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Notts County (oldest pro soccer team) to go out of the League????


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Notts County (founded in 1862) are looking prime candidates for a trip downwards out of the old Fourth Division.

It's like Everton not being in the top flight, or Darlo being relegated 5 divisions for nowt when they were top of Div 4, then being disqualified from the playoffs in whatever division because the eedjits had moved to a stadium with not enough covered seating.

I was so looking forward to meeting the monkey hangers of Hartlepool on the way down as we were going up.

And people wonder why I prefer the nude beaches of the Mediterranean.  The world's going to "hell in a handbasket" whatever the fcuk that means.....

Rant "lite" over!

Andy Cap

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The Hartlepool Monkey monument on Hartlepool Headland.

"Monkey hanger" is a colloquial nickname by which people from the town of Hartlepool in north eastern England are sometimes known.[1]

According to local folklore, the term originates from an incident in which a monkey was hanged in Hartlepool, England. During the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship of the type chasse marée was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Hartlepool. The only survivor from the ship was a monkey, allegedly dressed in a French army uniform to provide amusement for the crew. On finding the monkey on the beach, some locals decided to hold an impromptu trial; since the monkey was unable to answer their questions and because they had seen neither a monkey nor a Frenchman before, they concluded that the monkey must be a French spy.[2] Being found guilty, the animal was duly sentenced to death and was summarily hanged on the beach.

An alternative theory is that it was a young boy who was hanged (the term "powder-monkey" was commonly used at the time for children employed on naval warships to prime the cannon with gunpowder).[3]

The earliest evidenced mention of the hanging is from the popular song, written and performed by 19th century comic performer, Ned Corvan, "The Monkey Song". Given that "only after Corvan's appearances in Hartlepool is there any strong evidence for the development of the Monkey story", the song itself seems the most plausible origin for the myth.[4]

An earlier and remarkably similar monkey-hanging legend with a similar associated song refers to the inhabitants of Boddam, Aberdeenshire.[5] With similar lyrics and scansion ("And the Boddamers hung the Monkey, O") it is plausible that Ned Corvan heard and adapted the song while travelling the Scottish Lowlands with Blind Willie Purvis.

The story may also have its origins in the rivalry between Hartlepool (the small coastal village) and West Hartlepool (the growing industrial town based around the docks). The comic song may have been popular in one of the West Hartlepool’s music halls, where the audience would have enjoyed poking fun at the Hartlepool ‘yokels’ who hanged the monkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger

Yes, Andy Capp is from Hartlepool, but Andy Cap is from Darlington where we use American spelling.......... No extra letters EVER EVER EVER, save ink, not the planet!

 

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