Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Jimbo on September 10, 2010, 08:01:43 PM
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Whose autograph is this?
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Is it Jan Vennegoor Of Hesselink?
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Bojan?
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Bob Snij?
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Russell Osman?
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All good tries, but you'll be surprised to hear, they're all wrong. The only answer I can offer is: I have no idea.
I found the signed card inside an Albert Camus book (no, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Algerian goalie/existentialist) - I was using it as a bookmark. I have no recollection of who signed it, at all, but I'm sure it was done between ten and twenty years ago. Which narrows it down a bit.
And it's driving me Blues bonkers. So, please help.
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Thats the unmistakable signature of R. Goan
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I'm sure it was done in town, perhaps at some kind of sport equipment/clothing/footwear shop. Not a book signing, because it would have been a book, not a crappy piece of card with "Super Soccer" printed on it in cheesy font. It surely must be a Villa player, because why else would I be bothered to go to all that trouble to get the autograph, unless it was a really famous footballing other, like Zico, Gazza or Ruben Agboola?
Who the fukc is it?
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Bosnich
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Could be Bosnich, could be. But surely I'd remember meeting him. And I can't see the name Mark. Would he just sign it 'Bosnich'? I mean, he's not MacGyver, is he? Anyone got Bossie's scrawl to check it against?
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Definitely Bosnich.
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Bosko
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I'm sure it was done in town, perhaps at some kind of sport equipment/clothing/footwear shop.
Who the fukc is it?
Harry Parkes obviously.
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Bryan Robson?
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Boban
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That's an interesting suggestion, Richard, but surely I'd still have the stench of rum in my nostrils if it was 'Robbo', even today.
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That's an interesting suggestion, Richard, but surely I'd still have the stench of rum in my nostrils if it was 'Robbo', even today.
It does look quite like 'B.Robson' or similar! and the 'To James' bit somehow suggests a native speaker to me....
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It also suggests someone who can write, which rules out Robson.
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If you look at it after a nice smoke(like me now) it could be Roy Keane. The first letter is a big R with the Y at the bottom of it, the o is there between the R, 2 lines coming of the back of the Y makes a K and the rest makes the eane............Or am I just too stoned?
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You must be on the super skunk, xbiggy, because Keane doesn't know that you're not supposed to shit in the sink, let alone know how to hold a pen properly. Besides, I know I'd never actively seek the autograph of that worthless diddicoy, so unless he carries those cards around with him and foists them upon pissed blokes in Birmingham pubs, I reckon it's unlikely to be him.
By the way, can I have a drag...?
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Ha Ha see your point but just found this and the Roy bit does look the same..........http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__roy+keane+autograph_W0QQ_dmdZ2?rvr_id=137750727001&crlp=4172842031_228459_228460&UA=WVF%3F&GUID=b017752e1280a0e202b31b13ff0662a0&keyword=roy+keane+autograph&ff4=228459_228460
Sorry for long link.....This is some super sh*t though
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Bosnich still, google his autograph and have a look. Probably changed slightly over the years.
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I'm edging closer to the Bosnich camp. But why doesn't it stick in the memory?
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I'm edging closer to the Bosnich camp. But why doesn't it stick in the memory?
Tell me, Jimbo. Did ya ever hear tell of the Birmingham Boys in Brown?
Terrible damage done to the livers and cerebral cortices in Hamburg and (cough) Digbeth.
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Is it a quote from Bob the Builder?
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Feck knows, it's in bloody Arabic.
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I'm edging closer to the Bosnich camp. But why doesn't it stick in the memory?
Tell me, Jimbo. Did ya ever hear tell of the Birmingham Boys in Brown?
Terrible damage done to the livers and cerebral cortices in Hamburg and (cough) Digbeth.
What, you mean that motley assortment of blagards, ne'erdowells and late-night grouting inspectors, who leave in their wicked wake a trail of busted shopping trolleys, smashed Astra bottles and stretched patience, from the fair port of Kiel, to the old Bartons Arms? No, I didn't. And if I ever did, it was merely in the name of academic research. And drunkenness.
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Bobby Robson?
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Ronny Rosenthal?
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Put a "The" at the start of this thread's title and it would seem like something from the Channel Four programme Banzai.
Betting Ends.
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Jimbo, are you sure it's not the scrawl of a Mr Ron, first name 'Big'?
