Pompey help to put my Last FM group on the map



A couple of years ago I started the group 'Johnny Metgod's Unpopable Balls' on Last FM. Yeah, I know it should be Unpoppable! It was named after those balls that didn't pop obviously, and they really didn't , thorns, dogs, nothing could pop them and Johnny Metgod endorsed them. The only problem was that if you played with them in the rain they turned into concrete.

Johnny himself is 50 years old and started his career at HFC Haarlem in the 1970s. He then went on to play for AZ67, Real Madrid, Forest and Spurs. At Forest he became famous for his free kicks at Forest despite being a defender. I presume he got used to kicking the ball so hard from practising with those unpoppable balls after they had turned into rainfall medicine balls and not the 'Pure animal physics' the commentator in the video above is talking about. He must have been shmoking some of the stuff Johnny's home country is famous for.

Johnny also managed to get 21 caps for Holland and scored 4 goals. He played the last 6 years of his career at Feyenoord and then went on to coach their neighbours at Excelsior before returning to Feyenoord. Today Donkey Adams appointed him as coach of Portsmouth.

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