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The Best of Phil Jones


Josef Svejk
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Nicked off TLW:

 

"Jones is like the big, dumb kid who'd get picked on in school, but you'd have to be careful not to push him too far because if he lost his temper he'd do some real damage. Taunting these kids carried an element of risk, chances are you'd be fine but if he snapped and managed to get hold of you, it could get ugly as they invariably possessed what was referred to back then as 'mong strength'. As you can tell, political correctness wasn't big on school playgrounds back in the 80s. 

I remember back when I was in 1st year seniors, there was a huge ginger haired kid with glasses who had cruelly been dubbed 'Beaker' after the character on the Muppets. Now this cat was big, he was over six foot tall when he was 12, but he was generally easy going unless his temper snapped, in which case look out. 

Anyway, one day some lads were winding him up, taking the piss out of him to try and get a 'legger' from him. He may have been big, but wasn't the quickest unless he was in open spaces so generally he couldn't catch any of his tormentors as long as they avoided the playing fields. Except for this one day, when one of them tripped when climbing through a hole in the fence and got a size ten boot to the head for his troubles."

 

 

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Ah, edited it, you cheeky fucker!

 

Indeed, I went back to double-check and spotted that you'd posted it.  But now you've put it on this page as well, which is a creditable service to the forum.  It's a gif that grows more incredible every time you see it.  How he contorts his body ... it really beggars belief that a professional footballer could take a penalty like that.

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