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I've heard it said, due to the lack of flair and excitement half a century ago, that if you were a fan of rugby in the 60s, you were really a fan of rugby.

What took football so long to use floodlights? Hawick played Melrose under lights in 1879 and made £63 into the bargain.

http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/timeline1870s.htm

Patrick Lambie, the South Africa rugby internationalist, comes from the same family tree.

Football could always take a cue from rugby in the amateur era, when you had listings such as Hamish Arbuthnott-Cameron-Highlander (Glasgow Accies and the Army) or Gavin Macdonald-Smyth (Watsonians and Cambridge University). Says it all really. It was continued for a while in the pro era too, with ...

jeroen wrote:A mysterious anonymous user removed the goals scored

Oh, now I want it to be true that he did score four goals. Good ones too.

Any word on the Tayside Chilavert?

Did anyone else see Garth Crooks doing his nut on BBC3 after Nigeria went out? He was like an articulate Ian Wright.

Yes, but wikipedia claims that this lot are also goalies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Brown_(footballer_born_1976) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Caig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93lafur_Gottsk%C3%A1lksson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Makabu-Makalambay http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I know wikipedia is not to be trusted, but under Rab Douglas' entry it says he scored 4 goals in his first spell at Dundee. Really?

Problem Child - football and rugby - it's been done. Up until at least the early seventies, there was an annual fun game played at Hampden at the end of each season: Rugby Rovers, a team of rugby players who were also good at football, would play against a Queen's Park XI. The first half was normal...

You could be super silly by playing rugby v football . Or add on a few other sports. John & Alan Hansen both football but the thunderbirds puppet also played for Scotland at U-18 level in Squash, Volleyball and Golf. Played simultaneously on the same field, these sports are collectively known as Au...

Or you could have the Scottish Rugby XV Dream Pack of the three Milne brothers in the front row, the Brown brothers in the second and the Calder twins plus their elder brother in the back row - or am I being silly now? You could be super silly by playing rugby v football and throwing on the Brown's...

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problemchild wrote:Just to throw a hat into the ring, what about Rod, Danny and the other Wallace, did they all play for Southampton in the same game?

See my reply to the OP.

Oops, I was a bit pished when I wrote that.

Roy Hodgson seems a good example of working abroad working.

Just to throw a hat into the ring, what about Rod, Danny and the other Wallace, did they all play for Southampton in the same game?