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Roy of the Rovers
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Put a "The" at the start of this thread's title and it would seem like something from the Channel Four programme Banzai.
Betting Ends.
Indeed it would - maybe that's because I've recently returned from the land of vending machines and costumed schoolgirls that I'm speaking/writing like that. Just don't shake my hand, because you'll be there all day...
Harpo - it couldn't possibly be Lord Ron of Big, from the county of Fat. I'd still have the casually bandied cusswords ringing in my ears. I'd remember such a meeting like an encounter with a leopard - albeit a big fat one.
I'm coming round to the Bossie/ale-induced-brain-damage theory. Even in my current befuddlement, I'd remember BFR, but Bossie might easily slip through the pickled grey matter like an invisible scab through a sleeping picket line.
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To me it looks like the signature of Michael Jackson's beloved best bed buddy and big baboon bum, Bubbles.
Or Bosnich.
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I can't see anything?
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You should buy a ticket for the Papal visit, Phil. Be worth a try.
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Judging by the design on the paper, I'd say it was more 70's than 80's/90's, Jimbo.
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My first thought was Bryan Robson but you'd have remembered him showing you his dick. Then I thought Bosnich who would have been cocky enough to just put Bosnich.
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Mr Kelly, I'm pretty certain it's from the late '80s to the mid '90s, but I agree, it does have that cheesy '70s quality about it. Plus, the alliteration and use of the word 'soccer' is very '70s.
I wonder, was there a shop in town peddling low quality/bargain sports gear called Super Soccer, which died on its arse long before Sports Direct became every high street's chav magnet?
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I'm edging closer to the Bosnich camp. But why doesn't it stick in the memory?
Tell me, Jimbo. Did ya ever hear tell of the Birmingham Boys in Brown?
Terrible damage done to the livers and cerebral cortices in Hamburg and (cough) Digbeth.
What, you mean that motley assortment of blagards, ne'erdowells and late-night grouting inspectors, who leave in their wicked wake a trail of busted shopping trolleys, smashed Astra bottles and stretched patience, from the fair port of Kiel, to the old Bartons Arms? No, I didn't. And if I ever did, it was merely in the name of academic research. And drunkenness.
Well then, good man yourself and more power to your elbow.
And fuck the begdrudgers.
And viva St. Pauli.
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I think I've got it.. it's Bosko Balaban.
http://www.writestuffautographs.com/showprod_FOOTBALL672.htm
The 'B' has the same starting structure and it finishes with the same rounded, what looks like an 'n'. The crazy curve is more exaggerated in the link above but it's still there. Obviously on your autograph he only signed it 'Bosko'. It would also go some way to explaining the 70's paper - he probably brought his own. The only thing to add Jimbo, is it would probably be worth more had he not signed it.
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Well, it could feasibly be Bosko, but that means I'd have caught him on one of the few days that he was actually in Birmingham, and not pissing his wages up the wall with a load of hookers in some bar in Zagreb. I mean, what were the chances of that happening?
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Maybe you met in Zagreb?
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Maybe you met in Zagreb?
Which might explain the dodgy '70s 'East European' design.
And my 8-year-old, half-Croatian son.
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Mystery solved.
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the wonderful bobby robson god bless him
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the wonderful bobby robson god bless him
Nah, too many letters.
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Balaban-His signature is worth more than his transfer fee. I still go for Bosnich.
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I was watching a DVD of The Persuaders last night and it does look like the "Roger" in the signature in the end credits "Lord Sinclairs suits designed by Roger Moore".
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Could be Bosnich, could be. But surely I'd remember meeting him. And I can't see the name Mark. Would he just sign it 'Bosnich'? I mean, he's not MacGyver, is he? Anyone got Bossie's scrawl to check it against?
could be?
http://www.writestuffautographs.com/showprod_FOOTBALL1143.htm
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Yup, definitely Bosnich. Maybe its a Bossie thing?
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I'm pretty sold on the Bosnich theory now. It all points to the nazi-saluting, photographer-slapping, pie-eating, kinky-sex-game-playing, allegedly-Bolivian-marching-powder-snorting ex-Man Utd and Chelsea goalkeeper.
And the reason why I can't remember it is because I have brain damage.
Thanks, I'll sleep much better now all that's cleared up.