Gary Shaw - RIP

[Olneythelonely]

It doesn't scan with Ian Rush, he's two syllables short of a picnic.

Exact same syllables isn’t it?

[eamonn]

Sorry, one syll.

Ga-ry = 2

Ian = 1

I guess they stretched out the EEEEn for Ian.

[purpletrousers]

Calling Bad English. Two syllables surely, but somehow more fused?

Presuming this is not a wind up, https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllables/ian

Sorry, one syll.

Ga-ry = 2

Ian = 1

I guess they stretched out the EEEEn for Ian.

[Olneythelonely]

Yeah. Eee-an Rush. Surely?

[eamonn]

Yeah, I gues I-an is how you say it. The only Ian I know goes by Een phonetically, maybe it's an Irish thing. Gary does scan better though.

[purpletrousers]

More importantly, after what felt very underwhelming from the family zone for Wolves, to be in and hear the Holte belting it out full gusto (stilll not got my voice back properly) was more than satisfying and honoured his memory.

I’ve resisted writing about it, but I’d be confident Gary Shaw’s little eddy of consciousness in the collective would have felt/been aware of what happened in the stadium. It made this image, as coarse as it is all the more meaningful. The result was the best tribute, thank you Unai.

 

[amfy]

It doesn't scan with Ian Rush, he's two syllables short of a picnic.

Exact same syllables isn’t it?

It’s more that it doesn’t rhyme.
In our version we rhyme Shaw with score.
Newcastle fans rhymes Cole with goal.
Rush doesn’t rhyme with anything relevant.

[Tayls_7]

Indeed.

Forest fans had the same problem with Pierre van Hooijdonk.

[eamonn]

It doesn't scan with Ian Rush, he's two syllables short of a picnic.

Exact same syllables isn’t it?

It’s more that it doesn’t rhyme.
In our version we rhyme Shaw with score.
Newcastle fans rhymes Come with goal.
Rush doesn’t rhyme with anything relevant.

Yes.
And Lawrence said it best:

What happened to young Gary Shaw?
He played for the Villa, he don't play for them no more
And the crowds from the terraces shout for Gary Shaw x2
And the Holte End kids shout out for Gary Shaw
Ah, that blonde-head Brummie kid - he sure could score

[Stu82]

It doesn't scan with Ian Rush, he's two syllables short of a picnic.

Exact same syllables isn’t it?

It’s more that it doesn’t rhyme.
In our version we rhyme Shaw with score.
Newcastle fans rhymes Come with goal.
Rush doesn’t rhyme with anything relevant.

Yes.
And Lawrence said it best:

What happened to young Gary Shaw?
He played for the Villa, he don't play for them no more
And the crowds from the terraces shout for Gary Shaw x2
And the Holte End kids shout out for Gary Shaw
Ah, that blonde-head Brummie kid sure could score

Really like that, who wrote it.

[eamonn]

It's a verse from a song by Brummie musician Lawrence Hayward, I linked to it earlier in the thread. Go to 1 minute 10 secs here:

[Stu82]

It's a verse from a song by Brummie musician Lawrence Hayward, I linked to it earlier in the thread. Go to 1 minute 10 secs here:

Thanks Eamonn

[purpletrousers]

Had to stick it on again. It is lovely.

I don’t have the courage to share which Shaw referring Villa song was my ear worm this morning, I think Risso would have very stiff words with me.

[Pat McMahon]

Yeah, I gues I-an is how you say it. The only Ian I know goes by Een phonetically, maybe it's an Irish thing. Gary does scan better though.

You’re spot on Eamonn.

Here in Brum Ian is basically Ee Yan, two syllables. My cousin in Dublin is Ian but pronounced by all the family as a single syllable Eeen. Except for his mom who calls him lazy.

[maidstonevillain]

Can't see it has been  posted anywhere else yet.

https://www.dignityfunerals.co.uk/funeral-notices/16-09-2024-gary-robert-shaw/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFxCwtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUort6AYheLJMxXWWESb0oHIFur4gwWudKo0Q8DGgL3RwuqbVL6bTDQ13A_aem_sC7hOtz52E9rhhFluqeSqg

I understand the funeral procession arrives at Villa Park at 1.15pm and leaves at 1.30pm.