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I always rated Simon Howarth thought he was a good goal scorer and all round player. His problem was he did not run round like a headless chicken chasing every ball and was branded lazy.
Meet Jordi Gomez, then – the modern day Simon Howarth
Minus the goals, of course.
Contrary to the belief of some, many Latics fans are able to tell the difference between a lazy player, one who appears to use the minimum amount of effort but in actual fact achieves alot & ones who quite simply aren’t good enough for whatever level latics are playing at.
Like it or not, Simon Haworth did fall into the lazt category – I certainly didn’t want him to run round like a headless chicken but he didn’t have the effort & application of say an Andy Liddell.
That was a shame because i genuinely feel the guy had more goal scoring talent in his little toe than most other Latics forwards I’ve ever seen but it was this lack of effort that prevented him from making it to the very top
On to his talents, unless I see any better I’ll maintain until the day that I die that he scored one of the best goals Wembley has ever seen. His equalising goal in the play off final against Gillingham was sublime – from memory without breaking his stride he flipped the ball up with the outside of his left foot & then scooped it over the defenders & keeper into the far corner of the goal. It came out of absolutely nothing & showed just what he was capable of.
If a player for United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal & co had scored that in an FA Cup final they’d have been talkign about it for the rest of eternityWhat he did in the middle of a game at wom against cardiff was just plain stupid
just watched that goal u was on about on youtube
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its true what you say about someone like rooney or messi scoring it no one would shut up about it hahaWatching that play off final footage on youtube & hearing Alan Brazil reminded me that it wasn’t just Latics fans who thought Haworth lacked the application his ability deserved
I remember the sky commentators slating him in the first half for his apparent lack of effort with Brazil (who used to play for Coventry) even claiming that was the only reason why Strachan (Coventry’s manager at the time) had let him go.
Brazil’s comment after the equaliser that he’d “been very critical of him in the first half but that was absolute class” (or somet like that) summed up the frustration most Latics fans felt about Haworth coz he could have been so much moreRoy Carroll
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Watching that play off final footage on youtube & hearing Alan Brazil reminded me that it wasn’t just Latics fans who thought Haworth lacked the application his ability deserved
I remember the sky commentators slating him in the first half for his apparent lack of effort with Brazil (who used to play for Coventry) even claiming that was the only reason why Strachan (Coventry’s manager at the time) had let him go.
Brazil’s comment after the equaliser that he’d “been very critical of him in the first half but that was absolute class” (or somet like that) summed up the frustration most Latics fans felt about Haworth coz he could have been so much moreJust watching it now, and even then the commentators were against us. Saying there was no contact when Sheridan was fouled for the penalty, and making out Sharp had ‘flattened’ Hessenthaler. He was nowhere near him! So the biasedness we have against us now, is nothing new.
Our lads were so shattered at the end, and when their player had the ball I remember shouting “Don’t let him cross it!”. Alas, we did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxgRGifxAg
I was in a state of shock after this, I wasn’t immediately gutted. But that came a day or two later.
Funny where the two clubs are now, eh?
I haven’t listened to it since yesterday but thought i remembered Brazil saying somet along the lines of hessenthaler jumping out of the way (& so no contact) but that he had to – he’s right in that case. There was no contact but there doesn’t need to be for it to be a foul & if he hadn’t jumped out of the way he’d have kicked him 6ft in teh air
he was talking b0ll0x about the foul on sheridan though
Watching that video, does anyone else see the resemblance between Super Stu Barlow and the less super Tomasz Cwyka?
Watching that back, I’d forgotten how good that Haworth goal was, and also how drunk I was that day.
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