Saddam Hussein at Bramall Lane!

[Worksop_Blade]

Happy Saddam Statue

Anyone else seeing the resemblance?

Angry Derek Dooley Statue

 

[raul]

Think it looks a bit more like Big Joe Stalin really.

 

[ThatJa]

No. I can't see.

 

[Foxy]

Pigs aren't happy...

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=128527

My favourite quote being....

I think it says more about the kind of cunts that run Shefield United than any failing on our part. Keen as ever to jump on a bit of history.

Aye, what a set of scoundrels, putting up a statue in honour of a great man. If the people who run the Blades had anything about them, they'd have sacked him on Christmas Eve or something!

 

[Vancouver]

The pigs say: "How could we let this happen?" Because Mrs Dooley wouldn't let them hang a sandwich board on the statue saying: "PLEASE buy a season ticket"

 

[Willie Carlin]

I've only been to Hillsbro twice, once to see Santos and although he was a Blade my dad took me to see Derek Dooley when I was a nipper just before he lost his leg (Showing my age there) He was a great goalscorer and deserves his statue to be put at a good football stadium.

 

[sothall blade]

Pigs aren't happy...

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=128527

My favourite quote being....



Aye, what a set of scoundrels, putting up a statue in honour of a great man. If the people who run the Blades had anything about them, they'd have sacked him on Christmas Eve or something!

thanks for bringing this pork talk quote to my attention foxy, how have they shown their gratitude to the great man ???,obviously he felt more at home at bdtbl than the sty,i will admit he was their greatest player,but he also served united well for many a year and he seemed to be a calming influence upstairs,dont these thickos get it,its not about who is the biggest club blah blah blah,its about showing respect and thanks for what he contributed,typical wendys showing their contempt just like last sunday.,they dont look at the bigger picture.

 

[Sean the Blade]

Why on earth should WE not honour a man who gave of himself so generously to OUR club. If the oinkers feel so strongly then perhaps they all ought to scramble down the back of their settees and club together. I'm sure they could cobble something together from the single pack of plastacine they could afford, but I doubt it would hardly be fitting.

As for sacking the great man on Christmas eve, can anyone spot a pattern emerging...

 

[judge]

having read that thread on porktalk i have to say how pissed off i am that a good bloke like derek gets slagged off in that manner

fucking pigs hope you go down another division you classless cunts

 

[Grecian2000]

Why are we having a statue of him at Bramall Lane?

Football is about players and managers and there are a whole load (John Harris, Jimmy Hagan, Alan Hodgkinson, Alan Woodward, Tony Currie, Len Badger et al) who mean far more to me than Derek did.
He is an icon of the City, not our club, and should be honoured near the Town Hall rather than at BDTBL.

 

[Sean the Blade]

I have some sympathy with your point Grecian, but surely the 'city' has recognised him by naming Derek Dooley way after him.

Derek spent an awful long time with our club, through thin and thin, and not for a massive financial reward. I do think it is right that we honour the man, though I agree that a statue is perhaps a little over the top.

Statues are (as far as I am aware) in this country erected to honour people who have passed away. Perhaps rather than a solitary statue, we could erect a 'squad' of legends who have sadly passed on, in the manner a a training session frozen in time. And, as Blades legends inevitably die, their statues too, would be added to the 'squad'... Just a thought

 

[Grecian2000]

Derek spent an awful long time with our club, through thin and thin,

Ha, can't argue with that.

I would start with Hagan and Harris and have the others added as time goes on.

 

[Sean the Blade]

I think the only problem would deciding the 'criteria' for qualifying as a legend, and thus qualifying for 'the squad'. Certain names are guaranteed to be on the team sheet, but I think it opens the door to possible controversy and may be divisive.

Perhaps a bad example would be Mel Rees. Undoubtably a legend, but would the number and quality of his performances merit inclusion, after all (without trying to deride the guy) he only became a legend after he died.

Despite its possible negatives though I think a field of legends would be an interesting and permanent reminder of our heritage.

We might be on to something here Grecian!

 

[Sensiblade]

I say make one of Fatty Foulkes!
Do we have enough metal to do one though?

 

[Linz]

We are having one of another player... can't remember if it's Jimmy Hagan or Joe Shaw.

EDIT:

Answer is in the link in the OP

Joe Shaw's widow, Hettie, and her daughter Yvonne, also made the journey down to the foundry in the East End of London at the same time as Sylvia and were both overwhelmed by the statue of Joe.

 

[Guesty]

We already have a Hagan one, I think a Shaw one is imminent.

 

[sothall blade]

I say make one of Fatty Foulkes!
Do we have enough metal to do one though?

they could always use tango and strap on as live models