Gary Speed has died?!?!

Originally Posted by reem

Hang on, has that bloke made the name and number with black masking tape?

Cheapskate @#%&!.


All this reminds me of city 'retiring' the number 27 (or whatever it was) for Foé and behaving like one of their most famous and well-loved players had died.

Originally Posted by Pop

Sick of this shit now. £#%&! him tbh.

Wasn't arsed when it happened tbh.

One step closer to the extinction of humanity. Progress.

It'd be great if the tributes were brutally honest.

'I played with him at Leeds. He was alright, I suppose'

'Gary was not bad at football. Sometimes he could play brilliantly and sometimes poorly.'

'I really looked up to Speedo, he really was a truly quite good midfielder'.

etc.

Originally Posted by Zorg

Hang on, has that bloke made the name and number with black masking tape?Cheapskate @#%&!.

From bolton.What do you expect?

Originally Posted by Zorg

Hang on, has that bloke made the name and number with black masking tape?

Cheapskate @#%&!.


All this reminds me of city 'retiring' the number 27 (or whatever it was) for Foé and behaving like one of their most famous and well-loved players had died.

couldnt even be arsed to put it in the middle of his shirt

Originally Posted by Zorg

It'd be great if the tributes were brutally honest.

'I played with him at Leeds. He was alright, I suppose'

'Gary was not bad at football. Sometimes he could play brilliantly and sometimes poorly.'

'I really looked up to Speedo, he really was a truly quite good midfielder'.

etc.

'Vinnie Jones once called me a @#%&!, Gary Speed never did that...'.

'I saw Gary Speed on occasion and he always nodded towards me, and I'd nod back'.

'When I heard that a famous ex footballer had died, I thought 'oh god, I hope it isn't my old team mate Jonesy aka 'Sulkers', I felt relieved that it was Gary Speed'.

'...I might add that although Vinnie could be verbally abusive, he was a good laugh. Gary Speed was anonymous on a night out.'

Originally Posted by reem

'Vinnie Jones once called me a @#%&!, Gary Speed never did that...'.

'I saw Gary Speed on occasion and he always nodded towards me, and I'd nod back'.

'When I heard that a famous ex footballer had died, I thought 'oh god, I hope it isn't my old team mate Jonesy aka 'Sulkers', I felt relieved that it was Gary Speed'.

'...I might add that although Vinnie could be verbally abusive, he was a good laugh. Gary Speed was anonymous on a night out.'

'We all went on a night out with the Welsh squad, although I can't remember if Gary was there. He'll be terribly missed'

http://twitter.com/#!/themichaelowen...67757804380161

"can't believe it, he did the school run and everything"

The eulogising of Gary Speed is a £#%&!ing joke.

Good to see some back to reality posts on this forum

Still, I guess the grief junkies have had their latest fix until the next mediocrity snuffs it.

Originally Posted by TripDownMiseryLane

Tis sad but too true, the old technique of keeping the sheeple focussed on irelavancies, celebrities and shiny things. Tickles me how its a case of the individual being privileged, wealthy or talented the greater the outpourings of mawkish, me too, makey uppy grief - when there are guys topping themselves becauses they can't pay the mortgage Cool Britannia

Strongly dislike this term. Just saying

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Strongly dislike this term. Just saying

Agreed. I prefer the term 'expendable sub-human scum'.

Originally Posted by Neo

Agreed. I prefer the term 'expendable sub-human scum'.

Very few people are intrinsically bad, IMO.

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

Very few people are intrinsically bad, IMO.

Apart from Scousers

Originally Posted by Billy Bigbollox

Apart from Scousers

word

Originally Posted by AKA

The eulogising of Gary Speed is a £#%&!ing joke.

Good to see some back to reality posts on this forum

Still, I guess the grief junkies have had their latest fix until the next mediocrity snuffs it.

Speed was, indeed, not a world class footballer - but nor was he "mediocre". You don't play as many games, for as long, in one of Europe's top football leagues if you are that.......

Mediocrity, my friend, is the likes of Darron £#%&!ing Gibson

andy mitten has cobbled together a particularly mundane tribute for fourfourtwo

http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/fourfou...ary-speed.aspx

Speed reckoned Danny was “a good lad.” Such phrases oil and uphold reputations within football.

We got to his room and both sat on a sofa by the side of his bed. He wore an understated Rolex and a Ralph Lauren polo. I put a tape recorder between us and spoke about tactics for seven minutes, specifically scoring from a free-kick from near the touchline, in line with the edge of the 18-yard box.

Originally Posted by reem

'Vinnie Jones once called me a @#%&!, Gary Speed never did that...'.

'I saw Gary Speed on occasion and he always nodded towards me, and I'd nod back'.

'When I heard that a famous ex footballer had died, I thought 'oh god, I hope it isn't my old team mate Jonesy aka 'Sulkers', I felt relieved that it was Gary Speed'.

'...I might add that although Vinnie could be verbally abusive, he was a good laugh. Gary Speed was anonymous on a night out.'

Originally Posted by taff

andy mitten has cobbled together a particularly mundane tribute for fourfourtwo

http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/fourfou...ary-speed.aspx

Thought his final quoted remark to Mitten was quite good, tbh

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

just reading what shearer was saying about it and this bit made me chuckle:

'If you were meeting him at seven o'clock, he'd be there at five to seven, and that's the type of guy he was.'

I told Speed that I was from FourFourTwo and that I’d like 15 minutes of his time to talk about tactics at some point over the next two days. He said it would be fine and we arranged to meet at breakfast the next day. He was busy having breakfast with Shearer the following morning so I didn’t bother him, but I did see him later on. He said meet in an hour. He wasn’t there in an hour.
He turned up half-an-hour later, apologised for being late and then said that we should do the interview in his room rather than a public area. I walked with him to his room and made small talk.

more to this than meets the eye

ffs