SnokenKeekaGuard

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One of the funniest stories I've read.

Some football hard-men are all bluster, but not the Partick Thistle legend Chic Charnley, who holds the record for most red cards in Scottish football. In 1990 Partick were training at Ruchill Park in Glasgow, when a group of local youths abused them. Charnley responded with some verbals, and the youths ran off, only for two of them to return, one wielding a Samurai sword. Charnley charged them, chasing them through Maryhill, by some accounts brandishing a traffic cone.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

OK that was me telling the story by memory. I have now checked the actual story and here it is.

There are a few ways to stop pitch invasions: electric fences, a heavy police presence, or making your team so bad that no fans turn up to run on the field in the first place. But the Romanian fourth division is a rough and ready place. Back in 2003, Steaua Nicolae Balcescu had been threatened with expulsion from the league after a series of pitch invasions and clashes.

Steaua’s chairman, Alexandra Cringus, perhaps showing why the team he was running were in the fourth division rather than the first, decided the best way to stop the hooligans was by building a crocodile-infested moat around the pitch. Because if you can’t build a crocodile-infested moat around the pitch, what’s the point in being in charge of a football club, eh? “This is not a joke,” insisted Cringus. “We can get crocodiles easy enough and feed them on meat from the local abattoir. The ditch is planned to be wide enough that no one could manage to jump over it. Anyone who attempted to do so would have to deal with the crocs. I think that the problem of fans running on to the pitch will be solved once and for all.”

This wasn’t some slapdash plan, though. Cringus had had a good long think about health and safety too: he planned to build the moat far enough from the pitch that players wouldn’t accidentally tumble to their doom. He even thought of the crocs too: Romanian winters can be harsh so the water would be heated by electric pipes. You may not be surprised to discover that local authorities rejected the scheme.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There was once a man in I believe turkey? who bought a football club and wanted to deal with pitch invaders which were quite an issue then.

One day he passes an exotic pet shop and sees alligators in there. Sooo he has a trench dug out around the pitch which he fills with alligators.

A football story I absolutely love.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I recognise half the names in this comment section. And op too

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

FURIOUSLY masturbating to this meme btw

Ok but his writing style did make philosophy very accessible.

(Yes this is a good parody of his work lmao)

Get her a modelling contract

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Looks good. What's the macros? Thats a lotta feta.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Got horny as it was getting late into the night

Oh i host the podcast

PS. I'm a liar

July is mango season, just saying.

I love the oj one too

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

There's no stopping me

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