Why, England can count herself lucky to have been blessed with more than her fair share of World Class “Custodians” over the years, very few finer than the dashing Devonian…

…who, we think its fair to say, had quite the most extraordinary life & career…

…& after reading this, we hope that you’ll end up thinking so, too…

…a tour on which, one can barely believe, Dick finds himself, unbelievably, detained for “Acts of Public Indecency” !!!

…Dick really should’ve been the first ever Goalkeeper to face the Brazilian National Team, but two broken ribs &a mallet finger, sustained somewhere on the Argentinian leg of the famous adventure, rules him right out of one of football’s most memorable moments…

…but that’ll be a whole other story…

It’s not just our “Pincher” who finds himself pinched, however… In fact, the entire touring party find themselves lifted, along a Dick…

Were Dick & the lads, decked out for a quick dip, as they were, in those beautiful British bathing suits of the day, really guilty of Public Indecency?

…Please judge for ones-self…

Dickie & the boys leave South America’s shores, as happy as little Larrys*, arriving back home in Devon, just in time for World War One…

…& that’ll be Dick & the rest of the lads of his era losing the next four years of their playing careers to the War - & they, of course, were among the lucky ones…