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Shelley Alexander
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	<title>Thrones and banjoes, Tom and Ben</title>
	<description><![CDATA[<p>It tickled me for 16 years - the fact that Huddersfield Town were so proud that <a href="http://www.shankly.com/Webs/billshankly/default.aspx?aid=2402">Bill Shankly had been their manager</a> before he left for Liverpool that they preserved his toilet seat behind glass in their museum. </p>

<p>So although it was 1993, when I worked on the TV football fanzine Standing Room Only, that I saw this prized throne at Town's old Leeds Road ground, it immediately sprang to mind when I was asked to come up with an idea for a <a href="https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bendirs/2009/01/the_marvellous_magical_mad_foo.html">BBC Sport broadband show</a>.</p>]]><![CDATA[<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Football fans" src="https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/sporteditors/kop_pa595.jpg" width="595" height="335" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span></p>

<p>That's what football's all about, I thought, and clubs up and down the Football League must have similar marvellous, magical and mad stories so, let's go where the fans tell us. </p>

<p>And who better to present it than <a href="https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/bendirs/">Ben Dirs</a> and <a href="https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/tomfordyce/">Tom Fordyce</a>? Tom and Ben travelled round France for the Rugby World Cup in 2007 with arm wrestling contests against Welsh female fans and breakdancing with Aussies just some of the highlights.</p>

<p>But we needed a graphic theme to knit these random football facts together and up stepped designer Richard Thompson with the wonderful idea of Tom and Ben taking their travelling fair tent of wonders around the country. Look out for the eyes on the mascot Sting - they're Richard's.</p>

<p>It was mention of <a href="https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/music/playitagain/learning/banjo/">learning the banjo</a> that led me to the theme music for our Footy League Tour - I hadn't seen Jack, the teenage son of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/leagueone/northampton/2633310/Stuart-Gray-applauds-Northamptons-wounded-hero-Adebayo-Akinfenwa---Football.html">Northampton manager Stuart Gray</a>, since he was a boy. </p>

<p>And when I found out, apart from being in demand for his banjo playing, he was also doing a music technician degree at Bristol he seemed the perfect choice for the title music. He even threw in his flatmate Seb, a drama student, for some vocals.  </p>

<p>So all the ingredients are there - let's just hope that you like the mix enough to tempt us with marvellous, magical, mad tales of your own so next time it will be your club we're visiting. </p>]]></description>
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Shelley Alexander
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