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| The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football. | |
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| jebus82 | 16 May 2017, 01:59 PM Post #6441 |
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Nanananana Andy Halliday.....ANDY HALLIDAAAAY!!
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got 25/30 was convinced i was spelling de bruyne and van nistelrooy wrong
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| nivek | 16 May 2017, 02:08 PM Post #6442 |
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First-team starter
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http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nacho-novo-being-lined-up-13042044 |
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| stevie21 | 16 May 2017, 02:08 PM Post #6443 |
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Poster of the Tuesday afternoon!
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28/30 - didn't get Lampard. Can't believe I didn't get Figo. He looks like an old Celtic player from the 70s - him and Dixie Deans would share a look according to that photo
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| Gothamcelt | 16 May 2017, 04:28 PM Post #6444 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Sundays game against Hearts, travel warning. Footie fans issued with travel advice ahead of Celtic's league win celebrations against Hearts Spoiler: click to toggle
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| dtic | 16 May 2017, 05:15 PM Post #6445 |
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Older than dirt
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I scored 25 too. The England strip threw me. Was looking at, thinking I know that carrot, then ran out of time
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| GetFunky | 16 May 2017, 05:55 PM Post #6446 |
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Local Hero
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Figo looks about 40 in the pic
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| Mubo Loravcik | 16 May 2017, 06:06 PM Post #6447 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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26. Didn't get Messi, Ibrahimovic, Cantona or Gerrard. |
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| Hellas67 | 16 May 2017, 06:16 PM Post #6448 |
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Didn't bother to click on the link, but I hope the rest of the headline reads "in front of a firing squad"!!! |
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| ballbhoy | 17 May 2017, 07:48 AM Post #6449 |
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Not sure where to put this. Mark Walters on his racist treatment which was was absolutely sickening. Never realised darts and golf balls were thrown at him. MARK WALTERS knew he couldn’t walk off. He was determined to not walk away. His time at Rangers will be remembered, both by him and the Ibrox fans who took him to their hearts, for a mixture of reasons. The highs – three Premier Division titles and two League Cups – showed the winger at his best. His presence in Scotland brought out the worst in some, though. His debut at Parkhead saw him subjected to some of the most appalling scenes of racist abuse ever seen in our game. A fortnight later at Tynecastle, the shameful acts were repeated. Monkey chants greeted Walters when he touched the ball and bananas were thrown from the stands but the Englishman somehow rose above the mindless and the moronic in green and maroon. In the three decades that have elapsed, the racist minority has become even smaller and less vocal as the positive messages have offered strength and hope for the future. “Bananas, darts, golf balls - I even remember a pig’s foot,” Walters said as he returned to Ibrox for a Show Racism the Red Card event yesterday. “I don’t know where that one came from. “I had all manner of things thrown at me, but that was 30 years ago and it’s against the law to do it now. “It wasn’t nice but my drive was so high nothing would have stopped me from playing anyway, whatever they would have done I would have kept playing. “It crossed my mind when you’re seeing darts a metre from your feet and golf balls you think: Is my health worth this, just for a game of football? Of course it crosses your mind. “I didn’t want to be blinded but the club assured me they would do something about it and they did and I’m forever grateful to them for that.” The battle against racism in society, and not just football, is being won but the fight will continue to be fought by the likes of Walters and former team-mate Mark Hateley. Incidents in Scotland are thankfully few and far between but nothing is being taken for granted by those who seek to educate and inform the next generation. It is three decades since Walters was abused as he took his first steps in a successful Light Blues career. His mentality helped him get through it and now he has seen attitudes change. “They were the ones most documented, yes,” he said of those dark days at Parkhead and Tynecastle. “At the time I was so single minded and the way I’ve been brought up - not only did I have to play as well as anyone else, but I had to play twice as well as anyone else because that’s the way things were, if you succumbed to it. “Sulley Muntari walked off the field recently in Italy. Had I done that 30 years ago I would have