Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Redding!
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshensky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin, and once again,
we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go!
Starting with fact number one, and that is Andy.
My fact is that the 1890s Irish rugby captain D.
B.
Walkington would play wearing a monocle, but he took it out if he had to tackle anyone.
This is a real person, he was called Dalloway Bell Walkington, born in 1867,
he played for Ireland eight times, he was the captain twice, and he wore a monocle while he was playing.
He was extremely short-sighted, and he'd just pop it in, pop along, pop it out, make a tackle, pop it back in.
What a hero!
Yeah, this guy was a great player, wasn't he, for Ireland?
He played in the first-ever team to beat Wales in 1888,
although the Welsh team all claimed to have had seasickness on the day,
and they played so badly in that game that eight of the team never represented Wales ever again.
Oh my god!
He played in the 1887 team that beat England, so that was the first Ireland team ever to beat England,
and there was another guy in that team called John Macaulay, and John Macaulay,