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When we say that animals, which means that only dogs and seagulls, but to be fair, they were matched to run professional sports stars in a joyful dance in recent years, so ...

1) Jim McNichol and Bryn

1986-1987 season saw the automatic lowering of the first time - we get the sponsors on the right - Today League Division Four to the GM Vauxhall Conference. With the soon-to-be-Barclays Football League is about to enter its centennial, open the hatch appeared in a symmetrical Burnley dark founder member of the league in 1888 and the need to win on the last day of the season for a chance to stay in place.

Even a victory at Turf Moor, where they can entertain East had no guarantees of safety. With a game to play, Burnley were very low with 46 points, was at Torquay United 47, and the city of Lincoln in 48. Football met at Turf Moor "like vultures at a funeral sky," said Cynthia Bateman in this document. "The game cracked like thin ice, with the East, the fight for a place in the promotion play-offs that cause divisions in the contention of the defense of Burnley Then a murmur broke out in a storm of optimism. Torquay and Lincoln were missing. "

Just before the break, Neil Grewcock three men beat and struck a low shot to the network in the East. Just after the restart, a cross was converted by Ian Britton Grewcock. A mistake by goalkeeper Joe Clarets Neenan is allowed back into the match on 55 minutes but 17 hours later at Burnley, universal time, the final whistle.

If Burnley safe? Yes, because with seconds remaining, the two relegation rivals lost, Torquay 2-1 at home to Crewe, Lincoln 2-0 at Swansea. With the final result because of Torquay were significantly reduced. But while the result was confirmed little Lincoln, Torquay was not.

And here's why. Torquay had led 2-0 in the first half, David Platt one of the best markers of Crewe, but the right side of Jim McNichol pulled one back through a deflected shot free just after the start of the second period, including the home team hope. I was done with two minutes, as long McNichol continued to remove a helmet, passing a police officer and his dog. The dog - a German shepherd named Bryn - McNichol was assumed by his master, and sank his teeth into the leg of the player. Cue five minutes of treatment, and five minutes of added time - during which, of course, Paul Dobson scored the goal that saved and instead of Torquay Lincoln

McNichol later required 17 stitches in his leg. Lincoln, meanwhile, was left to care for their own injuries, which was the first time he had been lower throughout the season

2) Eddie Waring and K Nine

In 1971, the Rugby Football League has appointed a marketing consulting firm - and you thought these opportunists are a relatively modern phenomenon - to understand why they were falling attendances at matches. Ultants lucky, returned with a 30-page report filled with recommendations, including one in particular stands out. "Discussions" with the BBC is required, the argument, the company gives the game a bad image. "There is no doubt that the game of Rugby League is widely regarded as a sport for trucks North with a penchant for physical strength rather than the brain, interpreted in the context of tailings in a steady drizzle and guarded by a low, flat above the crowd, whose comments are casual with a strong emphasis nasal Eddie Waring "Waring himself -. commentator on the BBC since 1949 and seen by some as the imposition of the north-POO-isms a little too thick -. It has been described as "entertaining and fun," but "unfortunate and condescending"

Nothing, of course, became a reality to deal with any of these concerns. In 1976, 11 000 matchgoers handed a petition to the BBC demanding change. It was a year that began with Waring being in the "black list of the media" a careful reader, "with other big names of the public is sick of hearing about, as Margaret Thatcher, the Bay City Rollers, and Idi Amin Dada.

But the low point had not yet been reached. As Tony Hannon pointed out in his excellent biography of the legendary commentator Eddie Waring is, if Don Fox Challenge Cup 1968 - "It's a poor boy" - was "the pinnacle of rugby league career of Eddie Waring recently doubt as to its lowest point. There was a link TV Challenge Cup first round between Leeds and Halifax, Saturday, February 11, 1978, when a particularly tenacious dog Headingley invaded the pitch. "

The dog - a collie black and white - has refused to move on the ground throughout the match, receiving passages regularly caught in the game. One wag noted that a significant portion of Leeds were more concerned about his presence that any player in Halifax. BBC subtitling of the dog "K Nine", while in a Waring time joked that the dog had wandered into a position offside. Yuks all good, and it is impossible to imagine how the BBC or Waring would otherwise have played this absurd situation, but was not designed to go well with a group of fans who had the Radge in the best part of a decade. "The game was delayed for three years," David Howes has criticized the FCR eerily accurate, that rolls his sleeves and eventually went into battle with the BBC, which require their game and treat the sport as less of a musical joke Hall.

Few clubs have endured a few months so gently surreal Feyenoord between May and November 1970. His roller coaster ride began with a clash in the final of the European Cup on May 6, when he became the first Dutch team to lift the trophy, beating Celtic favorites at the San Siro with a winner three minutes the Coen Moulijn end of extra time. He won the Intercontinental Cup in September, beating Estudiantes 3-2 on two legs. After Joop van Daele defender scored the winner at De Kuip stadium, had their lenses removed by Argentine Oscar Malbernat peak, which passed to his teammate Carlos Pachama, printed on the ground. (It was Estudiantes de La Plata, in the exercise relatively good, certainly. Last year, three players thrown into the pot for their anti-football antics against Milan) having reached the summit of the world, and almost immediately was Feyenoord removed from the European Cup, his defense does not last a single round of the UTA Arad Romanian minnows take the objectives.