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During the Spain v Italy game during the euros i noticed Luca Toni sporting a fetching, if a little gay, tasche.  At the time I thought it was the start of a new revolution, a hark back to the 70s, a time when facial hair was king - I was hoping the likes of Rooney would rock the old bender/handle bar tasche or Robbie Savage fashioning a neat little pencil line tasche, dyed blonde.  But no, the world of fooball has not adopted this new wave:

So I give you tashces of the past - footballing heros who have demonstrated the true power of the lip slug:

Mark Lawrenson:  Debatably the campest man in football, pundit, ex Liverpool legend, often heard referring to players “power”, “dedication” or something suspiciously fruity such as “he’ll do anything you ask of him, in any position”, Lawro was one of the true leaders in tasche fashion, behold below a slug of pure beauty that one wonders why he has gone to the dark side of late and chopped it off (please also note the suspicious hair cut!):

Bruce Grobbelaar: Another Liverpool legend (a common theme perhaps?), Bruce was a true 80s goalkeeping hero.  But he was also convicted of match fixing with Hans Segers (ha) and John Fashnu aka The Fash (ahwooga!).  Nevertheless Bruce is a reliable man of the tasche world, a brother, a strong believer who into his 50s still represents the Lip Hair allegiance with pride - jah bless Bruce, jah bless.

David Seamen:  Arsenal through and through, probably one of the best English goalkeepers of my lifetime (I am 24 by the way) but also well known for getting horribly embarrassed by Ronaldhino’s ‘did he intend to do that’ freekick lob.  Poor lad that will remain with him forever - as will his fuck off tasche and criminal haircut.  Mr Seamen not only desrves recognition for his work in the lip depo but also for holding true to the gayest looking hairdo known to man - that man has invested a lot of Arsenal salary over the years on Timotei and Pantene Pro V I am sure…it’s just so shiny!

Disclaimer:  alas I forgot unfortunately Dave has seen sense of late and actually not longer sports either the tasche or long hair - its more of a L’Oreal curtains type affair - however he did appear of Dancing on Ice (or something like that) so he has transferred the fruitiness from one ‘realm’ to another.

Frank Rijkaard and Rubi Voller:  these two gents rivals, yet brothers in arms of the hirsute world, Frank spat on Rudi, Rudi got pissed yet they still had one thing in common.  If I were Frank I would look back on that with pride yet concern, a quick cahnge into a policmans outfit and he would be a member of the Village People.  While Rudi’s tasche on the other hand is almost a stamp or an emblem if you will of terribe German 80s fashion - Deiner Schnubaart ist vorbei Rudi!

And alas this is where my tribute ends - the list is endless and majestical at the same time.  All men of tasche deserve a mention but that would take me forever so here is my honarary mention list:

1.  Graeme Souness

2. Gary Neville - aka William Shakespeare

3. Rivelino

4. Jimmy Hill

5. Paul McGrath - god bless the bleach drinking man!

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