before i go

have a look at this from 101 great goals:

Rod Liddle, in the Sunday Times, wrote an amusing article about the Millwall striker, Darren Byfield, who “attempted to close the vast gulf that exists between footballers and fans by logging on to the supporters’ independent website, MillwallOnline, and trying to engage people in rational, good-humoured conversation. It is a story worth telling for the sheer nobility of the enterprise and its, erm, predictable outcome.”

Due to the vast amount of people using pseudonyms on the internet (including my good self!), no one believed Byfeild, even after he rang a local paper to explain it wasn’t a wind-up.

Following Byfeild on to the message board was Milwall goalkeeper Lenny Pidgeley, Liddle writes: “someone else came on the message board using the name ‘CherryZ1’ and claiming to be our goalkeeper, Lenny Pidgeley. Again, he wasn’t believed. Is there anything I can do on the pitch, something unique or highly unusual, that would convince you all that I am Lenny Pidgeley, he asked. Yes, came one reply, you could catch the ******* ball for once, you useless ****. And then kick it somewhere on the pitch, rather than into touch, added another correspondent. There was then a short debate about whether this would prove conclusively that it was Lenny Pidgeley, or if it would prove conclusively that it wasn’t. CherryZ1 hasn’t been back, anyhow - and I sort of hope it wasn’t Lenny (although I’ve been told on fairly good authority that it was).”

Posted By: Dave in France, Mar 13, 22:43:46