Georges Lapunkraque

@delboylindo.bsky.social

San Francisco to Lewisham, unlike some people Expect rugby, baseball, some NFL, some football (⚽️), some hockey, some jokes about our world

This is why I’m not terribly bothered by whatever Zack Polanski does, the people running breathless appraisals of his BlueSky posting also run cartoons like this, clear as day allusion to the Happy Merchant for a Jewish man who frankly doesn’t even have a big nose.

Zack Polanski, depicted in a way that Der Stürmer would approve

8) Finally Wales turned to inside-forward Colin Webster, who was already in trouble for headbutting a waiter in a Stockholm nightclub. Twice in the opening 20 minutes he missed good crosses that the six inches taller John Charles may have converted. Pelé scored the only goal 17 minutes from time.

7) Centre-half Ray Daniels could have also been picked, which would have allowed Mel Charles to move to centre-forward, but wasn’t selected after he sang a series of songs from Guys and Dolls following a qualifying loss to Czechoslovakia, which appalled the religious FAW Secretary Herbert Powell.

5) Charles was injured after a 2-1 playoff win versus Hungary, but Wales had no reserve centre forward. 34-year-old Trevor Ford was still playing well at PSV Eindhoven, but was left in Holland for admitting he took under-the-table payments while playing for Sunderland.

4) Charles’s flight from Turin was delayed and nobody waited for him at the airport. He had to spend an hour and a half trying to find where Wales were staying and got a lift from Dewi Lewis of the Western Mail, turning up at breakfast three days before the first game against Hungary.

3) John Charles didn’t arrive until three days before the first game; the FAW at no point thought to lobby Juventus to ensure his prompt release. They simply wrote a letter to Juventus. Sweden sent delegates to lobby Serie A clubs in person, got their players in good time, and made the final.

1) Wales took 18 players to the World Cup instead of the allowed 22; they however took 16 FAW directors. 2) when the squad gathered in London they found their tracksuits hadn’t arrived and their pitch booking fell through, so they trained in Hyde Park instead.