The OFFICIAL NSC Final Tribute To Steve Ovett Statue Thread

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

During a rare gap in the clouds on Saturday, THPP decided to pay one final tribute to the late great departed Steve Ovett statue, abducted by thieving pikeys for scrap metal.

Lest we forget, here is Stevie the LEGEND in all his Albion glory…

and now here, sadly is Stevie the LEG END

So… one final tribute on behalf of THPP, NSC and BHAFC.

Rust In Pieces Stevie.

 

[dougdeep]

It was a crap statue anyway.

 

[Dullard433]

It was a crap statue anyway.

You sound nearly as dull as me. Fancy stewarding?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

It was a crap statue anyway.

My art teacher at school made it, how dare you!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My art teacher at school made it, how dare you!

Is this him?

(from the Argus archives)

'Sculptor Peter Webster, then a teacher at Cardinal Newman School, spent four years creating the £25,000 piece.

The city council lent him a studio in the Old Slipper Baths to use while he crafted the statue, which was paid for by private sponsors.

Mr Webster later created the statue of Max Miller which stands in New Road.

Mr Ovett's tribute has been the victim of two previous attacks.

Just six weeks after it was unveiled in 1987 vandals pushed it face down into the mud, and eight years later it was splattered with white paint.

During the nineties it was subjected to numerous humiliations by pranksters who stuck an Alf Garnett moustache on it, covered it in a woolly jumper and dressed it as a schoolgirl.'

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

If they ever made another then it should stand at Withers, where he ran.

 

[bigc]

Why didn't they do that to the Max Miller statue instead?

 

[smudge]

I would like to get hold of the pikey scum that did it & melt those fuckers down!