Posted by DownUnderHatter on 2/2/2022, 9:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Tonight's Team"
It all started in the late '70s when there was a surplus of latex similar to the butter mountain and wine lake.
The butter companies employed Saatchi and Saatchi to put out a story that margarine is only one molecule away from plastic. Butter sales went up by 300%.
The wine companies employed Saatchi and Saatchi to convince women that doing housework with a glass of wine was acceptable. Wine sales went up 300%.
So the latex farmer's union approached Saatchi and Saatchi to see what could be done. Saatchi and Saatchi suggested an approach to the goalkeeper's union to convince them to wear latex gloves. In tests it was proved that latex gloves were 66% less effective than bare hands with a bit of spit on crosses leading to more goals. As long as all goalkeepers agreed to wearing the gloves it wouldn't matter as all goalkeeper's effectiveness would be reduced so no one goalkeeper would stand out. After 7 Years of negotiations the final goalkeeper, the late Ray Clemence, finally agreed to wearing these new-fangled oven gloves and the deal was struck. The rest, as they say, is history.