Fair enough comment about the entrance and the walled bit will look nice in the day light but it was pitch black last night. They could have tidied the area up and painted the wall this afternoon, ready for Sunday.
That's good.
Honestly wouldn't surprise me
The unveiling was in the morning and there were film crews, photographers etc. there. It would have been filmed/photographed in daylight. They painted it before all of that but it sounds like it was still wet when you arrived. They wanted to get it right for the Bell, Lee, Summerbee families who would be present at the unveiling and couldn't really leave it until the day after or anything.
Some can’t help themselves, have to find fault in everything. Fucking whoppers. It is a great likeness to a young Franny, with his barrel chest and flowing locks. I’ve seen somebody state “where’s his belly”? Franny didn’t have a belly as such, he was barrel chested which the statue shows. Great tribute and the sculptor did a great job.
Agreed. The club spent a considerable amount of time sourcing photos, videos etc. from Franny's arrival on 9 Oct 1967 until the ECWC success in 1970. That's the period they were trying to capture and highlight. They asked me to help with some of that stuff and I supplied what I could too. There were several different sculptors asked to put their proposals forward and some of these had focused on a chubby Franny with different hair etc. from his final playing days and not the Franny who won those trophies. They were not appropriate at all in capturing that era.
