wikipedia_id stringlengths 2 8 | wikipedia_title stringlengths 1 243 | url stringlengths 44 370 | contents stringlengths 53 2.22k | id int64 0 6.14M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
into Solomon Grundy. Grundy is once more an unintelligent monster, repeating the opening line of the nursery rhyme. A week later, having retreated to the sewers, he has a fight with Killer Croc. At the end of the fight, exhausted, he reverts to Cyrus Gold again. He finds himself in front of his ... | 26,700 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
given one week to discover the truth of who murdered him, so he could repent for all of his sins and gain absolution. Alan Scott and the Phantom Stranger were given as his guides throughout the week, while Etrigan was trying to take him to Hell. Gold had a habit of getting killed. No matter how ... | 26,701 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
emotions. Bizarro eventually manages to defeat Grundy by flying him into the sun, which completely incinerates him, and the black ring.
## The New 52.
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Grundy is once again a villain for Alan Scott. First appearing in... | 26,702 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
"Grey" can do any damage.
Eventually Grundy's origin was revealed: a slaughterhouse worker in 1898, his wife was raped by his callous foreman, and she killed herself on the job. When the foreman made the workers feed the body to the crocodiles, Grundy snapped, killed his foreman and everyone el... | 26,703 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
before Batman finished it for him when he defeats Grundy.
During "The War of Jokes and Riddles" arc, Solomon Grundy is among the villains on Joker's side in his war against Riddler.
# Powers and abilities.
Solomon Grundy has superhuman strength and stamina. His strength has varied greatly thr... | 26,704 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
resistant to the effects of the original Green Lantern's power ring (which is attributed to his part-plant essence; originally because he had absorbed plant matter from the swamp, and later because he was a partial "plant elemental" like Swamp Thing).
Grundy possesses a healing factor. While he... | 26,705 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
who was a member of Quizmaster's Justice Underground. Sir Solomon Grundy is a distinguished, poised mountain of a man. During an aerial bombardment of Dover, he is blasted to life out of the rock from the white cliffs. Sir Solomon appears to be identical in physical appearance to the mainstream ... | 26,706 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
of Solomon Grundy and the Hulk.
Bruce Banner was a scientist working with gamma rays. He was testing his gamma bomb out in the desert, but a tall figure walked out into the testing area. When Banner went out see who it was, the man turned out to be Solomon Grundy. The bomb went off fusing Grund... | 26,707 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
and resemble Solomon Grundy. It has also been established that the Spawn of Frankenstein is partly animated by the immortal blood of Melmoth, making him a Grundyman.
In Cullen Bunn's "Sorcerer Kings" storyline in Superman/Batman, The Creeper leads an army of Grundymen in a battle with Batman, S... | 26,708 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
"Flashpoint".
In the alternate timeline of the "Flashpoint" event, Solomon Grundy was invited by Lt. Matthew Shrieve to be the new member of the Creature Commandos, but Solomon Grundy then betrays him, killing his family. It is revealed that Solomon Grundy had been working by General Sam Lane w... | 26,709 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
game "", Grundy first appears in Year One. As Superman and some of the Justice League fight with Batman over removing the inhabitants of Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn releases the villains to fight them, including Grundy, who attacks Damian Wayne. He is eventually defeated by Batman and Superman, ... | 26,710 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
until Bizarro leaves and Superman rips Grundy's head off when the zombie prevents him from going after Bizarro. As Grundy will regenerate, Superman takes his body and head to Lex Luthor to find a way to make Grundy an asset to the Regime.
### Arkham Knight".
Though Solomon Grundy never appear... | 26,711 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
potions. Cyrus became loyal to Marsha and she told him to wait outside. She forgot about Cyrus enough where he froze to death during the winter. He is reanimated by Marsha's Aunt Hilda and goes on a rampage in Gotham Cemetery until Batman and Robin stun him with an electric shock to hold him unt... | 26,712 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
season of "Smallville" portrayed by John DeSantis. A member of Toyman's Marionette Ventures, he appears in the episode "Prophecy" where Toyman assigns him to target Black Canary.
