Vince Hilaire is black, but yes otherwise
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
also John Barnes = black and foreign, Didi Hamann also upthread
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
and molby if you want to include that one
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
thats part of some big variety evening though rather than a proper evening with
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
the vince hilaire one is a concert
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
steve kindon looks fairly affable, but I don't know about £25 affable. probably still tickets available for that
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah it doesn't really undermine your point and also feels contextually true to the Liverpudlian version of the same working class nostalgia the other events play on
Kindon i remember as "a Wolves player in the 70s" and basically nothing else, i raised an eyebrow at the ticket price
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Tottenham hotspur foreign legernd:
http://images.pitchero.com/ui/432074/1411989341_9563.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
that liverpool team was notably cosmopolitan for that era, their best players were mostly celtic, their gk fought in the rhodesian bush war, winger son of a jamaican colonel
aston villa's europea cup side was much more real
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
chelsea would have a few foreign 90s legends on this circuit
http://i.imgur.com/zW0w1KQ.jpg
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
that cosmopolitanism is part of the "legend of Liverpool" as city and club, as interzone where foreign cultures arrive in the UK and take root, as trailblazer for where the rest of the country will arrive at eventually - so yes the "local journeyman" is only one version of legend status for Liverpool FC unlike my fiercely provincial birthplace
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
the working class nostalgia aspect is very acute, i can just about remember a time when this very english almost nativist white bloke culture and football seemed inexorably fused as one and the same, this is a world is where the years of sanitization never happened
'micky hazard' is such an 80s legend name
the london area ones seem a bit more cosmopolitan too, or a bit more moneyed / essex forex trader shiny shoes scene rather than working men's club
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=ssl#q=%22more+like+micky+hazard%22
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
"Kindo" is fondly remembered in Huddersfield by older fans, I have no memory of him at all! Hemsworth/South Elmsall is an usual area for him to show up, one of the mining towns decimated in the 80's and nowhere near any of his former clubs or where he hails from. I once spent a week in South Elmsall upgrading the bus station lighting, it is a very hermetic kind of place and I suppose they still have a strong WMC culture. I guarantee he will be a better speaker than Frank Worthington.
I can remember seeing Frank Worthington in the Lindley branch of an independent bookies talking to the regulars inquisitively about Bolton Wanderers, he didn't even seem to know what league they were in and he was due to do an after dinner gig there that evening.
― xelab, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yngFeiCLmOQ
difficult to hear but i think it's fair to say Steve isn't afraid to work blue
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Ah! Appalling material but you can't fault the delivery.
― xelab, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Apparently there was a famous 70's banner which read Kindo lays on more balls than Deirdre Barlow.
― xelab, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.chesterfc.com/cms_images/events/mike-dean-final172-629433.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-awv2mCtkFr4/T2tPQKOp_KI/AAAAAAAAMRk/HSO9nJKSIgo/s400/dave%2Bbassett.png
http://www.farnboroughfc.co.uk/assets/Linvoy-Primus2-800x1124.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
http://listings07.skiddlecdn.co.uk/5/d/e/459528_0_an-evening-with-lee-sharpe-sporting-dinner_400.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/cms_images/oneyearon-64080-2021342_478x359.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
lol
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
linvoy must now be uk fitba's foremost fundie xtian
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bSJGPqn85yc/U7pEYXEE2uI/AAAAAAAAAck/DCrwH7hI0D8/s1600/Kaka-and-Brazil-players.jpg
not quite up to this lot
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Jesus Dick?
― what it feels like for a guelph (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Jesus Hearts Dick
http://www.stevewalshblog.co.uk/introducing-the-legends-city-travel-bus/
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.furd.org/pictures/web/TC%20evening%20Poster_email(2)/348.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:21 (nine years ago) link
http://www.kentsportsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Julian-Dicks-QA-Poster-282x400.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gistmania.com/talk/topic,10270.0.html
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link
A fine fine thread, the ILF lads have done good.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nk12.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Plakat-Hansch-V%C3%B6ller.png
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 11:11 (nine years ago) link
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― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Thursday, 27 November 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure david may will be injured tbh
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
Love the "(on selected drinks)" caveat for Linvoy Primus.
