Quote from Comrade Sibboleth in the U.K election maps thread
From April 04, 2006, 12:38:02 am
after a key England game in the 1970 World Cup; [in]famously the England goalkeeper was too ill to play, England were knocked out of the contest and working class voters got all depressed lowering their turnout by quite a lot. The old legend is that if Gordon Banks had played, Ted Heath would never have become P.M.[/i]
Oi, Pete Bonetti was one of the finest goalkeepers this country ever produced, and wasn't exactly in top shape that day either you know :-P
and Heath may have been incompetent, but at least he wasn't Thatcher
