a booted and spurred cowboy

You could take my horse and herd a couple for me, if we have to— Huh-uh, said South Boy in decisive negation. That'd be worse than herding weanlings.

It seemed, from his account, that he was very good at doing scrambled eggs.

Plenty other football managers have been damned by early snap judgments on players but there were scance looks all around from the Hamilton contingent when they were informed by Archie Knox that their 15-year-old first team player wasn't being considered for Scotland's under-17s, allegedly on the proviso that he wasn't able to get around the park.