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Badge of the week ~ Oxford City
The paddling cow was a cow that escaped in Oxford in 1425 while being driven to market. The procedure was in those days for the first person on the scene of the mishap or offence to raise the hue and cry. If they failed to do so, they would be considered by the sheriff to be the cause of the incident. The cowherd on this occasion raised the hue, but failed to raise the cry. He would normally have raised them both at the same time but, after he had raised the hue, he got into a conversation with a chandler about a problem he was having getting wax out of a new rug and completely forgot about the cry.
Most people keep quiet about their childhood fantasies. But not Olly Wicken in WSC 59, January 1992, who explained why goalnets were at the heart of football’s appeal
October issue available online and in stores
The new WSC is out now, in all good newsagents or available to order from the WSC shop.
– Clubs and other sports
– High times at Huddersfield
– World Cup boycott begins
– Dalian Atkinson tribute
– Non-League in Hertfordshire
– YouTube football at Wembley