- Cyrus Gold appears in the second season of The CW's "Arrow", portrayed by Graham Shiels. In the show, he is a memb... | 26,713 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
into Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences division under Blood's orders, the Arrow starts tracking him. The two eventually meet in a fight with the Arrow killing Gold. Though Gold is never referred to as Solomon Grundy, the nursery rhyme is found in his apartment in the episode "Three Ghosts".
... | 26,714 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
The doctors examining Gilzean's body reveal that Butch Gilzean was an alias, and that his birth name is Cyrus Gold. Gold becomes Solomon Grundy in the fourth season episode "The Blade's Path", in which the administrators of the hospital dump him in Slaughter Swamp, where chemical waste from the ... | 26,715 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
memory, Solomon Grundy remembers who he is and briefly visits Tabitha. Grundy later forms an alliance with Oswald, who promises to help find a way to reverse his condition and return to him as Butch. Oswald gets Hugo Strange to return Butch to normal, and he reunites with Tabitha; however, Oswal... | 26,716 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
versions of the character as he is able to carry on a conversation and devise plans of his own. In "Monolith of Evil", Grundy reveals he was brought back to life in the swamp by energy from a monolith which is a source of enormous power.
- Solomon Grundy appears in the "Super Friends" animated ... | 26,717 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
crossed the wrong people. He was killed, cursed, then dumped in a mystical swamp, rising again 25 years later as a soulless monster, forever seeking his lost soul without being aware of it. He is often paired with Copperhead to comedic timing in various episodes and a member of the Injustice Gan... | 26,718 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
in the episode is a pastiche of Marvel's Defenders, with Grundy standing in for the Incredible Hulk, Aquaman standing in for Namor, Doctor Fate standing in for Doctor Strange, and Hawkgirl standing in for both Valkyrie and Nighthawk. "Bird-Nose" was Hulk's nickname for Nighthawk, and other heroe... | 26,719 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
normally staunch Hawkgirl weeps for him, and comforts him in his last moments, assuring him that his soul is waiting for him when he dies. His epitaph simply reads "Solomon Grundy — Born on a Monday", a reference to the poem after which he was named.
- Solomon would later return in the episode ... | 26,720 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
with his memory of his past incarnation severely addled and lacking the ability to speak. Mindless and uncontrollable, he goes on a destructive rampage, his power augmented to levels far beyond his original self by the magic animating him. After a lengthy battle with the Justice League, he regai... | 26,721 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
that polluted the local lake with industrial waste that converted it into Gotham Swamp, and is slimmer and more ghoulish than his "Justice League" counterpart — it bears a closer resemblance to an actually rotted, desiccated corpse — and he is more of a villain tied to Batman due to being 'born'... | 26,722 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
begins to rise out of the swamp as a moan is heard.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "", voiced by Diedrich Bader. This version is a still a zombie, but also a crime lord (a combination of the intelligent and incompetent versions) who commands a group of thugs, but speaks in grunts and growls due to... | 26,723 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
Robin stops Grundy and the police take him away. He is also one of the villains summoned very briefly by Bat-Mite to test Batman's mettle in "Legends of the Dark Mite". He also appears in "Chill of the Night!" as one of the Batman Villains to bid on a weapon auctioned by Joe Chill. Solomon is la... | 26,724 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
crime without powers were taken away by Major Force. Unfortunately, unable to defeat the simulation of Grundy. Solomon is also seen in the opening of "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth", as one of the villains at the Joker's celebrity roast, where they were literally roasting Batman. He tried to ... | 26,725 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
fighting girls.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "Justice League Action", voiced by Fred Tatasciore. In the episode "Zombie King", he has obtained a gem that would enable him to summon zombies that would obey his every command. In addition, the zombies Solomon Grundy summons would turn anyone expose... | 26,726 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
aided by Zatanna while John Constantine is busy fighting Brother Night. Even though Batman and Zatanna get converted into zombies, Swamp-Thing managed to break the altar and the gem enough for the zombified people to be returned to normal and the zombies to go inert. Then Swamp-Thing manages to ... | 26,727 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
comments that "Grundy sounds like William F. Buckley".
