Statues

[The Crab]

Boris Karloff?

Him that played Lomper in The Full Monty

 

[elgoog44]

Steve Huison -
On the large screen, he is best known for his role as Lomper, in the massively successful box office and critical hit The Full Monty (1997). He also appeared in Ken Loach's film The Navigators (2001). On the small screen, he has played character roles in such television series as Casualty, Where the Heart Is, Dinnerladies, Heartbeat, The Royle Family, Scott & Bailey, and the ITV post apocalyptic drama serial The Last Train (1999, also known as Cruel Earth).

In January 2008, Huison took the role of porter Norman Dunstan in the ITV1 daily hospital drama The Royal Today, a spin off of the popular Sunday night drama The Royal. From 2008 to 2011, Huison played Eddie Windass in Coronation Street. He briefly starred in the first season of the CBBC series 4 O'Clock Club, which began airing in January 2012. His role was taken over by Simon Lowe.

 

[BushBlade]

Steve Huison -
On the large screen, he is best known for his role as Lomper, in the massively successful box office and critical hit The Full Monty (1997). He also appeared in Ken Loach's film The Navigators (2001). On the small screen, he has played character roles in such television series as Casualty, Where the Heart Is, Dinnerladies, Heartbeat, The Royle Family, Scott & Bailey, and the ITV post apocalyptic drama serial The Last Train (1999, also known as Cruel Earth).

In January 2008, Huison took the role of porter Norman Dunstan in the ITV1 daily hospital drama The Royal Today, a spin off of the popular Sunday night drama The Royal. From 2008 to 2011, Huison played Eddie Windass in Coronation Street. He briefly starred in the first season of the CBBC series 4 O'Clock Club, which began airing in January 2012. His role was taken over by Simon Lowe.
In 2017 he was chosen to play massive ginger cunt Gary Megson in the film 'The Battle of Bramall Lane' produced and directed by Ridley Scott and starring Samuel L Jackson as Suffo and Nick Montgomery as Santos.

 

[Worksop II]

This guy for Megson - complete barsteward

 

[elgoog44]

Loving your work as always BushBlade

 

[ScottBlade]

Suggestions for who plays Megson?

Nobody. His name will be written out of the script, the longer that fucker stays out of the limelight the better. Benedict Cumbersnatch will take on the role of the unnamed West Bromwich Albion manager.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Nobody. His name will be written out of the script, the longer that fucker stays out of the limelight the better. Benedict Cumbersnatch will take on the role of the unnamed West Bromwich Albion manager.

Got it. It has to be Sean Bean and he has to make sure his contract stipulates that his tattoo is on display for the duration of the film, and that he gets to write his own script. He's even got the accent, albeit minus the mind-grinding whine.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

John Merrick to play the lovable Mr Megson

 

[Hodgyman]

I don't necessarily agree that Dooley's statue has to come down, but I still maintain the my hero HODGY was, and still is, more worthy of a statue. Having played for over 600 games for us his contribution to our club was greater and longer that all but one.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

If United were to have statues of the key players throughout our history I'd go Needham, Gillespie (Billy not Keith), Hagan, Shaw and Currie, with legitimate shouts for Foulke, Johnson, Hodgy, Woody, Badger, of recent times Deano, Browny, Jags. We'll not be able to move in the car park for bloody statues

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

I would. Pray do tell.

He campaigned tirelessly to end the caste system which was endemic for years . He railed against the tyrannical dictatorship of owners intent on forcing assets to be sold not just cheaply but causing great hardship to those who remained. He also campaigned to end the presence of meat products in all foodstuffs within the business and refusing a chauffered vehicle walked everywhere and engaged with all men and women irrespective of colour or creed. A true Blades hero.

 

[Sean Thornton]

If United were to have statues of the key players throughout our history I'd go Needham, Gillespie (Billy not Keith), Hagan, Shaw and Currie, with legitimate shouts for Foulke, Johnson, Hodgy, Woody, Badger, of recent times Deano, Browny, Jags. We'll not be able to move in the car park for bloody statues

Jags included with Woody Hodgy and Badger for a statue? Jesus.i wouldn't put Brown in with them either. Deane yes.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Why not create a great big fuck off chessboard with black v white chess pieces carved out of sustainable rhino horn in the likenesses of Blades legends. Should be fucking plenty to satisfy everyones choices.People could play chess in the carpark whilst waiting for the ticket office to open,or watching cats and dogs being allowed into the ground.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Why not create a great big fuck off chessboard with black v white chess pieces carved out of sustainable rhino horn in the likenesses of Blades legends. Should be fucking plenty to satisfy everyones choices.People could play chess in the carpark whilst waiting for the ticket office to open,or watching cats and dogs being allowed into the ground.

