Yep H Newton aka, the glass kneed bluffer, aka, small fish in a small pond, we got him 5 yrs too late, but even back then he was made to look better than he was by his 'minder' Terry Hennessey
It's alright, we always get the novelty punishments
Every single Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea (and just about everyone else) player effing and blinding all game long in the ref's face - but Graham Poll sends James McFadden off for swearing...
These stories are always the same, a team gets vaguely linked with a player once and then in fans heads it becomes 'everything was agreed, he was desperate to come, it fell through because the manager/DoF/chairman we don't like messed it up'.
I once wrote an 'alternative history' of Everton, the point of divergence was winning two games in one week in 1971, against Panathinaikos in the European Cup and the RS in the FA Cup semi final a few days later.
As a result Everton became the...
Because it makes sense for folks that go to the game, but the folks sitting at home watching it on tv aren`t put out whether its a Saturday or Sunday and that`s all the tv companies care about.