We’ve been sent a book, you can win it if you get the right answer to our question and get drawn randomly from our box (we don’t have a hat), have a gander here
To be in with a chance of winning the book send us an email with the answer to the following question –
Q. Who did the dale sign Joe Bunney (superstar) from?
Send your emails to mailbox@daletrust.com closing date is this Friday 19th September 2014, 8.00pm.
The Author Tim Marshall has been kind enough to do a little article on the Dale below –
Good luck with League One, and good luck with Joe Bunney. Now there’s name to conjure with and to sing.
If he gets it right, his feet become good luck charms, if he gets it wrong you can have (for free) ‘Kill The Wabit’ by Elmer Fudd including, in the last act version, the immortal line – ‘Poor Little Bunny’.
I’m confident you will rise to the occasion. After all, if you can come up with ‘Tom Kennedy – He’s not a bucket anymore’ then Bunney is great material to work with. It took some searching to find what the hell you were on about, but, correct me if my maths are wrong; Kennedy once played for Bury + Bury collect money in buckets to keep afloat = Bury are Buckets = The Kennedy song?
This is the stuff that keeps the game alive, never mind that Angel bloke who’s just signed for the devils at Old (tired and past it) Trafford, we need more players with names such as Joe Bunney or Matty Done.
You’ve also got goalkeeper Conrad Logan on loan from Leicester but it’s a shame you didn’t get Kasper Schmeichel then you could have nicked the song Leeds had when he played for them – ‘Your Dad’s a c*nt – but you’re alright’. When he signed for Leicester and came back with them the chant changed to ‘Your Dads a c*nt – and so are you’.
You’re allowed to nick songs, apart from Sunderland, all football fans are magpies. We all do it. Last season Brentford nicked ‘Knees Up Mother Brown’. They were already promoted and news came through of Fulham’s relegation. Up went the song – ‘Bees up – Fulham down’. This is genius in short form and part of what make the English leagues the best in the world for songs.
Even Edward Elgar’s had a go. The man who wrote the tune for Land and Hope Glory also penned ‘He banged the leather for goal’ for Wolves. This lacked the nuance and power of, say ‘Are you watching Bury scum?’ and so never caught on, but while researching my book ‘Dirty Northern Bastards’ it did provide me with the image of Elgar, chest puffed out, standing on a stanchion and leading Molineux in a chant of ‘Who art thou?’
In 1898 the Times were a bit sniffy about the song writing that ‘the melody may be complex for the Grandstand’ which is a bloody check seeing as we’ve all managed to get our tonsils around Verdi’s ‘La donna e mobile’ from Rigoletto with ‘Your ground too big for you’ and such like.
This season, back in the big time, you get another opportunity to remind Bristol fans that they’re nearly Welsh, that, if you feel it to true that MK Dons have no history, and if you make the trip to Orient, from the ground you can see into peoples flats, and so you get to sing ‘We can see you washing up’.
Tim Marshall’s’ Dirty Northern Bastards and other Tales from the Terraces’ is on sale now. Available in Paperback, on Kindle or iBooks.
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