WHAT IS THE HATVENT CALENDAR?
This is the third year of PompeyChicken's Hatvent Calendar! It's a bit like an online Advent Calendar.
It's been inspired by the Innocent Drinks company who have been putting little woolen hats on their bottles of smoothies as part of The Big Knit, in aid of the charity Age UK.
You may have seen them on sale in Sainsbury's. PompeyChicken's family has been drinking a lot of smoothies again this year and each hat continues to be a perfect fit!
Two year's ago the Hatvent Calendar made connections between each hat and Pompey.
Last year underneath each hat PompeyChicken unveiled a favourite Pompey video clip.
This year he's been looking through the bookshelves to identify some of his favourite football books. Quite a few have a link to Pompey but not all.
You can read more about the Big Knit, which has been running since 2003, by clicking on the link at the end of this blog.
I hope you enjoy this year's Hatvent Calendar.
POMPEYCHICKEN'S HAT OF THE DAY
TODAY'S BOOK
This book is 'Norman 'Black Jake' Uprichard' with Chris Westcott which was published in 2011 shortly after Norman sadly passed away. It's a throughly enjoyable read.
Norman Uprichard was a goalkeeper for Arsenal, Swindon Town, Portsmouth and of course Northern Ireland who he represented at the 1958 World Cup Finals.
This nicely written book looks back to a different era of football through Norman's career.
It gives an interesting insight into life at Pompey in the mid-1950s through to relegation from Division One.
In a very nice touch the book includes some fine tributes from former players who played with Norman, including some from Pompey: Bill Albury, Mike Barnard, Jackie Mansell, Tommy McGhee, John Phillips and Jimmy Stephen.
You can read more about this book on Amazon here ==> Norman 'Black Jake' Uprichard
LAST YEAR'S HAT
Click on the following link to see the hat and video from one year ago ==> Hatvent Calendar 15th December 2011
WHAT IS THE BIG KNIT?
To find out more about Innocent Smoothies and the Big Knit you can click on the following link ==> The Big Knit
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