For example, I’ve been referring to Noble Francis as ‘Noble Francis’ – not ‘Noble’, not ‘Francis’ – from the first time I read a Noble Francis letter from Noble Francis” – Mike Wilner.
Presumably Mike Glogower (yesterday’s Footballl Daily letters) had the famous French comic album series Asterix the Gaul in mind when declaring Manchester City to be ‘Atrocius’, since he sounds like a likely ally of main antagonist Julius Caesar.
There is however a football connection since the story is that, when Caesar returned from a campaign over the Alps and falsely claimed to have killed 20,000 Gauls, Asterix asserted that he had fact-checked the claim and that the true figure was only 10,000.
Tottenham Hotspur want to be known as ‘Tottenham Hotspur’, eh (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition)?
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