Leigh_Curtis published Notts County's Jon Stead leaves Hartlepool fans pleading for...

Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century, the anxious citizens of Hartlepool decided to hang a shipwrecked monkey in the belief it was a French spy.While Jon Stead is no member of any intelligence service and doesn't swing from trees, he does have a habit of inducing similar panic on the town's football club every time he faces them.This was the third successive game in which the Notts County striker was the match-winner as his brilliantly executed goal maintained what..