Coolest Celebrity Fan

[Kowalski]

Bangor City have Gruff Rhys,
Port Talbot sort of have Michael Sheen (he's president),
Tottenham had Peter Cook

Who are the others?

[Renart]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Sheffield Wednesday have Jarvis Cocker and Martyn Ware. (I think those two are cool, at least.)

[Amor de Cosmos]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

The R's have both Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman.

Which has got to give us serious cred with the earnest muso crowd.

[Cavalry Trouser Tips]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Don't forget Mick Jones and... er... Pete Doherty.

[Guest]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

[Amor de Cosmos]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

I used Doherty on the uncoolest thread. Can't be on both, worlds collide if that happens. Mick Jones is a regular so I'm told and Jeff Beck still occasional — though how cool he is these days would be moot.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

The above are all well and good, but we've got:

[Wizard in Black]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

NUFC have W'Indies legend Jimmy Adams, seems a bit random cool dude tho nonetheless, decent pundit too.

For non-football teams NY Yankees reign supreme, Jack Nicholson, Larry David, Mick "Mankind" Foley, Jay-Z and err Spike lee, who of course I'd place in the other thread.

[Reed John]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Arsenal have Matthew Good, the Canadian musician and left-wing blogger. Not the actor. Maybe the actor too, but I dont know.

[rockford]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Orient have Daniel Mays, actor from Ashes to Ashes, Made in Dagenham, Vera Drake etc
And James Garner of course

[Bored Of Education]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Bath City have Ken Loach.

Gruff Rhys and Guto Pryce are both Bluebirds hence the "I'll Be There" single

[Borracho]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

For Celtic, it has to be Paul Buchanan, co-creator (some would say chief creator) of two of the most beautiful records ever made.

I was introduced to him in a nightclub, by a mutual friend, about a decade ago. I started telling him how great I thought A Walk Across The Rooftops was. He smiled, having heard it all before. He then said: "George tells me you're a Celtic man." We spent the next two hours talking about Lubo Moravcik, Frank McAvennie, the Maestro and a succession of useless managers.

If any of you ever meet him, he is astoundingly good company. But talk football instead of music.

[Renart]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Wizard in Black wrote:

For non-football teams NY Yankees reign supreme, Jack Nicholson, Larry David, Mick "Mankind" Foley, Jay-Z and err Spike lee, who of course I'd place in the other thread.

Stanley Kubrick was a Yankees fan, but a lot of their celebrity fans are horrible: Henry Kissinger, Billy Crystal, Rudy Giuliani. And Spike Lee grew up a Mets fan, but switched when the Yankees began to be more successful, which is lame.

P.G. Wodehouse was a Mets fan, which is hard to beat. Other celebrity Mets fans are Viggo Mortensen, Jerry Seinfeld, Belle and Sebastian, Julian Casablancas, and Jon Stewart. And Samuel Beckett apparently once watched a Mets game, utterly absorbed, as a guest of his publisher, Barney Rosset. (Insert "theater of the absurd" joke here.)

[Chinola]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Notts County have Shane Meadows

[Errorist Sympathiser]

Coolest Celebrity Fan



Being black somewhere else
Is just being black everywhere,
I don’t have an identity crisis.
At least once a week I watch television
With my Jamaican hand on my Ethiopian heart
The African heart deep in my Brummie chest
And I chant Aston Villa, Aston Villa, Aston Villa,
Believe me, I know my stuff.
I am not wandering dark into the rootless future
Nor am I going back in time to find somewhere to live
I don’t want to live in a field with blades of grass
That look just like me, near a relic like me
Where thunder is just like me, talking to someone just like me,
I don’t just want to have sex with me, diversity is my pornography,
I want to make politically aware love with the rainbow.
Dig dis
Dis is me.
I don’t have an identity crisis.

[treibeis]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

[Houdi Elbow]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Sheffield Wednesday have Jarvis Cocker and Martyn Ware.

I've never been aware of JC actually going to a game and Martyn campaigned for Ken Bates to take over the club.

[dotmund]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

All of Brighton's famous fans are cool. However, the coolest ones are definitely John Snow and Des Lynam.

Fatboy Slim tries too hard, you know?

[Er Liquidatore]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

QPR also have OTF favourites Brother, so they clearly win.

[Er Liquidatore]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Anyway, we've got some cracking additions to both of these celeb fan lists.

Steve Jones of Pistols fame
Trevor Nelson
Busta Rhymes (apparently)
Some famous house DJ/producer whose name I can't remember - used to do gigs in our trophy room in the late 80s early 90s. There was a lot of space after all.

[Andy C]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Hartley Sebag-ffiennes.

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Stan Boardman. End of thread

[Jorge Porbillas]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Bored of Education wrote:

Gruff Rhys and Guto Pryce are both Bluebirds hence the "I'll Be There" single

Gruff is a Bangor City fan, and, despite what it says in that beeb article he is from Bethesda not Cardiff. Guto and Bunf are the Cardiffians in the band. Gruff, Dafydd and Cian are Gogs

It was Guto who played on the I'll Be There single if I remember correctly wasn't it?

[Gangster Octopus]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

It depends on your age as to whether you think that the bass-player from Muse is cooler than the Chuckle Brothers or vice versa. Personally I'm a sucker for "To me, to you"...

[born toulouse]

Coolest Celebrity Fan

Even Iron Maiden fans argue about the coolness of Janick Gers but in the wider world of heavy metal guitar wankery he is deeply cool. He is from Hartlepool, regularly visits his Mam who still lives there and watches Pools whenever he can. Last time I saw him at a match he had a hat on, hair like that can be embarrassing when you aren't on stage.