CHAIRBOY
01-02-2006, 16:26
Football players sick as a parrot
IT'S not often that two teams in a game of football can complain: "We were robbed."
But that's exactly what happened after the game between Porter United and Ecclesfield Red Rose in the first division of the Look Local Nomads League.
For when the lads returned to their changing room in the pavilion at Graves Park they discovered they had been targeted by thieves - who took just about everything including some of their cars.
What made it worse for the Red Rose team, who were playing away, was that they were elated after clawing their way back from 5-1 down with just 15 minutes left to grab a 5-5 draw.
A Red Rose spokesman said: "We were over the moon walking off the pitch, who wouldn't be after coming back from 5-1 down to draw.
"But as we walked into the dressing room the referee came out and said: 'It looks like we've been done over boys'."
Thieves broke down the door with a fire extinguisher before making off with all the players' clothes, mobile phones, wallets, credit cards, house keys, and car keys.
And it got worse as the Red Rose spokesman explained: "We had no choice but to travel home in our kits - well at least those of us who still had a car had to.
"It turns out that the thieves had taken a Corsa and a Volvo belonging to two of our players.
"Not only that but there were a couple of laptops in the Volvo and a stack of power tools in the Corsa."
Red Rose officials are now desperately trying to find a replacement home kit - because their strips were also stolen.
Nomads League Publicity Officer Tony Royston said: "I've been involved with football for 35 years and have witnessed the odd break in and a bit of stuff going missing from time to time. But I have never known anything like this. These lads lost everything."
Contact Woodseats Police Station on 0114 220 2020.
01 February 2006
Let's hope the villains pay the penalty!
IT'S not often that two teams in a game of football can complain: "We were robbed."
But that's exactly what happened after the game between Porter United and Ecclesfield Red Rose in the first division of the Look Local Nomads League.
For when the lads returned to their changing room in the pavilion at Graves Park they discovered they had been targeted by thieves - who took just about everything including some of their cars.
What made it worse for the Red Rose team, who were playing away, was that they were elated after clawing their way back from 5-1 down with just 15 minutes left to grab a 5-5 draw.
A Red Rose spokesman said: "We were over the moon walking off the pitch, who wouldn't be after coming back from 5-1 down to draw.
"But as we walked into the dressing room the referee came out and said: 'It looks like we've been done over boys'."
Thieves broke down the door with a fire extinguisher before making off with all the players' clothes, mobile phones, wallets, credit cards, house keys, and car keys.
And it got worse as the Red Rose spokesman explained: "We had no choice but to travel home in our kits - well at least those of us who still had a car had to.
"It turns out that the thieves had taken a Corsa and a Volvo belonging to two of our players.
"Not only that but there were a couple of laptops in the Volvo and a stack of power tools in the Corsa."
Red Rose officials are now desperately trying to find a replacement home kit - because their strips were also stolen.
Nomads League Publicity Officer Tony Royston said: "I've been involved with football for 35 years and have witnessed the odd break in and a bit of stuff going missing from time to time. But I have never known anything like this. These lads lost everything."
Contact Woodseats Police Station on 0114 220 2020.
01 February 2006
Let's hope the villains pay the penalty!