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Patrick Collins in the Mail on Sunday

Riscardo
Riscardo Posts: 2,338
edited October 2007 in General Charlton
Quality piece yesterday ...

I'm actually going to frame it and put it above my mantle piece ...

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  • Medders
    Medders Posts: 5,572
    Feel free to share what he said Ric...!
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,207
    linky
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Very Very Good
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    very Very Very good
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,207
    although, to be fair, rugby did give us Sir Clive Woodward, whose list of achievements after 2003 can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,862
    [cite]Posted By: InspectorSands[/cite]although, to be fair, rugby did give us Sir Clive Woodward, whose list of achievements after 2003 can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

    Harsh
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,207
    Not really. Once he'd won the rugby world cup, he was talked up as a man who could not only motivate the England rugby team to success, but could also split the atom, solve the Middle East problems, win the football World Cup and dash off a Booker Prize-winning novel, and all that was just in his lunch hour.

    In fact, what happened was he contributed to Southampton being relegated from the Premier League (ho, ho) and now seems to be stuck in Olympic sport bickering.

    Fair play to the rugby lads, and Paddy Collins makes some telling points, but I can hear a familiar bandwagon creaking into life again...
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,862
    I think the problems at Southampton were bigger then Woodward, and football being the insular world it is, always looks to blame the outsider rather then Happy 'Arry and his brown envelopes, as for the Olympics, the feeling is that quite a few of the sports are responding well to him, some of the more backwards ones aren't, never going to get 27 different federations behaving.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,207
    Fair point, but we all knew Sir Clive's adventure at St Mary's was going to be doomed from the start - clearly that's down to Rupert Lowe, but the man certainly seemed to believe some of his hype. And that's the same kind of hype that buggers up football too, the hype that makes a generation of kids support only the big four clubs and makes minor setbacks into "disasters".
  • C_f_W
    C_f_W Posts: 1,433
    After the Poll article rant, does The Mail have an agenda with Jordan or Palace?

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,453
    David Conn ‏@david_conn 5m5 minutes ago
    Just been told Patrick Collins of Mail on Sunday has announced retirement after 50yrs. Great writer, always argued for good values in sport.
  • East_Stand_Loopy
    East_Stand_Loopy Posts: 2,205
    And an Addick to boot!
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,636
    East_Stand_Loopy said:

    And an Addick to boot!

    There will be about 13,000 addicks to boot in a couple of weeks we don't need any more
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    edited November 2014
    Does Mick Collins still post on here?

    Sunday will never be the same.
    Walk to the shop for paper and provisions.
    Read News of the world (now sun on Sunday)
    Have a Cup of tea and a bacon sandwich with doorstep bread.
    Round it off with a good dump whilst reading Patrick Collins in the mos sport section.
    A perfect Sunday morning!
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,145
    Was nice to see favourable Charlton mentions in the press when most ignored us. Deserves a long, happy and healthy retirement after 50 years at work!! :-)
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,325
    Good tribute here with a couple of Charlton mentions:

    http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/members-news/best-of-his-generation-patrick-collins-to-retire/
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,145
    Algarveaddick said:

    Good tribute here with a couple of Charlton mentions:

    http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/members-news/best-of-his-generation-patrick-collins-to-retire/

    Hope he gets the Rotherham game on Jan 31st :)
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    What a tiresome bore this man is. I hope this means no more preaching from him on Sunday mornings on Sportsweek on 5Live.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    A quality gentleman.

    Have never met him, but I emailed him asking if he could write a foreward for a thing I was doing and he could not have been kinder or more willing to give up his time. A real Charlton lover and proud to be one also.

    A great journalist and you don't have to agree with him to understand that.

    Hope Patrick enjoys his retirement.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,344
    http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/nov/11/mailonsunday-national-newspapers

    'His last event as a professional sport-watcher will be on 31 January. Charlton are at home to Rotherham that day, he said, joking: "It's one way to go out at the top."'

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