Apropos of nothing, other than to use a Sharky & George headline, we've put together a fine selection of football fishermen. We'd like to think it was worth the effort involved for all parties...
David Seaman looking equally stylish.
Lovely casting technique demonstrated by Des Walker, who is now a lorry driver back in Nottingham.
If ever a man were likely to punch a fish into submission, it's Jimmy Case.
We'd laugh at David Batty here...had we too not lived through the late eighties.
The photographer of the above image went on to enjoy a lucrative career in another line of work.
Harry Kewell looks to be having a smashing time with Guus Hiddink.