been told I had a chip on my shoulder or didn’t have enough bottle to handle it. “Things have come on tremendously well since my time. It’s not a nice thing to be abused - I don’t care who you are or how hardened you are - but hopefully now all the stuff that goes on, people know it’s illegal and they can’t do it anymore. “Football is a reflection of society and if you say to me will that not happen in society in 10 years’ time? If the answer is yes it won’t be happening in football.” Walters would leave Ibrox in the summer in 1991 for Liverpool and he went on to play for Southampton, Swindon and Bristol Rovers. His legacy off the pitch is just as important as that on it, though. He was joined by Hateley, Richard Gough, Gary McSwegan and Derek Ferguson yesterday at a Show Racisim the Red Card workshop at Ibrox. Football may provide a platform for abuse but it also offers an avenue to a more tolerant and equal society. “I came 30 years ago and we are still talking about it now,” Walters said. “Rangers have always been at the forefront of making children aware of racism. “It is disappointing I am still having to come here and do it but it has improved a lot since I was playing. “The way forward is education with. I think football reflects society and society rather than football is the problem. “People think it is ok to shout racist and homophobic abuse and we have to make them realise it is unacceptable. “My problems were well documented but the club were fantastic and helped me get through it. “I never had any problems in the street. It was just at stadiums when I first came here. “When the club got on to the authorities I didn’t have any more problems with it.” The event at Ibrox was another positive stride forward in the fight against racism but it was at the same venue a couple of weeks ago where a step back was sadly taken. Two Rangers fans were captured on film making monkey gestures at Celtic star Scott Sinclair during the Old Firm clash as they embarrassed themselves and tarnished their club. Once again, the minority did the damage. The majority are fondly remembered by Walters, though. “It was very disappointing, I’m not going to lie,” Walters said. “Rangers fans treated me fantastically. "I’ve found out the boy who was singled out on television making those gestures wasn’t even supposed to be at the game - he borrowed a ticket, so who knows what his background is? “Rangers were fantastic with me, not only in terms of helping me have a good career here but my family enjoyed the experience of coming here. “At Aston villa I didn’t let my family go to some of the games because I knew in certain matches I was going to be abused so I’m forever grateful to Rangers for making my life here a lot easier than it could have been.” |
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| ballbhoy | 17 May 2017, 07:54 AM Post #6450 |
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Above story is from the Evening Times. I thought that reading it the golf balls and darts were at Celtic Park and Tynecastle. It would seem not. Any form of racist abuse should not be tolerated but that Evening Times piece is written in a strange way, imo. "FORMER Rangers star Mark Walters has recalled the worst racist experience of his career. The ex-winger was speaking at a Show Racism the Red Card event today. Mark Walters was subjected to horrific levels of racism He revealed that as a teenager at Aston Villa, so-called fans threw DARTS at him simply because of the colour of his skin. Walters said: “When I was younger, like 14 or 15, and playing for Aston Villa, it was probably worse for me then. “The background I had with my family going to church every Sunday, there was no racism at all. “But when I was 15, I was playing for Aston Villa in the Youth Cup and that was the worst for me. “To see people treat me as they did then, that always stuck with me. “As a teenager, it was hard for me, because I was even getting things thrown at me. “Fruit, bananas, even darts. “But nothing was going to stop me from becoming a professional footballer, and although it hurt, I was prepared to put up with it. “When I got older, I was hardened to it, and when I was playing for Aston Villa and other clubs, it was like water off a duck’s back. “Fortunately now, it’s against the law to do things like that. “It’s a lot better now.” Walters was subjected to monkey noises on his Gers debut in the New Year Old Firm league clash at Parkhead in 1988. Bananas were also thrown at the Englishman — believed to be Rangers’ first black player — with the match held up as ballboys cleared the fruit from the pitch. Celtic hero Frank McAvennie said in his Scottish Sun column earlier this month that what happened in the game left him “sickened and embarrassed”. Walters faced similar abuse against Hearts at Tynecastle a fortnight later." |
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| ballbhoy | 17 May 2017, 07:57 AM Post #6451 |
