Sir Bobby Chartlon

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Leicester Fan said:
This is a rehashed joke from the great Sir Donald Bradman.

"An apocryphal story goes that a journalist asked Sir Donald Bradman, at a time when the Australian batsmen were giving the hapless England bowlers a particularly torrid time, how he thought he would have fared against that crop of bowlers? After some thought, Bradman opined that he would average around 60. Stunned, the incredulous journalist continued, but Sir Donald, you averaged 99 in your career, why only 60 against this lot? Well, responded the great man with a cheeky grin, I am in my 80s you know!"

https://www.quora.com/If-Don-Bradma...person-with-the-same-batting-average-of-99-94
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And he rehashed it from the great Ty Cobb - Georgia Peach and baseball legend.

Where Ty heard it first, christ knows.
 


jcrossan said:
Conducted himself with class throughout his long career. Went through the awful air tragedy as nowt but a young lad and came back to see his one club win the European Cup..as usual he had a huge part with that header...scored the first goal to relieve the tension in the World Cup in 66 and scored the two that got us to the final.

We would have beaten W. Germany in 1970 if Alf hadn't taken him off at two up, which then allowed Beckenbaur to then move forward..yep, he was shit scared of Charlton so he stayed deep until then..Has remained loyal to his club and his country and has made nowhere near the amount of money that..well,... Sterling has in the game.

One of the true English greats..not a Gazza fuck up or a Wayne Rooney can't do it when it really matters (both excellent players but fall short of the great moniker).

So what the fuck if Jackie doesn't speak to him? Did anyone see that twat play for Leeds? Him and Revie began the practise of having a big fucker stand right next to the goalie at corners. If there was a cxxx in that family then anyone in the stands in the '60s knew who that was. Oh, but Jackie can tell a good joke and drink a few pints.

Bobbie Charlton is one of the few..very few.. English footballing greats. Never disgraced either the strip he wore nor his heritage. The only thing people could get him on was his comb over.

Tell you what, he wouldn't have choked against Iceland. 'Cos he saw a dozen of his team mates die in front of his eyes on a fog covered runway. What's a World Cup semi-final on home soil compared to that? Fuck all. As for a quarter against iceland? -0 oops it wasn't even that - well give us a break.


And fuck him too for that 119th minute equaliser in the sixth round replay in '64. We'd have won the Cup. The bastard. But that was Bobby Charlton. Cool as f***ing ice..and that ladies and gentleman was a hot f***ing night - George Best spewing his guts in the Man Utd dressing room pre-game.. but when it mattered, in the last minute then there that twat was. Nah, as a young lad that night I hoped for a split second he'd miss..but no, it was Bobby Charlton. Nerves? He'd seen brains spilled.

Yes. cool as ice. 'Cos watching people die in front of you sort of makes it not that big a deal to score a goal when needed - at Roker Park in thast crazy night in 64, Against Benfica in the Final - to recognise those dead Busby babes - and portugal in the semi of the world thingy..

A great Englishman.
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I'm only quoting what i've heard, never said I agreed with it !!
 
jcrossan said:
Conducted himself with class throughout his long career. Went through the awful air tragedy as nowt but a young lad and came back to see his one club win the European Cup..as usual he had a huge part with that header...scored the first goal to relieve the tension in the World Cup in 66 and scored the two that got us to the final.

We would have beaten W. Germany in 1970 if Alf hadn't taken him off at two up, which then allowed Beckenbaur to then move forward..yep, he was shit scared of Charlton so he stayed deep until then..Has remained loyal to his club and his country and has made nowhere near the amount of money that..well,... Sterling has in the game.

One of the true English greats..not a Gazza fuck up or a Wayne Rooney can't do it when it really matters (both excellent players but fall short of the great moniker).

So what the fuck if Jackie doesn't speak to him? Did anyone see that twat play for Leeds? Him and Revie began the practise of having a big fucker stand right next to the goalie at corners. If there was a cxxx in that family then anyone in the stands in the '60s knew who that was. Oh, but Jackie can tell a good joke and drink a few pints.

Bobbie Charlton is one of the few..very few.. English footballing greats. Never disgraced either the strip he wore nor his heritage. The only thing people could get him on was his comb over.

Tell you what, he wouldn't have choked against Iceland. 'Cos he saw a dozen of his team mates die in front of his eyes on a fog covered runway. What's a World Cup semi-final on home soil compared to that? Fuck all. As for a quarter against iceland? -0 oops it wasn't even that - well give us a break.


