Sammy the Shrimp

[Pubey]

Sammy the Shrimp appears in today's Independent magazine as a 'Minor British Institution'!!

 

[EastStandBlue]

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[Hotman]

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don't use !!'s to try to evade the swearfilter - shrimpadmin will get you.

 

[bilbyboy]

Sammy the Shrimp appears in today's Independent magazine as a 'Minor British Institution'!!

Let's try to make him a major British Institution, shoot him and martyrdome will be his. I am right in assuming that Ron Martin is Sammy aren't I?

 

[BrettieAngell]

That is bizzare!

 

[ibwiajwa]

Well, one thing is clear from last week at half time - he's a crap goalkeeper.

 

[Sammy The Shrimp]

Well, one thing is clear from last week at half time - he's a crap goalkeeper.

Me! Crap goalkeeper! i'm better than a lot of keepers i've seen play

 

[ibwiajwa]

Sure. You were just letting those 5 year olds win.

 

[Sussex Shrimper]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-sammy-the-shrimp-1827726.html

Minor British Institutions: Sammy the Shrimp

By Sean O'Grady

Of all the absurd mascots that populate English soccer, perhaps the strangest is the Southend United character, Sammy the Shrimp.

Most mascot creatures – birds, lions, bears, say – have the advantage that they can be plausibly impersonated by a human being, having just the four limbs and a recognisable head.

Trying to turn a human being via a funny suit into a crustacean has left the Southend team with a mascot that looks like nothing in particular except for a passing resemblance to a grand wizard of the Ku-Klux-Klan. Still Southend and its fans – or The Shrimpers as they are sometimes known – are proud of their maritime heritage and Sammy has been with the club for decades, though he apparently went missing for a time in the mid-1990s.

Perhaps because of his slightly forbidding appearance, Sammy has now been joined by a new mascot, Elvis J Eel, another selection from the 1981 Division Four Champions' seafood platter.

Harsh, but fair. Can't believe I've never noticed the KKK resemblance before. :D

 

[ms brush]

Guess that the article is written based on Sammy the Shrimp's current persona - he is a very pale pink these days, so I think he could be mistaken for a member of the KKK.

Now, does anyone remember his old outfit... that was hilarious, but he could never have been accused of anything other than being completely absurd and very much a southend united institution!! I loved the old outfit, and really wished that the new shrimp could have retained many more of the 'features' of the old one.....!!

 

[pickledseal]

Guess that the article is written based on Sammy the Shrimp's current persona - he is a very pale pink these days, so I think he could be mistaken for a member of the KKK.

Now, does anyone remember his old outfit... that was hilarious, but he could never have been accused of anything other than being completely absurd and very much a southend united institution!! I loved the old outfit, and really wished that the new shrimp could have retained many more of the 'features' of the old one.....!!

This one?

 

[OldBlueLady]

This one?

Isn't this Scamps?

 

[ms brush]

Yes, thats the one! Brilliant... why did we get rid of him for the benign and sanitised sammy we have now.

Great photo!

 

[pickledseal]

Yes, thats the one! Brilliant... why did we get rid of him for the benign and sanitised sammy we have now.

Great photo!

Found on a Grimsby site doing a review of our game

 

[pickledseal]

Isn't this Scamps?

Who is Scamps?

 

[OldBlueLady]

Who is Scamps?

He's on here, often to be found banging his drum! And my saviour from the waves!

 

[pickledseal]

He's on here, often to be found banging his drum! And my saviour from the waves!

Ah sorry I thought you meant it was another team's mascot! I got all worried and began to doubt myself... sometimes I make things up, don't realise it and believe them to be true. I was just glad this wasn't one of those occasion. Pretty sure you couldn't make up that shrimp though!