[Closed] A statue to a chavball manager ffs?

Apparently not.

if you don't care, why care 💡

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I'm assuming the OP doesn't get out much?

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The OP doesn't 'do' soccer and has never comprehended the desire of others to stand and shout at a bunch of overpaid girlie boys kicking a ball around and the fact they've created what is clearly not the first craven image to one of their 'Gods' he finds frankly astounding.

There are times when one has to question ones membership of the same species.

You sound like fun.

Let the rest of us live and let live eh?

There are lots of sports and activities I don't "do" but I tend not to pass judgement on them. It's like on here - I just ride a bike, but most of the posters seem to know the names of, and can recognise, many professional cyclists. I just assume they are a bit more passionate/knowledgeable than I am. I don't think that makes me somehow intellectually superior to them.

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Some unfortunate ones

Why so verbose, when the OP could just have called himself a small minded idiot and let the rest of us get on with our lives?

There are times when one has to question ones membership of the same species.

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Famously refused to do a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938, and was swiftly dropped from the England team (Who all did the salute).

OP what kind of statues do you like, if any.?

lol. I've just pissed myself laughing because the op has used chavball instead of football. Thats REALLY funny because ALL football fans are scum.

Great gag, i mean really great. I'll be sure to use it at work on monday. Everyone will fall about laughing.

No no no, don't even start with your social liberalism we'll be passing a hat round for a statue to Dav Brailsford next, give me a break...

He did a job, got paid really well for it, that's all, nothing that rates a statue.

You sound like fun.

/purposefully misses point

Nah, he sounds like a nob.

The OP doesn't 'do' soccer and has never comprehended the desire of others to stand and shout at a bunch of overpaid girlie boys kicking a ball around and [b]it is[/b] the fact they've created what is clearly not the first craven image to one of their 'Gods' he finds frankly astounding.

There are times when one has to question [b]one's[/b] membership of the same species.

Clearly the OP doesn't "do" correct grammar either. I hope my improvements to your mangled syntax will be of use to you in your quest for cultural and intellectual superiority.

stuartie_c - Member
The OP doesn't 'do' soccer and has never comprehended the desire of others to stand and shout at a bunch of overpaid girlie boys kicking a ball around and it is the fact they've created what is clearly not the first craven image to one of their 'Gods' he finds frankly astounding.
There are times when one has to question one's membership of the same species.

Clearly the OP doesn't "do" correct grammar either. I hope my improvements to your mangled syntax will be of use to you in your quest for cultural and intellectual superiority.

You and I clearly were educated in a different era. You're wrong.

Football is a noble and unifying sport. Did the opposing forces play rugby on christmas day in 1914? No - it was football they played.

Football and particularly the unifying and universal nature of the game means things to a lot of people. Calling it chav ball in really quite a sad indictment of yourself.

OP doesn't do punctuation either. Needs to blow some dust off the , .

Nothing wrong with football, something we should all play and agreed it can be a unifying sport. However erecting statues to those who create a career from it's moneytisation, if there is such a word, is not my idea of noble, sorry.

The OP doesn't 'do' soccer and has never comprehended the desire of others to stand and shout at a bunch of overpaid girlie boys kicking a ball around and the fact they've created what is clearly not the first craven image to one of their 'Gods' he finds frankly astounding.

He also talks about himself in the third person.

So he's either a Rapper or a Ringpiece 🙂

As a public school educated lawyer from the home counties, I can think of nothing more satisfying to have my following of the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur to allow me to be classed as a chav.

My eyes have truly been opened. Thank you, OP, you have done great work there. Truly great work indeed.

I think that if it was any other manager than Ferguson then you "might" have a point, but he's been there for 26 years at the same club and he is pretty much the most successful manager in the history of the game.

I'm a Liverpool fan.

So he's either a Rapper or a Ringpiece

MC Ringpiece.

igrf,

I wouldn't normally bother to do this, but:

a very rich club (football, doesn't matter) has chosen to spend a relatively insignificant amount of its own (creditors) money on commemorating a person who's brought success to them by making somehting and displaying it on its own premises.