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Thursday, 27 November 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31bJRehUeOL._SL500_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FkLhUaaDL.jpg
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
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― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Legend activities
― نكبة (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1349048856/image.jpg
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 08:41 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByPVTzbIMAMcH_1.jpg
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah i was just reading about him, blimey...
http://babb.telegraph.co.uk/2015/01/chelsea-old-boy-gavin-peacock-is-now-a-problematic-canadian-pastor/
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Dave Boon @dave_boon 2h2 hours ago
@GPeacock8 Can only assume that you were born Gavin Pea & cock was added later?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
telegraph fitba blogger who uses problematic in a url <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< twitter legend gavin peacock of the canadian wahabbist congregation or whatever it is
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Dave Boon@dave_boon
Love LFC, Game of Thrones, bushcraft, animals & all things space & science related
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< khmer rouge camp guards
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
No results found for "an evening with khmer rouge camp guards".
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
Camp as a Khmer Rouge guard
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bt9IVcnCMAAEaE7.jpg:large
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Dai Hankey is one for the abysmal real names thread
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
To see ex England and Sheff Weds player David Hirst call Thornhill FC on 01924 463299 for tickets for the sportsman's dinner, £35 each
I saw this in my local chippy, I thought £35 seems a bit steep for an audience with an England international nobody has heard of! He scored a goal in a friendly against New Zealand in '91.
― xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
remember him from my first sticker bookdidnt ferguson want to buy him at one point
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
he was a surprisingly flash carthorse build of a lad y
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/uploads/monthly_04_2012/post-4683-0-23091000-1335306282.jpg
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
you guys have a better memory than me! When you can get Ossie Ardiles & Mickey Hazard tickets for £25, either this dude must be a top notch speaker or Thornhill FC are paying or charging above the going rate!
― xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
the world of legends works in mysterious ways but he is a more obvious draw than many of the obscurities here ('big trev' aylott?)
sheffield weds must be in the biggest twenty or so teams in the country in terms of fanbase and he might be one of their best long serving players of the last 30 years
during their last spell in the big leagues too, and a good age for a legend since he will be familiar to late 20s fans onwards, and middle aged nostalgists especially
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
legend research has drawn up this impressively high res moody black and white portrait of a man with a serious interest in coffee
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Chris_Waddle_2012.jpg
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515EQeVW-8L._SX318_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 18 September 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
top lads one and all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Welsh_people_of_Belgian_descent
― Robert Kenedy Nunes do Nascimento (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 September 2015 11:44 (eight years ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/11/27/1448625726436/40fccbd7-4738-4f78-a791-e14b72f52aea-1020x612.jpeg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=7308c4628667c68a675d1efb06cc95b2
Tony Blair has spoken of his “really dire” attempts at being a comedian while a student at Oxford University. In an onstage interview with the comedian Matt Forde, the former prime minister revealed that his standup performances were a “rich vein of embarrassment” and included skits about TV shows such as Star Trek. Asked if he dressed up for such routines, he replied: “I’ve got a terrible feeling I was a character called Captain Kink … If there had been social media, can you imagine? They could have [used it] as the Tory party political party broadcast. That would have been it!”
― The term “hitler racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 27 November 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
Just round the corner from me
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 January 2016 13:08 (eight years ago) link
He's holding his just-out-of-rehab celebration down the pub?
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, 9 January 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
It's a 'book signing'. Doesn't seem a very wise venue.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 January 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Same venue, still round the corner from me...
https://www.welovesport.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/07/MMLB-97-Local-Legend-Arsenal_900x600.jpg
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Friday, 4 August 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link