Shirt retired. A joke surely ? 

3 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

Pardon me for being a numpty, is it the number 22 shirt per se so nobody at any club can wear it or just Bolton 

erm, yes thats it 🥴

4 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

Pardon me for being a numpty, is it the number 22 shirt per se so nobody at any club can wear it or just Bolton 

Just Birmingham

west ham have retired 2 shirts

That passed me by

19 minutes ago, Casino said:

west ham have retired 2 shirts

That passed me by

Just been reading about the second one, Dylan Tombides (Bobby Moore being the first one, obviously). Died of cancer at 20. Tragic. 

47 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Just been reading about the second one, Dylan Tombides (Bobby Moore being the first one, obviously). Died of cancer at 20. Tragic. 

They’ve retired the no.6? Ridiculous 

Retiring the number seems daft. 

Quite happy with young English prospects getting top level game time abroad 'out of the spotlight' of the gutter press over here is fine by me. 

Let em develop then get em in the England squad when they are ready rather than 2 years too early to get hounded into oblivion. 

It coming home next year. Despite Sancho getting caught having a spit roast with a slaaag 2 weeks before the euros kicks off. 

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

They’ve retired the no.6? Ridiculous 

Since 2008, apparently 

12 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Since 2008, apparently 

Madness 

If we did that for our best players we’d have no 9 or 10

8 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Madness 

If we did that for our best players we’d have no 9 or 10

Tuncay & Petrov?

14 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

Tuncay & Petrov?

Obviously 

1 hour ago, stevieb said:

Retiring the number seems daft. 

Quite happy with young English prospects getting top level game time abroad 'out of the spotlight' of the gutter press over here is fine by me. 

Let em develop then get em in the England squad when they are ready rather than 2 years too early to get hounded into oblivion. 

It coming home next year. Despite Sancho getting caught having a spit roast with a slaaag 2 weeks before the euros kicks off. 

Will it just him and the slag having the spit roast? If so that's mighty impressive.

3 minutes ago, tkonion said:

Will it just him and the slag having the spit roast? If so that's mighty impressive.

Him, the slag and some up and coming wonder kid that got sold by Birmingham and has his shirt retired... 

Who will be the fall guy for the world Cup in Qatar. 

Could you imagine the  " Rothmans Football Yearbook " putting up different squad numbers for each team member what played in a game, it would be a logistical nightmare. 1-11 does the trick with the added sub numbers coming on.

11 hours ago, Rudy said:

They’ve retired the no.6? Ridiculous 

You being serious? West Ham hardly have a queue of long servants and world cup winning captains that died young.

I recall City retired the number 23 for Marc Vivien Foe, that's ridiculous. FFS he only went there on loan for one season. 

1 hour ago, jayjayoghani said:

You being serious? West Ham hardly have a queue of long servants and world cup winning captains that died young.

I recall City retired the number 23 for Marc Vivien Foe, that's ridiculous. FFS he only went there on loan for one season. 

Yeah but it’s the number 6 not 23 who gives a fuck about 23 

35 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Yeah but it’s the number 6 not 23 who gives a fuck about 23 

My birthday's on the 23rd so I concur that the number is very special.

21 hours ago, Rudy said:

I don’t believe in retiring numbers unless they’re an exceptional player and it’s not a common number

But that’s rarely gonna happen.

i have OCD issues with shirt numbers. 

Gallas CB No.10

Bendtner 52

Fuck off

Glad there's somebody else who's got this problem. 

I've been use to the old 1-11 system for so long, squad numbers just wind me up. 

Back in ye olde days it was:

                                   1

3                   5                               4             2

 

11                   7                            8             6

 

                               9

 

                                    10

Actually does anybody know why we just didn't go 1-11 left to right rather than this ferkakte numbering system?

As a kid, bolton centre halves wore 5 and 6

And 10 was a midfielder...4 and 10 with 7 and 11 as wingers

HMP Moorland have retired cell number 15 after Adam Johnson left in March 2019...

32 minutes ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

Glad there's somebody else who's got this problem. 

I've been use to the old 1-11 system for so long, squad numbers just wind me up. 

Back in ye olde days it was:

                                   1

3                   5                               4             2

 

11                   7                            8             6

 

                               9

 

                                    10

Actually does anybody know why we just didn't go 1-11 left to right rather than this ferkakte numbering system?

I always thought it was 

       1

2  5  6  3

7  4  8  11

  9  10

 

With 5 & 6 being centre-back, 2 and 3 being full-back, and 7 and 11 being the wingers....

36 minutes ago, DavidLeesMullet said:

Glad there's somebody else who's got this problem. 

I've been use to the old 1-11 system for so long, squad numbers just wind me up. 

Back in ye olde days it was:

                                   1

3                   5                               4             2

 

11                   7                            8             6

 

                               9

 

                                    10

Actually does anybody know why we just didn't go 1-11 left to right rather than this ferkakte numbering system?

I'd have said.......

                                           1

2                     5                               6                         3

7                    4                                10                        11

                         8                               9

Edited July 24, 20205 yr by bolton va va
Ha.......agree with Sweep more or less !!!!

Sweep’s mention of the 1-11 is my favourite. 4 and 8 in midfield. 
 

Silly this retiring numbers lark, logic will eventually mean the numbers will have to be brought out of retirement. Unless they go for 3 digit shirt numbers. 

Me n vava might be older

Peter Reid was 10

37 minutes ago, Morizio said:

Sweep’s mention of the 1-11 is my favourite. 4 and 8 in midfield. 
 

Silly this retiring numbers lark, logic will eventually mean the numbers will have to be brought out of retirement. Unless they go for 3 digit shirt numbers. 

we'll move onto Arabic symbols

This thread has gone full Rainman