To hell with Muslim debates and Arsenal controversy, can we all agree that 'Becks'

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Originally Posted by Ash

Which footballers have? Bobby Charlton. Um ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ritish_honours

Not many.

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Little doubt that has a large amount to do with class.

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Originally Posted by SWv2

Frank Lampard OBE.

Good lord.

Hold on, Steve Bull. For services to Wolves I assume.

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Sol Campbell FGY

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Originally Posted by Pokster

well obviously not you daft bugger...it's been in 15 of them... ancient, then a break and since the 1988 games

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Well blow me over.

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Originally Posted by Burney

The problem has arisen from them handing out gongs far too early in people's lives just because they won something. Nobody ought to be knighted until at least their 50s and it's possible to take a longer view of their achievements.

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Spot on.
To be fair to Murray, he said much the same thing but realised if he had turned it down it no doubt it would have got out somehow given how they tend to leak like sieves these days and caused even more of a fuss

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

Sol Campbell FGY

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One of AWIMB's most brutal and spectacularly un-PC epithets.

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Spot on.
To be fair to Murray, he said much the same thing but realised if he had turned it down it no doubt it would have got out somehow given how they tend to leak like sieves these days and caused even more of a fuss

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Oh, yes. It's all part of this ghastly nonsense of governments desperately trying to ride the zeitgeist these days and show how in touch they are by being seen to honour anyone who's done anything of note in the last six months.

Like so many bad things, it's Tony Blair's fault.

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Originally Posted by Ash

One of AWIMB's most brutal and spectacularly un-PC epithets.

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:hehe: Yes. And the funniest thing is that it's about one of our own players (nominally, at least).