Beards?

[nightporter]

Whats going on with footballers and beards lately? 

[nightporter]

 

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Simple two words

Convert muslims

[RedJ]

Ah, Brian Blessed must be a die hard Muslim then as well eh?

[River Don]

They're all hipsters, including Blessed of course. The oldest hipster in town.

[Dr Fundlekrotch]

#nobeardsinfootball

No place for them.  A good, strong 'tache, yes.  But not beards

[Donnywolf]

Whats going on with footballers and beards lately? 

They are playing at it ... Bring back Trevor Hockey I say

[LongbridgeMGRover]

Maybe it's a 70s thing, but I like to see a really hairy bushy one.

[Sheepskin Stu]

Maybe it's a 70s thing, but I like to see a really hairy bushy one.

So do I...


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[roversdude]

Not sure but saw John McGrath with one lets just say it doesn't suit him

[BillyStubbsTears]

There's only one reason to grow a beard. To look f***ing hard! Not as some bizarre fashion statement. You grow a beard to say:

1) I cannot be arsed spending time on personal grooming of a morning, when there are enemies to disembowel and  virgins to pillage.
2) I am so hard, I can even cope with the nigh-on unbearable itching that facial hair generates.

As I say, you do NOT grow a beard to be fashionable. That goes against the laws of nature.

That catastrophe that Clayton is growing is an abomination that will be brought up in post-apocalypse classrooms in caves, to teach feral kids how f***ing soft the world had gone by 2014, and how the ensuing global annihilation was simply a case of the world getting what was coming to it. He looks like a 12 year old with a tub of hair gel, magnetic paint on his chin and a bag of ginger coloured iron filings. And I bet he paid more than the GDP of a sub-Saharan country to have the f**ker styled. The t**t.

Here's an example of a what a proper mester's beard looks like. Micky Droy, c.1980. A defender so hard that had he ever gone into a tackle with Alan Little, a new universe would have emerged from the collision.

[pib]

That catastrophe that Clayton is growing is an abomination that will be brought up in post-apocalypse classrooms in caves, to teach feral kids how f***ing soft the world had gone by 2014, and how the ensuing global annihilation was simply a case of the world getting what was coming to it. He looks like a 12 year old with a tub of hair gel, magnetic paint on his chin and a bag of ginger coloured iron filings. And I bet he paid more than the GDP of a sub-Saharan country to have the f***er styled. The t**t.

He grew it to raise money for the Huddersfield Town Foundation.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Ahh, that explains it. It's the "let's do something wacky and get people to give to charity" tendency.

[The Red Baron]

That catastrophe that Clayton is growing is an abomination that will be brought up in post-apocalypse classrooms in caves, to teach feral kids how f***ing soft the world had gone by 2014, and how the ensuing global annihilation was simply a case of the world getting what was coming to it. He looks like a 12 year old with a tub of hair gel, magnetic paint on his chin and a bag of ginger coloured iron filings. And I bet he paid more than the GDP of a sub-Saharan country to have the f***er styled. The t**t.

He grew it to raise money for the Huddersfield Town Foundation.

Wouldn't it have been easier just to let someone pour a bucket of cold water over his head? Or alternatively for him to do the Great North Run?

[RedJ]

Even easier for him to just put some money in himself...

[pib]

You'd better ask him.

I daresay he wasn't thinking about whether or not it would wind up a bunch of miserable old farts on a Doncaster Rovers forum when he chose to do it.

[BillyStubbsTears]

You'd better ask him.

I daresay he wasn't thinking about whether or not it would wind up a bunch of miserable old farts on a Doncaster Rovers forum when he chose to do it.

Typical footballer. No thought for other people.

[DaveDRFC]

Growing a beard of that magnitude is a damn sight harder than running a half marathon or having some water chucked over you. Isn't that what charity challenges are supposed to be, something difficult? Fair play to him, even if it does look a bit daft. Just the itching alone would drive me mental after a couple of weeks.

Besides, I thought they were just massive fans of that bloke off the bake off who chucked his ice cream in the bin.

[jucyberry]

I don't like those great big bush beards, nasty hairy things.. Nice close cropped beards are different. I do like them.....

Sideburns.. I love sideburns.. Not the Amos from Emmerdale Farm/Noddy Holder sidies, the Tim Curry in Rocky Horror show kind..Yum.

[Orlandokarla]

What's all this about itchy beards?
I've had a beard for over ten years and I've no clue what you're talking about.
Is there a great Doncaster-beard-lice-epidemic going on that I haven't heard about?
Did somebody forget to get dipped after their last trip to Oakwell? 

[RobTheRover]

Not sure but saw John McGrath with one lets just say it doesn't suit him

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Aye, I told him he looked like a Russian sailor.

[nightporter]

Must've been the beginning of the Beard Renaissance.

[scawsby steve]

I have to admit, I agree with all of BST's comments made at the time.

Horrible itchy scruffy things.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Simple two words

Convert muslims

Nearly dropped my phone when I saw his name pop up.

...Till I looked at the date.

[TonySoprano]

I think we've now passed peak beard for this generation .

Having said that, anyone who is anti-beard, are clearly jealous because they can't grow one themselves.