- Solomon Grundy appears in the Target exclusive direct-to-video animated film "", voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. He appears as a member of the Legion of Doom.
- Solomon Grundy appears in "", voiced by Fred Tatasciore. He is one of th... | 26,728 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
(albeit uncredited). He is a member of the Legion of Doom where he partakes in the attack on the Hall of Justice. Grundy is defeated by Batman.
- Cyrus Gold appears in the animated movie "", voiced by David Forseth. He is a prisoner of Blackgate and appears as his pre-Solomon Grundy persona.
-... | 26,729 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
in the multiplayer online battle arena game "Infinite Crisis.
### "Lego".
- Solomon Grundy appears as a playable character in "" voiced again by Fred Tatasciore. He is one of the main story characters.
- Solomon Grundy appears as a playable character in "Lego DC Super-Villains", voiced again ... | 26,730 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
was murdered and his body dumped in a mystic swamp. That night he was resurrected by combination of the swamp's mystic properties and a strange thunderstorm which turned him into the creature known as Solomon Grundy. He was found by a traveling circus and became part of the show before being fou... | 26,731 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
later confronts Grundy when Penguin blows up the floor under his feet. Awakened by being shocked with electricity, Grundy was revitalized and proceeded to attack. However, Batman destroys his internal organs, leaving Grundy to spend a long time to heal. His fate afterwards remains unknown as the... | 26,732 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
Solomon Grundy by tricking him into the electrical wires and then beating him up; after traversing the nearby area for a while, the unconscious Grundy will vanish, implying he retreated back to where he came from.
- Although he does not appear in "", one of the alleys has a room with Solomon Gr... | 26,733 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
at the beginning of the game. In the alternate reality, Solomon Grundy is a member of Superman's Regime after having been brainwashed to serve him via the Phantom Zone and fights Green Arrow at Wayne Manor alongside Killer Frost. After the alternate Superman kills the alternate Shazam, Yellow La... | 26,734 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
Solomon Grundy's ending, it is revealed that he evaded capture and fled back to the swamps to heal where he discovered that he was able to tap into The Red and the dormant Gray. He is later shown sitting on a throne after using the Grey force to turn Earth into his own version of paradise: a rui... | 26,735 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
from Solomon Grundy"". Solomon Grundy was used in the song because lead singer Brad Roberts could not think of any other super-villains that rhymed with "money."
- An underground rap album, "", featured a temporary redux of rapper Blaze Ya Dead Homie's identity to that of Colton Grundy. The alb... | 26,736 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
their self-titled New Alliance Records release.
- Brownsville rapper Sean Price has a track titled "Solomon Grundy" on his 2012 release Mic Tyson on Duck Down.
## Miscellaneous.
- The real Solomon Grundy appears in issue 19 of "The Batman Strikes!" (which is based on "The Batman").
- The Jok... | 26,737 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
as a father figure as a preacher, but this story was revealed as partially fake; Cyrus was still a teenager when Sebastian came to the church and was under the tutelage of a preacher named Roger Trigon. When Sebastian's father came at him with a gun, Cyrus and Trigon broke into the house in thei... | 26,738 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
Orphanage, while Sebastian took a leadership of this cult and as a mayor of the town as Brother Blood.
## Parodies.
- The animated series "Minoriteam" features a parody of Solomon Grundy and Frankenstein's monster called Racist Frankenstein who is a member of the White Shadow, a villainous rac... | 26,739 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
Idiot, and I Married One", Solomon Grundy is seen with the other members of the Legion of Doom in a cutaway gag. After their most recent plan has been discovered, Lex Luthor asks how this is possible, causing Grundy to stand and awkwardly admit that he "kinda dropped the ball on that one".
- In... | 26,740 |
1055660 | Solomon Grundy (comics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solomon%20Grundy%20(comics) | Solomon Grundy (comics)
akes a cameo appearance as a member of a parody of the Legion of Doom, led by Christopher Reeve.
- In the "StarKid Productions" show "Holy Musical B@man!", Grundy is mentioned to be the target of a battle that Superman attempts, and fails, to coordinate with Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Wo... | 26,741 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
Paul Walsh
Paul Anthony Walsh (born 1 October 1962) is a former England international footballer who now works as a television pundit.
