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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 9, 2014 14:41:09 GMT
Despite the slim pickings this time around we will venture on through the alphabet of CHAOS.
Krikey, Week K has Kome around Kwickly.
Kindle keynote kontents. Kosher kryptic Kontributions of kismet and kudos, konvening to kowtow kinetically.
What a difficult letter K is to work with.
Fudge is the judge for our "Mantle of Brilliance" this week.
All yours.
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Post by sirroger on Jul 9, 2014 19:12:23 GMT
Special 'K'
Kevin Cooper
Keith Edwards
John Kerr
Derek Kevan
Andy Kilner
Ken Fogarty
John Keeley
Keith Briggs
Darren Knowles
Shefki Kuqi
Kevin Francis
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 9, 2014 19:54:19 GMT
KickZ Football Project
A project set up by the Metropolitan Police to keep troublesome teenagers off the streets during the early evenings. Now taken on nationwide by many Footballl Community Trusts at club level (using one of the many Premier League Funding streams).
Blackpool FC Community Trust's project has grown from just one centre(fairly local to the ground) to across the whole town and is now run at 5 different venues. The local constabulary reported a 70% fall in anti-social behaviour during the first 4 months of the project ( 3 years ago). A remarkable achievement given the high levels of deprivation recorded in the town, particularly close to Bloomfield Road.
The youngsters are able to access the coaching/games sessions on a twice weekly basis at each facility with the most talented going on to represent the club against other Community Trust representatives (complete in tangerine kit). This has been extended to working towards refereeing courses and coaching badges as well as a lead into a two year Futsal Apprenticeship course (equivalent to A level status) which in turn can lead to University entrance.
Not really County or an amusing anecdote, but a real project doing real work with real youngsters with real issues.
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Post by gazz on Jul 9, 2014 22:01:56 GMT
Superb stuff, Lennie, it's a fantastic initiative from a club I have a lot of time for. Long may it continue to be a success.  |
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Post by bigfudge on Jul 9, 2014 23:11:31 GMT
I know I can't win but I can still enter (I assume?)
Kuqiing
Kuqiing is the action of performing Kuqi's Flying Finn celebration. I have undertaken this task multiple times in multiple states of sobriety. Some more famous times include....
At St. James' Park in Newcastle on the official tour, we wandered from the group to go and Kuqi on the pitch, we were caught but thankfully the tour guide had a sense of humour about it.
At a service station near Keele after County had beaten Hayes and Yeading 2-1 on the final game of the season in 2011/12.
At the Altrincham Silverdome Ice Rink after scoring a goal in a game of pick up hockey with some friends of mine.
However the most famous time came in June 2012. My 5-a-side team had been notoriously unsuccessful for a long time, in our first few seasons we had actually lost games by more than 20 goals on a regular basis, over time we did get better however we finally got competitive and just over 2 years (8 seasons) after starting we were staring our first promotion in the face. We needed to avoid defeat against a team who had become a bit of a grudge match for us. We went 2-0 down early on but as with 5-a-side we were 3-2 up not long after going in at half time 5-4 up.
We were pegged back to 8-8 with a few minutes left, I hadn't scored all season as I very very rarely crossed the halfway line, I was very much a stay back kind of guy but I'd found myself forward and my teammate dropped back so I just had a pop in the last minute and it happened to creep in which of course my teammates exploded with excitement causing me to Kuqi in celebration.
I ended up winding myself and didn't think anything of it. I was booked for my silly celebrations but we didn't care we'd been promoted for the first time and we propped up the bar at the Bakers until 2am celebrating. I was only the next day when I couldn't get out of bed I want to the hospital and it turns out I broke 2 of my ribs landing!
I've never Kuqi'd since but it was totally worth it!
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Post by sandbachhatter on Jul 10, 2014 7:13:02 GMT
Apologies for my absence for the past few weeks Lennie but when I racked my brains at the start of CHAOS 2 for stories, I had nothing for the weeks I-K. Rest assured, I have plenty for L-P so will be back with a vengeance shortly.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 10, 2014 8:24:14 GMT
I think we have all had the same problem with I, J and K, Sandy.
No problems, I am sure the creative juices are about to flow.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jul 12, 2014 18:21:10 GMT
If I re-hashed my Kiko story from 'Week D', would I be in with a shout?!  |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 12, 2014 19:11:05 GMT
Stick it in (as you may say) and we can debate the outcome later. Fudge is the deciding man.  |
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 12, 2014 19:13:25 GMT
Surely someone went to Kidderminster ?