I don't care very much about football, but I am absolutely baffled that anyone could get even remotely worked up about this.

a very rich club (football, doesn't matter) has chosen to spend a relatively insignificant amount of its own (creditors) money on commemorating a person who's brought success to them by making somehting and displaying it on its own premises.

I don't care very much about football, but I am absolutely baffled that anyone could get even remotely worked up about this.

This is a very good post.

'Chavball', 'Wendyball'...is there some sort of derogatory football name generator on STW?

Only ever hear these hilarious terms used to describe it on here. How anyone who likes cycling (and I love both football and cycling) could describe another sport in derogatory terms is beyond me...I mean seriously, have you actually [i]seen[/i] what most of us look like?

I don't care very much about football, but I am absolutely baffled that anyone could get even remotely worked up about this.

Y'know, i don't think he is. More a case of:

friday night + nothing on the telly = low powered trolliage on stw

Can we have more really bad statues please, doesn't matter if they're not of fiotball managers.
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I am absolutely baffled that anyone could get even remotely worked up about this. --

Y'know, i don't think he is. More a case of: friday night + nothing on the telly = low powered trolliage on stw

yup, fair. same reason behind:

nedrapier - Member
igrf,

I wouldn't normally bother to do this, but...

This is a very good post.

Thanks CFH, but really? Spelling?

Thanks CFH, but really? Spelling?

I chose to overlook it.

meh

now heres a cool statue.......

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It's Cheese Rolling people. Sometimes I despair.

Wanders off muttering.

there's a statue of a bear eating a coat on the end of my street...

what a complete and utter tool.
(igrf, not Fergie. Fergie RULES and that statue isn't anywhere near large enough)

It's Cheese Rolling people.

That sounds terrifying.

I think the OP would have a lot of time for this statue:

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😆

Can we perhaps all agree in future to refer to it as sociallyintellectuallyandmorallyinferiorball ?

Oh, and the Southampton geezer was properly cringeworthy, wasn't he/it ? 😳

I chose to overlook it.

That's very big of you, thank you.

As one of the rare breed who has no interest in soccerball at all, I have no view, good or bad on a statue of some bloke whose just doing his job.

Tool.

First he's still alive, so it's toady brown nosing of the highest order, being chavs for the most part 'they' wouldn't clock the normal precedent of at least waiting for the subject to pass this mortal coil. I can't wait for them to start losing and the statue gets defaced by other moronic 'fans'.

It really is beyond crass and I'm really surprised the the number of y'all here that think it's fine.

It really is beyond crass and I'm really surprised the the number of y'all here that think it's fine.

Do you not have a lot going on in your life, igrf? (I don't right now, obviously)

Any other company, let's choose, for example, Innovia Films, a successful multinational company based in Wigton, Cumbria.

If they saw fit to put a statue of of their current CEO, paid for with their money, on their own premises, to recognise, in their own way, what that person had contributed to their current position..

...why do you think anyone would give a flying **** what you thought of it? And why do you think it's any of your business?

Football's a private enterprise.

Did you know that GSK's HQ is built in the shape of a spoon? That's right, they're commemorating success. The bastards.

nedrapier - Member
Do you not have a lot going on in your life, igrf? (I don't right now, obviously)

'I' 'quite' 'like' 'the' 'idea' 'of' 'putting' 'odd' 'emphasis' 'on' 'words' 'to' 'make' 'a' 'point''.'

First he's still alive, so it's toady brown nosing of the highest order, being chavs for the most part 'they' wouldn't clock the normal precedent of at least waiting for the subject to pass this mortal coil

No he's not - he's been dead for some years, the current utd manager is a robot using bacon for skin.

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I must immediately consider raising a statue to myself for 30 yrs of doing the job I paid myself to do.
Pity you're not doing it very well....

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/gutted-paint-falling-off-my-frame

I love the Billy Wright statue...

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Running away from the ground with the rest of us!

Nuts to that. I'd have a statue of Jackie Milburn in my living room (if I was allowed).

I have to admit the statue of Billy Bremner at Elland Road needs a haircut. Billy never had proto-dreads IIRC

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Have you ever seen the statue of William Wallace at the Wallace monument in Stirling? It's looks more like a certain alcoholic, racist, bible bashing Aussie.

