In Memoriam

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Postby UFGN » Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:39 pm

Arsenal Tone wrote:https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62472100


That's a big name gone

My mum was a fan. RIP
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby VCC » Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:36 pm

From the banks of the Ohio to Grease RIP still the hottest in black tights , RIP a-lot of men my aged heart throb and better voice than credited.
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby Ach » Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:38 pm

She was awesome in Grease. One of the goat films

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Re: In Memoriam

Postby starmandb » Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:56 pm

I thought she did a great version of Dylan’s if not for you
Bloody gorgeous as well
Gone too young
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby UFGN » Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:48 am

Raymond Briggs, illustrator and author

Creator of The Snowman

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Re: In Memoriam

Postby Zenith » Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:22 pm

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Steve Braddock: 1964-2022

It is with deep regret that we report the death of our Head Groundsman, Steve Braddock, after a long illness.

Born and bred an Arsenal fan, Steve joined the club in August 1987, after a chance meeting with George Graham, who informed him that the club was looking for a new lead to be responsible for the pitch at Highbury. After getting the job, he set about creating a playing surface at Highbury that would be the envy of the footballing world – and he achieved exactly that.

Under Steve, Arsenal’s pitch at Highbury became the game’s gold standard. He understood the art of preparing a pitch better than anyone in the game. Indeed, his skill and passion for groundskeeping earned him many individual accolades: numerous Premier League Pitch of the Season awards, ‘Turf’s Top Influencer’ in 2019, and in 2020 he became only the second person in history to enter the Grounds Management Association’s Hall of Fame.

Typically, any awards that came Steve’s way would be met with a self-effacing shrug followed by a few words praising those who allowed him to continue with his work at Arsenal and how wonderfully talented the next generation of young groundskeepers he mentored were.

Steve ensured the Highbury pitch was perfection for our final season at the stadium, but by then his role as Head Groundsman saw him dedicate most of his time to the 11 pitches at London Colney. Ensuring the pristine surfaces the players trained on during the week were an exact match for those they played on at the weekend.
His dedication to the Arsenal pitches was truly remarkable – every Arsenal colleague who knew Steve well has a story to tell about the great lengths he would go to guarantee the pitches could be at their very best.

Always keen to discuss ideas with grounds teams from a whole range of sports, he knew that researching and embracing the latest technology and methodology could be beneficial to his playing surfaces and to those who worked alongside him. He was also passionate about finding sustainable solutions through groundskeeping, showing a great interest in biofuels for example.

Not only was Steve a truly great groundsman, he was also a wonderful teacher and mentor. Many groundskeepers Steve has developed at the club over 30 years have progressed to the very pinnacle of their profession – all educated and still inspired by the best in the business.

And Steve’s mentor? He always said that after losing his parents at a young age, Arsene Wenger became a father figure and the pair enjoyed a wonderfully productive relationship, remaining very close until the end of Steve’s life.

As we emerged successfully into the bright, new Premier League era, it’s no understatement to say that one of the key characteristics associated with the era was that our pitch – be it at Highbury or Emirates – was perfection – ‘the carpet’ as it became known to many. This admirable aspect of our identity is because of Steve Braddock.

He once said that when he went to his first ever match at Highbury as a boy, the one image that stuck in his memory wasn’t the players, or the crowd, but ‘the beautiful grass’. Steve dedicated his life to making sure our grass was always beautiful, for which we are eternally grateful.

Our thoughts are with Steve’s wife Shuk, their daughters Jasmine and Lily, Steve’s sisters Janice and Susan, and all Steve’s family and friends.

In Steve’s memory, our men’s first team will be wearing black armbands at our match at Bournemouth on Saturday.

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Re: In Memoriam

Postby Ach » Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:29 pm

Remember Highbury being the best pitch in the world

He had a lot to do with that
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby starmandb » Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:24 pm

He sure did
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby VCC » Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:15 am

Rip great article that one Zenith, her certainly made the most beautiful lawn
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby UFGN » Sat Aug 20, 2022 12:25 am

I remember us playing a Greek team at Highbury, who apparently spent most of their allocated training session staring at the pitch in disbelief because they'd never seen anything like it. They had been keeping an eye on the London weather forecast and assumed they'd be playing in a mudbath.
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby Va-Va-Voom » Sat Aug 20, 2022 2:30 am

Highbury's pitch was perfection.

Amazing dedication.

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Re: In Memoriam

Postby UFGN » Sat Aug 20, 2022 3:30 am

I've just remembered an anecdote which in hindsight was probably about Steve Braddock

When I was about ten (1989 ish) I attended a two week long "football school" at Arsenal and one of the highlights was a tour of Highbury. For part of it we were shown round by none other than Theo Foley.

When we asked him if we could go on the pitch he peered over at a groundsman to see who it was. He muttered to a coach who was with him "is it him?" .......to which the other guy answered "no I don't think he's here today"

Foley looked panic stricken that he was about to be caught letting a bunch of kids walk on Steve's pitch.......this is the Assistant Manager of Arsenal we're talking about :rofll: :rofll:

I think it's fair to say Steve had a, er, reputation
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby Zenith » Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:44 pm

https://www.reuters.com/world/mikhail-g ... 022-08-30/
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 92 -agencies

MOSCOW, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 92, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying.

Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War Two and bring about the reunification of Germany.

When pro-democracy protests swept across the Soviet bloc nations of communist Eastern Europe in 1989, he refrained from using force - unlike previous Kremlin leaders who had sent tanks to crush uprisings in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

But the protests fuelled aspirations for autonomy in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, which disintegrated over the next two years in chaotic fashion.

Gorbachev struggled in vain to prevent that collapse.

On becoming general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, aged just 54, he had set out to revitalise the system by introducing limited political and economic freedoms, but his reforms spun out of control.

His policy of 'glasnost' - free speech - allowed previously unthinkable criticism of the party and the state, but also emboldened nationalists who began to press for independence in the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere.

Many Russians never forgave Gorbachev for the turbulence that his reforms unleashed, considering the subsequent plunge in their living standards too high a price to pay for democracy.

After visiting Gorbachev in hospital on June 30, liberal economist Ruslan Grinberg told the armed forces news outlet Zvezda: "He gave us all freedom - but we don't know what to do with it."
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby UFGN » Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:03 pm

It could have been so different for Russia after the curtain fell. A fresh start. Instead they got a toxic brand of communism followed immediately by an equally toxic quasi-dictatorship, barely concealed behind a mask of democracy. Their people have been robbed and gas-lit at every turn.

The harm that selfish men do in pursuit of money and power..... willing to throw their whole country under a bus in the process
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Re: In Memoriam

Postby Highbury Hillbilly » Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:21 pm

UFGN wrote:It could have been so different for Russia after the curtain fell. A fresh start. Instead they got a toxic brand of communism followed immediately by an equally toxic quasi-dictatorship, barely concealed behind a mask of democracy. Their people have been robbed and gas-lit at every turn.

The harm that selfish men do in pursuit of money and power..... willing to throw their whole country under a bus in the process


The robbery doesn't get talked about as much as it should, because they all parked their money in the countries whose papers people trust. And Switzerland.

They tried to shift to capitalism overnight, heavily influenced by US economic theorists and got robbed blind by the connected few that knew the rules of the game.

The reason they voted in a strongman nutter like the poot is because they had a drunkard asleep at the wheel while all this was happening. Their trajectory could still have been different if the US stayed out of Iraq and didn't give Mr. KGB an opening.
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