He had, it was broadly agreed, done a reasonable job at one of England's top-flight makeweights.
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At the moment these devices, which weigh only a kilogram or two, are launched mainly as makeweights on missions whose principle purpose is to put a large satellite into space.
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It's not him I feel sorry for, though: it's Ousmane Dembélé and particularly Ivan Rakitic, two of the players Barcelona contemplated including as makeweights in the transfer the club's executives tried to cobble together.
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From the moment the Champions League's groups had been drawn in August, Group G had the look of the most finely poised, the least predictable: no obvious favorite, no vast financial disparity, no doomed makeweights.
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Glover and West Bromwich Albion teammate Joe Mayo transferred to Second Division club Orient in March 1977, as the makeweights in the deal which took Laurie Cunningham to The Hawthorns for £110,000. Glover failed to win a regular place in the first team at Brisbane Road and he made 37 league appearances and scored five goals during an 18-month stay.
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The album included the Lucas-penned track, "The Ballad of Ned Kelly" (aka "Poor Ned") and "Peace in the End" co-written with Denny. Allmusic's Dave Thompson was not impressed by Lucas' vocals, "great guitarist though he was, his voice offers nothing that you could not hear in any amateur folk club, any night of the week, rendering Dylan's 'Too Much of Nothing', Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Way I Feel', and his own 'Ballad of Ned Kelly' little more than makeweights". Whereas Nick Talevski in Knocking on Heaven's Door: Rock Obituaries (2006), found "The Ballad of Ned Kelly" to be a highlight of the album. The band broke up in 1971 with Denny undertaking a solo career with backing from Lucas.
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Templeman was born in Yapton, West Sussex, and began his football career with Arundel Town. He turned professional with Brighton & Hove Albion in July 1966 and made his first-team debut in December, charged with man-marking the country's top scorer, Rodney Marsh of Queens Park Rangers. He continued in the team for several years, and on the final day of the 1971–72 season, scored a goal that earned Brighton the point they needed to secure promotion to the Second Division. Templeman had taken his totals to 18 goals from 255 senior appearances by the end of the 1973–74 season, when Brian Clough used him and Lammie Robertson as makeweights in the deal that brought Fred Binney from Exeter City to Brighton.
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He worked on his physical conditioning at his new club, and became a regular at outside right in the first team with 13 goals from 119 appearances in all competitions over two-and-a-half years. Described by club historian Tim Carder as "a tricky little ball-player, noted for the accuracy of his crosses with either foot", he attracted attention from bigger clubs. After Brighton eliminated First Division Preston North End from the 1907–08 FA Cup after two replays, Blackburn Rovers were convinced to sign Anthony and two teammates, Dick Wombwell and Joe Lumley, for "a substantial sum", widely reported as £750. The Football Association had recently imposed a rule forbidding more than £350 to be paid for any single player, and it was understood that Anthony was the primary target and Lumley and Wombwell were makeweights in the circumvention of that maximum.
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