Toilet humor has long been the reliable retreat of your Daily, and we are always mindful to significant toilet tales and historic moments, especially in relation to football. Readers were entertained to learn that an online journalist a famous broadcaster has a West Brom-themed urinal within his residence. Spare a thought for the Barnsley fan who interpreted the restroom rather too directly, and needed rescuing from an empty Oakwell stadium following dozing off in the toilet at half-time during a 2015 defeat versus the Cod Army. “He had no shoes on and had lost his mobile phone and his hat,” elaborated a representative from Barnsley fire services. And who can forget during his peak popularity with Manchester City, the controversial forward entered a community college for toilet purposes during 2012. “His luxury car was stationed outside, then entered and inquired directions to the restrooms, then he went to the teachers’ staff room,” a student told local Manchester media. “Subsequently he wandered around the college grounds as if he owned it.”
Tuesday marks 25 years to the day that Kevin Keegan resigned as the England coach following a short conversation inside a lavatory booth together with Football Association official David Davies in the bowels of Wembley, after the notorious 1-0 loss against Germany in 2000 – the national team's concluding fixture at the famous old stadium. As Davies remembers in his diary, his private Football Association notes, he stepped into the wet troubled England locker room directly following the fixture, discovering David Beckham crying and Tony Adams energized, both of them pleading for the official to reason with Keegan. After Dietmar Hamann's set-piece, Keegan walked slowly through the tunnel with a distant gaze, and Davies found him slumped – reminiscent of his 1996 Liverpool behavior – within the changing area's edge, whispering: “I’m off. I’m not for this.” Grabbing Keegan, Davies tried desperately to salvage the situation.
“Where on earth could we find for confidential discussion?” stated Davies. “The tunnel? Full of TV journalists. The locker room? Packed with upset players. The shower area? I was unable to have a crucial talk with the team manager as squad members entered the baths. Only one option presented itself. The lavatory booths. A crucial incident in the Three Lions' storied past occurred in the ancient loos of a venue scheduled for destruction. The coming demolition was almost tangible. Dragging Kevin into a cubicle, I closed the door after us. We stayed there, eye to eye. ‘You can’t change my mind,’ Kevin said. ‘I'm leaving. I'm not capable. I’m going out to the press to tell them I’m not up to it. I cannot inspire the squad. I can’t get the extra bit out of these players that I need.’”
Therefore, Keegan stepped down, subsequently confessing he considered his tenure as national coach “without spirit”. The two-time Ballon d’Or winner added: “I had difficulty passing the hours. I found myself going and training the blind team, the deaf squad, assisting the women's team. It's an extremely challenging position.” The English game has progressed significantly during the last 25 years. Regardless of improvement or decline, those Wembley restrooms and those twin towers are no longer present, while a German now sits in the dugout where Keegan once perched. Thomas Tuchel’s side are among the favourites for next year's international tournament: England fans, don’t take this era for granted. This exact remembrance from a low point in English football acts as a memory that circumstances weren't consistently this positive.
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“There we stood in a long row, wearing only our undergarments. We were Europe’s best referees, top sportspeople, examples, grown-ups, parents, determined individuals with great integrity … but no one said anything. We barely looked at each other, our looks wavered slightly nervously as we were summoned forward in pairs. There Collina examined us thoroughly with an ice-cold gaze. Mute and attentive” – previous global referee Jonas Eriksson reveals the humiliating procedures referees were previously subjected to by previous European football refereeing head Pierluigi Collina.
“How important is a name? There exists a Dr Seuss poem called ‘Too Many Daves’. Has Blackpool experienced Excessive Steves? Steve Bruce, plus assistants Steve Agnew and Steve Clemence have been shown through the door marked ‘Do One’. So is that the end of the club’s Steve obsession? Not exactly! Steve Banks and Steve Dobbie stay to oversee the primary team. Total Steve progression!” – John Myles
“Now you have loosened the purse strings and distributed some merchandise, I've opted to write and offer a concise remark. Ange Postecoglou states that he picked fights in the schoolyard with youngsters he anticipated would defeat him. This masochistic tendency must account for his choice to sign with Nottingham Forest. As a lifelong Spurs supporter I will always be grateful for the second-season trophy however the sole second-year prize I envision him securing by the Trent, if he lasts that long, is the Championship and that would be some struggle {under the present owner” – Stewart McGuinness.|
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