Is there anyone who you started off thinking was good/great but later grew to dislike? Or perhaps the other way round. I'll start you off with a bloke who I used to rate but now think is a smug, loudmouth muppet so far up his own rrse it's unreal.
I've got a zero to hero RK. I watched the England Uruguay World Cup game last summer in a group that included Lee Sharpe. I had a preconceived idea that he would be flashy, the big I am. I couldn't have been more wrong. In fact a more down to earth decent bloke you couldn't wish to meet. Got his round in but didn't chuck his money around and was a fan like any other when the game was on. Top fella.
-- Edited by smiler on Saturday 3rd of October 2015 04:24:08 PM
Not dislike as such but sorta crap in concert. I mean really crap. I went 3 times coz I loved him so much and wanted him to be good but he was worse each time.
You're really opening yourself up there ridge, lol
-- Edited by ian on Sunday 4th of October 2015 12:57:53 AM
You're right there, Ian. Actually I wish I hadn't put this thread up as I am trying to combat my innate negativity. Sorry to hear about the Dylan thing. I read a biography on him that reckons he's notorious for being really tight with his money. Ooops, there I go again.
I've got a zero to hero RK. I watched the England Uruguay World Cup game last summer in a group that included Lee Sharpe. I had a preconceived idea that he would be flashy, the big I am. I couldn't have been more wrong. In fact a more down to earth decent bloke you couldn't wish to meet. Got his round in but didn't chuck his money around and was a fan like any other when the game was on. Top fella.
-- Edited by smiler on Saturday 3rd of October 2015 04:24:08 PM
Well done, Smiler. I wish I had done the same. Zero to hero is much more rewarding.
TBH though, I'm mo less susceptible to a lapse of judgement these days...in fact several of them have been going on for years. Did I tell you about my fetish for...
-- Edited by ian on Tuesday 6th of October 2015 04:42:23 PM
TBH though, I'm mo less susceptible to a lapse of judgement these days...in fact several of them have been going on for years. Did I tell you about my fetish for...
-- Edited by ian on Tuesday 6th of October 2015 04:42:23 PM
I felt just the same about Bananarama. Well, about the one on the left.
-- Edited by ridgeway kid on Wednesday 7th of October 2015 08:08:26 AM
Back to OP - Michel Platini. I remember going to Villa to watch him play for Juve in the European Cup in about 82 or 83. I went just to watch him - I thought (still think) he was a magnificent footballer. He was brilliant, although on the night the Pole Boniek was the outstanding performer. Look at Platini. Playing politics in the murky world of football governance and tangled up in the Blatter scandal (whether his £1.5m consultancy fee was kosher or not we are yet to learn).
Cant think of any Heroes to Zeros, but I can swap it round the other way and say, Johnny Rotten. Saw the Sex Pistols in the Laffeyette Club, Wolverhampton back in '76 and thought he and the rest were a complete bunch of sh**s, wasters the lot of them. But I like to hear him (John Laydon) speak these days, I love his attitude and his apparent fearlessness against whoever he is up against, I like his philosophy on life and he can be a bit of a snappy dresser to. I've forgiven his assault on my ears 39 years ago.
