Blokes, if injured over the weekend, used to come to work Monday morning be carried to the hold of the ship and then get signed off with industrial injuries and in some cases compernsation. This happened quite often.
Surely they will have followed Burnleys example. I am told that they doubled every players wage on promotion, including Ashley Barnes, but have a clause that it will revert back when they get relgated.
He was born in Poplar according to wiki and his dad was a docker in East India Docks unloading the banana boats. Dad used to come into The Connaught at 7.30am everyday straight off the bus from The Green Man, quick Pint Ben Truman and then off to work at 8.00am