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 12, 2014 19:21:20 GMT
Derek Tennyson Kevan (6 March 1935 – 4 January 2013)
He spent the majority of his club career playing as a centre-forward for West Bromwich Albion, where he earned the nickname "The Tank". In 1961–62 he was joint leading scorer in Division One – alongside Ray Crawford of Ipswich Town – with 33 goals.
At Stockport Kevan gained the first medal of his career, the Fourth Division title in 1967.
Kevan scored eight goals in 14 appearances for England. He scored on his debut against Scotland at Wembley in a 2–1 win in April 1957, and netted twice in the 1958 World Cup Finals in Sweden, against the Soviet Union and Austria.
Some goals to games ratio at international level. Sadly he was a little way past his best when he turned up at Edgeley Park - 10 goals in 40 games over 2 seasons.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Jul 12, 2014 19:48:02 GMT
Here you go then, Len...
Kiko
Doncaster Away: 10th December 1996
Ever been to a game which, after the event, didn't seem quite real?
For me, one such experience occurred in the most unlikely of settings and circumstances, as County, one midwinter's night, embarked on the Auto Windscreens Shield trail at a very sparsely populated Belle Vue. A couple of dozen or so County fans had made the trip, whilst, overall, the attendance was some way shy of four figures.
For much of the game it felt like those of us who had turned out were making the wrong call. County, despite being towards the top of the third tier (from which, of course, they were ultimately to be promoted at the end of the campaign), seemed to be making heavy weather of things by falling behind against a struggling Donny side from the Division below. True enough, the AWS wasn't at the top of County's list of priorities that term - what with League form markedly improving after a poor start, and a very handy-looking League Cup run taking shape - but it would still be rather shameful to go out of the competition at the first hurdle, and at the hands of such unfancied opposition...
Just then, substitutions were made - and what followed would still be difficult for me to believe, had I not seen it with my own eyes. Enter the best footballer most of us never saw: one Manuel Henrique Baptista Gomes Charana. Or 'Kiko', for short.
The little Portuguese import had either been told to go out and enjoy himself, or been given more rigid instructions that he simply chose not to understand. For, that Tuesday evening, he ran all over the pitch, dribbled, shimmied and nutmegged his way through the Donny defence, inspiring County in the process to win by the odd goal in three. It was an astonishing cameo, and as if the small and lowly gathering were bearing witness to something so remarkable that it was no business of theirs.
Sadly, though, we didn't see its like from Kiko again. He did put in a couple more appearances for the Club, but on each occasion he refrained from venturing very far from a deep midfield position and from making any impression on the game. I could not, and still can't, equate that with what I had had the privilege to watch amid the crumbling ruins of Belle Vue.
Perhaps, when I think about it, the Donny match was a dream. It had, after all, also featured a surreal half-time raffle which saw the owner of the drawn ticket invited onto the pitch to add to his cash prize by selecting a series of keys to locked boxes, and walking away, a very happy punter, with a thousand quid! No wonder Rovers went to the wall a year or so later. They probably p*ssed away the entire gate-takings that evening...
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Jul 14, 2014 11:37:05 GMT
The kaleidoscope of emotions experienced whilst following Stockport County:
Mr Happy, Mr Sad; hopeful, hopeless; awesome, awful; wired, unplugged; lucky heather, cursed forever; on cloud nine, 6 feet under; cooking on gas, cold turkey; blue chip, blue peter; first class, cattle class; top of the tower, bottom of the barrel; five star, euro star; at home, lost at sea; apathetic, a pathetic...; dynamite, a damp squib; jumping for joy, jumping from 10 storeys; inter-stellar, can of flat stella; the bee’s knees, the bee gees; A-1, A-hole; high class, hairy ass; ship shape, ship-wrecked; a rush of adrenaline, a rush to the toilet; smarty pants, soiled pants; king of the hill, harry hill; Number 1, Number 2; high on a drug, a second hand butt plug.
And despite it all: You are my County, my only County...
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 16, 2014 20:05:26 GMT
Mantle of Brilliance time, Fudgie. Your choice is awaited.
Meanwhile Week L will be underway very shortly.
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Post by bigfudge on Jul 16, 2014 21:34:24 GMT
All great entries! A fabulous week for the standard of the stories! Lens Kickz project and Eppy Kaleidoscope were both close but my favourite has to be Macc's Kiko story as it rings true for so many of our random players who are never seen again!!
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