There has been a lot of media coverage on social media for the finished full back tattoo on Andre Gray's back.

The tattoo represents people & events from the civil rights movement. Basically a celebration of those who helped shape his future.

Im not keen on the boss tattoo. He should have had that next to Dyche...

In seriousness though, hes had the tattoo to pay tribute to many people who fought for freedom and civil liberties etc. Then wears a pair of Hugo Boss boxers.

Hugo Boss being the company who manufactured The Nazis uniforms in ww2.

No gay rights activists?

I never knew Heaton did time, or have an afro!

Can't see the tat of the chip on his shoulder

Can't see why David James features ! !

MACCA wrote:I never knew Heaton did time, or have an afro!

I think you are mistaking Marcelo for Heaton

Not a very good photoshop of SD, just in case anyone thought I thought it was genuine.

cricketfieldclarets wrote:In seriousness though, hes had the tattoo to pay tribute to many people who fought for freedom and civil liberties etc. Then wears a pair of Hugo Boss boxers.

Hugo Boss being the company who manufactured The Nazis uniforms in ww2.

Point being? Mercedes Benz and BMW made engines for aircraft (amongst other things), MAN made diesel engines and vehicle components, Degussa once owned the firm that made Zyklon B (Degussa provided the anti graffiti coating for the Holocaust Memorial), Mengele made (up until recently when they were taken over) argicultural equipment.

There are many British companies that are in existence today that made materials for war, that subsequently killed civilians.

I'm surprised given his recent views on gays that there isn't a rainbow

What a shambles.

ClaretEngineer wrote:Point being? Mercedes Benz and BMW made engines for aircraft (amongst other things), MAN made diesel engines and vehicle components, Degussa once owned the firm that made Zyklon B (Degussa provided the anti graffiti coating for the Holocaust Memorial), Mengele made (up until recently when they were taken over) argicultural equipment.

There are many British companies that are in existence today that made materials for war, that subsequently killed civilians.

I'm surprised given his recent views on gays that there isn't a rainbow

Id have thought a pair of calvin classics from jean junction wouldve been more apt.

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Id have thought a pair of calvin classics from jean junction wouldve been more apt.

Is that the old J-3?

Should gone with GAP undies. I was once told that it stood for Gay And Proud by a fellow from Preston, when he found that out he chucked all his GAP stuff away ...

The photoshops poor but it's still funny

Never really took to Gray,he did well for us,poor man's David Beckham wanna be,not interested on what he's done to his skin.....I like my footballers in the Sam Vokes mode.......no silly drawings on their body ..move on.

brigante wrote:The photoshops poor but it's still funny

Wasn't really worth the effort

How come no space for Lord Mansfield or William Wilberforce!!!

Classic..... I take it Mr Andre doesn't know Hugo Boss built his empire by designing the SS uniforms for Nazi Germany

CombatClaret wrote:No gay rights activists?

Alice will be along shortly!

I see the gingers have been excluded again

elwaclaret wrote: Classic..... I take it Mr Andre doesn't know Hugo Boss built his empire by designing the SS uniforms for Nazi Germany

See above

What a mess.

I can understand some of his icons being there, but can someone please explain why Deirdre Barlow's there on the left

clive40golf wrote:I can understand some of his icons being there, but can someone please explain why Deirdre Barlow's there on the left

Can I invoice you for a new phone as I've just spit coffee all over mine.

Where's the bag of cement?

I like it. Whoever did it is talented.

IndigoLake wrote:I like it. Whoever did it is talented.

Really?

dermotdermot wrote:Really?

Like them or not, that tattoo is superbly done.

Nice to see The Nutty Professor at the bottom of his back - not enough credit is given for what he did for black people across the world.

dermotdermot wrote:Really?

Yes. Do you think it's poorly done?

IndigoLake wrote:Yes. Do you think it's poorly done?

Okay, the likenesses, i.e. Bob Marley, are sharp but then Ronnie Wood can paint a good likeness but his pictures are rubbish. The same applies here. It's just a bloody mess.

Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?

dsr wrote:Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?

Jason Lee

I think its awful but then again i don't like tattoos at all on anyone, but each to their own. I do agree though its a talented person who has inked it

just a load of cliched black icons, theres something crass and ignorant about it, its like a dated civil rights by numbers for dummies montage. Horrendous.

clive40golf wrote:I can understand some of his icons being there, but can someone please explain why Deirdre Barlow's there on the left

looks more like Thora Hird to me,

also, i dont recall Ali ever fighting for the title on top of a bus, could've sworn it was Madison Square Garden.

Looks absolutely ridiculous....do people not wonder what they will look like in later years.I can't understand wby people feel the need to decorate their bodies, are they unhappy with how they look? Each to their own I suppose.

Just looks a knob.

Definite racist.

Never get the point of doing one on your back, ie the map in "prison break", HTF are you meant to see it.

Shoulder chip the on

His back, his money, his choice.

If you don't like his 'Icons' and you are into tattoos, probably best if you don't get one copied then.

If he had recently had Turf Moor tattooed somewhere on his body the response from some would be markedly different no doubt.

I'm ignoring the actual thread purpose a bit and not giving my opinion on this actual tattoo but how do tattoo artists do it?!

I can't draw that well on paper on a solid table with no wobbles. How do people do it on skin? Genuinely, do they draw it on paper first and trace it? Whenever I see a tattoo being done, on TV for example, It looks all thick and blotchy and then a few wipes reveals something like this underneath...

They use a transfer of the design and put it onto your skin, a bit like the Bazooka Joe one's and then go over it and fill in the colours if appropriate.

Must be harder tattooing people with 'looser' skin though.

"Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?"

Marcus Garvey - as far as I can tell

he plasters his back with figures who some say fought for equality and tolerance, ironic given his own views on minority groups.

EarbyClaret wrote:"Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?"

Marcus Garvey - as far as I can tell

I thought it was Idi Amin

EarbyClaret wrote:"Who's the man in the bottom left with the pineapple hat?"

Marcus Garvey - as far as I can tell

Yep - It's Marcus Garvey

Are you sure? I thought it was Jazzy B from Soul to Soul.