[Football] Birmingham City retire #22 shirt

[Grombleton]

I totally get retiring a shirt for a club or sporting legend (Bobby Moore, Wayne Gretzky) or for posthumous reasons and fully support that.

For a kid that can't legally buy a drink in this country, has played less than 50 times for the club? What a ****ing ridiculous idea.

 

[schmunk]

Brighton retired no.20

The number 20 March plays in...?

 

[Icy Gull]

Desperate and absolute bollocks

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

The number 20 March plays in...?

That's the one

 

[Swansman]

Silly decision. I could see it getting revoked in the not too distant future...

 

[Motogull]

 

[rippleman]

I'm with you on this. i Think it's a classy tradition.

Would have liked to have seen 2 retired at the end of last season.

Absolutely! And I'm surprised we didn't. A long-serving club captain, a total inspiration, who lead the club to its greatest success in 40ish years, on his retirement from playing.

Not a bloody kid who has hardly had a game and has been moved on. #tinpot

 

[Stat Brother]

It's not as if we're ever going to return to 1-11.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I hear Leeds are doing the same for the number 5 shirt.

 

[Frutos]

I don't have any objection to the general idea - if we did it for 25, for example, I wouldn't object.

This case seems rather at the barmy end of the spectrum though.

 

[Raphael Meade]

Hahah this is very special

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Can we please NEVER do this

 

[Deadly Danson]

Can we please NEVER do this

Completely agree and disagree with the posters that say we should retire number 25 or number 2 for example. What a load of old balls. Love those players but retiring a shirt unless in exceptional, tragic circumstances is totally ridiculous.

 

[Swansman]

Completely agree and disagree with the posters that say we should retire number 25 or number 2 for example. What a load of old balls. Love those players but retiring a shirt unless in exceptional, tragic circumstances is totally ridiculous.

Yup. Ok, if you have someone like Paolo Maldini, a one club man born in the city of his club and making 1000 appearances, I could understand it as well, but it really needs to be exceptional stuff like that or it just gets silly.

 

[NooBHA]

Yup. Ok, if you have someone like Paolo Maldini, a one club man born in the city of his club and making 1000 appearances, I could understand it as well, but it really needs to be exceptional stuff like that or it just gets silly.

If someone paid me £23m for a £50 shirt I would have no problems handing it over.

They are obviously very proud to have helped produce a footballing talent age just 17 who has earned them that kind of money - Good for them I say

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I've never used this phrase before, perhaps I've been saving it up for this moment, but that is the most TINPOT thing I have ever come across in two decades of following football!

 

[beorhthelm]

so its not a spoof?

 

[GT49er]

The only fans en masse that suffer from premature ejaculation. Well they certainly did back in 2014 when they all came on the pitch.

I think you will find that was a premature evacuation ......................

 

[Farehamseagull]

Surely a Villa wind up?!

 

[pb21]

so its not a spoof?

Surely a Villa wind up?!

Seems not

"The 22 shirt has become synonymous with Jude, his rise to the first team aged just 16 years and 38 days and these qualities.

And as such the Club have decided it would be fitting to retire this number, to remember one of our own and to inspire others."

https://www.bcfc.com/news/articles/2020/bellingham-expresses-his-gratitude/