# Stan Flashman

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{{short description|British ticket tout and football club chairman}}
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'''Stanley Flashman''' (3 December 1936<ref>England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007</ref> – 21 December 1999) was a British [ticket tout](/source/ticket_tout) and [football](/source/association_football) team chairman. He claimed he could obtain tickets for almost anything, from sports events to the Queen's Garden Parties at [Buckingham Palace](/source/Buckingham_Palace).<ref name=guardian1999>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/dec/24/guardianobituaries2|title=Stan Flashman|date=1999-12-24|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-12-15|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

He claimed he sold his first ticket for a game featuring [Tottenham Hotspur](/source/Tottenham_Hotspur) in 1960. He was known as '''Fat Stan''' due to being overweight all his life and, by 1975, weighed over 19 stone. He became Britain's number one ticket tout.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[Evening Standard](/source/Evening_Standard)|date=1 May 1975|page=43|title=Fat Stan gets a touch of class: I'm a ticket broker not a tout}}</ref>

==Chairmanship of Barnet==
In 1985, he took over as chairman of struggling [Barnet Football Club](/source/Barnet_F.C.) who were heading towards [receivership](/source/receivership). Buying the club cost him just £50,000. Almost immediately the team improved and, with [Barry Fry](/source/Barry_Fry) as manager, Barnet won the [Conference](/source/Football_Conference) and promotion to the [Football League](/source/Football_League) in 1991. Despite Fry's success as manager, he and Flashman had their differences and Fry was regularly sacked and then reinstated by Flashman.

He resigned as chairman in 1993 after they had narrowly avoided [bankruptcy](/source/bankruptcy) and expulsion from the Football League.

In 1995, [Barnet](/source/Barnet_F.C.) goalkeeper, coach and manager [Gary Phillips](/source/Gary_Phillips_(English_footballer)) said of Flashman, "A lot of people knock Stan and I had my run ins with him as much as anyone but at the end of the day he did save the place once. When he was good he was very, very, generous, and most of the time he looked after the lads well. Unfortunately when it went sour he, maybe, could have handled things a lot better".<ref>[Gary Phillips](/source/Gary_Phillips_(English_footballer)) testimonial, Barnet FC programme May 8, 1995</ref>

==Death==
Flashman died in 1999 after a long period of suffering from [Alzheimer's disease](/source/Alzheimer's_disease).<ref name=guardian1999/>

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Category:Deaths from dementia in England
Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in England
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