Alan Knill and the squirrel - Scunthorpe exclusive becomes huge talking point on worldwide web
The story first posted yesterday on www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk about Scunthorpe United manager Alan Knill's near-death encounter with a squirrel has become hugely popular on the internet and in print.
It has been picked up and reworked by a host of websites, agencies and newpapers.
You could say: It's gone viral.
Scunthorpe United have been mentioned in many places they would not normally reach, especially after a poor start to the season.
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Among those to tell of Alan's unwanted encounter with the furry critter was the aptly named Sports Mole website!
And, in similar fashion, Fox Sports also ran the story.
A paragraph update has already been added to Alan's entry on Wikipeda - mentioning you know what!
Comments
by DFlated
Friday, September 07 2012, 6:00AM
“Just remember all you out there - when you have messed up at work and caused irreparable damage to your company and customers just have an incident with a rodent in the hope that it will deflect the badness of it all and people can just have a laugh at the situation and forget that you need sacking.”
by Deereyme
Thursday, September 06 2012, 11:28PM
“Did Wharton put that 'good luck' tat up yesterday by way of adding something meaningful to this crisis?”
by bartonscorp
Thursday, September 06 2012, 10:40PM
“That is brilliant Hazzers, I can just picture this happening ha ha! yes with AK behind the wheel.
Just a pity he does not drop them off at Whartons house and instruct them to eat his nuts.
I wander if one could be trained as a centre forward.”
by Deereyme
Thursday, September 06 2012, 3:00PM
“Ba-dum and tsch”
by Deereyme
Thursday, September 06 2012, 12:13PM
“I've gone from dismayed to angered, to embarrassed, to incredulous...that it appears no-one is taking our club's demise seriously and are instead glorifying a '...and finaly' story. The ET should be ashamed for exacerbating it and making a dreadful situation unbearable.”
by Hazzers
Thursday, September 06 2012, 12:10PM
“A police officer sees Alan Knill driving around with a bus full of Squirrels. He pulls Alan over and says...
"You can't drive around with squirrels in this town! Take them to the woods immediately."
Alan says "OK"... and drives away.
The next day, the officer sees the Alan still driving around with the bus full of squirrels, and they're all wearing sun glasses. He pulls the Alan over and demands...
"I thought I told you to take these squirrels to the wood yesterday?"
Alan replies...
"I did . . . today I'm taking them to the beach!"”