Dickie Bird

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  1. LiverpoolRed

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    Just this - whatever people think of him as a person he was undoubtedly the best umpire in the world and everyone in the game speaks very highly of him
     
    LiverpoolRed, Aug 5, 2016
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    Happy to talk to anyone. When we came out of the bus park building at Wembley in 2000, he was there talking to anyone who wanted a chat.
     
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    He's only famous within the cricketing world.

    He has a statue in Barnsley because he's possibly the finest ambassador the town's ever had.
     
    I'm Spartacus, Aug 5, 2016
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    Good point he sits near me in the West Stand is happy to talk to anyone - no snobbiness because he is famous
     
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    You "couldn't name one cricket umpire" and yet you know Dickie Bird is a cricket umpire!
     
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    Plus he's had the dignity never to have sunk to the depths of "I'm a Celebrity get me out of whatever crass TV programme this is" etc.
    Good on him.
     
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