Are cats and dogs really being allowed into the ground? Nobody told me.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Are cats and dogs really being allowed into the ground? Nobody told me.

Do try and keep up!

 

[LoughboroBlade]

The last time I checked there was one other statue at a ground in this country of someone who wasn't a player or a manager at the relevant club. Michael Jackson's statue at Fulham. Not exactly good company.

Which isn't even there any more – their new owners saw sense and returned it to Al Fayed, and it's since been moved to the National Football Museum in Manchester. Which seems an equally inappropriate home frankly... The removal of the statue has cursed the club to be outside the top-flight since.

I've nothing against the man, I have a lot of respect for what he has done for United, but I think your suggestion to move it to a more neutral area, if handled correctly, would be the least shitty way to move it and allow a player or manager to replace it. A petition to the club and Council to move it somewhere central would probably be best led from a Wednesday supporters club, with backing in principle from SUSA or others.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Come on, who's seen these two in a room together

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"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, and your indefatigability."

 

[vorpal blade]

Michael Jackson did nothing for the Blades absolutely nought. No way.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Jags included with Woody Hodgy and Badger for a statue? Jesus.i wouldn't put Brown in with them either. Deane yes.

I'd rather have Jags or Browny statues ahead of Dooley. Was surmising more than owt about recent players deserving of a statue, ie our best players of recent times that have been at the club for a fairly lengthy period (by modern standards).

 

[vorpal blade]

What about Percy Holmes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Lord Hawke, Fred Truman ...... strikes me there are loads of Sheffield United and Yorkshire players who could be appropriately commemorated by sculpture at Bramall Lane ..... (you'd place them coming out of or into the pavillion or starting his run up at the exact position he would have done in a bowlers case. The cricketers actually played where the carpark is, no footballers ever did [apart from if they played cricket too]).

and I wouldn't really mind whose statue it was so long as they employed an half decent artist to do it, the one of Dooley is amateur level, utter waste of bronze - aye and brass too.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

No problem with that line of thought, but you can't just take it down based on retrospective comments from a minority fans who have no idea by the sounds of it what he did for the club. I don't recall any protests when it was erected.

If you are including me in " the minority of fans who have no idea by the sound of it what he did for the club " then you're way off the mark.

This is a delicate subject and I don't want to get in too deep but I can tell you that, during the time of his role of Managing Director, I had contacts at the club who worked closely with him.

With out going into too much detail ( although I could ) they generally didn't speak of his suitability for that role, or his performance in it , in such glowing terms as some on here appear to be doing.

This may not sit comfortably with the general perception of his overall abilities and contribution to the club, but is a fact nevertheless.

Regardless of this, I totally agree with others on here who have made the point that possibly the ultimate accolade at any football club, should only be given to players or managers to whom the word 'great ' can genuinely be attributed. In my time watching the Blades which started in 1947, they would be Joe Shaw. Jimmy Hagan, Tony Currie and John Harris.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

Which isn't even there any more – their new owners saw sense and returned it to Al Fayed, and it's since been moved to the National Football Museum in Manchester. Which seems an equally inappropriate home frankly... The removal of the statue has cursed the club to be outside the top-flight since.

I've nothing against the man, I have a lot of respect for what he has done for United, but I think your suggestion to move it to a more neutral area, if handled correctly, would be the least shitty way to move it and allow a player or manager to replace it. A petition to the club and Council to move it somewhere central would probably be best led from a Wednesday supporters club, with backing in principle from SUSA or others.

So based on a speculative OP discussing who should or shouldn't be immortalised outside The Lane you've moved the agenda onto an organised formal process with pigs involved along with uncle tom cobbley and all.
Fucking amazing.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

So based on a speculative OP discussing who should or shouldn't be immortalised outside The Lane you've moved the agenda onto an organised formal process with pigs involved along with uncle tom cobbley and all.
Fucking amazing.

