Kenny Williams is the man that fills quite a few important roles at the club. One of which is “conducting” the singing for the playing group (yes, as if we’re a choir) for the victory song after a win. He starts us off (usually yelling mostly a few expletives) and then we all follow his intro with the actual song. When you look at Kenny you’re not sure if he’s attempting to conduct the singing, or in fact swinging his arms about to simply gain balance and not fall over (sometimes it’s a combination of both). If there’s one thing that Kenny isn’t lacking it’s a passion for the Swans… and we all love him for it!
I recently asked Kenny how long he had been watching games at the SCG from behind the goals. He told me “for 32 years”, and he also told me how he likes to “abuse the opposition full-back”. His bright silver hair is like a beacon as he sits behind the fence with his entourage whilst he hurls his abuse.
Well, you might not have seen Kenny there last weekend. In fact you would have seen no one in the stand last weekend.
The Bradman Stand is being demolished and that’s why there was nothing but tumble weed behind the goals for the game. For the whole season there’ll be nothing much going on down that end apart from the demolishers, and this made me think back to a stadium I saw in Denmark a few years ago and how they handled it.
I was in Copenhagen, and amongst other things, I watched a game of soccer there. They were re-building a grand stand at one end of the stadium too. As you can see from the picture below, they came up with the idea to make a fake crowd while it was being built.
I’m not sure if we need to go to this length to make a full fake crowd, but I do think Kenny Williams should be given a worker’s hard hat and be granted special access so he can hurl his abuse from his usual spot on game day. I’m sure opposition full-backs would hate it if he is back down there again!
Canteen Award
Probably should stick my hand up here and nominate myself for the canteen award this week. The ball landed smack on my face in the last quarter. Thought that was bad enough until I realised that it had caused my nose to bleed too. I was worried I was going to be the first person ever to be sent off from the ground with the blood rule for a self-inflicted Falcon. We all have an ego.
Watch the video player above to re-live Ted's Falcon.
Final Comment
With Tony interviewing will.i.am for ‘Tony’s Trending Tunes’ segment and Tommy Walsh having an Irish comedian on ‘Irish Corner’ coming soon to SwansTV, I’ve realised that I’ve got to step the Richards Report up. About time I interviewed someone big … might be time to interview the great Kenny Williams!
Ted Richards
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