The Guardian reports that the wankers at the London Development Agency have yielded to popular pressure (once it agreed with their decision) and have named the new bridge at Wembley "The White Horse Bridge," having narrowed down the options to five: Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Geoff Hurst, Sir Alf Ramsey, Live Aid, and the eventual winner.
The original winning name in the public poll was Dietmar Hamann, the last goalscorer at Wembley, whose victory was secured by, one suspects, voters of a more Teutonic tendency. There were quite a few votes for a Roy Keane Bridge as well, which is not to suggest that Liverpool and Man U. supporters don't know how to use a phone, only that overseas votes were originally included and treated as valid (maybe they can name something else after Keane, like, oh, I don't know, an asylum for the criminally insane).
Personally, I would have much preferred the Peter McParland Bridge or the Mike Farrelly Bridge after the winning goal-scorer in the mighty Altrincham's F.A. Trophy victory over Runcorn in 1986, except people might confuse him with this guy.
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I voted for the Jim Baxter bridge in memory of Scotland's 2-1 demolition of world champions at Wembley in England's first game since they won that trophy. Slim Jim, by all accounts, played a blinder and, at one stage, played keepie uppy with the ball. Pity he was a Rangers player, though!
Given that my good friend George is a major fan of the Lagavulin, it's hard not to keep giggling at your post-title. Still, I take your point about the votes from the original public poll, but would like to state for the record that this Teutonic descended gal did not vote for Dietmar Hamann.
Yeah, I bet you voted for Oliver Kahn, didn't you?
You and no one else. ;0)
As for the title, it was a toss-up between my two favourites, Lagavulin and Laphroaig, but I could only spell one of them with any confidence!
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