Quote Originally Posted by uncle bob View Post
My next door neighbour passed away yesterday after a short illness.
He loved talking about the football and watching his darts on Tv.
Will be sadly missed by his family and friends especially his wife Moira.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...ining-29048548

It's crazy, He said the Welsh FA committee took there wives to the world cup and they were refused entry onto the plane at the airport as the plane had to much weight.

He was the only reserve striker and didn't travel.
We had no striker to play in the semi final I think he told me and that would/should have been him playing due to the injury to John Charles was it? In the quarter final?
Well that’s understandable. Look at community photographs back then and many women were fat once they had kids and got over 25 years of age. They used to have silly sayings like “Well look at her there’s no meet on her is there?” or “She needs fattening up, have another cake”. Most of them could pass off as truck drivers back then.

So I can imagine weight issues on the wives meaning they got rejected. Understandable.

My grandad uaed to talk about Baker. He could recite that world cup team man for man up until 15 years ago. RIP Baker.