The legend that is Stuart Hall

[Guy Debord]

Alan Shearer et al, watch and learn...

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/Video/Features/Stuart-Hall-at-80

[ant london]

question (I assume) "What do the current players need to take them to the next level"


Stuart Hall: "A little fiery jack down the jockstrap or electrodes on the gonads"

utter legend and a total fruitcake to boot. ace!

[Blue in the face]

He's great to listen to on radio 5 on a Saturday.

That man can use his tongue like a $20 whore.

[Chinners]

Osymandias, king of kings ... etc etc

He'll be 80 this year (xmas day), top fella

edit: oops open original thread first before commenting on age etc

[Alex Sapphire]

like daedelus and icarus...

all those words, all that learning and this is still his best work.
godblessyouStuart

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[Chinners]

Ha ha ha, quality stuff

[john68]

Place: the swamp
Year: 1968
Occasion: the Manchester derby.

The rags topped the League, we were lying 2nd and a City win would take us to the top with only a few weeks of the season left. Tension was fever pitch and we Blues were packed like sardines in the scoreboard end at the swamp. Not long before kick off and the Kippax choir was winding up the noise levels to ear splitting proportions, to compete with the shitford end.
A teenaged blue spotted his mate and tried to shout him accross a few yards but got no response. He shouted several times. At that point, a group of Police, truncheons drawn , dived into the City fans and fought their way to hime and started to batter the lad round the head as they dragged him out. He'd done nothing wrong and it was a brutal unprovoked attack.
Despite the best efforts of the surrounding city fans, he was dragged over the wall and ontoi the cinder track round the poitch. The Police still battering him. It was carnage and the kid was bleeding heavily and doing his best to fight back. The City fans were going berserk...he was innocent. It was mayhem, photographers were snapping away to capture the bloodstained images for the next day's papers...
...from nowhere, this little fat feller appeared...STUART HALL. He got in between the fan and the Police and started to scream at the law. He was an absolute hero. he berated the Police...told them the kid was innocent...accused them of brutality. They had to stop and let the kid go...Stuart hall was like a little Jack Russell snapping at them. The kld was freed and allowed back into the stand. Stuart hall had stopped a riot, stopped a young City fan from being arrested for no reason and stopped him being beasten up by the Police too.
STUART HALL FOR ALL HIS DAFTNESS AND HIS CRAZINESS...WAS A FUCKIN HERO THAT NIGHT.

[john@staustell]

Who can forget him laughing constantly like a loon on 'It's a Knockout'/'Jeux sans frontieres'? He was much funnier than the guys he was hooting about!

[Guy Debord]

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[carl_feedthegoat]

I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET "IT,S A KNOCK OUT"...HE WAS THE SHOW...HIS LAUGHTER WAS SO CONTAGIOUS....


A FUCKING LEGEND.

[belleebee]

If anyone's interested, the original 5Live Stuart Hall Tribute broadcast is still available on BBC iPlayer. A contribution from Cookie (close to the beginning) and excellent banter and anecdotes from Franny and Buzzer (around 45 minutes in). The whole programme is a great listen but you need to put some time aside as it's 2 hours long in total.

[Goataldo]

Mad as a russian van.

Absolute legend.

[Sister of fu]

I met the guy when I was 16 playing in a footie match at Ewen Fields and he got a little obssesed with me and my mate Marie who were the two best players. He ended up doing a running commentry on the game and making a big song and dance every time me and maz got the ball. The guy is a complete loon but also bloody lovely esp as he was my no1 fan.

Ant we can watch the video of it on boxing day....comedy gold!!!!

[Bear60]

I WILL NEVER EVER FORGET "IT,S A KNOCK OUT"...HE WAS THE SHOW...HIS LAUGHTER WAS SO CONTAGIOUS....


A FUCKING LEGEND.

Yea that show was so funny , it was him who made it what it was , he is a complete loon mad as a March Hare. , but a really nice blokeand a City fanatic.

[simon12]

lOOKS NOWT LIKE 80 AND STILL FAF

[david yearsley]

Stuart Hall and Eddie Waring - what a fuclin combination - like gin and fuclin tonic - made for each other - I´m holding back tears of pure joy and laughter!

[Twobob]

Genius, Hilarious and utterly crazy - hope I'm as full of energy as he is when im 80 (I may not even make it close!)

Happy Birthday Stuart!

[BobbyJ1956]

He always made me laugh and always made me think and I hope the lovely old sod gets to see City win the Cup or the League (or both at once) before he shuffles off for good, and I hope the first happens soon and the other doesn't happen for a long time.