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Offline Hookeysmith

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #525 on: May 13, 2019, 08:49:58 PM »
Are there any Christian players that do not play on Sundays or Easter weekend?
Any Jewish players that will not play on Fridays?


The way sky fuck about with the fixtures there must be other players effected by their religious beliefs clashing with football.

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #526 on: May 13, 2019, 08:59:44 PM »
Are there any Christian players that do not play on Sundays or Easter weekend?
Any Jewish players that will not play on Fridays?


The way sky fuck about with the fixtures there must be other players effected by their religious beliefs clashing with football.

Some vague refs here, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_association_football
Missing a rather key 1874 foundation if anybody can be bothered to put it right?
Also references Peter Knowles / Bragg song I mentioned a few pages back.

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #527 on: May 13, 2019, 09:03:34 PM »
I remember Johnathan Edwards refusing to jump once. I think.

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #528 on: May 13, 2019, 09:05:13 PM »
I remember Johnathan Edwards refusing to jump once. I think.

And then becoming an atheist!

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #529 on: May 13, 2019, 09:20:09 PM »
A story most probably don't know.

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FOOTBALLER Simon Burgher could have been exchanging passes with Stan Collymore and Dwight Yorke in the Premiership.

He could be wining and dining in the second city's finest restaurants and driving round in an open top sports car on a mammoth salary.

But the 31-year-old turned his back on a superstar lifestyle at Villa Park to follow God.

The former Exeter City and Bromsgrove Rovers midfielder is a devout Seventh Day Adventist - which means Saturday is his day of rest.

He played for the Vauxhall Conference club for eight years without ever featuring in Saturday matches.

His midweek displays were so impressive that boyhood heroes Villa came knocking on his door wanting him to sign a professional contract.

But as that meant playing at weekends he turned them down flat and he now plies his trade for minnows Rover Sports in the Wolverhampton Sunday League.

And he may even have to quit them if a proposed take-over of Saturday club Wednesfield takes place later this year.

Now a PE and human biology teacher in Small Heath, Burgher spoke of his rejection of the dream move to Ron Atkinson's Villa.

"I am a lifelong Villa fan and it was a hard decision to have to make.

"They came in for me five years ago when I was at Bromsgrove and wanted me to sign professional forms. But that would have meant going against my beliefs and so I said no.

"But it wasn't easy to do. I had to think long and hard about it. I asked God for guidance and hopefully He made the right decision for me."

Burgher, who lives nearby the ground in Aston, does not smoke or drink and never misses church on a Saturday.

He said: "Everyone knows the Sabbath used to be on a Saturday and was changed just for convenience. I can never be paid for playing on that day."

Burgher lines up against former club Lodge Cottrell on May 10 in the final of the Birmingham County Premier Challenge Cup.

Looking ahead to the match Burgher said: "It's going to be a right old ding-dong! They are my mates and have been phoning me all week saying how they are going to chop me down!"

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #530 on: May 13, 2019, 09:23:37 PM »
A story most probably don't know.

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FOOTBALLER Simon Burgher could have been exchanging passes with Stan Collymore and Dwight Yorke in the Premiership.

He could be wining and dining in the second city's finest restaurants and driving round in an open top sports car on a mammoth salary.

But the 31-year-old turned his back on a superstar lifestyle at Villa Park to follow God.

The former Exeter City and Bromsgrove Rovers midfielder is a devout Seventh Day Adventist - which means Saturday is his day of rest.

He played for the Vauxhall Conference club for eight years without ever featuring in Saturday matches.

His midweek displays were so impressive that boyhood heroes Villa came knocking on his door wanting him to sign a professional contract.

But as that meant playing at weekends he turned them down flat and he now plies his trade for minnows Rover Sports in the Wolverhampton Sunday League.

And he may even have to quit them if a proposed take-over of Saturday club Wednesfield takes place later this year.

Now a PE and human biology teacher in Small Heath, Burgher spoke of his rejection of the dream move to Ron Atkinson's Villa.

"I am a lifelong Villa fan and it was a hard decision to have to make.

"They came in for me five years ago when I was at Bromsgrove and wanted me to sign professional forms. But that would have meant going against my beliefs and so I said no.

"But it wasn't easy to do. I had to think long and hard about it. I asked God for guidance and hopefully He made the right decision for me."

Burgher, who lives nearby the ground in Aston, does not smoke or drink and never misses church on a Saturday.

He said: "Everyone knows the Sabbath used to be on a Saturday and was changed just for convenience. I can never be paid for playing on that day."

Burgher lines up against former club Lodge Cottrell on May 10 in the final of the Birmingham County Premier Challenge Cup.

Looking ahead to the match Burgher said: "It's going to be a right old ding-dong! They are my mates and have been phoning me all week saying how they are going to chop me down!"

If God had known about the commission that football agents are making these days he might have changed his mind. And his career.

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #531 on: May 13, 2019, 09:53:55 PM »
I always like it when religious types justify their beliefs starting with "everyone knows..."


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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #532 on: May 13, 2019, 10:16:29 PM »
Didn’t a bloke pack up playing in the 80s as playing on Sunday’s would go against his religion, seem to mind he played for Walsall or maybe the Tatters.

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #533 on: May 13, 2019, 10:21:56 PM »
It was Peter Knowles of Wolves, I think you're talking about? Retired in 1970. His Wiki page suggests that he was contracted until 1982, though, does that mean he was getting paid all that time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Knowles

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #534 on: May 13, 2019, 10:24:25 PM »
When we signed John Fashanu my reaction was ‘oh God.’

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #535 on: May 14, 2019, 02:18:14 AM »
Didn’t a bloke pack up playing in the 80s as playing on Sunday’s would go against his religion, seem to mind he played for Walsall or maybe the Tatters.
It was Peter Knowles of Wolves, I think you're talking about? Retired in 1970. His Wiki page suggests that he was contracted until 1982, though, does that mean he was getting paid all that time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Knowles


God's Footballer - Song by Billy Bragg https://youtu.be/-EfYlwlpz2U


God's footballer hears the voices of angels
Above the choir at molineux
God's footballer stands on the doorstep
And brings the good news of the kingdom to come
While the crowd sings 'rock of ages'
The goals bring weekly wages
Yet the glory of the sports pages
Is but the worship of false idols and tempts him not

God's footballer turns on a sixpence
And brings the great crowd to their feet in praise of him
God's footballer quotes from the gospels
While knocking on doors in black country back streets
He scores goals on a Saturday
And saves souls on a Sunday
For the lord says these are the last days
Prepare thyself for the judgment yet to come

His career will be over soon
And the rituals of a Saturday afternoon
Bid him a reluctant farewell
For he knows beyond the sport lies the spiritual
Songwriters: Billy Bragg

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #536 on: May 14, 2019, 08:55:21 AM »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Knowles


God's Footballer - Song by Billy Bragg https://youtu.be/-EfYlwlpz2U


God's footballer hears the voices of angels
Above the choir at molineux

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Aaaaand I'm out!

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #537 on: May 14, 2019, 07:42:52 PM »
Was it Carlos Roa who was a 7th Day Adventist or something and retired because he believed the world would end in the year 2000, and then he had to come back and fulfil his contract when it didn’t?

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #538 on: May 15, 2019, 12:47:51 AM »

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Re: Anwar El Ghazi - signed on loan
« Reply #539 on: May 27, 2019, 05:00:38 PM »
Sign the man up.

 


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