Focus On... Rotherham

SMBU soccer historian Paul Hunchback looks back at connections between Rotherham and Wanderers ahead of tomorrow’s game.




The 2007 Floods
Rotherham was hugely affected by flooding in summer 2007, with water sweeping off the bleak moors into the town centre, leaving everyone but arrogant waterfowl apoplectic with rage. As usual a crack Wanderers team was sent to play an exhibition match but heavy drinking amongst the Wycombe team again caused problems. The game was suspended early in the second half after the visiting players came out after the break wearing snorkels and flippers. Once the home fans realised the coded insult (54 minutes) there was a widespread pitch invasion and the Wycombe team had to be rescued in an orange boat by the RNLI.

Those Fellas
Pub quiz aficionados are to present a special trophy to the two team managers, Paul Lambert and Mark Robins, before the Wycombe v Rotherham game this weekend. Lambert, known usually as “the British player who won a Champions League medal with Borussia Dortmund” and Robins, known usually as “the player who scored the goal that saved Alex Ferguson’s job at Manchester United” are said to be ‘slightly pleased’ at the joint-award. The trophy will be presented by someone from the only western European capital city without a river running through it. [NB: Picture bonus round has been cancelled as the photocopier’s gone on the blink]. .

Construction News
Wycombe’s builder chairman Ivor Beeks has banned use of steel from steelmills in Rotherham as it has been touched by gruff proletariats and is therefore “unclean”. He instead prefers his company to source metal from an upper-class production centre in leafy Surrey, even though the southern steel has only 10% of the strength of the Rotherham product. This is largely due to the usage of Wellington boots, foxes and port in the smelting process.

14.02.2008. 21:05

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