amberforever wrote:Wow. Didn’t know that. A flip side to the man.
RichardM wrote:amberforever wrote:Wow. Didn’t know that. A flip side to the man.
Before Stan took over Barnet he was a supporter of Arsenal going to home and away games. Our neighbour in Whetstone owned the newsagents at the parade of shops just down the hill in Totteridge Lane from the tube station. His young son Supported Arsenal and Stan, who was a regular customer in the newsagents, took the boy to all the games paying for his tickets, rail fares and food.
Monsieur Abeille wrote:Let's not forget he was responsible for rescuing us from bankruptcy, then achieving our highest ever position in the league pyramid, as well as the subsequent tumble. Dull he wasn't!
StephenM wrote:RichardM wrote:amberforever wrote:Wow. Didn’t know that. A flip side to the man.
Before Stan took over Barnet he was a supporter of Arsenal going to home and away games. Our neighbour in Whetstone owned the newsagents at the parade of shops just down the hill in Totteridge Lane from the tube station. His young son Supported Arsenal and Stan, who was a regular customer in the newsagents, took the boy to all the games paying for his tickets, rail fares and food.
Did he do anything nice for the boy to compensate?
RichardM wrote:StephenM wrote:RichardM wrote:amberforever wrote:Wow. Didn’t know that. A flip side to the man.
Before Stan took over Barnet he was a supporter of Arsenal going to home and away games. Our neighbour in Whetstone owned the newsagents at the parade of shops just down the hill in Totteridge Lane from the tube station. His young son Supported Arsenal and Stan, who was a regular customer in the newsagents, took the boy to all the games paying for his tickets, rail fares and food.
Did he do anything nice for the boy to compensate?
Good Point. COYS and COYB of course.
hoofer2 wrote:Taking the club to the brink is inexcusable and it's clear that managing finances of a football club in the way you ran a ticket brokerage would catch up with you, but what a time to be a Bees fan.
The football was sublime at time, the terraces thriving and players who knew what it meant to perform in a bees shirt.
All to provoke a response that was to be photographed and made into the infamous "Ban Fat Stan Poster" that was circulated in it's thousands and papered onto
a huge mobile billboard, motivation to sell papers rather than genuinely care about Barnet FC.
At the time I was one of many caught up in the mania, upset that the club was brought to the brink after our most successful season in history and took pleasure
in having the poster on my wall. But on reflection part of me feels ashamed that I made a small contribution to the Sun's hate campaign against an individual who played a big part in
bringing seasons of football joy that will never be bettered. We had every right to be angry and protest, shame it was hijacked by the Sun,
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