A pacey and skilful forward, he scored a total of 127 goals in 521 league games in a 17-year career in the English Football League and Premier League; he also won five seni... | 26,742 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
£400,000 to acquire his services in July 1982. He continued to impress, and was named as PFA Young Player of the Year in 1984. He moved to Liverpool for a £700,000 fee in May 1984, and was named in the PFA Team of the Year in his debut season for the club as Liverpool won the league title and the Football Le... | 26,743 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
for a £500,000 fee in February 1988 and played for Spurs in their 1991 FA Cup Final victory over Nottingham Forest. However, he was frozen out of the first team after punching a coach at the club, and after a brief loan spell at Queens Park Rangers was moved on to Portsmouth for a £400,000 fee in June 1992. ... | 26,744 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
as a player he became a football pundit, and became a regular face on Sky Sports' "Soccer Saturday". His son, Mason, plays for Bognor Regis Town F.C..
# Club career.
Paul Walsh was born to Don and June Walsh in Plumstead on 1 October 1962; his father was an electrician and his mother worked at Tate & Lyle.... | 26,745 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
manager John O' Connor as the biggest influence on his career. After leaving school he also began working part-time at a meat factory and later a fruit packing factory before he joined Charlton on a full-time basis.
## Charlton Athletic.
Walsh made his debut for the Reserves in September 1978, playing righ... | 26,746 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
a two-year contract paying £100 a week. However Nelson was sacked the following March and the "Addicks" were relegated into the Third Division at the end of the 1979–80 season.
Following the sale of Mike Flanagan to Crystal Palace, new manager Mike Bailey played Walsh in a strike partnership with Derek Hale... | 26,747 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
whilst Hales was named in the division's PFA Team of the Year. Charlton were top of the table for most of the season but a loss of form from February cost them the title, though promotion was still secured with a third-place finish.
Bailey left Charlton to replace Alan Mullery as Brighton & Hove Albion mana... | 26,748 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
David Pleat for £400,000 plus Steve White in July 1982. Pleat had an attacking philosophy which gave Walsh the freedom to express himself and score goals. In only his second game for Luton at Kenilworth Road he scored a hat-trick in a 5–3 win over Notts County, the second goal of which was voted Goal of the ... | 26,749 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
1980s football in England.
Luton enjoyed an excellent start to the 1983–84 season, and were in third place on Boxing day. On 10 December, Walsh scored a hat-trick in a 4–2 win over Stoke City at the Victoria Ground. However a run of just three wins in 24 games saw Luton go from title contenders to relegatio... | 26,750 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
A side Calcio Como to join Liverpool. He joined Liverpool in time to travel with the players to Rome to see them win the 1984 European Cup Final. He made his debut as a substitute on 18 August 1984 in the 1–0 Charity Shield defeat to derby rivals Everton. With Ian Rush injured at the start of the 1984–85 sea... | 26,751 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
the most significant goal being the equaliser in the last minute of extra-time against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals at Goodison Park. However Liverpool would lose the replay, and also finished as runners-up in the league and European Cup. Walsh started the 1985 European Cup Final agains... | 26,752 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
had to contend with a rival for his position as the club's manager. He missed 1985–86 pre-season after undergoing a hernia operation. He returned to fitness against Oxford United on 14 September, but had a bitter argument with Dalglish at half-time which initially seemed to spell the end to his Liverpool car... | 26,753 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
out for the rest of the season, ending the campaign with 18 goals in 32 appearances in all competitions throughout the campaign. His injury caused him to miss the 1986 FA Cup Final, though he secured a First Division winners medal as Liverpool won the league by a two-point margin over Everton. His contributi... | 26,754 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
He recovered to earn a place on the bench for the second leg of the Super Cup final victory over Everton on 30 September, but though he only entered the game as a late substitute he broke his hand after falling awkwardly. The day after the match he had to drive himself to the hospital for an x-ray and to rec... | 26,755 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
nine points behind Everton, and Walsh scored only six goals in 32 appearances throughout the campaign.
