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Thread: Coolest footballer ever?

  1. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    It doesn't bear thinking about.

    What would a current Arsenal crowd make of Perry Groves, I wonder?
    Ginger-haired **** though tbf ...

  2. #42
    Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
    Ginger-haired **** though tbf ...
    John Hawley?

  3. #43
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    John Hawley?
    Lee Chapman - **** footballer, **** bloke. He'd probably be a favourite

  4. #44
    Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
    Of course the answer is always Socrates

    “I decided not to play Socrates in the next game because his warm-up had consisted of drinking two bottles of Budweiser and three cigarettes which we had in the changing rooms.” - Garforth Town manager Simon Clifford
    Dunno, but surely not too many players have played a Russian spy in a Guy Ritchie film

    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  5. #45
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    It doesn't bear thinking about.

    What would a current Arsenal crowd make of Perry Groves, I wonder?
    To be fair, I remember a late 80s Arsenal crowd booing him, so my guess would be 'not much'.

  6. #46
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    Dunno, but surely not too many players have played a Russian spy in a Guy Ritchie film

    Hmmmm Emmanuel Petit was in The Bill r

  7. #47
    Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
    Hmmmm Emmanuel Petit was in The Bill r
    True. What about Sylvester Stallone? He's cool, does he count?

    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  8. #48
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    True. What about Sylvester Stallone? He's cool, does he count?

    Kazimierz Deyna was cool in that movie that's for sure

  9. #49
    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
    When I managed to get an invite to Robert McAlpine's suite at the Emirates I was told there would be a very good chance of meeting him. I mean really meeting him and sitting down to pre-match dinner with him.

    I was going to ask him about the period before he left for Derby when Bertie Mee stubbornly benched him every week and was he aware of the "We want Charlie" cries from the North Bank and the "Bertie Mee's a deaf man" chants. In addition to prostrating myself before him and calling him my Liege of course.

    He never made it that day c. he was unwell
    He used to frequent William Hill by Highbury Barn if it is any help.

  10. #50
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    He didn't have lung cancer

    And you know smoking is cool as well as I do.
    He did have the lung cankers. They metastatatasised into his brain it say here.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Cruyff

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