Is Top Footballer The Boy Detective From a 1960s Comic Strip

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Is Top Footballer The Boy Detective From a 1960s Comic Strip

by ianrthorpe @ 2009-05-28 – 15:56:37

I was still reading comics at the start of the 1960 so I write from authentic memories as nothing in the world of pre pubescent and adolescent boys changed much between the end of World War 2 and the mid 1970s.

So there I was watching the footy last night and reflecting on what it is about Christian Ronaldo I find slightly disturbing. And it came to me in one of those flashes of cosmic consciousness in which the mind transcends the physical limitations of time and space.

Ronaldo reminds me of one of those badly drawn characters, a boy-detective or boy-reporter or something that featured in Hotspur, Rover, Wizard and the rest. You know the guy, his sidekick was always a Border Collie. The plot of these stories was the same every week: badly drawn boy reporter / detective / secret agent gets into a bad situation, the dog sorts it out and the stupid kid gets the credit. Then a fat posh bloke in a top hat pops up and says "you and your dog saved the day, here's ten shillings to get yourself a slap up tea."

We shall perhaps never know what happened to the Border Collie. Pity, United could have done with it in midfield last night.

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15 Comments to Is Top Footballer The Boy Detective From a 1960s Comic Strip

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- rithompson
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- 2009-05-28 @ 16:11:11
Because the Border Collie would have played better than the entire United team combined!
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-05-28 @ 19:45:00
  There was a time, much earlier in my life, when I would noy have let you get away with that.
  - - rithompson
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    - 2009-05-28 @ 19:50:29
    You know it's true!
    - - ianrthorpe
      - 2009-05-29 @ 15:16:42
      Well yeah it is, but I knew that as I raised it first
      
      have you ever played against a Border Collie? They're very agile. Almost as good as bestie in fact (shows how long it is since I was interested in football)
      - rithompson
        
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        2009-05-29 @ 16:53:01
        
        But are they as good as Thierry Henry?
        
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        ianrthorpe
        
        2009-05-29 @ 17:13:23
        
        I don't know, is he a French Romantic poet like Rimbaud (ten thousand brownie points if you pronounced that correctly and knew it is not a Silvster Stallone movie)
        
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- The_Walrus ^Pro
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- 2009-05-28 @ 16:28:28
I saw some of that game, as my son likes the footyball. I thought those ones in white looked utterly outclassed, the way I always was at school in football. They looked like zombies, stumbling around while the ones with the nice kit danced around them.

But really, I just want a link to my site on a page with your second line, to mess up the search engines.
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-05-28 @ 19:47:51
  The search engines are well able to mess themselves up. Someone over the pond has accused Google of click fraud!
  - - The_Walrus ^Pro
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    - 2009-05-28 @ 20:52:01
    ...bears... ...the Pope... ...rarely in the same woods... [wanders into the distance]
    - - ianrthorpe
      - 2009-05-29 @ 15:19:28
      I have heard whispers Google are stuggling financially. Their overheads are enormous. Just goes to prove what I always said about the web: You can't run a profitable business based on giving stuff away.
      - ianrthorpe
        
        2009-05-29 @ 15:21:00
        
        BTW Walrus,
        In my own webspace I just posted a song Favourite Boy. That will really confuse the search engines.
        
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      - The_Walrus ^Pro
        
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        2009-05-29 @ 17:40:12
        
        I don't really know where they are getting their money from, but assume it's adverts. Most web users have brains that by now refuse to see adverts...
        
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        ianrthorpe
        
        2009-05-29 @ 18:02:13
        
        I guess they are surviving on money they raised from selling shares. Very dangerous, with yields on US Treasury bonds rising as a result of "quantitative easing" inflation could hit the American economy very soon. Time to be stashing capital in gold or commodities not using it to fund expenses.
        
        It will be quite interesting to watch the trainwreck.
        
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- nultygoestopartick
- 2009-05-28 @ 16:33:00
Ronaldo's got a lot of weight on his shoulders something to do with his big heid.
- - ianrthorpe
  - 2009-05-28 @ 19:48:39
  and all that grease onhis hair must weight a ton.
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