The central figure of Mary Wolstencraft's novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (1818), about a scientist who revivifies the dead with electrical impulses transmitted through salt water, has been universally depicted in modern cinema and popular culture as having bolts at each side of his neck to keep his head erect, while the common myth of the immortal East European vampire, as depicted in Irish writer Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), is of a Transylvanian creature with two sharp, hollow, incisor teeth, drinking hot, salty, red human blood from two holes punched at the neck.

Dave Sexton, unknowingly, owed his appointment, in the summer of 1977, to the fact that England captain, Gerry Francis (1974-76), was captain of 'The Hoops' at Sexton's previous Shepherd's Bush club, West London's Queens Park Rangers (QPR) of Loftus Road, whereas Ron Atkinson, labeled 'Bojangles' by the media, because of the amount of chunky gold jewelry he wore, which reputedly clanked, replacing Dave in the summer of 1981, knowingly knew, and on October 1st, 1981, paid £1.5m for England captain (1980-91), 'Captain Marvel' Bryan Robson, to his former club, 'The Baggies' of Hawthorn Road,...