luxury_scruff
Saw Cruyff outside the Baron of Beef in Bradford.
Yo and nae skins.
Toronto_Ted
luxury_scruff wrote
Yo and nae skins.
Poor ...
Crap puns aside - sad loss, genuine legend. RIP JC
Mega_Armageddon_Chickens
Misura wroteRIP, the finest player ever to wear adidas two stripe.
Those good old Puma deals. Nobody would dare do that nowadays. Also refused to go to Argentina 78 cos he didn't approve of their government.
Travis_Bickle
Garry Shandling
white_dragon
Sad news , truly one of the best ever .
Managed to touch him when the Barcelona team were getting off their coach in 1975 semi . Would like to see footage of that game , only vaugly remember our goals from it .
The fix was probably in , in 1974 World Cup final , then doubled it up with Paris 75 .
Big jack calling him cruff on them old panels , them were the days.
Harvest
I only look in this thread to see if Katie Hopkins is dead yet.
Placid
Cruyff on Jack "Jack tells us he doesnt like football and goes fishing but we know what he thinks about whilst fishing, FOOTBALL!"
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Katie Hopkins.
(There you go, Harvest.)
Harvest
Daily Mail to run a 48 page tribute.
Smutty_Lips
[quote=Loose Lips]When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average … So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you’re a good player or not.[/quote]
Ha, I had a similar quote i used when coaching kids. "what you do when you have the ball determines whether you are a great player, what you do when you don't have the ball determines whether we are a great team".
All my own work too :) Different but focusing on the importance of what you do off the ball.
Now if only I could have played like Cruyff.
In my lifetime i'd say the best three players are Pele, Cruyff and Maradonna. I don't think anyone else gets near them.
Zephyr_Eleven
I read somewhere he was only the second professional footballer in Netherlands.
RIP
Djpekingman
Ronnie Corbett. A final good night from him. The owner of the original shaggy dog stories. But I digress........
Old_Man
Ronnie Corbett best dressed comedian ever. RIP
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And it's goodnight from him.
Molitor_5901
Golden age.
90Piesanhour
Just talking about Ronnie C tonight, trying to explain why it was sad to an 11 year old is tricky. Morecambe and Wise, both Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, all people from our childhood now gone. It is very sad and makes you reflect on your own mortality.
Smutty_Lips
Sad for his family and friends, I don't see why it should be sad for anyone else. It seems it's only me that thinks like that.
90Piesanhour
It's just that it reminds you of how time is passing. I didn't know him, or Cruyff, or whoever, but some of them remind me of being young and carefree, which also seems a long time ago.
Molitor_5901
Passing of time is sad.
Smutty_Lips
Carefree that's another one where I'm seemingly out of kilter.
When young I didn't feel carefree, never acted with abandon because I could, because it didn't matter. But on the other hand, I don't feel that I've accumulated lots of cares over the years that somehow inhibit me.
I suppose it's because my life just plods, always has. Is it a blessing? Is it a curse? It could be both at the same time depending on perspective. I don't mean to sound as if I'm complaining when saying life just plods, I'm in a position to do a few things if I wanted but it's simple things that please me.
My daughter was urging me a while ago to do something that I really wanted to do and I couldn't think of anything grand that fit the bill. I'd quite like to go and watch the Rugby League World Cup next year in Australia, but only quite, not enough to do anything about it and not enough to kick myself for not going when it's too late.
Halifax Town are at Wembley next month for the first time in their history, I always thought i'd go, the game's approaching and I feel totally underwhelmed by it and won't be going.
I'm not grumbling, it's just we live in a time where it's the done thing to have a bucket list, to tick off experiences and places we've been and whilst it's going too far to suggest there is a pressure to conform it does make me feel at odds with the rest of my generation.
When stepping back I can see how my plodding nature is what enables me to gamble. Win a couple of grand and I don't feel any joy, the only pleasure is having your judgement vindicated, I don't go on a spending spree, nothing. On the other hand when I have a bad week and lose over a grand, there is naturally a little regret but importantly no mood change.
I'm not a miserable bugger, I'm a cheerful sort with a happy disposition, I just don't feel extremes of happyness or sadness which brings us back to the celebrity death thingy.