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Pilchards, Chestnuts and Clockwork Cheese: hunting sport’s strangest nicknames

Four years ago, a journalist who liked going to obscure non-league football matches on winter evenings told another journalist who liked interesting facts that Perranporth, a Cornish team playing in the St Piran’s League Division 4 West, were known as the Pilchards. Their manager was also once quoted as saying: “I’m gutted.” Thus began an… Read More »