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Who was better? Sam Bartram or Pablo Picasso?

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,261
in General Charlton
Well, here's an article from 1952 on just that topic in Esperanto.

For those of you who don't read Esperanto there's a translation.

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,261
    This is just one cutting from Sam's personal collection of letters, cuttings, contracts etc that have been handed over to the museum today.

    There are boxes and boxes of the stuff so it will take a while to sort out but more as and when we've scanned and photographed it all.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,861
    Depends on the position. Sam was better in goal but I hear Pablo was a wizard up front.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,261
    bobmunro said:

    Depends on the position. Sam was better in goal but I hear Pablo was a wizard up front.

    As Jonathan Richmond told us "no one ever called Pablo Picasso an arsehole"
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,635
    Picasso was a one-trick pony and, let's face it, his pictures weren't very life-like. How he made a living it's hard to imagine, whereas Sam not only played in goal, he had a shop and a column in a Sunday paper. No contest.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright but shit in goal.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,217
    I think pick arsehole also knocked out a few sculpture too but Bartrum clinched it with the column in a Sunday paper :0)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,261
    edited August 2017
    Shrew said:

    Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright but shit in goal.

    How do you know he was shit in goal? : - )


    Here is his 1961 work "442 or 4231?"

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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,360
    bobmunro said:

    Depends on the position. Sam was better in goal but I hear Pablo was a wizard up front.

    Apparently, he used to brush off defenders.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,704
    Sam Bartram has a statue at the valley, Picasso hasn't even got a painting hanging up at the valley.
    Easy win for big Sam
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,261
    blackpool72 said:

    Sam Bartram has a statue at the valley, Picasso hasn't even got a painting hanging up at the valley.
    Easy win for big Sam

    You've never been in the Chairman's suite at the Valley then, obviously.

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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,704
    Henry Irving said:

    blackpool72 said:

    Sam Bartram has a statue at the valley, Picasso hasn't even got a painting hanging up at the valley.
    Easy win for big Sam

    You've never been in the Chairman's suite at the Valley then, obviously.
    With the present lot in charge I would think it would be by picarsehole
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Was Sam ever spotted in the same room as Pablo?
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,846
    Sam was taller. Next question.....
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 918
    Sam's the clear winner in my view, and I am unanimous in that!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,053
    If anyone has a genuine Picasso, I'd be more than willing to pay £200 for it. It'll last, for perhaps a hundred years, whooo!
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I've a Picasso lithograph print and Bartrams book.

    Just need an original 'Socialist Leader' for the set.
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,058
    that's superb
    thanks

    more, more, more
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    I never saw Pablo play, but Sam was a hero of mine as a boy, a real Charlton legend
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    Pablo was a Libero in a Parisian bordello
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,907
    Picasso had a Muse

    Sam had Landsdowne Mews

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