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Ronnie Biggs buried with Charlton Scarf

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  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,126
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Friend Or Defoe said:

    Absurdistan said:

    Are we going to have a thread for all honest Charlton fans who pass on, or does being a tea leaf grant you special treatment?

    I wonder if his name will be on the screen?

    Are we having the two minute applause this season?
    I hope so.

  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    SilentAddick said:

    Deffo Charlton scarf ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25594688

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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    charltonkeston said:

    Greenie said:

    Biggs recruited the dodgy train driver to move the train once it had been stopped by Reynolds team, he had nothing to do with the violence that the original train driver sadly received.
    He was a petty crook not a violent criminal who is famous for escaping from prison after receiving 30 years as a member of the gang and going on the run. He was not a nonce or murderer, so all the moral judges on here, dont blow it out of all proportion!

    Criminal nonetheless, knew where home was when he needed it.
    But I cant believe he was all bad. If that was in fact a Charlton scarf with him at the end it shows there was a decent side to him.
    There are worse crooks that go to the Valley every home game .
    Biggs was a nobody until the GTR and his subsequent escape!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    ITV and BBC reported it was a charlton scarf -----------only thing they have ever agreed on. Its on both there reports of the funeral.

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,034
    His only job was to recruit the driver but he f*cked that up.

    Can't be Charlton. We never get anything wrong where there's trains involved.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    and if he was a Gooner i hope the twonk was cremated !!!
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    I don't believe the Daily Mail and I don't believe the BBC. But which one is telling the truth this time? There's only one way to find out.......
    FIGHT!!!
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,863
    Isn't the scarf in Absurdistan's photo the same scarf as the one at the funeral?
    If so, then unless the photo is photoshopped, surely we can stop this debate now? Clearly Arsenal, regardless of what the bbc, itv or the mail say.
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,850
    Does any of this really matter? Are we so desperate to add to our tiny pool of 'celebrity' supporters? That would be pretty sad. He probably supported us, and Arsenal and probably other London teams too. His perogative. And now he's dead. Let him RIP.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,382
    Greenie said:

    charltonkeston said:

    Greenie said:

    Biggs recruited the dodgy train driver to move the train once it had been stopped by Reynolds team, he had nothing to do with the violence that the original train driver sadly received.
    He was a petty crook not a violent criminal who is famous for escaping from prison after receiving 30 years as a member of the gang and going on the run. He was not a nonce or murderer, so all the moral judges on here, dont blow it out of all proportion!

    Criminal nonetheless, knew where home was when he needed it.
    But I cant believe he was all bad. If that was in fact a Charlton scarf with him at the end it shows there was a decent side to him.
    There are worse crooks that go to the Valley every home game .
    Biggs was a nobody until the GTR and his subsequent escape!
    Certainty nobody now.

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,882
    A direct quote from his autobiography: "it would be nice if Arsenal picked up the odd trophy along the way but beggars can't always be choosers".
  • albo1973
    albo1973 Posts: 38
    RIP ronnie i was at the funeral ronnie followed a few teams bearing in mind he was on on holliday for a while! love or hate i aint gonna speak ill of the dead and there was a charlton scarf on show .
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    albo1973 said:

    RIP ronnie i was at the funeral ronnie followed a few teams bearing in mind he was on on holliday for a while! love or hate i aint gonna speak ill of the dead and there was a charlton scarf on show .

    Why?
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Riviera said:

    albo1973 said:

    RIP ronnie i was at the funeral ronnie followed a few teams bearing in mind he was on on holliday for a while! love or hate i aint gonna speak ill of the dead and there was a charlton scarf on show .

    Why?
    Ever heard the term "hanger on" ?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    They were plenty of those there!
  • FatterThanAndyReid
    FatterThanAndyReid Posts: 104
    Stanley Mathews' autobiography trumps the daily mail. Excerpt via the Ronnie Biggs Wikipedia page:

    Biggs was even visited by former footballer Stanley Matthews, whom Biggs afterwards invited to his apartment after hearing that he was in Rio. "We had tea on the small balcony at the rear of his home, and one of the first things he asked was, 'How are Charlton Athletic doing?' It turned out he had supported Charlton from being a small boy and had often seen me play at The Valley."[15] Around this time, "Ronnie Biggs" mugs, coffee cups and T-shirts also appeared throughout Rio.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    FatterThanAndyReid said:

    Stanley Mathews' autobiography trumps the daily mail. Excerpt via the Ronnie Biggs Wikipedia page:

    Biggs was even visited by former footballer Stanley Matthews, whom Biggs afterwards invited to his apartment after hearing that he was in Rio. "We had tea on the small balcony at the rear of his home, and one of the first things he asked was, 'How are Charlton Athletic doing?' It turned out he had supported Charlton from being a small boy and had often seen me play at The Valley."[15] Around this time, "Ronnie Biggs" mugs, coffee cups and T-shirts also appeared throughout Rio.

    So it must be true, no one can edit Wikipedia can they?
  • albo1973
    albo1973 Posts: 38
    edited January 2014
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,939
    Yowzer!
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,817
    edited January 2014
    albo1973 said:

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    Cor Blimey!

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,782
    Maybe somebody gave him the wrong scarf - a fitting end for a crook
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited January 2014
    albo1973 said:

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    Classic!
    If I am what's wrong with Charlton, and I really have very little to do with them, then sadly it's people like you that are wrong with the country as a whole.

    Lefty! Me? I'm almost flattered.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,782
    edited January 2014
    it amazes me why being a lefty should be insulting. Caring about people and social justice shouldn't be anything to be ashamed of, no matter how well you may be doing yourself. Glad to see our new owner is a lefty too.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    MuttleyCAFC said:

    it amazes me why being a lefty should be insulting. Caring about people and social justice shouldn't be anything to be ashamed of, no matter how well you may be doing yourself. Glad to see our new owner is a lefty too.

    Cause anyone else from any other political persuasion don't care about anyone else except themselves
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    BIG_ROB said:

    MuttleyCAFC said:

    it amazes me why being a lefty should be insulting. Caring about people and social justice shouldn't be anything to be ashamed of, no matter how well you may be doing yourself. Glad to see our new owner is a lefty too.

    Cause anyone else from any other political persuasion don't care about anyone else except themselves
    I could say something about Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Hunt etc etc. But I won't ;-)
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,334
    Some great posts on this thread.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    edited January 2014
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  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Whatever you've posted Rob I can't see on my phone :-( hope it's not too upsetting to me.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    northstandsteve said:

    Some great posts on this thread.

    northstandsteve said:

    Some great posts on this thread.

    Cheers Steve pal, got another corker coming up, but I'm grafting at the minute.

    ; )
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Stole more in tax payers money looking for him and then nursing him when he decided to return than the worst of the dole scrum.

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