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Article: Robbie earle: Best in business draw line at sheep testicles
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- Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)
- Article date:
- March 19, 2009
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Former Port Vale midfielder and Sentinel columnist Robbie Earle
has his say on the world of football
THE stakes will be sky high for Stoke and Middlesbrough at the
Britannia Stadium on Saturday, but I don't see either chairman
making their players eat sheep testicles if they lose.
That's what used to happen to us at Wimbledon, where chairman Sam
Hammam had a clause in all the players' contracts which stated that
if we ever conceded four goals, we'd have to go to his favourite
Lebanese restaurant and do the deed.
It brought a new meaning to defeat leaving a nasty taste in the
mouth, but was typical of a chairman who, in the nicest possible
way, was mad.
Stoke's Peter Coates and ...