If you mean it looks like Mel Gibson,

that's because it is Mel Gibson.

It's a statue of Mel Gibson playing William Wallace in Braveheart.

(The clue is on the Shield 😉 )

And the statue was removed 4 years ago.......

he's got cankles

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Looks more like legwarmers. I imagine them in various fluorescent colours.

footloose

there's a statue of a bear eating a coat on the end of my street...

Pics please

For all the people on here that don't like "wendy ball" and "chav ball" they do seem to comment on it a great deal.

Probably unaware of the fact that without a doubt and as much a it galls me to say he probably is the greatest football manager to have ever lived. God that hurts! The statue is also outside the ground.

Or maybe they are very aware and just think its clever.

The OP doesn't 'do' soccer and has never comprehended the desire of others to stand and shout at a bunch of overpaid girlie boys kicking a ball around and the fact they've created what is clearly not the first craven image to one of their 'Gods' he finds frankly astounding.

There are times when one has to question ones membership of the same species.

If you don't understand it don't try to comprehend it or present yourself as in anyway knowledgeable on the subject because it actually makes you look rather intolerant and small minded.

Inscription at the bottom of the Stan Cullis statue reads "you only have one life, and I gave mine to Wolves"

I wish Steve Morgan would go and read it to Jeff Moxley

OP. while you will never understand the significance of this tribute, there are many millions who will, I being one:

Doesn't matter if you like Fergie or not, he's bloody good at his job. If Glazer wants to put up a statue let him, if he pays for it he can have a parade too.

guessing the OP had nothing to play with except his big sisters barbies as a kid?

big jocks statue was long overdue at celtic and has bugger all to do with the monetization of the game.

guessing he'll not appreciate statues like this either?

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or the likes of velodromes getting named after chris hoy..

the statues are about celebrating sporting excellence, nothing more. Not like we're gonny erect tony mowbraw a statue now is it?

is it my imagination or are all of these footy statues a bit shit ?

none of them seem to look like the actual person

none of them seem to look like the actual person

michael jackson's was pretty much a copy of him

micheal jackson's looked more like micheal jackson than he did.

yeah, what a twisted guy-- that nose of his was incredible the way it 'evolved' !

The Southampton geezer above is Ted Bates,who was a player, manager and president over a 66 year period til his death in 2003. Most of this period was the overblown game it is now and his service to the club is well deserving of a statue. Fortunately that embarrassing one was replaced in 2008 with one that doesn't look like a hobbit.

Statues are odd in some ways-- depends on whether they are imposed or genuine -- there is a lot more 'room' for creative objects to be placed !

First he's still alive, so it's toady brown nosing of the highest order, being chavs for the most part 'they' wouldn't clock the normal precedent of at least waiting for the subject to pass this mortal coil

I believe there's a statue of Thatcher in the member's lobby at Westminster, [as well as others] been there some time and the wicked witch of the West even unveiled it herself IIRC

she is all but dead !

igrf - Another one to add to the 'avoid in real life' list.

I just saw an item on this.
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And started to wonder what the haterz are putting back into the community.

And started to wonder what the haterz are putting back into the community.

most clubs do lots of communiity work, after all thats where their support comes from, but the knockers only see the big stars and some tabloid behaviour from a few,the vast majority of clubs and footballers do unsung work in their locale.Even the team i support which is semi-pro-- plenty of community involvment from players etc-- tis all good !

The snobbery on here from some posters when talking about football is ridiculous.

A statue of someone who inspired many many people, who millions look up to? Why not.

You know what, it took 60 yrs to get a statue to bomber command, and there are still loads of deserving wartime participants with no monument to their sacrifice, yet some bod, obnoxious for the most part, paid God knows what gets his memory perpetuated, for what? What do you need a statue to him for, you can still see him most saturdays or whenever it is the wendyboys get their overpaid arses down to the ground for a bit of a kick about?

igrf-- you been evicted from under the bridge ?

@irgf

Is it all footballers you hate or just professionals? Cos I play football every week. Does that make me a chav or a 'wendyboy'?