The Price is Right 2 – winner announced!

Congratulations are due to Drew Wright, who correctly guessed that the mystery transfer target was former Marseille legend (and, ummm, AC Milan flop) Jean-Pierre Papin:

Jean-Pierre Papin

Papin scored 30 goals in 54 games for the national team. In France, the overheard kick is now known as “Le Papinade” in his honour. Papin also played for Valenciennes, Brugge, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Bordeaux and Guingamp, but is most well-known for his time at L’OM where he is still revered as a legend, up with the likes of Fabien Barthez, Didier Drogba, Chris Waddle, Abedi Pele and Tyrone Mears:

And so to Drew’s prize. Drew even managed to correctly name the three European Cup winners that Papin played for, and so for that he deserves something special; probably the finest pair of boobs on the interweb:

Yeah baby, oh yeah

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The Price is Right – number 2

Hello, and welcome to the next episode of “The Price is Right”, with your host, Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim of the Abu Dhabi United Group!

Now that Manchester Shitty have got all this lovely money to play with, they’re making all sorts of bold and somewhat rash predictions about who they’re going to sign. It doesn’t matter who they are, what they cost, or who much they’ll need to be bribed paid; apparently it doesn’t even matter if they stopped playing ninety years ago! Hell, they’ll just build a time machine and go back and get them!

Now, we here at Grumpy Towers have managed to get hold of Shitty’s shopping list; this is a top secret list of their transfer targets. All you have to help you identify each transfer target is one partly obscured image and a  vague description – sounds like one of Kevin Keegan’s team talks when he was King of the Kippax!

If you think you can identify today’s mystery transfer target, leave your answer (and your name) via the comments link below. Winners wil be named and suitably rewarded when I can think of a prize, or indeed if anyone even answers. Are you ready to play The Price is Right?

The Price is Right!

Today’s mystery transfer target is an international forward who played in four different countries, and lists three different European Cup winning teams on his CV. During his most successful spell in his home country, his team won the league four times in succession and he finished top scorer in the league five years running. He is the only player to have won the Ballon d’Or whilst playing in this particular country. He played in the 1986 World Cup and the 1992 European Championship. In his native country, one of his particular tricks with the ball is so famous that it is now named after him. At his last foreign club, he was voted the club’s best foreign player of all time earlier this year. He began his managerial career with an amateur side, but was swiftly snapped up by one of the coutry’s bigger teams to help them return to the top division.

The Price is Right – winner announced!

Congratulations are due to the winners of the inaugral The Price is Right competition. I say ‘winners’, because I’m handing out plaudits to joint winners, and that’s because it’s my blog and I can do what I like. For those that didn’t guess correctly, the answer was of course dodgy 1970’s hairstyle victim Dennis Tueart:

Dennis Chewits

So, in joint first is Chris Gordon, whose fantasy league team “Leeds from the Front” sits proudly in second place in the GrumpyOldFootballers fantasy league game. He chimed in to say:

“I recognize that picture – I had his football card when I was a kid.

Without completely giving away the answer and spoiling everyone else’s fun, my earliest memory of this MC legend is of him playing left wing for his former team in the 1973 cup final when, with more jam than a Tiptree factory, upstart outsiders Sunderland beat a superior but desperately unlucky Leeds team 1-0.

If memory serves I swapped his card for a pack of chewing gum and a Top Trumps 1976 Fiat X1/9. The Fiat was quicker in a straight line but our Mancunian transfer target had a better turning circle.”

It’s quite clear Chris is a Leeds fan so I could never actually let him win the competition outright. Still, he obviously knew the answer and props go to him. And kudos too for the comedy answer.

But in actual first place (in that he actually provided the correct answer before anyone else) is Paul Lowry. His fantasy league team sits just behind Chris in third place (in the absence of any actual football this week – internationals don’t count as football – we’ll be having some form of fantasy league related posting this weekend). Paul will doubtless be thrilled to know that we’ve splashed out on a very special prize for our first ever winner – a time machine! Yes, you too can travel back in time in style with our 2009 registered, top-of-the-range time machine complete with alloy wheels, furry dice and iPod cradle. Unfortunately Paul can’t take delivery of his new time machine until I get the insurance sorted out, but in order to prove the time machine’s existence I travelled back in time to fix a mighty injustice inflicted on Paul’s home town of Chesterfield.

Take a look at this video of the 1997 FA Cup Semi-Final between Chesterfield and Middlesborough, taken after my short journey back to 1997:

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The price is right – number 1

Hello, and welcome to the first episode of “The Price is Right”, with your host, Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim of the Abu Dhabi United Group!

Now that Manchester Shitty have got all this lovely money to play with, they’re making all sorts of bold and somewhat rash predictions about who they’re going to sign. It doesn’t matter who they are, what they cost, or who much they’ll need to be bribed paid; apparently it doesn’t even matter if they stopped playing ninety years ago! Hell, they’ll just build a time machine and go back and get them!

Now, we here at Grumpy Towers have managed to get hold of Shitty’s shopping list; this is a top secret list of their transfer targets. All you have to help you identify each transfer target is one partly obscured image and a  vague description – sounds like one of Kevin Keegan’s team talks when he was King of the Kippax!

If you think you can identify today’s mystery transfer target, leave your answer (and your name) via the comments link below. Winners wil be named and suitably rewarded when I can think of a prize, or indeed if anyone even answers. Are you ready to play The Price is Right?

Number One

Transfer target number 1

Transfer target number 1 is a former Shitty idol, born and bred in Manchester but who did not join his hometown club until 1974. He scored one goal for every three internationals he played, and the last major honour of his career* was the 1978 Soccer Bowl. His last professional club was Derry City. It’s partly his fault that Joe Royle and Kevin Keegan were appointed to the Maine Road hotseat. Can you name transfer target number 1?

* Remember, I’m really lazy and I get all my “facts” from Wikipedia and any half-arsed fansite I come across. I couldn’t possibly be expected to check if everything was accurate.

PS Does anyone else think it’s odd that City’s new owners are called Abu Dhabi United? Just putting it out there!