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David Bellotti dead!
- Thread starter janee
- Start date
dreaming spires
Banned
- Nov 27, 2009
- 276
Gloating over someone's death, classy!
Good old bha, class act.
Good old bha, class act.
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
The cvnt must be almost there surely. Be great if 2015 could claim both of them.
Freddie Goodwin.
Well-known member
I posted on the Lib Dem Voice, only to say he's never be forgotten in Brighton. My post never made it.
nicko31
Well-known member
Is this guy just trying to be provocative?
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
Do one you sad act, if we want you're opinion we will ask
Robert Maxwell R.I.P.
Your opinion counts for nothing.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Not an Oxford thread.
Lenny Rider
Well-known member
- Sep 15, 2010
- 5,444
Bellotti:Have we all moved on?
Even at the risk of getting flamed, some personal thoughts that have come out over the course of today.
Like thousands of other Albion fans for nearly 20 years I've almost looked forward to the day of DB's passing, but when it actually happened I found myself Really feeling nothing.
It might have had something to do with losing my own mother in the last couple of months, but for all his many faults and personality disorders, Bellotti was a parent himself.
He was the front man for Archer and Stanley, whatever he got paid for it, was it really worth it?
After July 1995 he endured all kinds of abuse, both verbally and in print a 'favourite' emanating from his then wife, the 'lovely Jo' and the allegations about her and a Liverpool striker.
He had to have his calls and post monitored, was brought to games under strict security, we had to talk an over zealous Gulls Eye reader from targeting Bellotti Junior outside his school and my own personal favourite was the Steve Foster incident when Fozzie sat in his office and said to him.
"David you are either the most switched on bloke to ever be at the Albion or you are the biggest **** this club has ever seen, and from where I'm sitting you don't look that intelligent"
He had to move away from Sussex and as a result became estranged from his son, which something as a parent I would find very hard to comprehend.
And perhaps worse of all he had that life sentence of always having to look over his shoulder, all over the world, because the Albion support gets everywhere, and there would always be that chance be it in a bar, hotel lobby, airport, restaurant in fact anywhere, that he would bump into one of us and get the verbal abuse he so richly deserved.
But 20 years on, we've lost too many good people, Robert Eaton, Roy Chuter, Sarah Watts, my mum and countless others that today I truly cannot celebrate a death, even his.
History will ultimately be the judge.
Even at the risk of getting flamed, some personal thoughts that have come out over the course of today.
Like thousands of other Albion fans for nearly 20 years I've almost looked forward to the day of DB's passing, but when it actually happened I found myself Really feeling nothing.
It might have had something to do with losing my own mother in the last couple of months, but for all his many faults and personality disorders, Bellotti was a parent himself.
He was the front man for Archer and Stanley, whatever he got paid for it, was it really worth it?
After July 1995 he endured all kinds of abuse, both verbally and in print a 'favourite' emanating from his then wife, the 'lovely Jo' and the allegations about her and a Liverpool striker.
He had to have his calls and post monitored, was brought to games under strict security, we had to talk an over zealous Gulls Eye reader from targeting Bellotti Junior outside his school and my own personal favourite was the Steve Foster incident when Fozzie sat in his office and said to him.
"David you are either the most switched on bloke to ever be at the Albion or you are the biggest **** this club has ever seen, and from where I'm sitting you don't look that intelligent"
He had to move away from Sussex and as a result became estranged from his son, which something as a parent I would find very hard to comprehend.
And perhaps worse of all he had that life sentence of always having to look over his shoulder, all over the world, because the Albion support gets everywhere, and there would always be that chance be it in a bar, hotel lobby, airport, restaurant in fact anywhere, that he would bump into one of us and get the verbal abuse he so richly deserved.
But 20 years on, we've lost too many good people, Robert Eaton, Roy Chuter, Sarah Watts, my mum and countless others that today I truly cannot celebrate a death, even his.
History will ultimately be the judge.
bernster
New member
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
It's just a mindless soundbite.
Doc Lynam
I hate the Daily Mail
- Jun 19, 2011
- 7,208
As I've said i bet he earned a pretty penny from the venture but in the end a good mans character and actions are priceless.
Dreaming Spires would appear to have some difficulty in posting to this thread again, so do make sure that the opportunity to make posts that he can't rebut is not abused.
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,647
I take your point, but it is a lot easier to feel conciliatory twenty-odd years on, safe in the Championship with a shiny stadium and a loyal, committed chairman. Thanks to Tony Bloom I can take my 9 year old son to the Amex and he can see Brighton play. I find myself thinking less about Bellotti's passing and the bad he did and more about the good that Dick Knight and Tony Bloom have done.
The-Libertine
Active member
- May 2, 2006
- 258
Nice to hear some good news.
Not ultimately. The man was a ****ish **** Ian.
Lenny Rider
Well-known member
- Sep 15, 2010
- 5,444
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I'm not conciliatory, I just feel I can't celebrate a death, even his, was the same with Maggie and Saddam
I'm not conciliatory, I just feel I can't celebrate a death, even his, was the same with Maggie and Saddam
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,647
I know what you mean, and yet if Sepp Blatter dropped dead tomorrow I'd be raising a glass in celebration.