Easy Rider

Easy Rider

Tuesday 8 June 2010

Oggy, Oggy, Oggy!

Although you can spend a king's ransom on cycling kit, I've found a goalkeeper's shirt I had in the wardrobe surprisingly useful. Its yellow and black check design makes the wearer conspicuous, to say the least, and it's thick enough to keep out the morning chill.

Football followers may recognise this shirt as the one immortalised by 'Big Oggy', legendary CCFC keeper Steve Ogrizovic.

The Sun recently placed Oggy at number five in its 'Top Ten Ugly Footballers', which I feel is a little harsh:

"Keeper Ogrizovic spent an incredible 16 YEARS at Coventry from the mid-eighties to the turn of the millennium.

In that time, he racked up over 600 appearances and became a legend with the Midlands club.

Outside Coventry though, Ogrizovic will be more fondly remembered for his huge misshaped nose.

Several relegation battles took their toll on the big stopper and after many clashes with the opposition attackers he was left looking more ogre than Ogrizovic."


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