The arrival of new signing of Peter Beardsley left Walsh restricted to only sporadic appearances in the 1987–88 campaign, and he played just nine games without scoring a goal, though maintained fitness by ... | 26,756 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
David Howells which was to the detriment of the club's on-field progress. He ended the 1987–88 season with one goal in 11 games for Spurs. He later said he was "running at 70% capacity".
Walsh was partnered with new-signing Paul Stewart for the 1988–89 season, whilst fellow new arrival Paul Gascoigne booste... | 26,757 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
as "just a blur" as Spurs turned their campaign around to finish in sixth place despite Walsh scoring just six goals from 32 starts and five substitute appearances.
Venables brought Gary Lineker back from Barcelona, and Stewart was selected to be Lineker's striker partner for the 1989–90 season, leaving Wal... | 26,758 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
the previous night. He ended the campaign with three goals from 13 starts and 18 substitute appearances.
He was on the bench for the first nine games of the 1990–91 campaign, but in his first start scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Sheffield United. However Venables dropped him to the bench for the follo... | 26,759 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
pre-season with a groin injury, and on his first game back for the reserves at White Hart Lane punched reserve team manager Ray Clemence in the face after Clemence substituted him off after an hour. Walsh was suspended for two weeks and upon his return was loaned out to Queens Park Rangers for a month. QPR m... | 26,760 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
was signed by First Division (second tier) club Portsmouth for a £400,000 fee in June 1992. In order to tempt him out of the top-flight "Pompey" manager Jim Smith offered him a four-year contract on a higher wage than he had been on at Spurs, whilst the club also bought his London home off him in order to fa... | 26,761 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
a virus picked up on a family holiday to Saint Lucia caused him to miss a month early in the season and drained him of fitness. He recovered to build a strike partnership with Guy Whittingham, whilst midfielders Alan McLoughlin and Mark Chamberlain made an effective four-pronged attack, and with two games to... | 26,762 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
cup goals, it was Walsh who the fans voted as their Player of the Year.
With Whittingham sold, Walsh failed to build an effective partnership with new signing Gerry Creaney and Portsmouth failed to put together a promotion push for the 1993–94 season. However Walsh scored both goals in a 2–2 draw with Manch... | 26,763 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
and Walsh's strike partner Uwe Rösler was also a new signing – and had yet to learn English. The pair soon built an understanding however, and the arrival of wingers Peter Beagrie and Nicky Summerbee gave City the attacking firepower to steer clear of the relegation zone as Walsh and Rösler scored nine goals... | 26,764 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
New manager Alan Ball tried to build a team around new signing Georgi Kinkladze for the 1995–96 campaign, and Walsh felt that the time had come to leave Maine Road.
## Return to Portsmouth.
Former Spurs teammate Terry Fenwick, now manager at Portsmouth, took Walsh back to Fratton Park in exchange for Gerry... | 26,765 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
cruciate ligament damage ended his career. He became assistant first-team coach at the club upon his retirement. He had a testimonial game at Fratton Park in May 1998. He was a popular figure at the club, and in February 2005 he came second in the "Football Focus" poll to find the club's "cult hero", behind ... | 26,766 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
under-21 side during the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. He played both legs against Greece, and scored the winning goal against Hungary to take England into the knock-out stages.
Walsh won his first senior England cap under Bobby Robson on 12 June 1983, in a 0–0 friendly draw with Australia at Sy... | 26,767 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
to France at Parc des Princes on 29 February 1984. The last of his five senior appearances for England came on 2 May 1984 in a 1–0 British Home Championship defeat to Wales at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground.
# Style of play.
In 1986 Bob Paisley described Walsh as an "individualist" best suited for a lone stri... | 26,768 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
businesses, though lost money by investing in Australian fraudster Peter Foster. Walsh began working in the media after retiring as a player, and first began working as a pundit on Sky Sports in 2001, and since that time has appeared regularly on "Soccer Saturday" and "Football First". He has also worked as ... | 26,769 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
statistics.
