October 27 – Pressley’s All Shook Up and Hoddle Arrives

The story of Scotland’s most crazy chairman and the birth of Hod in today’s trip down memory lane.

2006 – Pressley’s All Shock Up

IT’S up to Scotland today for a look at one of the maddest characters in the game, Hearts chairman and former Soviet submarine commander Vladimir Romanov who was at the mercy of a player revolt, lead by captain Steven Pressley today in 2006 when threatened to sack the whole squad if they failed to win their next match. See what went down here.

1957 – Hoddle Arrives
THE year is 1957. In Italy the Treaty of Rome is signed establishing the European Economic Community; in the USA Elvis Presley buys Graceland; and on this day in Hayes, Middlesex, Glenn Hoddle was born. Read more here.


Hoddle showing he had the skills to pay the bills. Well, it was either this or the Diamond Lights clip…

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