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This Is All Getting A Bit Silly Now

Stig
Stig Posts: 29,301
edited January 2011 in General Charlton
Please can we stop all this nonsense about "Sir Chris". I see even the official site is getting on the act with it now. I used to find the odd Sir Alan and Sir Clive comment irksome, but the overuse of Sir in the last couple of days is really doing my head in. There's only one Sir and that's Sir Maurice.

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  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    [cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]There's only one Sir and that's Sir Maurice.

    I think you do an injustice, sir!

    What about Sir Henry Irving?
    Now that's proper, Charlton.

    Right, Henry?
  • Yeah let's keep football moving towards the boring, soulless, passionless and sterile corporate industry it has become and squeeze any last ounce of joy and innocent exhuberance that may remain out of it.


    Health and safety political correctness gawn mad i tell thee ;-)
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Lord Grade anyone?!
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,118
    I had to call of my teachers sir and had no respect for them. I have maximum respect for Sir Chris though and will continue to refer to him in that way!
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,534
    Yep, agree, the lad has earnt his knighthood from me too. Go on Sir Chris.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    [cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]Please can we stop all this nonsense about "Sir Chris". I see even the official site is getting on the act with it now. I used to find the odd Sir Alan and Sir Clive comment irksome, but the overuse of Sir in the last couple of days is really doing my head in. There's only one Sir and that's Sir Maurice.

    I'm with you mate, it's vomit inducing.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Sir Christopher it is then
  • St Christopher anyone?
  • Someone with a smile and heart as big as Chris' deserves a Knighthood, gestures such as giving up his Christmas morning to visit a very ill young Charlton fan in hospital are enough to be deserved 3 letters before his name in my book.. i'm very Sirry for thinking this. ;o)
  • [cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]Please can we stop all this nonsense about "Sir Chris". I see even the official site is getting on the act with it now. I used to find the odd Sir Alan and Sir Clive comment irksome, but the overuse of Sir in the last couple of days is really doing my head in. There's only one Sir and that's Sir Maurice.

    I agree, it's sad and disrespectful to those that have actually earned it.

    To have some fans do it is sad enough, but for the club to 'give' one of it's employees a knighthood is just ridiculous.

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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,118
    Oh give over.

    Did you never call your school teachers Sir?
  • [cite]Posted By: kings hill addick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Stig[/cite]Please can we stop all this nonsense about "Sir Chris". I see even the official site is getting on the act with it now. I used to find the odd Sir Alan and Sir Clive comment irksome, but the overuse of Sir in the last couple of days is really doing my head in. There's only one Sir and that's Sir Maurice.

    I agree, it's sad and disrespectful to those that have actually earned it.

    To have some fans do it is sad enough, but for the club to 'give' one of it's employees a knighthood is just ridiculous.

    Totally agree. It is disrespectful to such honourable Knights of the realm and upstanding pillars of British society as Sir Fred Goodwin and the like.

    Shame on us.
  • [quote][cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]Oh give over.

    Did you never call your school teachers Sir?[/quote]

    No.
  • If Mark Thatcher and Fred Goodwin can get knighted, then why not Chris Powell?
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Getting a Knighthood is totally meaningless when twats like Elton John are given titles. Enough said in my books.
  • Jayajosh
    Jayajosh Posts: 2,884
    Are you a Victor Meldew type character?
  • He is the epitome of Gentleman, he is respected by 99.9% if not 100% of all that he represented as PFA chairman, his community presence always to the fore and he gave his all as a Charlton player - yes, for me arise Sir Chris.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,463
    edited January 2011
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]If Mark Thatcher and Fred Goodwin can get knighted, then why not Chris Powell?
    Mark Thatcher hasn't been knighted.

    Neither has Chris Powell.

    However, I'm pretty clear which of these two deserves to be.
  • Sir Maurice has a dog called Charlton. Fact.
  • [cite]Posted By: WasCharleyOne[/cite]He is the epitome of Gentleman,.

    And that was the derivation of the name, I think. I'm pretty sure it started as 'Gentleman Chris' or 'fotball's top gent' or some such. Which let's be honest, sounds bloody stupid. So it became 'Sir Chris'.

    Really can't see why anyone has a problem with that.

    Do you also object to King Kenny, as a gross insult to the Windsors and the Kongs ?

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  • [quote][cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]If Mark Thatcher and Fred Goodwin can get knighted, then why not Chris Powell?[/quote]Mark Thatcher hasn't been knighted.

    Neither has Chris Powell.

    However, I'm pretty clear which of these two deserves to be.[/quote]

    True, but he has the title as an inheritance from his father as a baronet.
  • [cite]Posted By: incorruptible addick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: WasCharleyOne[/cite]He is the epitome of Gentleman,.

    And that was the derivation of the name, I think. I'm pretty sure it started as 'Gentleman Chris' or 'fotball's top gent' or some such. Which let's be honest, sounds bloody stupid. So it became 'Sir Chris'.

    Really can't see why anyone has a problem with that.

    Do you also object to King Kenny, as a gross insult to the Windsors and the Kongs ?

    The Kongs - pmsl - fantastic
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    [cite]Posted By: Jayajosh[/cite]Are you a Victor Meldew type character?

    Mr Meldrew to you sonny
  • [cite]Posted By: TEL[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Jayajosh[/cite]Are you a Victor Meldew type character?

    Mr Meldrew to you sonny

    Sir Victor, please.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,272
    Stigs post irks me.