IIRC Kirkpatrick used to drive a drop-head Saab. Can't see that being turned on its roof, it didn't have one

That was at Knowsley Road. The crowd always appreciate a bit of banter back.

Some of the best I saw/heard at knowsley road was from a group of Batley fans - we were beating them in the cup and at every kick off they'd think of a new song to tell Scully how rubbish he was (this was in 2003, so just after he'd won his two MOS awards).

"You're not as good a Danny" seemed to tickle Paul especially.

Again not really a comeback but one of the funniest things I've seen of recent at a rugby game was at the Jungle, Cas vs. Hull.

It was Michael Smiths first game against Hull since moving to Cas who was famed for his off field antics before his debut for Hull. The full Cas squad were warming up in front of the Hull fans who broke out into "We're on the p*ss with Michael Smith...." the full Cas squad were in stitches!

Love this thread!

Well whatever it was that happened that day he didn't return to Craven Park as referee for numerous seasons afterwards. As 4th official he did though.

Gotta be thread of the Decade. giggle over nearly every comment.

My favourite one so far! Ganson's always good comedy value.

Season that Sky moved the Quins game in Perpignan at 3 weeks notice so that the game was taking place on the Sunday when most fans were booked to fly back. I rearranged and at half time was walking round the back of the stand when I bumped into Bill Arthur. There were a load of cables leading into a big truck parked outside. Bill I said, which one of these do I pull out to f**k your weekend up? He replied, I think they are the BBCs

You cant imagine any ref these days would get away with the theatrics that Whitfield and Lindop used get up to. Life was so much better in Thatcher's Britain.

One that springs to mind was when Doug Laughton was trying to get Andy Currier to change his tackling technique after an 8 match ban. Doug said 'Andy lad, they can't go anywhere without their legs'. Currier replied, 'Aye Doug, they can't go anywhere without their in heads either'!

Cricketing ones are always good;

Rod Marsh to Ian Botham - 'Hey Ian, how's your wife and my kids'. Both replied 'The wifes fine, the kids are retarded'.

Mark Waugh to James Ormond - 'Who the are you? You're not good enough to play for England' to which Ormond replied - 'Maybe not but at least I'm the best player in my family'!

Perhaps not the greatest sledge but if you enter 'Mind the windows Tino' on well known video sharing site, Freddie Flintoff laughing at the end is well worth a watch!

One good comeback that is quite well known is from Bradford Northern in the early 90s. 'Supersub' Paul Medley had a habit of closing his eyes/blinking just as the ball came to him and so as consequence knocked on quite a bit when running onto the ball. Anyway in one game Bradford were attacking the line and a forwrd knocked on from an easy pass.
Apparently at this the Bradford Coach (I think it was Peter Fox) jumped out of the dugout and screamed 'Medley you useless ****er, open yer bloody eyes!' Only problem was that Medley was sat further down the bench next to him at the time.
Medley says: 'But boss, it wasn't me, I'm sat right here!'
To which Fox replies 'Aye, well you would have done the same thing if it was you.'

Michael Smith was walking back after Cas had just scored against us, when the fans started giving him stick for being fat, so he started playing the imaginary violin because we were getting hammered by about 30 points.

I remember a game at Cougar Park when we were giving London Skolars a bit of a pasting. Early in the 2nd half Skolars Wayne Kerr scored a try. A Keighley fans in the North Stand started chanting " The Number 10 is Wayne Kerr" at him and he obliged with the middle finger salute. 3 quick Keighley tries all ensued all met with chants of "Wayne Kerr! Give us a wave" whilst he and his team were gathered under the sticks, with even his own team mates laughing at him. To his credit he waved back to probably the biggest cheer of the whole game. Pretty much the whole ground started chanting "Nice one Wayne Kerr, nice one son!"

Billy Thompson was reffing GB v France in the 70's and France were giving GB a tough game. One of the GB lads said to Billy "these French lads are better than I expected" to which Billy replied "aye, it's a good job I'm reffing or you might have had a chance of losing this game....."


Another one involving Billy Thompson was when he was reffing Workington v Leeds at Derwent Park and he was only taking Leeds back about 6 yards at the PTB. Paul Charlton said to him "are you going to start taking them back 10 ref ?" Billy said "I already am" to which Charlo replied "bloody hell, if you think that's 10 yards I wouldn't like to buy a carpet off you !"