Statues

[SK3Blue]

On 16/07/2023 at 08:21, Nalis said:

Also, probably one for the unpopular opinion thread, but the Vichai one before any past or present player or manager never sat comfortably with me, despite the what he's done for us and the tragic circumstances of the helicopter crash.

Agree, lots of obvious candidates such as Vardy, Morgan, Kingy was the first player to win 3 titles in 3 different leagues, Ranieri,

Birchenall has been a fantastic servant too.  

[Nalis]

1 hour ago, RonnieTodger said:

Insult to injury that Stoke proudly display a statue of him holding the World Cup. 

I find that Stoke statue a bit strange when he didnt win the world cup at Stoke. If it was a statue of a save or something then fine. Flip side is I guess its better he had one of him lifting the world cup than none at all seeing as we didnt bother.

[Simoken]

I think a statue of Rodgers would also be a great shout. yesssss

Edited 17 July 2023 by Simoken

[MattFox]

14 hours ago, BlueSi13 said:

The fact we don't have a statue of Gordon Banks blows my ****ing mind.

The club barely did anything when he died earlier if I remember correctly 

[justfoxes]

2 hours ago, Simoken said:

I think a statue of Rodgers would also be a great shout. yesssss

To throw eggs and Schitt etc at??

[justfoxes]

2 hours ago, Nalis said:

I find that Stoke statue a bit strange when he didnt win the world cup at Stoke. If it was a statue of a save or something then fine. Flip side is I guess its better he had one of him lifting the world cup than none at all seeing as we didnt bother.

Was it Fulham that had the Michael Jackson statue ?

Now that was one weird FUCHING statue for a football ground?? 

[Fox92]

On 15/07/2023 at 08:50, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Won't get any more statues under this ownership.

Only ones we will get will be something to do with King Power or Thailand.

[lcfc278]

2 minutes ago, justfoxes said:

Was it Fulham that had the Michael Jackson statue ?

Now that was one weird FUCHING statue for a football ground?? 

[Fox92]

14 hours ago, BlueSi13 said:

The fact we don't have a statue of Gordon Banks blows my ****ing mind.

Remember when he died all that happened was Birch read a little announcement.

 

King of Thaliand dies, nothing to do with us or football, yet we display it on the big screen inside the ground.

[RonnieTodger]

2 hours ago, Simoken said:

I think a statue of Rodgers would also be a great shout. yesssss

Already built one. Think it’s to scale too. 
 

[TJQuik]

8 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

Because whether you own the club or are just employed on exorbitant wages by said club, you are in it for yourself - come on you are not dumb, this is obvious   

The amount players are paid is immaterial, they're simply paid a fairer proportion of the money they make for their owners than we are.

 

On the other hand morally bankrupt billionaires use football clubs as a tool in their illicit schemes.

 

If we're building statues of players you can't argue that it isn't meritocratic, but putting up statues of billionaires just because they pumped some money into the club as part of their business strategy clearly isn't.

[FoxesTalker]

So in the last week, Birmingham have unveiled a statue of Trevor Francis outside their Kop Stand.

 

https://www.bcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/a-legend-immortalised-the-trevor-francis-statue

 

Given the greats that have played for our club, it's a real shame we don't have at least one statue of a former player.

[Spudulike]

It's been discussed at length about why we dont honour our past greats but have to say that I'm disappointed the club hasn't named the SK end as the Jamie Vardy Stand 

[Mike Oxlong]

Thought this was a thread about last seasons’ centre backs 

[RoboFox]

Who has the most statues? Got to be Arsenal, right? Pretty sure they build a statue every time someone pulls on the shirt. 

[davieG]

It reflects the fact we're more KPFC than LCFC.

[willie-bell-in-rothley]

On 17/07/2023 at 11:11, SK3Blue said:

Agree, lots of obvious candidates such as Vardy, Morgan, Kingy was the first player to win 3 titles in 3 different leagues, Ranieri,

Birchenall has been a fantastic servant too.  

What about Gordon Banks our only world cup winner ?

[purpleronnie]

8 minutes ago, willie-bell-in-rothley said:

What about Gordon Banks our only world cup winner ?

Stoke unveiled one and he played less games for them.

[Spudulike]

Just now, purpleronnie said:

Stoke unveiled one and he played less games for them.

And their statue is of him holding the Jules Rimet trophy that he won whilst playing for us!

 

Should've had him holding up the League Cup.

[The Fox Covert]

On 17/07/2023 at 12:39, Simoken said:

I think a statue of Rodgers would also be a great shout. yesssss

The KP is far too near the canal. I would give it 24 hours before it ended up in the mud at the bottom. It took Bristolians two centuries to get rid of the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston!

[filthyfox]

Weren't 10/11 of our players statues last season?

[Gamble92]

2 hours ago, RoboFox said:

Who has the most statues? Got to be Arsenal, right? Pretty sure they build a statue every time someone pulls on the shirt. 

Even though it's obviously a new stadium, you feel like they've properly acknowledged all of their history as you go round their ground. 

 

Could not be any more different to what we have. 

[Gamble92]

On 17/07/2023 at 01:00, BlueSi13 said:

The fact we don't have a statue of Gordon Banks blows my ****ing mind.

Even more of a piss take that another club has one of him with the World Cup he won when he ****ing played for Leicester!

[ealingfox]

Has the Vardy statue been raised formally with the club ie at an FCC meeting?

Edited 7 August 2025 by ealingfox

[pmcla26]

Think any announcement on it should be once he’s retired.