Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for October 23, 2022

Knowing what is right and getting it right are both difficult.

oh, that poor goalkeeper

the team is so catastrophic that it doesn’t have the right to exist

Those living east of the Atlantic need to call it what it really is…SOCCER.

Isn’t anyone going to say anything about all the purple outfits?? Ok, I just did.

A football double…fun fun fun!

“I’d never heard the expression ‘BUTTERFINGERS’ before.”

Perhaps he was thinking of a candy-bar?

Gaffer in england, her they put the light onto the production, just like the meaning of Butterfingers

Butterfingers? Love that candy bar!

Gaffer: Besides the head electrician for a film production, it’s also the boss, coach, owner, head man, etc. So in the absence of the rerun gaffers Eldo and rjm this morning, here’s an example or three:

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=AC3182.jpg

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=AC2965.jpg

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=AC0318.jpg

What? Well, OK, here’s one more.

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=AC3274.jpg

He Snickered…

Apparently the coach had never heard the expression “drunken deadbeat” either before he hired Andy

The coach has never heard “butterfingers” before? Has he been living under a rock?