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Michael Jackson: The Cottager
Posted by Retro Man on 4 April 2011 - 12:10pm.
Any Fulham fans on here have any comments on the ridiculous idea to erect a statue of Michael Jackson outside Craven Cottage? Surely the fans could have acted to have stopped this embarrasment (for you), hilarity for the rest of us.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12950708
I didn't think the mad world of football/celebrity could get any more pathetic, but it just has...
P.S. if this was, as I first suspected, an April Fool and I've fallen for it, then beers are on me at the next Massive get-together!
P.P.S. as a little addition - have you ever seen any other examples of terrible music/football/celebrity statues?
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What staggered me
was that, forgetting the merits of whether or not it is appropriate for an MJ statue to be erected outside Craven Cottage, is that it is such an awful, cheap and tawdry looking statue.
To me it looks like something that has been rescued from a fairground.
Given the nature of the man who commissioned it,
that is hardly surprising.
That said, I rather admire the way he has done what he wanted to do and told the naysayers they can go to Hell. Fair do's. What's the point of being a football club owner if you can't do this sort of thing?
Anyway, he could probably put boots on it and the statue would get a game in the first team.
Not from a Fairground
Remember the old Star Wars figures?
It looks like a really large version of one of them.
Is it from
Fred Tussauds of Bridlington?
Piss Poor
Looking forward to MIllwall's art critics having a go at this.
I was thinking the same after dodging
Pompey's charming fans outside the Madejski on Saturday...our Chairman has named the stadium after his good be-knighted self already so a statue is sure to follow, which would be fair game for visiting fans.
...although in Fulham's case it will probably be the home fans who get to the Jacko one first.
I'm
banking on Madj (ahem) erecting an eight foot Cilla outside the ground.
Lorra lorra
blinda data!!! (sorry been listening to too much Adam & Joe lately)
WHY BE DENNY DIFFERENT?
To be honest
If I'd paid for an entire stadium out of my own pocket, I'd name it after myself as well.
It's cheaper
to change your name to Wembley Stadium. £35 by deed poll.
I took the same apporach to buying a personal numberplate
for my car.
Please now call me by my new name; DG60VEL or DG for short
Ok I give up
who's it supposed to be?
Oh I see, well I never knew that the former Harrods boss even knew Milli Vanilli. Has the other chap been melted down for Spitfires?
Was it
floated down the Thames on a barge first?
I hear
there is to be a statue of Johnny Haynes erected at the Giza pyramids, or was it Jimmy Hill?
Franklin Mint's finest work I think you'll find
They're only paying £19.99 a month.
Very reasonable
The one of Fayed
that he had prominently displayed in Harrod's was extremely life like.
This one looks like the bird from the 'Hello' video has been at it again.
So will Wolves be erecting a bronze
tribute to Robert Plant outside Molineux one day? Man City a Noel and Liam sculpture, Marianne Faithful outside the Mars bar factory...?
Any other good ideas on weird locations for statues of musical icons?
Yes
I was wandering around Montreux once, when — to my complete surprise — I ran into this:
Maybe
When the esteemed Stuck In The Middle With You hitmaker passes, maybe an erection in Baker Street would be apt?
He already has....
Ddin't Gerry Raffery pass away in January?
Blimey Charlie
You should start a thread about that.
What?
WHAT?
No. Can anyone confirm this? That's ruined my day - surely it's a hoax, no?
Jesus
They'll be naming airports after pop singers next.
or
pissed up football players!
I saw a statue of Frank Zappa
in Vilnius, Lithuania. I can't remember why it was there, but it was there for a good reason.
There's lots of product opportunities
Jacko inspired home and away kits.
Special one goalkeeper glove packs.
Michael Jackson youth team strips.
Ted Bates
Southampton legend... and Jimmy Krankie lookalike.
http://www.flashboy.org/images/tedbatesstatue.jpg
They eventually pulled it down.
Mohammed Fayed has an eye for a classy statue.
Witness this subtle, tasteful, understated and respectful tribute..
EDIT: I notice it says "Innocent Victims" on the front of the plinth. If you carry on round, I wonder if it continues "Of A Pissed-Up French Driver"?
Classy...
just goes to show that money cannot buy you style, taste or common decency.
But it can buy you...
... a house, the ability to pay all bills, stay away from the dole office and generally get on with your life. Also an education. And beer. Wine. Agreeable dinners, music magazines, books, CDs, laptops, [cont p94]
Thinking about it, it's a cultural thing.
We regard the results of people of Arab descent splashing their cash around as being unpleasant, vulgar, gaudy and ostentatious. They probably view us as dull.
...or British citizenship :-)
Someone
will tell me next that 'celebrity' chefs are getting involved in football clubs
We were talking about this
at work today and decided that it was an opportunity for Fulhams fans to come up with some Jacko based terrace songs
"We are Fulham we wear black and white"
"The ball is mine"
"This is Fulham"
"You're Bad, you're bad"
I'm sure there are more
How long
before a van of men pull up in the middle of the night and borrow it?
Apparently
if you push the button on the back it sings 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Wasn't Hitler an Arsenal fan?
Just a thought
That was Bin Laden
Hitler allegedly supported Liverpool.