Stoke City's Rory Delap, aka The Human Catapult, has a new weapon in his armoury, a towel. Desperate to get a grip of the ball before its thrown like a torpedo into the 18 yard box to cause football's equilvalent to Armageddon, towels were placed round The Britannia at the weekend to help out Mr Slingshot.
The opposing force, Hull City, had a clever plan to counteract old windmill arms. They used that wily old performer Dean Windass in a clever destraction tactic.
As Mr Delap was winding up to throw the ball into the box, Deano just happened to be warming up as few feet away.
It seemed Stoke City's towel plan had been out-manoeuvred by those Tigers from the east, until the ref booked Windass.
That gave Rory a free rein to wreak havoc near the Hull goal. Innovation though is the key to Mr Delap's 40 metre throw being effective.
Perhaps, a towel may not be good enough to dry the ball. Should Stoke City put hairdryers around the ground? This might speed up the drying experience.
What about letting Rory put on Marigolds for extra grip or a pair of wicket keeping gloves...an air raid siren could also be effective.
It worked for little old Lincoln City for many years. As the home side took a corner the siren would blast out...opposing defenders would look to the heavens in fear of an approaching German bomber.
By the time they realised they were in 1999 and not 1939, Lincoln had scored...for more Stoke City news, pop along to The Sentinel....
The opposing force, Hull City, had a clever plan to counteract old windmill arms. They used that wily old performer Dean Windass in a clever destraction tactic.
As Mr Delap was winding up to throw the ball into the box, Deano just happened to be warming up as few feet away.
It seemed Stoke City's towel plan had been out-manoeuvred by those Tigers from the east, until the ref booked Windass.
That gave Rory a free rein to wreak havoc near the Hull goal. Innovation though is the key to Mr Delap's 40 metre throw being effective.
Perhaps, a towel may not be good enough to dry the ball. Should Stoke City put hairdryers around the ground? This might speed up the drying experience.
What about letting Rory put on Marigolds for extra grip or a pair of wicket keeping gloves...an air raid siren could also be effective.
It worked for little old Lincoln City for many years. As the home side took a corner the siren would blast out...opposing defenders would look to the heavens in fear of an approaching German bomber.
By the time they realised they were in 1999 and not 1939, Lincoln had scored...for more Stoke City news, pop along to The Sentinel....
