SOCCER & ALIENS

Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:55:34 +0100
Source: Today's Times

From Today's Times (19 November 1996) there is a report that the chairman of Carlisle United football (ie soccer for the benefit of Americans and other aliens) club is to quit his post after the local rag revealed that he had addressed a local conference of "UFO experts" to the effect that he had been contacted by an alien craft in 1977 on the M62.

Apparently the craft changed from a dot of light to a tri- angle, shot down from the sky to hover above a petrol station "at about the height of Nelson's column" where it changed into a disc and remained for some 30 minutes. As it left, Mr Knighton (aforementioned club chairman) heard a voice in his head say "Michael, don't be afraid."

He is principally upset that this was published, but apparently the headline "Close Encounter of the Third Division Kind" didn't help. He accuses the paper of running a campaign against him, although this is denied.

This reminds me of Reading FC's disastrous involvement with Uri Geller, who claims to have his powers from an Extra- Terestrial source. Is there some kind of following among the Greys for third-rate professional football?

Andrew Who still hasn't forgiven the Israeli spoonbender for Euro '96...

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