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MSB ROYS
15 May 2004, 11:38
Great Barry Dickins article is here (http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2004/05/14/1084289883835.html)
Tim the Toolman
15 May 2004, 12:47
I wonder whether that was the day Micky claimed he was peed on by the pie supporters as he ran up the race?
NoelMugavin
15 May 2004, 18:05
thanks for posting Tim. Read the article this morning with a smile on my face and was thinking of adding the link here myself. Great stuff. All hail Sir Dickins. Nice cartoon too.
Tim the Toolman
17 May 2004, 10:59
I didn't post (not that clever) MSB ROYS did so congrats to him/her!
MSB ROYS
17 May 2004, 11:53
him! Name is Mark...
Tim the Toolman
17 May 2004, 22:29
Cheers, love your work Marcus:cool:
Mobbenfuhrer
18 May 2004, 02:39
him/her? hehe
MSB stands for Marcia Somethingorother Brady :D
NoelMugavin
18 May 2004, 17:48
belated thank you MSB for the article...
errr...i always thought MSB stood for Massive Sperm Build-Up...
MaroonBoy
19 May 2004, 14:21
Here's another spitting story, this one from Clen Denning who played in the 1944 premiership team. Clen's now 93 years old. He told this story at the April Fitzroy-Brisbane Lions Historical Society gathering. The interviewer is Arthur Wilson. (I had permission to tape the interview - these are Clen's exact words!).
AW: Now spitting, we’ve heard a bit about spitting in the last few weeks. You had somebody spit on you one day. Is that right?
CD: That’s right. We were playing at Punt Road one day and I was going up the race and this fellow went and spat at me. It was a huge spit, I copped the lot right down my face. I said, “You rotten mongrel” and I said to the chap on the gate, “Open the gate will ya?!” and he said, “Nah, I’m not allowed” so I said, “Get lost” and I jumped the gate and ran up to this bloke and punched him in the nose and then gave him an uppercut. So there he was lying on the ground and a fellow came up to break it up and he said, “Why’d ya hit him for?” and I said, “I'd smack you in the face too if you spat in my face.” “Oh…” he said, “…did he?” So then he started kicking him. (Crowd laughs uproariously).
I went back up the race and into the rooms. Later there was a bit of a fuss about the player who’d jumped the fence and belted this bloke. But no one said who it was.
:D
Tim the Toolman
23 May 2004, 16:58
That's the funniest story I've heard in a while. God bless those old timers and their musings!