People of the English town of Hartlepool, and especially supporters of tis football team are known as "monkey-hangers". The nickname relates to a time in days of yore when a ship was wrecked near the port town of Hartlepool. A surviving monkey wandered in to the town and as the townspeople had obviously never seen such a creature before they arrested it and tried to interogate it. As for obvious reasons it couldnt/wouldnt reply they came to the conclusion it was a spy from Spain or some other enemy country and hung it.
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