Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: robbo1874 on April 06, 2022, 01:23:57 PM
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/apr/06/maradonas-shirt-from-hand-of-god-england-match-estimated-to-sell-for-4m
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£7.1 million. I wonder if he thought his pathetic attempt at a clearance would end up making him a millionaire several times over? I’m not envious just think life isn’t fair at times.
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The anchor man on Sky Sports News just asked how much Maradona got for Steve Hodge’s shirt. Quite funny.
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who bought it ?
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How has he been storing it all these years? And why sell now?
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How has he been storing it all these years? And why sell now?
I think I heard on the radio today it's been held in the football museum in Manchester?
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How has he been storing it all these years? And why sell now?
It was recently on display at the National Football Museum in Manchester. I can think of a few million reasons.
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Hodge called his autobiography 'The Man With Maradona's Shirt' so he clearly had his eye on the prize even way back.
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£7.1 million will cover the shortfall in revenue between Divisions One and Two circa 1987, thanks.
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What a twat to have swapped shirts with the cheating git, he should have been wanting to smack him in the eye after not swap shirts with him
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What a twat to have swapped shirts with the cheating git, he should have been wanting to smack him in the eye after not swap shirts with him
Hodge or Maradona?
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What a twat to have swapped shirts with the cheating git, he should have been wanting to smack him in the eye after not swap shirts with him
Hodge or Maradona?
[What a twat to have swapped shirts with the cheating git, he should have been wanting to smack him in the eye after not swap shirts with him
Hodge or Maradona?
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Both?
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Be interesting to see if there’s any follow up stories about what he plans to do / does with the proceeds. I know it’s easy to say from a distance, but I’d feel bad pocketing that amount of money from the sale without giving a decent chunk of it back to a charity or charities.
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Maybe he can buy some friends to help with his lonliness.
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Membership to The Caravan Club.
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Leaving aside the fact that it's Hodge, I'm sure that a legal argument could be had that he should not lawfully be entitled to retain all the proceeds from the sale of this shirt, given the (spontaneous) circumstances of how it came into his possession at the immediate conclusion of a sporting contest- ie that the swapping of shirts at the end of a game ought bring with it something akin to trusteeship, and not the acquisition of exclusive and unfettered rights to all and any profits that may accrue from a commercial sale.
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Peter Shilton was going to bid but he didn't get his hand up quickly enough.
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I can't believe he swapped shirts with such a horrible, odious little twat. I thought Maradona had better taste.
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Leaving aside the fact that it's Hodge, I'm sure that a legal argument could be had that he should not lawfully be entitled to retain all the proceeds from the sale of this shirt, given the (spontaneous) circumstances of how it came into his possession at the immediate conclusion of a sporting contest- ie that the swapping of shirts at the end of a game ought bring with it something akin to trusteeship, and not the acquisition of exclusive and unfettered rights to all and any profits that may accrue from a commercial sale.
It's just fabric. And if someone is daft enough to buy it because of what a player did while wearing it then more fool them. Hodge is entitled to do what he likes with the proceeds, minus any applicable taxes of course.
On the flip side, I imagine Maradona instructed his butler to use Hodge's shirt to rub down his car.
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Peter Shilton was going to bid but he didn't get his hand up quickly enough.
Love it…😂😂
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.
I was there, very young but old enough to realise what a ****** he was
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.
The first goal in this.
https://youtu.be/zRgf2OWPN64
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.
The first goal in this.
https://youtu.be/zRgf2OWPN64
The night before it was reported on the local news that he wanted a transfer because he feared for his England place if he stayed. The best player in the side was barracked before and during the game, chants of "Hodgey must go" rang out from the Holte (at least as much as they can with a sub-15,000 gate). The backpass, at the time, felt for all the world as though it was deliberate. Only he will know either way for sure, but with the passage of thirty-six years, I can see that maybe it was a rush of blood.
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.
The first goal in this.
https://youtu.be/zRgf2OWPN64
thanks , yes not great
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it was a string of things - we'd started off badly, he said he wanted a transfer while he was away with England, then came the backpass, he kept saying he wanted to leave all the time we were struggling and when he moved to Spurs he said he'd finally achieved his ambition of playing for a big club.
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it was a string of things - we'd started off badly, he said he wanted a transfer while he was away with England, then came the backpass, he kept saying he wanted to leave all the time we were struggling and when he moved to Spurs he said he'd finally achieved his ambition of playing for a big club.
I seem to recall that the reason he left Forest for Villa in the first place was because he reckoned Brian Clough wasn't playing him in his favoured position. I think Clough was playing him on the wing and he wanted to play in a central position. So he was an awkward twat even before we signed him. Although what I will say in his defence is that I don't think he played that back pass deliberately out of spite. I think his misplaced back pass
came about because he had lost his cool and his confidence due to the stick he was getting from the fans in that infamous game against Norwich.
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
In a nutshell, he thought he was more important and bigger than Villa.
Ego far greater than his ability.
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Once a c unt.......
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Once a c unt.......
Now a rich one!
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
I've asked this before. I understand it, but I think it can never be visceral if you didn't feel it the first time. Something to do with a backpass, I think.
The first goal in this.
https://youtu.be/zRgf2OWPN64
The night before it was reported on the local news that he wanted a transfer because he feared for his England place if he stayed. The best player in the side was barracked before and during the game, chants of "Hodgey must go" rang out from the Holte (at least as much as they can with a sub-15,000 gate). The backpass, at the time, felt for all the world as though it was deliberate. Only he will know either way for sure, but with the passage of thirty-six years, I can see that maybe it was a rush of blood.
No it wasn't.
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I was quite young when Hodge went to Spurs , why does it carry so much hatred ?
Hodge was another of our 'play well for your country and use it as an excuse to engineer a transfer' wankers. He had an unexpectedly good World Cup in 1986 having initially just been a squad player and came back from Mexico thinking he was Billy Big Bollocks.
He wanted a transfer to Tottingham, he said, so he would stay in the England side, even though he'd got in the England side already thanks to his performances for Villa.
That's why Villa fans who remember him consider him a c*nt.
See also Alpay Ozalan after his 2002 World Cup performances for Turkey.
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'We Hate Hodge' was the simplistic but oh so true chant at the time and for a while after.
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Hodge was, and is, a turbo-cunt
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Hodge was, and is, a turbo-cunt
Ha ha good expression, but more of a pantomime villain for me.