This was a bit of a fiendish clue, but earlier this year, an extra player nipped on to the pitch and helped Norwich City Football Club equalised by distracting their opponents, Hull City.
Christened "Cyrille the Squirrel", by none other than Radio Norfolk, he had left the ground by the time the contracts were drawn up, which was a shame, as it seems very likely that they could have got his services for peanuts in every way.
And there is no truth in the rumour that Norwich City debated changing their familiar canary logo for that of a squirrel - though perhaps it would have been a talking point when they next met up with Hull City.
If you look online there is plenty of footage of the event - but Sky Sports covers it pretty well.
As for the player without the bushy tail, as featured on our card, that is John Gilbert Ryan and he was born on the 20th of July 1947 in Lewisham, South London.
He started out with fairly local team Maidstone United, just across the border into Kent, but pretty soon got the call up from Arsenal. He never seems to have settled in one place, and between 1964 and 1985 he fitted in stints at Fulham, Luton Town, Norwich City, Sheffield United, Manchester City, Stockport County, Chester City, Cambridge United and Maidstone United. In fact he played no matches for Arsenal at all, he was always a reserve, possibly why he chose to leave.
His longest service was with Luton Town, between 1969 and 1976, from where he joined Norwich City, for three years. He also went over to America in 1979, and played a season with the Seattle Sounders.
In the mid 1980s also managed Cambridge United, and two Kent teams, these being Sittingbourne and Dover. And in 1997 he was coaxed out of retirement to manage Dulwich Hamlet, alongside Mick Brown.
Afraid there is not much gen in our reference books on this set at the moment. It appears, very briefly, in the original British Trade Index, as :
- Football 79. 65 x 43. Nd. (584)... PAP-15
And it is deemed too late for our updated volume, which closes the book, literally, at 1970. However, watch this web for news of our updated updated volume, which covers issues from 1970 onwards!
Now since writing this I have been told that it was not an isolated incident, and indeed card TQ-7 of Topps Allen & Ginter`s "Time Out" tells us that "A 2014 review of Coors Field on Trip Advisor reads "Beautiful field but a squirrel problem!". Squirrels on the field have interrupted Colorado Rockies home games in 2012, 2014 and 2016, making their venue the unofficial Major League leader in wildlife delays."