The only alternatives I see are:

- for us to move from the Lane and for it to be quietly lost in the move
- move the main car park to the other side of the ground so that it's given a less prominent position
- move it into our museum to act as a permanent greeter for all that pass through its doors

When you compare against that (or indeed, leaving it there forever) I think the original alternative is a clear winner.

 

[vorpal blade]

Battle of Bramall Lane



Ahmed Fathi



Steve Bruce



good art = truth, you can't handle the truth.

 

[seanbeenstattoo]

The only alternatives I see are:

- for us to move from the Lane and for it to be quietly lost in the move
- move the main car park to the other side of the ground so that it's given a less prominent position
- move it into our museum to act as a permanent greeter for all that pass through its doors

When you compare against that (or indeed, leaving it there forever) I think the original alternative is a clear winner.

Mmm. I'd say sorting out the fucking shit catering or more importantly the fucking shit kop might be more worthy of attention,but you crack on.

 

[bornablade]

Michael Jackson did nothing for the Blades absolutely nought. No way.

He wasn't talking about Michael Jackson. He was referring to Al Fayed........I think.

 

[vorpal blade]

these are the best football statues imho.



I'd do a bronze version 20' high, but I would have to paint the socks black.

and btw, I do know that Damien Hirst did something similar, but it wasn't the same thing.

ART

 

[vorpal blade]

we could have a sort of tribute to Hillsborough as a good will gesture ?



ART

 

[vorpal blade]

I suppose my point is that we could have 'art', something INTERESTING even something of quality in the FORUM outside the South Stand but we ended up with BAD pastiche because somebody at the club saw some statues at some other club, Forest, Arsenal, Leeds or somewhere and thought well they've got statues of their heroes we'd better have some at Bramall Lane. There is NO other reason. That's not a good reason.

It was nothing but trying to keep up with the Joneses, 'that lot at number fifteen have got garden gnomes we'd better have some in our garden, they MUST be fashionable, we won't be a proper club if we don't memorialise our 'heroes'.

That's why they're bad, they are just gestures, just copies of something somewhere else. Fakes.

Because procuring the statuary was merely a 'box ticking exercise' no one cared about finding an interesting sculptor to do the work either, that's why Dooley looks like Saddam - that's why there is no wit or fun in the bronzes, call it bad taste but at least Derek Dooley could have had a wooden leg , it would have been more witty, poignant, realistic AND symbollic (you see, art = truth or it's worthless). Dooley is known above all for one thing, his fortitude in adversity, THAT is why he's a man among men, worthy of commemoration ..... if my thinking is less blinkered than some in this forum - then that's artistic isn't it?

Unlike Stokoe outside Sunderland, Bremner at Elland Rd or Clough in the middle of Nottingham, we don't have any REAL heroes who we can all agree upon anymore, we've not won anything lately enough, we can't agree amongst ourselves.. Those statues at Bramall Lane are actually COPIES of the one of Brian Clough ..... I say, that's inappropriate.

I have pointed up vaguely more interesting art than currently resides at BDTBL, but it seems no one at the club has an interest in art, conservatism reigns my ideas may look preposterous to you but that's what you see in art galleries, art lovers would laugh if the statues of Dooley and Hagan (is it?) were installed at galleries but the reverse is also true.

We've aimed low and acheived something slightly beneath that. Humourless, fake, unartistic and unrealistic.

Memorials of lack of imagination.

Well done SUFC, the statues aren't.

 

[I should coco]

I think a few on here are doing him a disservice and it doesn't make for very pleasant reading.

The dislike of The Dooley statue on here is childish and embarrassing.

I'm childish and embarrassing then, but somehow our board of directors voting for a statue of another ex director, doesn't really seem to me to be what the club is about.

Someone suggested a statue of Shred and while I wouldn't want that either, it is far closer to what we represent then a commercial manger who finished up in the boardroom.

With out going into too much detail ( although I could ) they generally didn't speak of his suitability for that role, or his performance in it , in such glowing terms as some on here appear to be doing.

This may not sit comfortably with the general perception of his overall abilities and contribution to the club, but is a fact nevertheless.

I've heard similar but out of respect for the dead I'll leave it there.