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karel fraeye tributes

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  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    The greatest tribute I can pay is that I have even started speaking like him.

    Tonight my wife asked how my journey home was and I replied:

    "Tube....good."
    "Train....not so good."
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    newyorkaddick said:

    When one thinks of the managerial heavyweights in British football, for me it's:

    Clough
    Ferguson
    Shankly
    Fraeye
    Busby
    Paisley

    Steve Evans surely?
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Thanks Karel. Your attacking instincts and tactics were like no-one else. Except me when I was 6.
    Thanks everyone else - this thread has cheered me up no end.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,856
    Would be brilliant to have an ovation on the 44 minute with the Undertaker's theme tune over the tannoy.
  • Godstone
    Godstone Posts: 700
    Highlights of Karel's Charlton career:

    Assisting a successful battle against relegation with Jose Riga
    2 good wins which for about a couple of weeks made me feel that things were turning around.

    Managers usually give everything they've got and I'm sure Karel did his best. If I was Charlton manager I'd give my best but would be hopeless at it, so I don't blame him for that but rather the wisdom of the appointment in the first place.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    Ali Dia of football management
  • petetheaddick
    petetheaddick Posts: 375
    Do one, you coward. You should never manage a team again.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    So disappointed that this didn't end with the OP
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I admire his steadfastness, Karel's not for Turing.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,169
    There's so many options. Fullbackgate, the crucifix formation, Three at the back and everyone else freestlyling, Vaz Te at holding midfield, so many strikers it was basically British Bulldog.

    But my ultimate favourite has to be while losing to a relegation-bound League One side, Karel subs off a centre half for a striker (having already taken off a centre mid for a striker and an attacking mid for a centre half), takes a look at our lack of formation, sticks Morgan Fox at centre half, looks at the rest of the team and says 'spread out'.

    Fucking priceless.
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  • Lazy_eye_metaphor
    Lazy_eye_metaphor Posts: 1,959
    To paraphrase Walter White:
    "Fuck you Karel.... and your moustache!"
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    petetheaddick said:

    Do one, you coward. You should never manage a team again.

    Have to admit this is the most heart-felt comment of them all... Brings a tear to my eye
  • WestCountryAddick
    WestCountryAddick Posts: 2,545
    I'm just disappointed that we wont see any more Charlie Chuckles graphics after the games.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    WestCountryAddick said:

    I'm just disappointed that we wont see any more Charlie Chuckles graphics after the games.

    Don't speak too soon we we've got Wim next and then who knows? :open_mouth:
  • Bubble
    Bubble Posts: 1,541
    edited January 2016
    Congratulations on successfully proving that Cristiano Ronaldo is not the only winking wanker in Football (loose meaning on the word football).
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    Bubble said:

    Congratulations on successfully proving that Cristiano Ronaldo is not the only winking wanker in Football (loose meaning on the word football).

    Either way round this phrase is spot on! :wink:
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    Say what you want but you have to admire him for convincing Roland that he knew what football was for such a long time.

    A coward, a useless tactician, but a Grade A bullshitter
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Karel, if I could think of the right words, I'd write them on a piece of paper for Tariq Holmes Dennis to give to you.
  • micks1950
    micks1950 Posts: 943
    (With full acknowledgment to E.J. Thribb)

    In Memoriam
    Karel Fraeye

    So. Farewell then
    Karel Fraeye
    'Interim' Head Coach
    From Roland's Network.

    It would seem that
    You are gone.

    But are you?

    We have been
    Hoaxed before.

    So why not now?

    But then. Does
    Anyone really leave
    The Network?

    This is the enigma.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    An anagram of his name is

    Faker Ye Real
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  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Many men try, but few, if any, will ever be able to better set up a team to concede a goal just before half time. Was he an idiot? Or was he a savant? Perhaps, like Roland, he wanted to challenge footballing norms by proving that conceding before half time is not the worst...when you concede three or four in the second half.
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Could we not keep him on in charge of substitutions ? After all he was the only one who understood them.
  • blackheathcanuck
    blackheathcanuck Posts: 249
    Legend.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Granpa said:

    Could we not keep him on in charge of substitutions ? After all he was the only one who understood them.

    I just realized he only used two subs up at Huddersfield, after having used his subs bizarrely and early in seemingly every other game. A true legend in his own head.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Karel,

    Sorry it didn't work out. I feel a little bit as I did with Les Reed - in that you were thrown under the bus somewhat.

    Good luck with your future endeavours

    I'd love to have a beer with you one day if you get to a stage where you are not on Roland's payroll as I would like to know a bit more about what happens behind the scenes...

    Good luck
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    SDAddick said:

    Granpa said:

    Could we not keep him on in charge of substitutions ? After all he was the only one who understood them.

    I just realized he only used two subs up at Huddersfield, after having used his subs bizarrely and early in seemingly every other game. A true legend in his own head.
    3 subs

    THD for Fox
    Reza for Williams
    Mak for JBG
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    Thank you Karel for your efforts at Charlton
    Swapping fullbacks at 1 nil down was unexpected genius
    Your legacy in SE7 will be to have set a new low below which future appointees will struggle to fall
    You have elevated my standing in the annals of the club
    Love & best wishes
    Les Reed
    xx
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    As a manager he proved to be a disaster. However, I hope if anyone on here gets offered a big job which they grab with both hands , and one they eventually fail at, then it's the boss to blame and not you. Seems a shame the man has been called a cunt, wanker and a loser when he was doing the job to the best of his ability. To be at the Colchester game and have some twat shouting at you from the other side of the gate seems unfair in my book. I wondered at the time what job that bloke was in, and whether he suffered personal abuse as Karel did. Pity some of the players who haven't been trying their best didn't get more stick.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,188
    Karel Fraeye? Well, I particularly enjoyed his 1987 hit single Hey Matthew.
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    This must be an early contender for thread of the year 2016.

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