Boston, Lincolnshire. Famous for Pilgrim Fathers, the Boston Stump (don’t ask!) and – drum roll, please – Paul Gascoigne.
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But it took Gazza – immortalised by those scenes of Italia ’90 – no more than seventy days to allow his Boston career to go full-circle with a bizarre run-in with a lobster, kissing an opponent who’d lunged headlong into a tackle all en route to his resignation less than three weeks ago.
Now expected to enrol on Sammy Lee’s management courses, it is reported that the man who has, in his time, commanded transfers of over £15million, is now ready to mask his true identity to don the slightly more subtle tag of G8. Yeah, subtle.
And now, perhaps just a knee-jerk consequence of Gazza’s departure, Boston manager Steve Evans tried – albeit more with the heart than head – to bring Darren Anderton to the club as a player-coach, all this right under the nose of Sicknote’s current boss, Steve Bruce.
Now either football is changing for the better without us knowing it, thus allowing clubs to delve in to Help the Aged for these dwindling stars – or Boston United are a transfer force to reckon with. Watch out Sir Alex, the Pilgrims are coming.
And although that fantastic little fairy tale romance was for such a short time, Boston United are left in none too shabby a position to build upon in life post-Gazza.
**Star Man** - Andy Kirk
Now as if the Euro ’96 personalities above aren’t enough for all your Lincolnshire football desires and the Stump does it for then, then the Pilgrim father’s proudest son would have to do.
When Kirk arrived in May, along with an influx of SPL B-graders, he proudly became Boston United’s first current international, with the striker having been capped five times for his Motherland Northern Ireland – and looking ever more likely to be recalled for the forthcoming clash with England.
Snapped up following release by Scottish outfit Hearts, Kirk brings a wealth of experience to the Boston side belying of his years having made over 75 appearances for Hearts, scoring 39 goals. Also boasts the privilege of having played UEFA cup football.
Four goals in five games finds Kirk coming to the ‘Lane in something of a rich vein of form, and with a defensive crisis on our hands – the situation looks none too relishing.