And fuck him too for that 119th minute equaliser in the sixth round replay in '64. We'd have won the Cup. The bastard. But that was Bobby Charlton. Cool as f***ing ice..and that ladies and gentleman was a hot f***ing night - George Best spewing his guts in the Man Utd dressing room pre-game.. but when it mattered, in the last minute then there that twat was. Nah, as a young lad that night I hoped for a split second he'd miss..but no, it was Bobby Charlton. Nerves? He'd seen brains spilled.

Yes. cool as ice. 'Cos watching people die in front of you sort of makes it not that big a deal to score a goal when needed - at Roker Park in thast crazy night in 64, Against Benfica in the Final - to recognise those dead Busby babes - and portugal in the semi of the world thingy..

A great Englishman.
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Alreet Bobby!!
 
He's a miserable bald Geordie bastard so won't of said that.
Too busy knocking one out over man utd anyway in his red devil underpants
 
JonMc said:
And he rehashed it from the great Ty Cobb - Georgia Peach and baseball legend.

Where Ty heard it first, christ knows.
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Interesting, I've never heard of Ty Cobb. In fact the only baseball players I can name off the top of my head is Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Daryl Strawberry And A-Rod (not sure what the A stands for) but Rodriguez was his last name. I probably have heard of a few more.
 
Leicester Fan said:
Interesting, I've never heard of Ty Cobb. In fact the only baseball players I can name off the top of my head is Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Daryl Strawberry And A-Rod (not sure what the A stands for) but Rodriguez was his last name. I probably have heard of a few more.
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Ty was imho the greatest baseball player ever but he was just mean and angry with a load of issues - borderline psychopath probably. No one liked him - not even his team mates. Just after he made that old joke it was said he went into a rant about Sweet Georgia Brown and how it had become associated with the Harlem Globetrotters - 'a bunch of queers playing a n____r game owned by a Jew'...at which point he was removed from the stage.
He pistol whipped a mugger to death (never charged) and kicked a black maid down stairs cos she objected to the N word. Ty wasn't racist though - he was an equal opportunity hater. He played the sport hard - he sharpened the cleats on his boots to a razor edge just so he could hurt the opposition on the field - but he was the best and more than any other single player, he dragged the game from being a joke at times (it was as much vaudeville than anything else) into a serious, competitive sport.

And that....was the great...Ty Cobb. Watch the film, Cobb - Tommy Lee Jones plays him and he was born to play him. Fantastic.
 
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[QUAOTE="The Black Fingernail, post: 23258985, member: 39523"]I don't get what you mean though.
Is it the best I can say about him?[/QUOTE] Aye
 
The Black Fingernail said:
Aye
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Yeah.
What is your point exactly?[/QUOTE]
The point is at a time when the modern players are being crucified on here, and quite rightly so.
Here's a player who did it all, no under achievement with him, he performed at a consistently high standard for club and country, a great player.
Achieving all that after surviving a plane crash in which several of his team mates were killed, there was no counselling in them days for the the lads who survived, they basically had to start again and get on with it, and in his case he went on to win World and European Cups. Now that is mental toughness.
Then all some on here can say "he's a miserable bastard" blah,blah,blah.
f***ing Sad.
 
vinegar hill said:
Yeah.
What is your point exactly?
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The point is at a time when the modern players are being crucified on here, and quite rightly so.
Here's a player who did it all, no under achievement with him, he performed at a consistently high standard for club and country, a great player.
Achieving all that after surviving a plane crash in which several of his team mates were killed, there was no counselling in them days for the the lads who survived, they basically had to start again and get on with it, and in his case he went on to win World and European Cups. Now that is mental toughness.
Then all some on here can say "he's a miserable bastard" blah,blah,blah.
f***ing Sad.[/QUOTE]
Well thanks for that.
Do you feel better now or still slightly angry?
 
The Black Fingernail said:
The point is at a time when the modern players are being crucified on here, and quite rightly so.
Here's a player who did it all, no under achievement with him, he performed at a consistently high standard for club and country, a great player.
Achieving all that after surviving a plane crash in which several of his team mates were killed, there was no counselling in them days for the the lads who survived, they basically had to start again and get on with it, and in his case he went on to win World and European Cups. Now that is mental toughness.
Then all some on here can say "he's a miserable bastard" blah,blah,blah.
f***ing Sad.
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Well thanks for that.
Do you feel better now or still slightly angry?[/QUOTE]
Cheers mate. I Like that!
 
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