Don't know if it's a happy coincidence, but the Rolls Royce Spitfire engine was called The Merlin. Unless his parents were fans of the Battle of Britain.
He's also played almost 2000 games of online chess and is rated 702nd in Germany in that comp..
https://www.chess.com/member/merlinroehl34
He's a proper Renaissance man.
…he was, we played representative schoolboy football together (Sammy Lee was with us but didn’t go on that trip, Dave Bamber might have been there).
Tommy played mainly at Torquay (I think) before moving to Canada. He and his two sons are very...
…I’m certainly not Bry, I was a very good schoolboy and youth footballer, one of those prolific young goalscorers. I actually signed for the RS and played there a few years but I was never a pro. I stayed on at school and did A-Levels.
I don’t...
….i’ve got a press cutting upstairs from the German press, including a picture of myself and Tommy Wheeldon (who later signed for Everton). No idea what it says but I’m sure I still have it. I think one of the West German internationals from the...
What do you mean when you say you played there? Would be very interested in hearing!
Cologne is about as mad about football as it gets. The powerful thing is that there's one major club the whole city unites behind which is a rare thing for a...
That’s all hipster rubbish. The teams with the best attackers, midfielders and CBs win the leagues. Yes they also have good fullbacks, but they have good fullbacks because they are good teams, not the other way round. Everton had the best pair of...
Hard to believe some of the negativity around our transfer window.
This is, without doubt, the best window we’ve had since the Carlo era — and arguably even smarter in terms of planning for the future. It feels like the start of a proper...
It’s been a very good window we have improved massively over last season and we have a decent bench now. It was never going to be resolved in one window and yeah it could have been even better, but if you told me before we’d get what we have this...