It is silly season and the club mascots are beginning to get their costumes out, waiting in fear for the 90 plus minutes of sweaty, mirky play acting at their favourite ground and often away! There is great book written on behalf of Barnsley FC's unlikely and short life in the Premier League that has a small chapter in "Life at the Top" by Mark Hodkinson, about "Toby Tyke and the mask of Mystery". Apparently a local librarian, Toby created a world of his own....but that was in 1997-8.
Here is a previous blog about mascots.
http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/cyril-and-cybil-faulty.html
What caught my eye this week was dear old Bob's West Bromwich Albion, whose mascot of course is a Throstle or is it a Baggie?
Nope not this time; it's a Boiler Man:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/08/04/west-brom-unveil-boiler-man-greatest-ever-mascot/
Excuse language! and as if losing wasn't enough........
His flame must have gone out as Albion lost 1-2 to Bolton Wanderers and the Hull based firm Ideal Boilers sponsor the Baggies kit.
Moonchester
Gunnersaurus
Pottermus....yes Stoke City.
The monster in Yellow is Partick's "Kingsley".
Huddersfield Town have missed a trick having a male and female "terrier" and this season having survived the PL for a season, why no little terrier pups?
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