Scunthorpe fans asked not to dress as squirrels on Saturday

[HeavenAndHele]

"Scunthorpe United fans have been asked not to dress as squirrels when Alan Knill returns in charge of Torquay on Saturday."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... ?CMP=fb_gu

Doesn't say anything about Torquay fans... And no I don't know why it says Plymouth in the URL.

[chunkygull]

Awww, you beat me to it with this. They were talking about it on Talksport just after 2pm.

The way Hawksbee and Jacobs were talking about it and telling the story was hilarious, I nearly crashed my car.

I will put the link to listen to it up later, its not on the website yet.

[AustrianAndyGull]

'squirrel attire'

They talk about it as though these costumes are freely available in NEXT or summat!

I reckon the UK's biggest manufacturer of squirrel attire just loves it when two of Alan Knill's teams meet.

[Behind-the-Gulls]

You might be able to get a onesie-they do a huge range these days! You would be nuts to dress up as a squirrel on a cold drey day in Scunthorpe!

[Scott Brehaut]

Their newsletter "The Fiver" is even funnier:

Some articles just write themselves. Unfortunately that's not true, otherwise the Fiver would already be falling off its favourite stool in The Froth & Bile. But we'll be there in a jiffy (start pouring, Olga! And wash the glass first will you, it's been a while) because today's tale isn't very long. You could say it's short and bushy.
This weekend Torquay United travel to Firewall FC for a fixture that delivers a reminder that a football manager with the surname Knill is not as unlucky as you might think. In fact, Alan Knill is very fortunate to be still with us, as in September last year, when he was Firewall FC manager, Knill was pushed perilously close to extinction by a rodent whose reckless ignorance of the ground-breaking civic work of Mrs Fluffytail and Tufty almost caused Knill to, well, break the ground with his head. "It was quite serious at the time," explained Knill as he recalled one of sport's best-known squirrel and bicycle collisions. "I came off my bike at 20-whatever miles an hour, an ambulance was called and everything – I could have died."
Happily, Knill only suffered cuts and bruises and was thus free to resume work until sacked by Firewall FC a month later, with the club 22nd in the league. On Saturday he will return to Glanford Park for the first time since then, at the helm of 23rd-place Torquay, and home fans want to mark the occasion in suitable fashion. "Will anyone wearing any 'squirrel attire' be banned from entering the ground?" one fan enquired in a tweet to the club's official account today. "No you won't be banned," replied the club. "However, the club would prefer it if you didn't dress in 'squirrel attire'." Presumably because that would be acorny thing to do.

Firewall FC
Mrs Fluffytail and Tufty

Pure f**king genius.

[AustrianAndyGull]

What does Firewall FC mean then?

[Scott Brehaut]

I'm guessing because the name scunthorpe has a naughty word in it, that often it doesn't get past company firewalls.

[AustrianAndyGull]

What's a firewall?

[chunkygull]

Here is the link to listen to the bit on Talksport -

http://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1385643600#

Click the 14:00 - 14:30 bit and its on at about 09:15

:~D

[Scott Brehaut]

What's a firewall?

A wall or partition designed to inhibit or prevent the spread of fire

[AustrianAndyGull]

Why would that be related to Scunny?

[Scott Brehaut]

Why would that be related to Scunny?

[AustrianAndyGull]

Ok so I've googled it now.

[AustrianAndyGull]

Everyone is technology obsessed man!!

[Scott Brehaut]

Well, I found it funny - and those who know what a firewall is will find "Firewall FC" funny too (I presume)

The rest of the thread was just s&G's for me - made better when it was clear that you had no idea I was ripping it out of you.