When Tangles doesn't turn up to training for a couple of weeks, it looks as though the Wildcats will be facing more recruitment problems. Then Splinters spots Tangles up at the shops wearing a bandanna and a Camp Quality t-shirt and he realises the truth: Tangles is seriously ill.
Splinters wants the Wildcats to try for the 'Guinness Book Of Records' marathon soccer match in order to buy Tangles a special machine from the States that will save his life.
But when the English FA decide to hold a competition for a couple of junior soccer teams to play a curtain raiser for the grand reopening of Wembley Stadium, Splinters is ready to abandon Tangles to his fate and put all his energy into that instead.
