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It’s the opportunit­y you’ve always wanted: a chance to name a urinal at Wimbledon’s new Plough Lane ground, for a mere 10 English pounds

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1 CARABAO CUP DRAW IN MORRISONS? HOLD OUR IRN-BRU... Forget the UEFA Cup, here’s the Wafer Cup. The Scottish Challenge Cup was already weird: clubs from outside Scotland’s top flight face Scottish Premiershi­p U21 teams, teams from the Highland League and Lowland League, teams from Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, plus Wrexham and Solihull Moors from England’s National League.

Now it’s got weirder. Formerly the Irn-bru Cup, the newly renamed Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Challenge Cup kicks off this month, so the SPFL did the only sensible thing: they mocked up the draw to make it look like it was being held in a confection­ery shop. Suddenly, the EFL’S decision to hold the Carabao Cup draw in Morrisons seems sensible by comparison.

While Billy Dodds gamely plucked out his balls, an old bloke loitered nearby in a lab coat borrowed from a school chemistry lab. But it was all worth it for the ties the draw threw up: the obvious Sky game is Livingston under 21s versus Formantine United. 2 “THAT TOILET’S GOT MY NAME ON IT” Who among us hasn’t dreamt of having a urinal named after us at a League One ground? Here’s your chance. Returning to Plough Lane next summer at a brand-new stadium, AFC Wimbledon are crowd-funding initiative to raise some readies.

Each person to donate £10 or more goes into a draw to have the stadium named after them in one of the first five matches there. Every single donor will have their name on something within the stadium: turnstile, entrance gate, beer tap or urinal, the choice is theirs.

How long until a Wimbledon fan asks for a urinal under the name of Pete Winkelman?

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