Let's imagine we didn't have the Curbishley years - I wonder what the ground would have looked like.
Or how many would be saying how good a chairman Richard Murray is
Curbs made Murray and Charlton look great , the chairman and model club He carried us and when he went , a year earlier than his contract had him finishing Murray even turned down his offer of helping find a replacement (Curbs's choice was Mick McCarthy) Murray said he didn't want a manager with only one year left on his contract .... Well I'm sure he's pushing hard for SCP to get out the door now or sign a new contract
At some stage Curbishley should have a stand named after him, not sure when the appropriate time would be prolly when he's a lot older and we know for sure he's not gonna be back with another club
I don't see anything wrong personally in naming stands after Managers who have achieved great things with their clubs. Although I would be against things like toilet blocks being named after Pardew or Dowie . Come to think of it, maybe I wouldn't !
To add to my comment above: Football grounds are mostly unlovely places, where the stands are grim structures of corrugated steel with plastic seats occupied only by feral pigeons apart from a couple of hours a fortnight during the season. They make a bleak memorial. If you must do it, an interior public space (a suite, a restaurant?) would at least be more intimate - and even then certainly not while the man acclaimed is still alive.
To add to my comment above: Football grounds are mostly unlovely places, where the stands are grim structures of corrugated steel with plastic seats occupied only by feral pigeons apart from a couple of hours a fortnight during the season. They make a bleak memorial. If you must do it, an interior public space (a suite, a restaurant?) would at least be more intimate - and even then certainly not while the man acclaimed is still alive.
Keith Peacock dead then?
I ain't disputing that it's a common practice, just expressing my personal view that the physical ugliness of most football stands isn't much of a tribute to a well-loved hero.
To add to my comment above: Football grounds are mostly unlovely places, where the stands are grim structures of corrugated steel with plastic seats occupied only by feral pigeons apart from a couple of hours a fortnight during the season. They make a bleak memorial. If you must do it, an interior public space (a suite, a restaurant?) would at least be more intimate - and even then certainly not while the man acclaimed is still alive.
To add to my comment above: Football grounds are mostly unlovely places, where the stands are grim structures of corrugated steel with plastic seats occupied only by feral pigeons apart from a couple of hours a fortnight during the season. They make a bleak memorial. If you must do it, an interior public space (a suite, a restaurant?) would at least be more intimate - and even then certainly not while the man acclaimed is still alive.
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Curbs made Murray and Charlton look great , the chairman and model club
He carried us and when he went , a year earlier than his contract had him finishing Murray even turned down his offer of helping find a replacement (Curbs's choice was Mick McCarthy)
Murray said he didn't want a manager with only one year left on his contract .... Well I'm sure he's pushing hard for SCP to get out the door now or sign a new contract
At some stage Curbishley should have a stand named after him, not sure when the appropriate time would be prolly when he's a lot older and we know for sure he's not gonna be back with another club