Halloween comes early for pumpkin Steve Kean, plus daft quotes and wicked
whistle
Graham Taylor's ‘Turnip' nickname set the standard for vegetable-based indignity heaped on a
struggling manager. Until this unhappy Halloween message for Blackburn's boss (see pic above).
The forthcoming Olympic Games and whether a united "British" team should be allowed to play
in the competition has reopened one off British football's oldest debates. Jason LeBlanc takes a
look at the history of this fractious state of affairs.
The subject of a unified British team partaking in next summer's London Olympics has been
broached on this site before, but with the Euro 2012 qualifier between Wales and England featuring
some players that would compete together if their associations—along with those of Scotland and
Northern Ireland—agreed to the matter, it feels prescient to gloss over the matter again.
