[QUOTE=“briantinnion, post: 1080565, member: 6”]20 years ago today.
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“Off you go Mr Cantona, it’s an early shower for you”
The gentleman’s words were firm but polite. You’d really wonder why on earth Cantona lashed out.
The Latin temperament will always be a mystery to Northern Europeans.
Only heard this via Second Captains, classic Jonathan Pearce 
[QUOTE=“myboyblue, post: 1082300, member: 180”]Only heard this via Second Captains, classic Jonathan Pearce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHld_7DqMd8
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I didn’t realise this til the other week either
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/jan/16/the-joy-of-six-public-apologies
Following the tsunami of moral outrage prompted by his assault on Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons in January 1995[/URL], Eric Cantona didn’t so much have the book thrown at him [URL=‘http://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/oct/31/newsstory.sport1’]as the entire contents of the British Library. As well as being convicted of assault and receiving a two-week jail sentence that was later overturned and reduced (or increased, depending on your point of view) to 120 hours’ community service, the French striker was stripped of the French captaincy and handed a four-month ban and £20,000 fine by his club at the behest of the Football Association. Inevitably, he was also summoned to a hearing at the headquarters of the FA, whose chairman Graham Kelly described an attack many fans found genuinely hilarious as “a stain on our game”.
Truth be told, Cantona didn’t do himself too many favours, as the then FA chief executive David Davies would later recall in his memoirs. Standing before FA blazers Geoff Thompson, Ian Stott and Gordon McKeag, the normally recalcitrant player appeared to be on his best behaviour and his exercise in contrition was going well. It began with an apology to the commission, then apologies to Manchester United, his lawyer Maurice Watkins and boss Alex Ferguson. So far, so humble. “I like to apologise to my team-mates. I want to apologise to the FA,” he continued, showing what appeared to be genuine remorse. And finally? According to Davies, Cantona finished up by saying: “And I would like to apologise to the prostitute who shared my bed last night.” To the sound of jaws hitting the floor and the great surprise of nobody, his ban was doubled and he was fined an extra £10,000.
Not sure if it’s specifically this day, but in February 1985, this was released to the world:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xacRTqk5QFM/hqdefault.jpg
Article on Manchester then and now in the Guardian to mark the occasion:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/04/manchester-morrissey-the-smiths
20 years ago tonight. Wonderful memories. I was right down in that bottom corner of the Lansdowne Road terrace with my brother, so I was. The atmosphere was gloriously hateful. They don’t make nights like that anymore.
Was convinced LeTissier scored a free kick that night but maybe disallowed?
That kid’s face that was on Rte was one of their interviewees in a doc on the riots a good few years later. Bizarrely they played footage of his band in a shed as the closing credits music. Was obviously a stipulation before he agreed to the interview.
[QUOTE=“Spidey, post: 1092578, member: 289”]Was convinced LeTissier scored a free kick that night but maybe disallowed?
That kid’s face that was on Rte was one of their interviewees in a doc on the riots a good few years later. Bizarrely they played footage of his band in a shed as the closing credits music. Was obviously a stipulation before he agreed to the interview.[/QUOTE]
I think Shearer got a disallowed goal from play just before the riot?
Platt
Two notable anniversaries yesterday.
- 40 years since Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti - their last great LP.
- 8 years since a load of utter cunts spent the day clapping themselves on the back for managing not to boo GSTQ in Croke Park, a feat the cunts had managed without difficulty for the previous century in Lord Lansdowne Road.
[QUOTE=“Fagan ODowd, post: 1097822, member: 706”]Two notable anniversaries yesterday.
- 40 years since Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti - their last great LP.
- 8 years since a load of utter cunts spent the day clapping themselves on the back for managing not to boo GSTQ in Croke Park, a feat the cunts had managed without difficulty for the previous century in Lord Lansdowne Road.[/QUOTE]
Somebody was listening to OTB last night.
More than one person you’d hope.
I’m a week late but I was hitting the sauce hard last weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mnoWF68S8
RIP.
On February 21 1988 Aidan McAnespie was shot dead by a British soldier as he passed through the border checkpoint at Aughnacloy on his way to an Aghaloo game at the local GAA grounds. Twenty five years on, his brother Vincent talks about one of the most controversial local killings of the Troubles. Vincent McAnespie had arranged to go to a concert with his youngest brother Aidan in the Four Seasons Hotel in Monaghan on the night of Sunday February 21, 1988.
Later that evening he received the “devastating” news that his brother had been shot dead. Since that terrible day in Aughnacloy 25 years ago, Vincent has always held that his brother was murdered and that the British Army planned to carry out the killing beforehand. Speaking to the Ulster Herald, he recalled, “About lunch-time Aidan told me he was going to watch the Aghaloo game and would call for me and my girlfriend later to go to a Wolfe Tones concert in the Four Seasons. He played reserves but had bother with his knees so wasn’t going to tog out. He had started a referee’s course and had refereed one game.
“Later my cousin told us he had been shot. It is still so vivid. We were all in the sitting room and she came in and was shouting at my mother, ‘Lizzy! Lizzy! Aidan’s been shot’.”
“We all drove to the football field and it was pandemonium. Ten minutes later we found out Aidan was dead.” ‘HAZE’ The hours and days after Aidan’s death were a “haze” for Vincent and the rest of the family. “The sky could have fallen down and I wouldn’t have realised it. There were hundreds of people calling to the wake and Aidan was laid to rest in Clara in Co Monaghan.
“Cardinal O’Fiaich came back from America to say the funeral Mass and he described it as ‘direct murder.’ The former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and the president of the GAA, Mick Loftus were also hugely supportive. So too was the entire GAA community and all the clubs, which was a great comfort to us.” Vincent revealed that soldiers had previously warned they were going to “get” Aidan. He added. “The soldier didn’t do it on his own. Minutes before Aidan was shot, soldiers were heard to say, ‘He’s getting it’ referring to Aidan. When the shot rang out, the soldiers walked about rather than automatically sealing off the checkpoint against an attack. They knew it was going to happen.
“Aidan worked on a poultry farm in Monaghan on many occasions soldiers would take him out of the car at the checkpoint and give him a beating. Eventually he had to park on the southern side and my mother would drive across and collect him. His murder was very hard on my late mother and my father.”
A series of memorial events will bring back many memories for Vincent and the family. He is particularly delighted that the Aghaloo club has organised the 25th anniversary memorial events. Tyrone football legend Peter Canavan will be the main speaker at a commemoration tonight (Thursday) at 7.30pm. The commemoration will take place at the spot where Aidan was killed and will be followed by a display of the remembering quilt in Aghaloo clubrooms. Aghaloo and Killeeshil, the same sides that lined out on February 21 1988, will also line out for a special tribute match on Saturday at 4pm.
“We are very grateful to Aghaloo GFC and the Tyrone County Board for their support,” said Vincent. “We appreciate there are many victims of the Troubles and there was a GAA club in Boston named after Aidan as well which is a huge honour. “Twenty-five years was not long passing but there isn’t a day when I don’t think of my brother. He liked working on motorbikes and organising card games; he had a great spirit. It will be a great weekend in Aidan’s memory.”
17 years, RIP 
11 years today. RIP.
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[QUOTE=“myboyblue, post: 1099490, member: 180”]17 years, RIP
[QUOTE=“Chucks Nwoko, post: 1100619, member: 2812”]11 years today. RIP.
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On this day last year Peaches Geldof decided to take some heroin whilst minding her kids.