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would be a nice touch, one of your wonderkids thats stays for years and becomes a legend, i believe arsenal did the same for adams didnt they? and henry?
Problem is, If you have really long term games going, then eventually you're going to have no numbers left.
I did once have a player who was fan's player of the year for 10 years in a row, so he would be a dead cert for shirt-retirement. I don't think he had the same shirt number for all of those years, so this must be taken into account too. No point retiring shirt number 32 because it's the one he's wearing when he's about to retire and is not so key for the first team.
Always thoght of that as a strangely American idea.
Hate it mayself.
If Brazil retired the number 10 shirt because Pele retired, we would never have seen Zico in the 10 shirt..... somehow it wouldn't have been the same watching him in a number 9 shirt.
Originally posted by Ranson52:
Always thoght of that as a strangely American idea.
Hate it mayself.
If Brazil retired the number 10 shirt because Pele retired, we would never have seen Zico in the 10 shirt..... somehow it wouldn't have been the same watching him in a number 9 shirt.
Weren't the Brazilian FA going to retire the number 10 a couple years back after Pele fell out with them? Sort of a peace offering? Not sure, just remember reading about it at the time.
Originally posted by nick...:
Problem is, If you have really long term games going, then eventually you're going to have no numbers left.
That's sort of the problem the New York Yankees have. They've retired: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, and 49. The number 42 has been retired by all MLB teams, as well.
The Boston Celtics have the all-time lead, having retired 22: 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 35, and 00.
So, maybe not a purely American tradition, but certainly one we go overboard with at times!
Originally posted by Amaroq:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by nick...:
Problem is, If you have really long term games going, then eventually you're going to have no numbers left.
That's sort of the problem the New York Yankees have. They've retired: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, and 49. The number 42 has been retired by all MLB teams, as well.
The Boston Celtics have the all-time lead, having retired 22: 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32, 33, 35, and 00.
So, maybe not a purely American tradition, but certainly one we go overboard with at times! </BLOCKQUOTE>
Why? Because the number 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?
Or maybe I've been watching too much Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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