Wednesday May 9 2018 (The real and proper Day 2429) - The return of Len Shackleton
I was rummaging through some old FTM's the other week, when I came across one from April 2016 - Day 1688 - The Sending Off of Len Shackleton. The piece was about a line in Big Hard Excellent Fish's Imperfect List - a track that Morrissey used to play to the audience just prior to coming on stage. My piece from April 2016 didn't manage to come up with a definitive reason as to why the line about Len Shackleton's sending off was included in the Imperfect List, although one of the author's; Morrissey's old mucker, Jake Walters, had let me know that it was an, "in joke" and, "a nod to an old friend of ours designer/artist Vaughn Oliver". Having re-read my piece, I decided to make contact with Jake again, via Twitter, to see if he would give me any more information about this very peculiar mentioning of the former Sunderland footballer, Len Shackleton , and in particular, the 'sending off', which isn't mentioned anywhere . I had a...
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