Will anyone take Baz for a packet of peanuts??The most bizarre transfers
Name: Ernie Blenkinsop
Name: Ernie Blenkinsop
Transfer route: Cudworth to Hull
Year: 1921
'Fee': £200 and 80 pints of ale
Ok, so money was used here, but only as a sweetener to off-set the taste of bitter. Not that anyone in Cudworth, a village in South Yorkshire, needed any cheering up at the time.
It's not known whether the vast quantity of ale was shared among the inhabitants or simply guzzled by a sole, alcoholic director.
Blenkinsop wasn't too bothered either way, he went on to become England captain and a Sheffield Wednesday legend.
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