Bitter taste in me mouth...

OP maybe its because the Charltons Busbys and Fergies actually did something with their footballing careers rather than pi55 their given talent up the wall by trying to be some kind of pound shop deluded local hero ?

Paisley's retirement in 83 was closely followed by Luton/Millwall a year and a bit later, then Heysel and English clubs getting banned, loads of hooligan incidents, with our semi finals in '85 probably being a low point for police trying to manage things. Thatcher's government then came up with membership cards, banning drink from the grounds and a midget sports minister that hated football.

And none of that's even to mention Hillsborough in '89, which the government will have seen as football's problem, not society's or the police's.

His death in '96 was probably just a bit too early for the new breed of politician that latched on to football for some cred (Bob who?).

And from what I've heard about Bob Paisley he'd have probably been a bit embarrassed by it all anyway.

Herbert Chapman never got one either...

most celebs who dont get a knighthood... who most people think they should, copared to others...dont because they have a few undisclosed skeletons in the cupboard

Interesting post TPNM.

As you said he'd have probably been embarrassed anyway!

Always Sir Bob as far as I'm concerned!

You make a very valid point op but as we have seen with United things are always different.
JT alledgedly slept with a former girlfriend of a player that once played alongside him and was vilified by the press. Giggs sleeps with his brothers wife and is held up as an example for kids to look up to. Go figure.

The article is a whimsical jape, yes?

comment by Say My Name (U18558)
posted 6 hours ago
You make a very valid point op but as we have seen with United things are always different.
JT alledgedly slept with a former girlfriend of a player that once played alongside him and was vilified by the press. Giggs sleeps with his brothers wife and is held up as an example for kids to look up to. Go figure.
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Giggs not being a racist probably helped his perception compared to JT

comment by The Number 4 Shirt. (U19487)
posted 11 hours, 56 minutes ago
comment by The Post Nearly Man. I just left Hotel Amnesia. Where it is I can't remember. (U1270)
posted 1 minute ago
Geordie goes fishing... Loadsa bites bonny lad
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Don't understand this mentality. "Tehe, I'll go online and make a fcuknut out of myself by saying something stupid, and then revel in being called a fcuknut by people responding, as though it's some kind of victory for me".

How does that person win exactly? They're just a fcuknut with nothing better to do, and if they revel in the attention wumming brings them, then they must be a very sorry person with an empty life. Don't get it.
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They're very sad, attention seeking little boys

It's more arsenal fan behaviour than Geordie

Thought Bobby Charlton is a Geordie? Wasn't he born in Chester Le street????? Stupid sad article