Knighthood for a blade

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Hmmm, a great man and great humour but a blade ? bit of both I'd say, no problem with that when people are honest about it.


"What was the best game you ’ve ever seen?
The only time I’ve been to Wembley and seen a Sheffield team win was when Wednesday beat Man Utd in what was then the Rumbelows Cup. It wasn’t a great match but I’ve never been more emotional at a game, because the Wednesday supporters were terrific, they had all these great banners,"

https://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/100-Fan-culture/3967-call-yourself-a-football-fan--michael-palin
 
I would say he`s a Blade !!!

Do you try to keep in touch with results when travelling abroad?
Yes, Saturday afternoons since I was five or six have always been about the football results. I’ve never felt like I could use an excuse like “Oh, I’m in Japan”. But results do seem to get around the world much quicker than something like, say, war breaking out. I remember being on a dhow on the Persian Gulf and finding out that Sheffield United had beaten Scarborough and because I was so far away it felt like a fantastic result.
How did football in London compare to Sheffield?
Footballers in London were becoming quite attractive celebrity figures, going to film premieres and opening hairdressing salons. We didn’t have anything like that in Sheffield. Well, there was Tony Currie... Yes, he of the immense thighs. Largest thighs I’ve ever seen outside of the cherubs in a Rubens painting. But other than him they all came from Sheffield, which was a very unglamorous place.
You must be unusual in being a Sheffield United fan who watches Wednesday too?
Well, I’ve lived in London for 35 years and I do follow the fortunes of both. It’s more a token of feelings for the city where I grew up. Sheffield people will say to me: “You’ll say ‘up the Blades’ then you’ll say you’re a Wednesday fan, what’s going on?” United were the club I supported when I was growing up, mainly because their ground was the nearest to our house. I used to see Wednesday supporters as a different type of person, just... deeply disturbed.
Were you thinking of Hallam in the Ripping Yarns episode about football, where an obsessive fan smashes up his house whenever his team lose?
I never supported a team that bad, but it has always intrigued me that people would watch a team that lost 8-0, then go back the following week. Barnstoneworth was about coming back after a disastrous defeat. It was also the fact that his wife was very sympathetic, that football was part of their lives. After the match he’d throw the clock out of the window, they’d spent the next week putting the glass back in, then he’d throw the clock through it again. It was also partly about the folklore of football in the north, about a scrap merchant buying the team. Results on a Saturday can still affect my mood, a bit like the character in Ripping Yarns. There are psychic shock waves going around the house. If United have won, I’m really in a great mood for a couple of hours, but if not, the family keep out of my way.
 
I do like Michael Palin and think he's a decent human being who is deservedly considered a national treasure.But being the awkward bastard I am I think of the young lad I knew who died on a Royal Navy ship during the Falklands Conflict and a bloke I knew who served in the Royal Marines who took 2 Argie bullets two weeks apart.None were honoured and I look at that little fat twat Elton John,services to the music industry..bollocks,services to myself...Sorry for the rant,a beer too many but the Knighthood system is abhorrent.
 
the young spaniard said:
I do like Michael Palin and think he's a decent human being who is deservedly considered a national treasure.But being the awkward bastard I am I think of the young lad I knew who died on a Royal Navy ship during the Falklands Conflict and a bloke I knew who served in the Royal Marines who took 2 Argie bullets two weeks apart.None were honoured and I look at that little fat twat Elton John,services to the music industry..bollocks,services to myself...Sorry for the rant,a beer too many but the Knighthood system is abhorrent.
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Fair point that ! Its just the rich patting themselves on the back , but some of them do put some back into society , like monies for charity or been a patron of a charity or needy cause.
 
Palin was interviewed on Radio Sheffield a year or so ago.

The interviewer asked him to clear up once and for all which team he supported.

He replied that as a boy he supported Sheffield United, think he said he was from the Fulwood or Ranmoor area. However he then added that he’s a Sheffield fan and genuinely wants both football clubs to do well and both need to return the PL where they belong.

Suppose as a public figure he chooses to sit on the fence a little and support both.
 
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He's a Blade. How else could Barnstoneworth United ever get to be dressed up like this this?

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Well done MP. My favourite python by far.
 



wavy-blade said:
Fair point that ! Its just the rich patting themselves on the back , but some of them do put some back into society , like monies for charity or been a patron of a charity or needy cause.
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Like Foreign Aid, there's obviously targets to be met. Once you're on the 'honours' conveyor belt, they keep upgrading it until you get a Knighthood/Damehood. 'Sir' Bill Beaumont FFS. He's done fuck all for 40-odd years so why is he given a Knighthood? As for 'charity', they get picked for these endless 'Water' and 'Syria' ads. because they're a known face, not because they care. All those ads. won't come cheap, the CEOs will get fat salaries and if you're daft enough to send money , only one thing is certain. A thermal blanket? No. Endless calls, texts and emails trying to chivvy yet more money out of you. If cunts like Michael Sheen and Olivia Colman really cared, they'd dip into their vast fortunes. And shut the fuck up about it.
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They throw honours out like confetti these days.

Gareth Southgate OBE
Harry Kane MBE

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Plus the odd dinner lady, lollipop lady etc. to pretend the system is 'fair'. Anybody with any balls would tell them to shove it, they're doing what they enjoy doing and getting paid handsomely for it. But they won't because they're all part of the corrupt, rotten 'system'.
 
grafikhaus said:
Like Foreign Aid, there's obviously targets to be met. Once you're on the 'honours' conveyor belt, they keep upgrading it until you get a Knighthood/Damehood. 'Sir' Bill Beaumont FFS. He's done fuck all for 40-odd years so why is he given a Knighthood? As for 'charity', they get picked for these endless 'Water' and 'Syria' ads. because they're a known face, not because they care. All those ads. won't come cheap, the CEOs will get fat salaries and if you're daft enough to send money , only one thing is certain. A thermal blanket? No. Endless calls, texts and emails trying to chivvy yet more money out of you. If cunts like Michael Sheen and Olivia Colman really cared, they'd dip into their vast fortunes. And shut the fuck up about it.


Plus the odd dinner lady, lollipop lady etc. to pretend the system is 'fair'. Anybody with any balls would tell them to shove it, they're doing what they enjoy doing and getting paid handsomely for it. But they won't because they're all part of the corrupt, rotten 'system'.
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Hasn't Danny Baker previously refused to accept an honour?
 
Way too soon for Cook - good cricketer, England captain, but he's also a 'good chap' from the 'right sort of family' rather than, say, a grumpy Northerner.

Chalk me up as another one who thinks the honours system stinks. Mate of mine got a K, essentially for doing his job, and at least he has the good grace to admit it's a farce. Still accepted it though, eh, Rob?
 
I see a lot of people from the London terror attacks were honoured for doing their jobs but not the man who stood up when he didn't have to. So the moral of this story is; don't put yourself in danger when you could get just as much kudos for hiding in your car like a Met Police Chief (who already has a knighthood).
 
Sometime in the very early seventies Palin was asked on telly what was the best thing that had happened in his life in the past year and he said "Sheffield W*+-#y got relegated."
Once a Blade.....
 
Golden Gordon is the finest piece of fiction about football ever created.

I remember seeing a documentary about Sheffield in the 60s a few years ago. It had Michael Palin talking about the 1966 FA Cup FInal. He kept saying 'we' when talking about Wednesday, but at the end, when Everton won, he said 'I was devastated, and I'm a United fan!' which sums up his attitude for me. He may support Wednesday, but he's a Unitedite first and foremost.
 
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