Owen Hargreaves Dad
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Owen Hargreaves Dad
So then your Owen Hargreaves dad. A lifelong Bolton fan who flew in from Canada & watched Bolton play Preston in the play offs. Rather than watch his own son in the Champions League final. He had apparently a choice between the two and picked Bolton.
How then do you cope with your own flesh and blood signing for the Scum. ?
leading to perhaps or something else.
How then do you cope with your own flesh and blood signing for the Scum. ?
leading to perhaps or something else.
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That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England
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What, come to us for one last payday when he's in his mid thirties and riddled with arthritis? I can't wait...Bwfc in the bloodline wrote:My mate mentioned this a few years ago when he broke the England team, apparently he is going to try and do a season or so for us before he retires.
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As would any decent parent.Dr Hotdog wrote:I'd want the best for my son, why would a player like Hargreaves, who's been a regular in a team competing in the Champions League since he broke into the team, move on to another team that wasn't competing in the Champions League?
Niall Quinn wrote:"Fans epitmoise a clubs spirit. We're nothing without the fans.
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Wanting the best for your son is not the same as wanting them to make lots of money. He could make lots of money as a hired assassin but you wouldn't want that. And, indeed, as a concerned parent, you wouldn't want him playing for the filth, either. It's degrading to everyone.Dr Hotdog wrote:I'd want the best for my son, why would a player like Hargreaves, who's been a regular in a team competing in the Champions League since he broke into the team, move on to another team that wasn't competing in the Champions League?
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I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed"
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed"
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Yes.Puskas wrote:Wanting the best for your son is not the same as wanting them to make lots of money. He could make lots of money as a hired assassin but you wouldn't want that. And, indeed, as a concerned parent, you wouldn't want him playing for the filth, either. It's degrading to everyone.Dr Hotdog wrote:I'd want the best for my son, why would a player like Hargreaves, who's been a regular in a team competing in the Champions League since he broke into the team, move on to another team that wasn't competing in the Champions League?
Because playing for one of the worlds most famous clubs is degrading.
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Fame isn't everything. Adolf Hitler, for instance, was famous.Nozza wrote:
Yes.
Because playing for one of the worlds most famous clubs is degrading.
Those of us who enjoy football dislike Manchester United - everything about them, from their whining, glory-hunting fans who've never been north of Watford in their lives, taking in their drunken, cheating manager and finishing up with their buying of the Premier League years before Chelsea got their oil money.
Still, if you're not a football fan, none of that matters, I suppose.
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I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed"
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed"
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Forget the chip, you've got the whole chip shop!Puskas wrote:Fame isn't everything. Adolf Hitler, for instance, was famous.Nozza wrote:
Yes.
Because playing for one of the worlds most famous clubs is degrading.
Those of us who enjoy football dislike Manchester United - everything about them, from their whining, glory-hunting fans who've never been north of Watford in their lives, taking in their drunken, cheating manager and finishing up with their buying of the Premier League years before Chelsea got their oil money.
Still, if you're not a football fan, none of that matters, I suppose.
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While mackems forget apostrophes.Nozza wrote:Americans - only use the letter U to misspell simple words.americantrotter wrote:Man United. You euther hate them, or you fecking hate them!
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Nozza wrote:Yes.
Because playing for one of the worlds most famous clubs is degrading.
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Surely you can be both famous (recognised by lots of people) and infamous? Indeed, isn't infamy a subset of fame?CrazyHorse wrote:Adolf Hitler was infamous.
And he has nothing to do with this thread.
So, to get back to the subject, Owen Hargreaves and Man Utd are both famous and infamous. And Owen Hargreaves's dad should have beaten it out of him as a child.
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I used to care, but things have changed"
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
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I'm not sure your definition holds up. Nowadays fame is almost always used in a good sense. According to the OED it hasn't had the sense of infamy since 1651 (and then it required an adjective).Puskas wrote:Surely you can be both famous (recognised by lots of people) and infamous? Indeed, isn't infamy a subset of fame?CrazyHorse wrote:Adolf Hitler was infamous.
And he has nothing to do with this thread.
In any event, comparing Man United fame to Hitler's infamy is a little OTT.{dag}b. With adj. in pejorative sense. Obs. rare.
a1300 Cursor M. 2476 (Cott.) {Th}e land of sodome..was in an iuel fame. 1651 Life Father Sarpi (1676) 42 This Father himself..was also in a sinister fame.
{dag}4. Evil repute, infamy. Obs.
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II, 111 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 328 Thise gode men fallen oft in fame. c1375 Cato Major II. xxiii. in Anglia VII, {Th}ei ben two wikked vices And bringe men ofte in fame. c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 3413 The fame that on me hys broght. 1592 DANIELL Compl. Rosamond (1717) 37 Fame finds never Tomb t'inclose it in.
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