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Thursday September 2nd 2010

Fly Tipping Freddie. A Pikey Tale.

Freddie Eastwood. What a load of rubbish.
Freddie Eastwood. What a load of rubbish.

So you are having a clean-out, you’ve got a lot of garbage that needs dumping, what do you do?

  • A: Sling it all in the back of a car and take it to the local government dump?
  • B: Hire a professional company to come and collect it?
  • C: Hire a skip and fill it up?
  • D: Pay a pikey mate 120 quid to dump your stuff in a country lane? 

If you are a Coventry City striker who is a real pikey (no shit), then you go with option D. Coventry City’s pikey footballer, Freddie Eastwood, has been fined after admitting he paid someone to dump his garbage in a country lane. In the UK, this is known as ‘fly tipping’ and is met with some hefty financial punishments. 

Gypsy Eastwood was easily identified as the owner of the garbage as his haul of crap included bank statements and letters with his name on them. Freddie is a smart one, no?

Bigus, why do you keep calling Eastwood a pikey and a gypsy. Surely you can’t be a footballer AND be a gypsy?

You sure can if you are fly tipping Freddie. Eastwood is a member of the Romani people and won an appeal to keep his house on a travellers site in Basildon in 2006.

The forward made his name at Southend United where he scored 49 goals. A big money move to Wolves beckoned but he only managed 3 goals in 31 appearances before being sold to Coventry for 1.2 million last year. Eastwood has found the net 4 times in 48 games.

Maybe he was too busy refereeing boxing matches and fixing caravans to practice shooting?

Eastwood’s trash mishap cost him 1600 quid in the form of a 750 pound fine and 850 in court costs.

6 Comments for “Fly Tipping Freddie. A Pikey Tale.”

  • Lingering Bursitis says:

    Yes, but is he a bare-knuckle boxer on the side?

  • hadley says:

    He started in the West Ham academy with the likes of Defoe and Glen Johnson. I wonder how they ended up?

    I remember he was pretty good in Champ Manager 01-02.

    How do I get a photo on this new site?

  • jape says:

    Di ya like dags?

  • Lingering Bursitis says:

    Hadley:

    login at wordpress.com and add yourself a picture there.

  • jjf3 says:

    @hadley: I’m pretty sure I’ve logged into wordpress previously to comment, but I don’t think I ever added an avatar. I went to some site (gravatar.com(?), I think) during the whole Deadspin commentariatacide, and it now seems to be following me to most places…


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