On this day 21 July

Absolute Brambles

Titus is born...

 

We're not all about the Cristiano Ronaldo's and Wayne Rooney's of this world here at Catflap, in fact, due to our own limited footballing abilities, we positively love to champion the not-so-gifted footballers of our age. So for this reason we salute one Titus Malachi Bramble, born today in Ipswich. Titus made his debut as a burly 19 for his home town side, and was immediately earmarked as a future England international. Stop laughing.

A move to Newcastle United is enough to put the stoppers on most careers, and sure enough a £6m move to Bobby Robson's Toon Army would only serve to show a larger audience just how calamitous young Titus could be. A subsequent move to Wigan somehow didn't send them down, while this summer he's been linked with a move to Derby. Because Bramble is just what Derby need alongside Darren Moore to shore up that leaky defence...

Elsewhere, today in 1994, a gurning young hip MP called Tony Blair is confirmed as the new leader of the Labour Party, four years after Germany celebrated it's new unification by playing horrific Euro-pop to more than 150,000 people at 'The Wall', a huge outdoor rock concert in East Berlin to celebrate the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.

And it’s geriausi linkejimaigimtadienio progal! as they say in Lithuania to acting-types Josh Hartnett (30) and Robin Williams (57), as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).