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What happens to a team if it retires too many numbers?
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What happens to a team if it retires too many numbers?
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Liverpool tried to retire numbers 1 thru 96 and only fielded 4 players in the 1990-91 season
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Team PR will slap together a story where a player "asks for permission" to use a lesser players retired number and they just continue business as usual. Not that many people care.
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Retiring numbers may be the worst tradition there is.
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>>68080846
How so?
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>>68080909
It is just a fucking number
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>>68081131
What's wrong with honoring the best players to ever grace your franchise/club?
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>>68080846
>mfw my team doesn't retire numbers
>not even unofficially
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>>68081278
You can do it in other fashion than retiring a fucking jersey number
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>>68081826
That's true, I suppose.

So what's your gripe with it?
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>anime on /sp/
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>>68081871
I'm guessing his issue with it is that future GOATs won't get to wear that number? If I were a GOAT I would like my successor to have the chance to prove himself too.

>>68082009
>all weeb stuff is anime
Wew lad
It's a browser game.
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If your Club retires numbers its officially a small club
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>>68080440

bit complicated but it works
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Add another digit.

"Number 483 really showed a lot of effort out there"
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Switch to hexidecimal to add 156 more possible numbers
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