William "Fatty" Foulke: the fattest footballer
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2014
- How Chelsea F.C. enhanced peoples' perception of the size of their goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke in 1905.
Professor Rich Masters, Director of the Institute for Human Performance at the University of Hong Kong, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of human movement -- especially motor skill acquisition through implicit learning, delivered the UCD School of Psychology (University College Dublin, Ireland), Distinguished Scholar Public Lecture on 23 April 2014.
Professor Masters has published extensively in psychology, medicine, neurorehabilitation and sport science. A Universitas21 Fellowship holder, Prof Masters worked in the University of Birmingham and the University of York before joining the University of Hong Kong. In recent years, Professor Masters and his research team have investigated movement-related problems such as falling in the elderly and aspects of Parkinson's disease.
Established in 1854, University College Dublin (UCD) is Ireland's largest university. Perhaps the best known of all its graduates is the writer James Joyce, who completed his Bachelor of Arts at the university in 1902. Other graduates include the authors Maeve Binchy and Flann O'Brien, actors Gabriel Byrne and Brendan Gleeson, film directors Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, former Irish rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll, and the former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland captain Kevin Moran. Numerous Irish Presidents and Taoisigh (Prime Ministers) also studied at University College Dublin including: John Bruton (Prime Minister), John A Costello (Prime Minister), Dr Garret Fitzgerald (Prime Minister), and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (President).
He was the perfect size for a goalkeeper. We need more 24 stones players
My favourite player. Imagine if McDonalds was around then, he'd be 40 stones or more. They say the earth shook when he made a save
Fantastic bit of football history!
Fifty pounds a bargain in my eyes imagine what he worth in todays market
Whoah ... 4m09 ... "If I stand like that I stretch my exo-skeleton slightly" - a human with an exo-skeleton? I knew goalkeepers were a different breed!!!
In my opinion, it's not about how big you make yourself look; the oppositions decision to kick either closer or further to your body relies on the possibility of you stopping the shot. So, if a goalkeeper's frame is wide, then a striker may take the shot and possibly get his or her shot deflected by the arm. I'd like to learn more about the study involving the Muller Lyer illusion, especially the reliability of the quality of answers provided to the study.
FATTIE
this is so funny, he'd be big even for rugby !
played for sheff united too
is william foulke a legend at chelsea
His surname was "Foulke", not "Foulkes", he was not slow but very nimble on his feet according to playing colleagues. With Sheffield United he won two League titles and the FA Cup and played once for England, and no-one does that by being "so slow..." as described here. There's a brief film clip of Sheffield United vs Bury in 1902 at the end of the Mitchell and Kenyon film here czcams.com/video/7UkVZZnrC4E/video.html in which you can see Foulke being perfectly agile taking one of his famous long goal kicks. The story that the two boys were the origin of ball boys is also apocryphal and may or may not be true. Not the best academic work, Professor :)
is william foulke a legend at chelsea
He is my relative. Some of the family had Foulkes and some were Foulke on their birth certificates etc. There was no consistent spelling of the surname!
Did the conversions for the Americans. 1.9m =6f and 2inches
127kg= 279lb to 280lb
That's a normal American man today lol
weight wise maybe ;)
Ok what’s that in old money mate!
is william foulke a legend at chelsea
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