Re: Statue for Coleman?
Jack himself would have told you that he was embarrassed by the attention he got nearly half a century after the event "all I did was stand up and shout at people". There were people who did far more, at the time and subsequently, who didnt get the press. The problem is that any public needs a folklore to hang their hat onto and Jack became that. I'm not belittling the legend that is Jack because I know of his many other contributions to the expansion of ASFC over the years. A statue? He would haunt it himself!
The history books WILL rightly laud Coleman as the greatest manager in the rich and chequered history of the club. When his time is over then I will gladly shake a bucket for a statue collection
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