## Club statistics.
Source:
# Honours.
- Individual
- PFA Team of the Year (Second Division): 1981–82
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 1984
- PFA Team of the Year (First Division): 1985–86, 1993–94
- Portsmouth F.C. Player of the Season: 1993
- England U18
- UEFA European Under-18 Champi... | 26,770 |
1055571 | Paul Walsh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul%20Walsh | Paul Walsh
cond Division): 1981–82
- PFA Young Player of the Year: 1984
- PFA Team of the Year (First Division): 1985–86, 1993–94
- Portsmouth F.C. Player of the Season: 1993
- England U18
- UEFA European Under-18 Championship winner: 1980
- Charlton Athletic
- Football League Third Division third-place promotio... | 26,771 |
1055801 | Babcock (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babcock%20(crater) | Babcock (crater)
Babcock (crater)
Babcock is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It was named after American astronomer Harold D. Babcock. It lies on the northeastern edge of Mare Smythii, to the southeast of Mare Marginis. To the south of Babcock is the crater Purkynĕ, and to the east-n... | 26,772 |
1055801 | Babcock (crater) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babcock%20(crater) | Babcock (crater)
t irregular and uneven outer rim. The interior has been resurfaced by lava flows, and is relatively flat. In place of a central peak, a small crater lies very close to the crater midpoint. This crater has been designated Zasyadko. A smaller crater lies on the interior near the northern edge.
The area ... | 26,773 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
Gandy dancer
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
The British equivalents of the term gandy dancer are "navvy" (from "navi... | 26,774 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
vied for steady work despite poor wages and working conditions, and hard physical labor. The Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans in the Western United States, the Irish in the Midwestern United States, and East Europeans and Italians in the Northeastern United States all worked as gandy dancer... | 26,775 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
bar, which came to be called a "gandy", as a lever to keep the tracks in alignment.
# Etymology.
The term has an uncertain origin. A majority of early northern railway workers were Irish, so an Irish or Gaelic derivation for the English term seems possible.
Others have suggested that the term gandy danc... | 26,776 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
"Gandy Manufacturing Company" or "Gandy Tool Company" reputed to have existed in Chicago as the source of the tools from which gandy dancers took their name. Some sources even list the goods manufactured by the company, i.e., "tamping bars, claw bars, picks, and shovels." But others have cast doubt on the ... | 26,777 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
them, each pass of a train around a curve would, through centripetal force and vibration, produce a tiny shift in the tracks, requiring that work crews periodically realign the track. If allowed to accumulate, such shifts could eventually cause a derailment.
For each stroke, a worker would lift his lining... | 26,778 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
The thicker bottom end was square-shafted (to fit against the rail) and shaped to a chisel point (to dig down into the gravel underneath the rail); the lighter top end was rounded (for better gripping). When lining track, each man would face one of the rails and work the chisel end of his lining bar down a... | 26,779 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
called "rail dogs" to carry rails, and ballast tamper bars or picks to adjust the ballast. The same ground crews also performed the other aspects of track maintenance, such as removing weeds, unloading ties and rails, and replacing worn rails and rotten ties. The work was extremely difficult and the pay wa... | 26,780 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
for "Harper's Magazine" about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Robert W. Bruere explained the economic circumstances that sometimes drove gandy dancers and other itinerant workers to join that organization:
The division superintendent of a great Western railroad recently explained to me his relu... | 26,781 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
built to serve; they get their impression of it and of its people, not from living contact with men, but from the impersonal ticker. They judge us by quotations and the balance-sheet. The upshot is that we have to keep expenses cut close as a jailbird's hair. Take such a detail as the maintenance of ways, ... | 26,782 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
that they are— well, part of a pernicious system of sabotage. We know that we are not going to give permanent employment. But we lure men with false promises, and they come. At the end of four months we lay them off, strangers in a strange country, many of them thousands of miles from their old homes. We w... | 26,783 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
work. Some of them swing onto the freight-trains and beat their way to the nearest town, are broke when they get there, find the labor market oversupplied, and, as likely as not, are thrown into jail as vagrants. Some of them hit the trail for the woods, the ranches, and the mines. Many of them never find ... | 26,784 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
historian and journalist Thomas Fleming began his career as a bellhop and then spent five years as a cook for the Southern Pacific Railroad. In a weekly series of articles he wrote of his memories of the Mexican section hands in the 1920s and 30s. He recalled that the Southern Pacific gave them a place to ... | 26,785 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
in California; that was part of the landscape." He suggests that they may have been the only ones who were willing to do the job because they got the lowest pay of any railroad workers, only about $40 a month.
