Howcroft – in the dressing room before the match started. “The first wrong move you make Barson, off you go” he was told.
Joining Manchester United in late August 1922. He received permission from the Old Trafford board to live and train in Sheffield. Again. Barson was regarded as a hero in Manchester, although he didn’t welcome undue flattery. In fact, he was so sick of such attention that when he was given a pub for helping United gain promotion, he gave it away on its opening night to his head waiter.
He was never ashamed of numbering amongst his friends the notorious Fowler brothers, who were hanged for murder.” In fact, prior to a game against Spurs, Frank was sent a good luck letter from the brothers – who at the time were in the condemned cell.
There’s also a story that towards the end of his career Barson didn’t feel he was getting the pay rise he deserved, so helped contract negotiations along by going to a meeting with his manager carrying a gun.