The Ball is Round - Noel Imber

[Chase Side Towner]

Interesting piece on Stuart Fuller's blog about banter between keepers and the crowd at non league level. Noel Imber gets a worthy mention:

 

http://theballisround.co.uk/2013/06/28/keeping-out-the-banter/?

 

 

 

Then there’s the breed of keeper who think they’re auditioning for an improv slot at the Comedy Store. Enfield Town’s Noel Imber, for example, who rattled through more one-liners than a Tim Vine tour on our recent visit to North London. By midway through the second half, he (Imber)was asking us to guess which way his goal-kicks were heading, and discussing ways of distracting his industrial-sized centre back, so that we might finally get to see a shot on target. “Tell him I’ll buy him a burger, Noel,” one of our wags suggested, pointing at the van about 20 yards away. “No chance,” Imber replied. “He’d never make it that far.”

The joke was almost on the Enfield number one by the end of the match, however, when Simon Wormull brought himself on and suddenly exposed Imber as a better comedian than goalkeeper. Twice he flapped at easily snatchable crosses, handing Brinky a decent chance to equalise in the dying minutes. Still, it’s a good to have a career to fall-back on.

 

 

 

Surely he wasn't referring to Captain Kirby !!??