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Article: Football: Preston and Hartlepool on threshold of high society Minnows fashion a journey that isn't monkey business
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2005
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In Hartlepool, the times are assuredly a-changing. The legendary
monkey washed ashore from a French shipwreck in Napoleonic days would
these days be greeted by a marina and a designer retail store rather
than a seeth-ing mob intent on stringing him up as a Gallic spy. He
could always buy Armani sun glasses and some French Connection gear
as a disguise.
Or he could pop along to the Civic Centre to see Stuart Drummond,
who was elected mayor on the strength of his popularity as H'Angus,
the monkey- suited mascot of Hartlepool United and a promise of free
bananas for children. Then again, if he were washed ashore this
afternoon, le singe would probably have his run of the town. Some
16,000 ...