Just seen this, and very pleased to have got them all right - it took some effort!
In a few cases I actually recognised the players, but mostly it took some cunning digging on the internet and some help from a couple of my CCFC-related books. Many of Grendel’s questions were dauntingly obscure, but if you thought about it, looked at the photos and kits to work out the likely dates, and searched hard enough the answers were all there. I could go through an old squad list and eliminate 98% of the players from memory straight way. So I can only claim to have properly recognised about 4 or 5 of the players without help, based on my complete obsession with all things Sky Blue in the old days (luckily the symptoms have become much milder with age, and now I’m almost cured). Spring, Kaiser and Bradford only took me seconds (although Bradford has some misleading stats on the web – he played for us under Dave Sexton in the 80s not the 70s). And despite his obscurity as a player, the Greg Abbott photo seemed very familiar – I reckon it may have been trundled out a few times when he has been linked to our manager position?
I correctly guessed Dave Bamber (a very good player IMO and we haven’t had too many centre forwards that size!). To get confirmation, the photo was hard to trace but I was lucky enough to mistake Jimmy Armfield for Stanley Matthews, with both coincidentally playing for Blackpool.
As for Grendel’s expectation that anyone would recognise the Leigh Rugby League stadium, well that’s why we all love him so much
I only got that question because I’m old enough for the politician Roy Jenkins to be a familiar face, and how many of our players have had “jenkins” in their names?
At the end of a somewhat manic week, I’m not hugely keen to start swotting on a tie-breaker, so if Wisedfool agrees, I suggest we split the donation.
I looked to see if there was a support group for washed up Marillion fans, but it seems not. So my nominated charity is Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK (
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Support UK - SMA Charity) – a colleague at work has the misfortune to have his son suffer from this terrible genetic condition, and I can’t begin to imagine how shattering that must be to have to deal with.
On a lighter note, a very Happy New Year to everyone on the forum and City fans everywhere – things look bleak and worrying at the moment, but let’s hope we have something to cheer both on and off the field in 2019.
And cheers Grendel for taking the trouble to set up the quiz – madly difficult in places but a nice challenge!
