The old expression is “sending coals to Newcastle “, this being the pointless exercise due to there being plenty of coal in the Durham coal fields
We'd had the thread "Brittain to Blackburn". We have a player called Cole, so just couldn't resist starting this pointless thread...
When Woodrow and Morris had their medicals at Luton it was noted that both were covered in similar severe bruising When asked what they had been doing both replied carrying Cole all season