You Can’t Be Serious

You Can’t Be Serious

‘You’ll be grand … just run it off!’ ‘You’ll be grand … just run it off!’ One of the Lads sent me a WhatsApp photo recently that is worth a second glance. It is a genuine photo taken at the top echelons of English soccer sometime in the 1930s. Arsenal player, Ted Drake, is being carried off the pitch unconscious. The player is draped across a man’s shoulder, assisted by two others. Arms and legs dangling, Ted was clearly dead weight. So far, so …