Daft questions (football edition)

[NSG]

If a player goes down injured then the game continues and the physio can come on.

[gbandit]

Does Obafemi Martins never reference us / visit / have any affiliation with us anymore? A lot of our former players, especially strikers who got a decent number of goals talk very fondly of us but I never hear anything about or from Martins 

[Kaizero]

23 hours ago, gbandit said:

Does Obafemi Martins never reference us / visit / have any affiliation with us anymore? A lot of our former players, especially strikers who got a decent number of goals talk very fondly of us but I never hear anything about or from Martins 

 

To be fair, Martins was here for three years and hardly did anything iconic during that time or went on to be remembered as an "iconic" ex-NUFC player, so him not actively referencing his time here or being "brought back" for anything in Newcastle doesn't feel weirder than us not bringing the likes of Sebastien Bassong or Xisco back for anything (or them not referencing their time at NUFC much in interviews).

[Kaizero]

1 minute ago, Kaizero said:

 

To be fair, Martins was here for three years and hardly did anything iconic during that time or went on to be remembered as an "iconic" ex-NUFC player, so him not actively referencing his time here or being "brought back" for anything in Newcastle doesn't feel weirder than us not bringing the likes of Sebastien Bassong or Xisco back for anything (or them not referencing their time at NUFC much in interviews).

 

Sidenote: I just looked up the 08-09 season Wiki and went down a Wikihole of looking up what happened to the players we had that season (and those we let go). Did anyone else know that James fucking Troisi signed for Juventus in 2012, four years after leaving us without a single appereance?  

 

Has to be said that he went on to make exactly zero appearances for Juventus as well, but still... what the fuck?

[Fak]

1 minute ago, Kaizero said:

 

Sidenote: I just looked up the 08-09 season Wiki and went down a Wikihole of looking up what happened to the players we had that season (and those we let go). Did anyone else know that James fucking Troisi signed for Juventus in 2012, four years after leaving us without a single appereance?  

 

Has to be said that he went on to make exactly zero appearances for Juventus as well, but still... what the fuck?

Aye. And I think (without googling) he ended up at Galatasaray too maybe?

[Kaizero]

3 minutes ago, Kaizero said:

 

To be fair, Martins was here for three years and hardly did anything iconic during that time or went on to be remembered as an "iconic" ex-NUFC player, so him not actively referencing his time here or being "brought back" for anything in Newcastle doesn't feel weirder than us not bringing the likes of Sebastien Bassong or Xisco back for anything (or them not referencing their time at NUFC much in interviews).

 

Sidnote #2: Obafemi Martins has a 19 year old son named Kevin Martins that's currently on the books for Monza in the Serie A (though playing for their U19s). He goes by the nickname "King Kev"  

[Fak]

4 minutes ago, Fak said:

Aye. And I think (without googling) he ended up at Galatasaray too maybe?

I googled it and I was totally wrong. But did end up in turkey. 

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What footballer has the best for being a footballer, for commentary purposes etc. 

 

As I was just watching the EFL highlights, and Rak-Sakyi is near enough perfect for whenever he smashes the ball into the back of the net