Mike Summerbee OBE

Always looks stout and proud at our games. A city legend, well deserved. Gonna watch some YouTube videos now. Great player.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
He may well have turned it down. They keep it very quiet at the Palace when people do that. I think they're sounded out very discreetly, first.
I like that story about Bill Shankly hanging around the training ground every day, and an exasperated Paisley turning to him and saying, “Look, Bill, you don't work here any more!”
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Paisley got an OBE immediately on retiring in 1983, so I'm more inclined to think he wasn't offered a knighthood but as you say, he may well have turned it down? We'll never know!

Given his 14 domestic and European trophies in 9 years (and I'm not including Charity Shields!) and his understated skills as a coach/manager, Paisley should have been a shoo-in for the top gong!

Any road up, 'Buzzer's' got due recognition for his contribution to City and the wider football family and, of course, we're the Champions again, so f**k 'em all..!!
 
GaudinoMotors said:
Buzzer clearly hasn't taken out enough super-injunctions, cheated on an ill wife, said and claimed everything to remain in the public eye and got virtually everything wrong as a pundit.
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The difference is that those who thoroughly deserve these awards are usually proud but humble about it. They also know that its well deserved and for the right reasons. I would think that Buzzer would be like that but I doubt that the likes of Camel Gob would feel the same - more like play on the glory of it. I recall Beckham turning up in Westminster Abbey (I think, or was it St Paul's?) wearing his gong, to the general amusement of the great and good, particularly so as he was wearing it on the wrong side of his jacket.
 
Thinking about it,I think little Jimmy only got a mention because he plays for the red rats down the M62. If he had still been at City I doubt he would have got a mention!
 
Great player, and wonderful man and character.

Delighted for him personally but high time these awards were scrapped for me, the reasons for giving are utterly bizarre.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Well done. The stupid thing is it would have made a better story putting Buzzer and Wio together. Buzzer a North West legend after his glory years with us did a great job at Burnley and Stockport. Shame on the Bullshit Broadcasting Company.
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Even more so as it’s obviously deliberate Pettiness
 
Keeper! said:
Great player, and wonderful man and character.

Delighted for him personally but high time these awards were scrapped for me, the reasons for giving are utterly bizarre.
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Absolutely. And right up to the top. Some of the knighthoods given are pretty unfathomable. Although, sorry, thinking about it from the point of view of the Establishment, they're perfectly fathomable.
Sir Richard fucking Branson? Difficult for me to see what's he's done, other than swan around in balloons from time to time and be a venture capitalist vaguely disguised as a hippie in the seventies.
As for Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven…
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Absolutely. And right up to the top. Some of the knighthoods given are pretty unfathomable. Although, sorry, thinking about it from the point of view of the Establishment, they're perfectly fathomable.
Sir Richard fucking Branson? Difficult for me to see what's he's done, other than swan around in balloons from time to time and be a venture capitalist vaguely disguised as a hippie in the seventies.
As for Baroness Chalker…
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I personally don't think anyone should get an award for work that your paid to do.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Not sure. Franny could, and did, take a lot of punishment. People thought that because of his diving he didn't really get whacked. Had a friend at school who got a lift with him once (the friend's family lived in Knutsford). He asked him whether tackles were as hard as they looked. Franny just pulled his trouser leg up a bit, and my friend told me that it was unbelievable, it was black and blue with bruises.
But he didn't dish it out like the others on the list, in my view. Taking it and dishing it out (without any fuss either way) is my definition of the hard.
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You obviously haven’t seen this:

 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Absolutely. And right up to the top. Some of the knighthoods given are pretty unfathomable. Although, sorry, thinking about it from the point of view of the Establishment, they're perfectly fathomable.
Sir Richard fucking Branson? Difficult for me to see what's he's done, other than swan around in balloons from time to time and be a venture capitalist vaguely disguised as a hippie in the seventies.
As for Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven…
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Err…

Built a successful record company.
Built a successful mobile phone company.
Built a successful media company.
Built a ridiculously successful Atlantic airline company, despite the best efforts of British Airways (and maybe others) trying to destroy it, like they had with Freddie Laker's Skytrain..

But apart from that, Branson has done fuck all.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
He may well have turned it down. They keep it very quiet at the Palace when people do that. I think they're sounded out very discreetly, first.
I like that story about Bill Shankly hanging around the training ground every day, and an exasperated Paisley turning to him and saying, “Look, Bill, you don't work here any more!”
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Who will be the first to exercise the ghost of sir bacon face?
 
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