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John Terry is a bit of a weird one. I have absolutely no memory of him until he seemed to suddenly appear at about age 24 in the Chelsea defence and was immediately lauded as being really great. I had never heard of him, either as an up and coming prospect, regular on the subs bench or having periods of cover for some more established player. I can't even remember a loan report of him out at some local lower league club. To me, it felt like he literally just appeared out of nowhere.

Off topic but can I just say, I am loving this thread. It's the only time I've felt I could fully contribute something without asking questions. Loving reading through the opinions too, proper smiling whilst going through the thread. Thank you so much ???

They did this with quite a few players. Joe Cole and kieron dyer come to mind for starters. It was all about shoehorning in the current darlings than playing the best in those positions.

??? Aye, I bet he won a fair few free kicks using his run, trick, fall over routine then as well ?

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I watched him in his earlier years, fell out with football over the Ashley years and now watching him again in his current time at man u. I wasn't judging him all on his current stint.

Beckham - goodish player who had a good publicist and played for man u G Neville - good right back but other better right backs around at the time. Another who got the england call for man u connections Darren anderton - injured sort of maybe right winger(ish) who got his england call due to Venables spurs connections That spurs keeper who I've already forgotten the name of - another Venables golden boy who was picked for no other reason than the spurs/Venables connection Kennet fucking Anderson - meh Swedish player but the media wanked over him so much the likes of which Steve fucking Bruce could only dream of Colocini - I know he's a darling of some on here and I realize I am biased because he is from our tainted period of history but he was part of the apologists what with his questionable john carver letter, plus he was always "injured" and back in Argentina for Christmas Shaka Hislop - watched him at reading and thought he was a bit all at sea. No way he way better than Pav. But I love Pav so might concede this one Wes brown - oh you play for man u you say? Have a call up! Stan collymore - just didn't rate him. I can't remember why but I just didn't Peter crouch - oooh he's tall, let's cap him Emile heskey - utter wank. " but his work rate for england was so underated!" Yeah, fuck off. I remember being in the kabab shop coming from work and england were winning against France 1-0. He got brought on as a sub and I said "Awwww fuck, watch england lose now". By the time I'd got home (a 10 minute walk) France had won 2-1 Vinnie Jones - pretend media hard man that masks his many limitations and single handedly ruined the x-men Carlton palmer - I still can not for the life of me understand why he was picked above so many others. I mean, he didn't even play for man u Ahhhhh! Thank you for the chance to rant. Great therapeutic work out *edited for France v England score

This for me. Watched him a few times live at the match and obviously loads on tv. It's just "run, trick, run, failed trick, dive, whine and gesture at the ref" *disclaimer: remember I got more and more disinterested in football as the ashley years went on so maybe he improved but I've been watching him at man u and his attitude is just as bad as I remember.

1994 no? Pretty sure 90 was Italy. Otherwise totally agree

Didn't Brentford once have a pub on every corner of the ground? Also, howay the lads!!!

Always thought west brom were a nothing club with no identity. The fact that it seems a lot of them are wanking over this fat mess managing them just makes me go from feeling nothing about them to wanting them to actively lose. They should have learned after pardew. Did we dismiss the fans of his previous clubs? Nope. Did we dismiss the feelings of fans of clubs Bruce managed? Nope. We watched grimacing as he repeated the same things as he dragged us down to his level. Fuck the press who lift his belly and suck his cock and fuck west brom.

"West Stand B.O" https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/west-stand-b-o.1573205/ OK, let's run a book on how many posts before some amazing comic genius says "mags".

Just out of curiosity, who was captain for this match? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

You lot will know better than I, but isn't the technical director the staff oriented version of the Director of Football who deals with players?

No. Had to Google who that is.

Would never vote for Brentford simply as my favorite author bases a lot of his stories there.

He's *not* a fan of pardew!?!? He was famous for sucking him off (metaphorically) and being part of his cheerleader crew. What changed?

Reckon we can "Count" on this guy?

Media training: start every sentence with "so".

Just watched that twitter video. Bloody hell, that is an excellent piece of work and you can see how invested he is in the club. Possibly my new favourite player.

CTRL-H would save you microseconds like. Might be needed on deadline day.

Brilliant ?

Not a fan at all. Seemed like a proper pardew lover and he always seemed to have Christmas off with what seemed like spurious reasons. He is tainted with the stink of the previous odious regime.

You know one big positive in this? Well for me anyway. It's that I can relearn who players are, if they're any good and who they play for. All down to the expertise on this board so thank you everyone.

edwards is blatently making this up. Oh for sure we are talking to Carlos so there's some truth there (which everyone knows already) but the other "can't get a name" is just utter bollocks to try and make it sound like he knows something. Then he dives in with some more wankpheasantry by saying the team has been drilled badly by Rafa for so long, eagerly inviting the bruce comments like the slavering balloon faced shitgoblin that he is. He is just an awful shell of a supposed journalist. I very much dislike him now.

This is a full strength side more or less too! I am so annoyed.