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If the previous player died on the pitch, yes.
Other than that? Move on.
*edited as it made NO SENSE*
Other than that? Move on.
*edited as it made NO SENSE*
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[Albion] Tonight, should the club announce it's 'retiring' the number 2 shirt?
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schmunk
"Members"
Dick Knight...?
- Jul 10, 2003
- 25,852
You've achieved what Johnson can't - you've managed to unite Brexiteers and Remainers
Uniting the country, spouting bollox ? You'd be a shoo in.
Stat Brother for PM
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
If it was gonna go, at the end of Ken Tiler's time would have been appropriate.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,200
If retiring numbers became a thing, imagine the team line up announcements in a few hundred years time
In goal, wearing shirt number 1 .............hundred and ninety three is........
In goal, wearing shirt number 1 .............hundred and ninety three is........
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
No wallowing in the past is my view, of course we shouldn’t retire the no 2 shirt
Unless of course we are going to have marching bands, half time entertainment and commercial breaks every 15 mins with hot dog and burger sellers wandering amongst the crowd selling their wares and really really cheesy loud goal music *shudder*
Marching bands is an historically British thing though isn't? Wasn't that all part of the FA Cup final build up, the marching band ****ing up the turf before KO?
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
- 12,318
Agree we shouldn't retire but, to my knowledge, we've not ever retired a number so this would be a rare accolade. Unless you meant football in general needs to be a bit more tight fisted with this sort of thing.
Sussexscots
Fed up with trains. Sick of the rain.
No. Wearing an iconic number should inspire those players that have it in future.
No, never
studio150
Well-known member
No. And while we're about it, bring back 1 to 11 shirt numbers. At least then if a player wearing number 2 was in left midfield for example, you'd know he shouldn't be there
Not always true, I'm sure in the 70s or early 80s Liverpool were playing a Eastern Bloc team in the European Cup and got the players to swap their usual numbers in an attempt to confuse the opposition
studio150
Well-known member
Almost as bad an idea as Reading giving a number to the home crowd
Meade's Ball
Well-known member
Or adapt their names to always have a Brunoness to them.
Montuno
Webstuno
Brunardo
etc
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,192
No. Else there would be a good (better?) case to retire nos. 8 and 25. Would be no end to it.
Geestar
New member
Always been a fan of this in basketball
But not sure you can now start it in football
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But not sure you can now start it in football
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theboybilly
Well-known member
No 
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,192
Seem to vaguely recall that in the Withdean era the club did a thing whereby a fan - or somebody with more money than sense - paid to be allocated a squad number for the season. Or did I imagine that?
Should have retired it in 86-87 when Les Berry wore it. Preferably retiring him at the same time.