At last nights Scunthorpe United end of years awards ceremony, cricketing heavyweight Sir Ian Botham topped a poll voted for by fans of the team as the greatest player ever to have played for the unfashionable Championship minnows.
The all round former all-rounder played for The Irons between 1980-1985 clocking up 11 appearances and scored no goals. His greatest moment probably came in a Division 4 encounter against Mansfield Town when Botham inadvertently got in the way of a shot which was going wide after his attention was taken by a blond lady in the crowd carrying a pie, its never been proven whether it was the lady or the pie which took his fancy but the deflection the ball took off the back of his head deceived the keeper and put Scunthorpe 1-0 up. The goal although never officially credited to Botham has gone down in history as being all thanks to him and it lifted his team to the lofty heights of 5th in the league.
Speaking afterwards to local TV channel Look To The East, Botham said 'its great to get this award, people just assume my greatest achievements were in cricket in the Ashes Series against Australia in 1981 but to me there is nothing quite like a rainy Tuesday night in Scunthorpe to make you feel you're alive.....you can shove your 46'000 at the SCG up your arse!' Botham added
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