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Some rewriting of history going on here. He was bar 2 (3 at a push) seasons utter dogshit for us and an even worse captain. I wish him all the best in retirement but for me won’t be remembered as a class act more someone who was a liability, dirty, inconsistent and had no leadership skills at all. 

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5 hours ago, ManDoon said:

Yeah he had a season of arguably being a top 10 CB in europe imo. He was so good on the ball, classy player. Also this:

 

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This remains one of my all-time favourite football pictures :lol:

 

 

Loved Colo, had his name on my shirt and was an absolute beast in his prime

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I didn’t really like him, not that good and often running around out of position because of lack of trust in his (admittedly shite) teammates. 
 

Also remember Alan Smith having to win headers in front of him from opposition goal kicks etc, he was that shaky in the air when he first arrived. 
 

OK defender but I don’t have any particular affection for him.

 

 

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I thought he was great when he got up to speed. The year we finished fifth he was brilliant and the second best cb in the league behind Kompany. Classy as fuck on the ball too. There’s a great clip on YouTube of him and Tiote doing a little one-two flick over Rooney’s  head.
 

No doubt about it though when he was bad he was really bad. He struggled initially and towards the end of his career here with the physical side of the game. We should have paired him up with someone better and we might have got a bit more out of him, but instead we left him with Mike Williamson in a poor Alan Pardew team.

 

 

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Overriding memory of him in that first season is him being terrorised by Sami Hyypia in a 1-5 howking at SJP,he went close with headers twice before scoring an easy 3rd. Colo ended up shoving Taylor into him to try and deal with it after that. He did massively improve after that, as others have pointed out

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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. 

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11 minutes ago, Stal said:

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. 

Colo or Ian W?

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Very classy defender who needed a lot of protection because of his blatant physical limitations. He rarely got that here.

 

3 very good seasons, including in the Championship where he was so many steps ahead of the shit he faced it was embarrassing. Unfortunately he was so slow and unfortunately uninterested by the end he descended to a glaring liability. Shame it concluded like that. 

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4 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

You must’ve forgotten about the countless times we lost 4-0 or worse getting caught with balls over the top.

Or the countless times (more often than not) we didn’t! 

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