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JOHNNY
GILES
Cultured.
Confident. Soft-spoken.
Ballstroker. Playmaker. Penaltytaker.
Two fine feet. Shorts ter 'knees.
Quiet as you please. Hardest man on 'team.
BILLY
BREMNER
A squat Jock. Brick top.
Legs as white as his kit.
Little
feller. Knees like lumps
of Scottish mozzarella.
A Tartan
Terror,
a real Yorkshire Terrier.
Socks
rolled down,
sleeves rolled up,
sweated
blood. Elland Road
muck in his veins.
A small
giant. Defiant.
Lived and died for Leeds.
A legend.
A Godsend.
(David
Gill and Craig Bradley, from "White Shirts, Redbricks and Little
Black Books", published by The Football Writers' Workshop, 2002)
YORKSHER
TERRIER
Nowt of a dog. Hollow
bones. Hair too bare
for a dishclart. Flesh
like cotton knots,
feels like a chicken carcass,
you can't mop up with it.
Nay,
what you want
is a whippet. A dog
that can dart an weave an nip
an bob an catch ferrets
for you. A proper bowser.
Teeth
like weasels'
eyes like rats'
nose like a nob.
Put that down yer trousers!
(David
Gill, from The Amateur Yorksherman, Redbeck Press 2002)
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