On November 6th 1965, after the gun powder plot from yesterday's "Bonfire Night" blog, what about this anniversary from November 6th 1965? Brentford's goalkeeper, the well known and eccentric, Chic Brodie, at Griffin Park, was a tad upset to find an object thrown at him was in fact an indendiary, a hand grenade, thrown onto the pitch from the Millwall supporters behind his goal at Griffin Park. Assuming it was a dud, which he found out after the game, he picked it up and threw it back into the crowd.
Goalkeeper Chic Brodie (ABOVE), made over 400 Football League appearances but is probably the player best remembered for the things that went wrong in his life. In 1972 the Sun described him as 'a walking mishap, a one-man casualty station, a multiple accident statistic' and after another mishap the newspaper headline was 'Unlucky Chic, The One-Man Natural Disaster'.
In August 1970, again playing for Brentford, he brought a match at Lincoln to a halt when an acrobatic save brought down the goalposts. He was the Margate goalkeeper on the receiving end of a 11-0 FA Cup defeat by Bournemouth in November 1971 (Ted MacDougall scored nine of them).
After he retired he became a taxi driver and once had a collision with a Jaguar...driven by Geoff Hurst!
But perhaps he is best remembered for the injury he received when playing for Brentford at Colchester in November 1970. A dog ran onto the pitch and collided with Brodie, breaking his kneecap. He said 'the dog may have been small - but it just happened to be solid.' Although it is perhaps seen as a comical injury it did effectively end his Football League career and I certainly said 'ouch' when I first saw it.....
https://twitter.com/ftbllrswanimals/status/1063418232365858819 Brodie v Dog
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