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Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2011, 01:20:52 PM »
It's a really poor statue.

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2011, 01:24:03 PM »
It looks like one of those boxing glove puppets, you put your hand in and the arms pump in and out.

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #32 on: April 03, 2011, 01:29:10 PM »
It looks like it's made of plastic...it's incredibly life like.

Offline adrenachrome

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2011, 03:53:34 PM »
BBC:
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Al Fayed defends Michael Jackson statue at Fulham FC


Fulham chairman Mohammed Al Fayed has told fans they can "go to hell" if they do not appreciate a new Michael Jackson statue at Craven Cottage stadium.

Mr Al Fayed unveiled the statue on Sunday prior to the west London Premier League team's match against Blackpool.

The statue was commissioned following Jackson's death in June 2009 and was due to be erected at Harrods before Mr Al Fayed sold the Knightsbridge store.

"Why is it bizarre? Football fans love it," he said after the unveiling.

'Stupid fans'

"If some stupid fans don't understand and appreciate such a gift they can go to hell.

"I don't want them to be fans.

"If they don't understand and don't believe in things I believe in they can go to Chelsea, they can go to anywhere else," he added.

Mr Al Fayed's decision to relocate the statue of Jackson to Fulham's stadium is likely to divide opinion.

The singer was a friend of Mr Al Fayed's but his only known link to the football club is that he attended one game as a guest of the chairman, against Wigan Athletic in 1999.

But Mr Al Fayed said: "People will queue to come and visit it from all over the UK and it is something that I and everybody else should be proud of."

Tony Curtis

Kit Symons, who played in the match Jackson attended in 1999 and is now under-18s manager at the Cottagers said: "It is great.

"The big thing is it is obviously something that the chairman feels very, very passionately about and he has decided to erect this statue and fair dos to him."

Reflecting on the time of Jackson's visit, he added: "It was just happy times.

"The chairman obviously used to bring high profile people down the games.

"Tony Curtis was here a few weeks after and it was just fantastic times."

Central defender Brede Hangeland said the decision to erect the statue was backed by the club's players.

He said: "Some of our players are Michael Jackson fans, some aren't, and that's the same in the general population.

"His music has been on in the dressing room a couple of times. I'm sure we won when his music was played!

"We have the deepest respect for everything about the chairman. If he wants to do this then it is all good."


Offline Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #34 on: April 03, 2011, 04:03:01 PM »
Fantastic, Al Fayed tells Fulham fans to go to hell.

I wonder if he used to stand at the door of Harrods on a Monday morning telling Lord & Lady Snot who are just coming in to spend a few grand to piss off to Selfridges ?

Offline Rip Van We Go Again

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #35 on: April 03, 2011, 04:05:55 PM »
He's pissed off with the statue as they didn't quite sculpt the Haribo's in his hand the right way.

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #36 on: April 03, 2011, 04:11:03 PM »
Looks like a cross between Jacko and a chimp.

He was a curious individual, so -who knows- such a hybrid could already be out there.

Offline D.boy

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #37 on: April 03, 2011, 07:28:03 PM »
Looks like a cross between Jacko and a chimp.

He was a curious individual, so -who knows- such a hybrid could already be out there.
Gareth Bale?

Offline Des Little

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #38 on: April 03, 2011, 07:34:16 PM »
I can't wait for the Tony Curtis one to go up. 

If that was at Villa, we'd have it ripped down, and rightly so.  What a complete and utter load of old bollocks.

Offline eamonn

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #39 on: April 03, 2011, 08:16:00 PM »
Fair play to Mo, he's got the cash so why not? The crazy old bastard.

Do Fulham play music after they score? They will now. Any tenuous link gratefully used.

Offline WikiVilla

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #40 on: April 03, 2011, 08:41:46 PM »
Slight tangent, but is The Saddam Hussein Mosque still proudly sat in Perry Barr ?

Offline newtonsballs

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #41 on: April 03, 2011, 08:50:38 PM »
Slight tangent, but is The Saddam Hussein Mosque still proudly sat in Perry Barr ?

It#s not called that now. You are nearer than me - so go and have a look!
« Last Edit: April 03, 2011, 09:12:32 PM by newtonsballs »

Offline The Left Side

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #42 on: April 03, 2011, 10:07:25 PM »
I wouldn't be happy if I was a fulham fan

Offline TheSandman

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #43 on: April 03, 2011, 10:09:02 PM »
That statue looks vile.

Offline hawkeye

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Re: 0% Villa - Fulham plan Michael Jackson statue
« Reply #44 on: April 03, 2011, 10:54:33 PM »
Pretty sad when you think of some of the players that could have been comerarated in thids way. Al Fayed is a nutter, he still dosent have  a UK Passport because of his known dealings,

 


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