During the early 1940s when the U.S. was involved in the fighting of World War II, the days of R... | 26,786 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
In an interview one of the women, Mary Gbur, said that it was the money, about $55 a week, that had attracted her to the job: “Money was short and I wanted to help my children continue their education after high school. And the railroad beat the $18 a week the dime store paid.” Gbur called the work "grueso... | 26,787 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
(printed) use of the term gandy dancer as 1918, but with so little understanding of the origin of the term it is impossible to know when it came into being. An article in the May 1918 edition of the weekly publication The Outlook (New York) asks the question, "What is a "gandy dancer"?" Using the exact wor... | 26,788 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
as referred to in the story, "snipes". The "snipes" are characterized as lazy, stupid, and lovers of garlic, olive oil, and Italian music. "Eddie" figures a way to get the Italians to work at pumping the hand car – used to get to and from the section the crew would be working on that day – by using their l... | 26,789 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
foremen in Oregon, and the tamping rod was called a "gandy pole" by most workers or simply a "gandy".
# Songs and chants.
While most southern railroad maintenance workers were African American, gandy dancers were not strictly southern or African American. Section crews were often made up of recent immigr... | 26,790 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
of using song to coordinate work, were unique in their use of task-related work chants.
Rhythm was necessary both to synchronize the manual labor, and to maintain the morale of workers. Work songs and hollers sung in a call-and-response format were used to coordinate the various aspects of all rail mainte... | 26,791 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
at the American Memory site. The Lead Belly song "Take This Hammer" (available on YouTube) may be based on railroad chants.
Anne Kimzey of the Alabama Center For Traditional Culture writes: "All-black gandy dancer crews used songs and chants as tools to help accomplish specific tasks and to send coded mes... | 26,792 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
the mood of the men. Using tonal boundaries and melodic style typical of the blues, each caller had his own signature. The effectiveness of a caller to move his men has been likened to how a preacher can move a congregation." Typical songs featured a two-line, four-beat couplet to which members of the gang... | 26,793 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
lining bars on beat three. Here is a vintage gandy dancer video which demonstrates the singing, the dancing-like rhythm, the lining tool, and a very large crew (note that the ballast has been removed, perhaps allowing a much greater movement of the track than most sources mention):
## Documentary.
In 199... | 26,794 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
a number of callers and interviewed them in their homes. However, the men found it difficult to call track in their living room as opposed to being out on the track with the sound of rapping lining bars to call against. They met at a nearby railroad club that was rebuilding a depot museum. In this familiar... | 26,795 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
the men and set the timing through work songs that derived distantly from call and response traditions brought from Africa and sea shanties, and more recently from cotton-chopping songs, blues, and African-American church music. A good caller could go on all day without ever repeating a call. The caller ne... | 26,796 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
to slowly bring the rail back into alignment.
Retired gandy dancer John Cole explained spike driving songs in the documentary "Gandy Dancers".
In 1996 two former callers, John Henry Mealing and Cornelius Wright, received National Heritage Fellowship awards as "Master Folk and Traditional Artists" for the... | 26,797 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
of which one soldier initiates a line, and the remaining soldiers complete it, thus instilling teamwork and camaraderie for completion. Like lining calls, the calls also serve to mock one's superiors, vent anger and frustration, relieve boredom and as a way to boost spirits by poking fun or boasting.
It i... | 26,798 |
1055777 | Gandy dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandy%20dancer | Gandy dancer
cadence calls were influenced by his familiarity with track lining calls. Dornfeld writes, "I recently uncovered a connection between the southern African American tradition of call-and-response works songs and military cadence calls used in drill training, popularly known as “Jody calls.” Dornfeld writes:... | 26,799 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.