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Kingsley Royal - Links

This section contains links relating to Kingsley Royal himself, or to other mascots.

Please note that many of the links below are to the official sites of Nationwide League clubs. In those cases, the links to the mascot page may well not work at the moment due to the clubs all changing their official sites. I will update this page once all these new official sites have settled down (which will probably be October!).

  1. The One and Only Kingsley - Kingsley Royal's section of the official Reading Football Club website. We think that this portion of the official site should be bigger and more prominent!
  2. Rachel Spratt's home page - features a great photo of Rachel with Kingsley.
  3. Mascot Grand National - this website contains everything you could possibly want to know about the Mascot Grand National held annually at Huntingdon Racecourse, but also includes much more information about mascots in general
  4. Mascot Derby - a page covering the Mascot Derby held at Chepstow Racecourse on 7th July 2001 (and not on the April date that the page states!)
  5. Mascot Mondial - this part of the official Shrewbury Town website is called "The Website of the Mascots" and is devoted to information on all mascots. The centrepiece of this site is the Battle of the Mascots, a fun day held at Shrewsbury on 1st April, 2001.
  6. AwayFansGuide mascot page - this is just a list of club mascots split by (out-of-date) division. They don't have Kingsley Royal's full name up, and if they don't correct it this link will disappear (so there!).
  7. Marvin the Moose - page from the official Cambridge United site about their mascot and his history
  8. "King of the Jungle" - a highly inaccurate title (we all know that Kingsley Royal is the true king of the jungle), but this website is a tribute to the York City mascot, Yorkie the Lion. Yorkie is described as "the mane man"!
  9. Hartlepool United Kid's Page - this is part of the official Hartlepool United official site, and includes a profile and diary of their mascot, H'Angus the Monkey (grammar as per the original, or perhaps Hartlepool only have one kid who is a fan....)
  10. Once a Wolves Wolf - this is Steve Bird's website. Never heard of him? Well, he used to be the Wolverhampton Wanderers mascot Wolfie. (Unlike Reading, some poorer clubs have to make do with people dressed up in costumes for their mascots rather than employing real animals.) In particular, this includes his version of the infamous incident with City Cat and the Three Little Pigs at Ashton Gate during half-time of the Bristol City against Wolves match a few years ago.
  11. Wolfie 'n' Wendy, Wolves Mascots - this is a page from an unofficial Wolverhampton Wanderers site, with a few pictures and an eight-second video of the "Three Little Pigs" incident at Ashton Gate!!!!
  12. Filbert's bit - this is the section of the official Leicester City site devoted to mascots Filbert Fox, Vicki Vixen and Cousin Dennis.
  13. Bloomfield Bear's Bits and Bobs - a section of the official Blackpool site
  14. Boomer's Factfile - a page about the Port Vale mascot, Boomer
  15. Roary the Tiger - some pictures (and nothing else) of the Hull City mascot
  16. The Owls Mascots - a page from the Sheffield Wednesday official site about their mascots Bazz Owl, Ollie Owl and Ozzie Owl
  17. The Secret Life of City Cat - a page about the Bristol City mascot, or "that idiot in a cat costume" as they call him
  18. Bizarre Mascot Names - an article from the magazine Extraordinary World about how certain mascots got their names. Does not feature Kingsley Royal. Shame on them!

I think there are many more links to come, as more and more clubs add website pages for their mascots. Kingsley Royal as usual was the pioneer, and will add more links over the coming months.

And some stories that have so far eluded me - I'm still looking for the details of the minor league US baseball game where the manager returned in the mascot's costume after being ejected from the game. There was also a major league baseball game where a disgruntled Baltimore Orioles fan pushed their mascot off the dugout roof. The mascot is supposed to be a bird, but instead of flying he plummeted to the ground and broke an ankle!

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