[Football] Barry Fry

The Wookiee

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• Dec 29, 2023

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Just seen him on Sky sports news - one of the games proper characters - says players don’t come to Peterborough to be millionaires but we can put them in the shop window to get them them a move to a club that will make them millionaires!

He was asked what’s his New Year’s resolution- he replied with a cheeky grin “get promoted- up the Posh !”

Love him or hate him he is one of the real characters in our game

 

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Farehamseagull

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• Dec 29, 2023

• #2

Or Craig Mackail-Smith’s father in law as I prefer to know him!

He is a character but for years I have had my doubts about him as an individual due to historic events at Peterborough that I won’t go into on here for obvious reasons.

 

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• Dec 29, 2023

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The Wookiee said:

Just seen him on Sky sports news - one of the games proper characters - says players don’t come to Peterborough to be millionaires but we can put them in the shop window to get them them a move to a club that will make them millionaires!

He was asked what’s his New Year’s resolution- he replied with a cheeky grin “get promoted- up the Posh !”

Love him or hate him he is one of the real characters in our game

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I really like him. Remember the 'cheer up Barry Fry' song at Withdean, and he gave us all a thumbs up and smile, and we clapped him. Class.

 

Durlston

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• Dec 29, 2023

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Thought he was a 'Barnet 'til I die' man?

Cock.

 

thedonkeycentrehalf

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I read his autobiography many years ago, seem to recall it was as entertaining as you would expect.

 

kojak

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I suspect many of us would have liked a life like his

but wouldn't admit to it

 

CorgiRegisteredFriend

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Boring By Sea

• Dec 29, 2023

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One of football’s real characters. Fond memories of him in the dugout at Withdean, behind which we sat, always entertaining.

 

AK74

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On joining Birmingham City as their manager and meeting Karren Brady for the first time:

"Alright love, what do you do?"

 

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• Dec 29, 2023

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I meet him when a few of us Seagulls Over Londoners had a box at Peterborough. Spent some time talking to him; a true gent and highly entertaining.

 

Change at Barnham

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The Wookiee said:

Just seen him on Sky sports news - one of the games proper characters - says players don’t come to Peterborough to be millionaires but we can put them in the shop window to get them them a move to a club that will make them millionaires!

He was asked what’s his New Year’s resolution- he replied with a cheeky grin “get promoted- up the Posh !”

Love him or hate him he is one of the real characters in our game

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Crodonilson couldn't have put it better.

 

The Wookiee

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Some good fly on the wall documentaries on YouTube involving Barry Fry’s time at Peterborough

 

Cowfold Seagull

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AK74 said:

On joining Birmingham City as their manager and meeting Karren Brady for the first time:

"Alright love, what do you do?"

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Hmmm very much old school then, but l guess football was like that not so long ago, there were very few women involved at the top end of the game, especially in the board room.

But Barry Fry is a character l readily agree,

 

Paulie Gualtieri

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Haaaaa muuuuuch

 

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Cheer up Barry Fry
Oh what can it mean
To a fat cockney bastard
And a shite football team

 

Questions

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• Apr 5, 2024

• #16

He is alright really… Plays a character well…
If he wasn’t a character??

 

Kosh

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• Apr 5, 2024

• #17

I always remember a post match comment he made years ago, during his time at Barnet I think…

“We started like Juventus and finished like Fray Bentos…”

Made me chuckle.

 

GT49er

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Change at Barnham said:

Crodonilson couldn't have put it better.

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Maybe - but many of us would just have deleted the thread!

 

PWA

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One of the greats.

 

Invicta

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Left Barnet for a year at rivals Maidstone in the middle of a 15 year spell at Barnet. Everyone hated him at that point. Like Hodgson turning up at the Albion ! Not sure it bothered him at all !