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Daily Record. Mark Walters showed racism the red card at Ibrox yesterday as he urged Scottish football’s knucklescrapers to take a good look in the mirror. The former Rangers winger is dismayed he’s still railing against intolerance three decades after Celtic and Hearts fans pelted him with bananas, golf balls, darts and even a pig’s trotter. Walters’s arrival from Aston Villa in 1988 shone a harsh light on Scottish football’s uneasy relationship with race – and some fans are still being blinded by the glare of their own prejudice. Another Gers fan was arrested and charged for allegedly making the same gestures while disgusting social media postings singling out the ex-Chelsea kid for his skin colour have also been widely condemned. Walters insists the problem is an issue for society to address and although strides are being made recent events brought back unhappy memories of his first two matches for Gers, at Celtic Park and Tynecastle. He said: “They were the ones most documented, yes – bananas, darts and golf balls. I even remember a pig’s foot. When you’re seeing darts a metre from your feet and golf balls you think, ‘Is my health worth this, just for a game of football?’ Of course it crosses your mind to walk away. “I didn’t want to be blinded but the club assured me they would do something about it and they did and I’m forever grateful to them for that. “It was a fantastic experience up here. I never had any problems in the street. It was just at a couple of stadiums when I first arrived. “It wasn’t unusual 30 years ago for players to be abused verbally and have things thrown at them. My first experience of that was at 15 playing against Millwall in 1979. “By the time I arrived in Scotland 10 years later I was hardened to it. “It has improved unbelievably since I was playing and the way forward is education. Football reflects society and it’s society that’s the problem. “Events at the most recent Old Firm game were disappointing. “But Rangers fans treated me fantastically. As a club Rangers were terrific, not only in helping me have a good career here but my family also enjoyed coming here.” |
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| Connolly's Rhebels | 17 May 2017, 07:59 AM Post #6452 |
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We know. It began by asking them what school they went to in order to ensure no Irish Catholics (or other Catholics) ever knowingly played for your dead club ya fanny. Edited by Connolly's Rhebels, 17 May 2017, 08:02 AM.
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| ticcy_paper | 17 May 2017, 10:11 AM Post #6453 |
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Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature
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Because a black player who was shamefully racially abused has an opinion on his ex club's stance on racism, it doesn't make it so. I would put forward that his ex club would have the WORST record in the history of Association Football in the whole of the UK, if not Europe. Their signing policy alone would have them at the front of the queue, never mind their NF/BNP supporting support. I don't remember any recruiters from the NF/BNP being seen around Parkhead while they were/are myriad at ibrox. Being a victim of racial abuse does not make you, with all due respect, an expert. He might want to talk to Paul Wilson for a more balanced opinion on how enlightened the ibrox hordes are. Edit: just to say I don't mean the above as any 'whataboutery', I just feel Walter's interview is factually wrong Edited by ticcy_paper, 17 May 2017, 10:15 AM.
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| SaMule | 17 May 2017, 10:35 AM Post #6454 |
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NSFW
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To be honest it's hard to disagree with that line, but not in the way Walters presumably intended it to be understood. |
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| Dannybhoy95 | 17 May 2017, 12:04 PM Post #6455 |
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Champions Again Olé, Olé
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Same. Figo, Platt, Messi, Robson and Lampard.
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| bubba | 17 May 2017, 05:06 PM Post #6456 |
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Getting on a bit
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39947732 Edited by bubba, 17 May 2017, 05:07 PM.
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| bubba | 17 May 2017, 05:07 PM Post #6457 |
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Getting on a bit
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39934050 |
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| Hellas67 | 17 May 2017, 05:46 PM Post #6458 |
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Not sure if it is an urban myth, but I have heard on a few occasions that there were more than a few Gers fans who were told not to go back to Ibrox due to the racist abuse they dished out to Walters. Racism is disgusting and black players suffered incredibly 30 years ago, thank god most have moved on, but if the article wanted to point out what he had to put up with then it should have perhaps pointed out that he suffered from it even from his own fans. |
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| Shuggie Edvaldsson | 17 May 2017, 06:19 PM Post #6459 |
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Belter. Keeper wasn't expecting it, obviously, but he could at least have made a token attempt! |
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| DKB | 17 May 2017, 07:20 PM Post #6460 |
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Getting on a bit
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former Celt Morten Rasmussen scored a single goal tonight for AGF, which moved him to shared all time topscorer in the Danish Superliga |
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