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Soundee Likes Casper, Frank An impressively skilful forward, who in his prime had the ability to make and take goals at the highest level. Also the non de plume of a manager of less certain talents, who was capable of ensuring that undistinguished sides reaped their due rewards. Kasparov, Gary An extravagantly gifted chess player capable of humiliating both mediocre and challenging opposition. So, not too much common ground with Frank then. Casper (PG) A channel-surfing celluloid spectre who became disenchanted with spirits. But I can’t think what the connection can be with Frank? Wait a moment, can it possibly be a word-play on spirits? Surely this was pensioned off before the flood? Having said that, it didn't stop Tarby exhuming it recently. How do you get a ticket for ‘An Audience with Tarby'? With Lobotomy Vouchers issued with your Club Call bills? Kaspar Hauser (The Enigma of) Reputedly incarcerated in a Nuremberg cellar from infancy until adulthood with only a toy horse for stimulation, Kaspar Hauser was not to be enticed out of his confinement with the offer of a 1989-90 season ticket. In the Director’s Cut version, Herzog restores Kaspar Hauser’s impassioned protest, "Donnerblitzen and Gotten Himmel vild pferden vill not drag me out to vatch Vinston Vhite vanny aroundt in midfieldt. Nein! Vot sort of wegetable do you take me for? Jah! My leettle vooden pferdy has more achtung than Vinny." Following Kaspar Hauser’s mysterious death, an autopsy was undertaken, which found that he had an enlarged brain and underdeveloped liver. Again, clearly no connection with Frank here. Friedrich, Caspar David A Nineteenth Century German painter whose romantic vision was vividly depicted in his representation of a dawn glow of hope in a landscape ravaged by ice, despair and disfigurement. There again, he had never seen Ian Bray play. Tim QuelchDecember-January 1995-96 |