― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link
I can't understand how anyone could even think such nonsense! I mean it's not as if there's a shortage of brilliant footballers who are black.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:54 (twenty years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:00 (twenty years ago) link
there's another article at the guardian now - http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1200646,00.html - where he does sound like the confused old guy i'm thinking of. but i still quite square it with the full harshness of the phrase.
the cab drivers are astonishing. ocne i'd had to cal the train comany for fucking up on connections and making me miss the last train, so they put on a cab from guildford to waterloo. there's was meant to be a guy with my name on a bit of paper but i didn't spot him, i go outside and find the cab, but the cabbie needed the bit of paper, so he calls and asks. a minute or two later turns up a black guy in uniform and one of those huge flourescent safety jackets and it's all squared up. as we set off i say, sorry mate, i didn't spot him. cabbie says "nah mate, you wouldn't unless he's smiling. and that's not being mean, that's not being mean.."
― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
I got a dodgy cab back home the other night. I live right by the River Lea in London and he was amazed. He got out and went and stood on the towpath. "A river? Here?"
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link
i love that.
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link
― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
When I started reading this thread I was surprised how much I like Big Ron, but it's starting to wear off a bit.
Who will replace him? I vote for Tommy Docherty.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Laurie Brown (daveb), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link
"So Andy, 3-1 down against ten men - did Ranieri get his tactics wrong?""No Clive, not at all"
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
Will the Guardian sack him as well? He does Big Ron's Chalkboard for the sports section.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link
xpost
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
You'd assume the loveable racist banter wasn't a regular occurrance, unless someone leaked this particular instance to the media to force Atkinson's resignation.
I don't follow this.
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link
― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
"It was a great time. I think there's more racial prejudice now than there was then, though we used to make them sit on the back of the bus going to away games. We all used to laugh and joke about it. Cyrille [Regis] would say, 'If you don't stop giving me stick I'm going to buy a house next door to you'," he said in a recent interview.
And so Big Ron really does prove himself not to have a fucking clue.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
WTF?!?!?!
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link
Limbo dancing! That great threat to the English way of life. No wonder they attract pig thick scumbags with investigative reporting of that calibre.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:09 (twenty years ago) link
Alternatively, get a 38 to Victoria. Take the train to Wareham in Dorset and then a bus to Swanage, there is a fine one called Da Plaice which does great chips and veggie sausages in batter.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link