View Full Version : Beggar on Brixton Hill - footie star?
I'm talking about the beggar who's always at the lights at the top of Brixton Hill, near the big pub on the corner asking car drivers for money.
I was on the bus with my mate who said that this guy was a famous French international player a decade or two ago who just lost his marbles and ended up there instead. So famous that my friend couldn't remember his name :rolleyes:
He (my mate) absolutely swears it's the truth, and isn't a bullshitter so I'm appealling to any Urbanites who a) regularly go up Brixton Hill know who I'm talking about, and who b) have a good knowledge of French football players of yore.
Disproove my mate!
I wish! I need a good laugh.
Dubversion
14-11-2007, 12:20
always feel really sorry for that guy - can't do well out of people at that junction :(
skyscraper101
14-11-2007, 12:26
Perhaps you could offer him some cash and get a pic of him. Then send it to some French journo and they can run a campaign to repatriate him, and give him some support from the domestic league?
I can't see a famous football player not being offered some help here from the FA in similar circumstances. iirc my grandad got his knees sorted out by the FA after injuring them playing professionally in the fifties.
You should post this in the sports forum and let them work it out; there can't have ben that many black French internationals 20 years ago.
CharlieAddict
14-11-2007, 13:21
you mean the 'chicken-box man?'
he must have one of the hardest jobs ever.
he's fit as fuck though.
i remember seeing him sprinting up brixton hill without breaking a sweat.
pretty good going for a traffic begger.
bluestreak
14-11-2007, 13:25
If it is, then he should play for our local homeless football team...
Ms Launderette, this might cheer you up...
http://www.b3ta.com/links/I_don_t_want_to_ruin_the_surprise_with_a_description
Minnie_the_Minx
14-11-2007, 13:26
I often see him taking a piss
CharlieAddict
14-11-2007, 13:41
after a hard day's work, he buys a 1/4 pounder at the sturgeon fish bar.
when he goes in, he don't say a thing, puts a whole bunch of change on the counter and has the common decency to stand outside (cos he smells of piss and beer).
gee...i've probably seen him more than i've seen my neighbours!!
he's been doing traffic begging for 2-3 years now...possibly longer.
Mrs Magpie
14-11-2007, 13:43
He works the queue outside Wynne Road Sorting Office on Saturday mornings as well.
If it is, then he should play for our local homeless football team...
Ms Launderette, this might cheer you up...
http://www.b3ta.com/links/I_don_t_want_to_ruin_the_surprise_with_a_description
It's not quite Eric Cantona on the streets, but that's pretty funny.
He has an interesting technique, Stand by car drivers window, if there is a choice he picks a woman, stare with hand out. Get quid, buy Brew.
Andy the Don
14-11-2007, 15:07
Ex French international twenty years ago.. Been at the junction of Brixton Hill & the south Circular for the past three years..??
Tigana's fallen on hard times ever since Fulham sacked him then..
Nah, he's been around a lot longer than three years too.
xsunnysuex
14-11-2007, 15:48
On the subject of beggers. Has anyone seen anything off the ginger chap with the bad foot that used to hang aroung the Ritzy and the academy? Haven't seen him for ages.
On the subject of beggers. Has anyone seen anything off the ginger chap with the bad foot that used to hang aroung the Ritzy and the academy? Haven't seen him for ages.
No I haven't. I hope he's alright and everything but I'm glad not to have seen him - he used to give me so much fucking hassle it's untrue.
On the subject of beggers. Has anyone seen anything off the ginger chap with the bad foot that used to hang aroung the Ritzy and the academy? Haven't seen him for ages.
Weirdly enough, I saw him on Wednesday night in Piccadilly. He's still an aggressive twat.
I'm talking about the beggar who's always at the lights at the top of Brixton Hill, near the big pub on the corner asking car drivers for money.
I was on the bus with my mate who said that this guy was a famous French international player a decade or two ago who just lost his marbles and ended up there instead. So famous that my friend couldn't remember his name :rolleyes:
He (my mate) absolutely swears it's the truth, and isn't a bullshitter so I'm appealling to any Urbanites who a) regularly go up Brixton Hill know who I'm talking about, and who b) have a good knowledge of French football players of yore.
Disproove my mate!
I think it's bollocks - I used to work with a woman from Streatham (she's lived there all her life) who went to school with him and she said he'd just had a very hard time and gone off the rails when he was younger. Poor sod :(
I think it's bollocks - I used to work with a woman from Streatham (she's lived there all her life) who went to school with him and she said he'd just had a very hard time and gone off the rails when he was younger. Poor sod :(
Alright, I'm inclinded to believe you/your work pal. Never mind :(
He's still an aggressive twat.
Aggressive? He's a gentle giant!
Alright, I'm inclinded to believe you/your work pal. Never mind :(
That's the way urban myths go.
1. Someone says something quite extraordinary
2. Someone says they know someone local and it never happened
3. Some people remain loyal to 1 and some switch to 2.
It can never be disproven. To me, he's always a L'OM midfielder from the late 80s.
Aggressive? He's a gentle giant!
The ginger guy who used to beg in Brixton? I beg to flippin differ.
poster342002
21-11-2007, 10:39
The ginger guy who used to beg in Brixton? I beg to flippin differ.
Is he the one who used to stand in the middle of the pavement just beyond the Barclays bank, flailing his arms out wide to make it impossible to pass him and hurling a load of foul-mouthed abuse at anyone declining to give him money?
Sounds like him. He spat in my (fifteen year old) face because I wouldn't give him any change after he accosted me in a similar fashion. Gentle giant my arse.
Mrs Magpie
22-11-2007, 22:51
The ginger guy who used to beg in Brixton? I beg to flippin differ.Innit, he threatened to knife me at the cashpoint.
Mrs Magpie
22-11-2007, 22:56
I will elucidate...he was hassling only women at the cashpoint and waiting for them to get their cards in and then getting aggressive and saying stuff like "I need money if I don't get money it might make me knife someone". I think he's been ASBOed.
Mrs Magpie
22-11-2007, 22:57
Gentile giantI suspect that's a typo
I suspect that's a typo
:o
poster342002
23-11-2007, 10:04
This delightful charecter became one of the reasons somemone I was seeing at the time refused to come to Brixton anymore (the shooting at McDonalds was the final straw for her - she, rightly, said this was not fucking normal or sane for any neighbourhood). Every time she came to visit, you could guarantee someone would lurch at us at some point making hassle - you'd have to keep a hawk-like eye out for the known pains-in-the-arse and perform sudden zigzagging maneuvres to avoid them.
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