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there’s a clip on the internet somewhere of Bobby being interviewed not long after that goal in this thread was scored.
One of the journalists mentions the goal & then asks if he’s almost ready for the first time
Bobby replies with a very strong no & then says he’s 2 or 3 years offMilk
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Capital onePS I only cheated on this years sponsor
Dunno about stupid bets but my best bet has to be Hasim Rahman to beat Lennox Lewis in the 5th round of their first title fight in Johannesburg back in 2001
Had a tenner on at 125-1 – paid for my trip on Arky’s down to the reading play off game anyway!!Thanks for that Garswood
I had the highlights video for that season but gave it (& all the others between 1993-2000ish) to a mate to copy onto DVD & I’ve never seen em since.
Unfortunately the angle you’ve had to record it at from your telly has mean that it doesn’t capture the amount of bend Diaz was able to put on the ball at the last second. From memory it looked like it was going wide & over & then it both curled & dipped in – Better than Cisse’s goal at Chelsea anyway!!
I’m also on the footage after Diaz’s 2nd goal (better finish than Van persie’s against Germany last night) & saville’s nutmeg down at the front. In fact I’m on that season’s highlights video quite a few times – including my one man pitch invasion after Jones’s last minute winner at home to Torquay & the HTV West coverage of the corresponding fixture at the end of the season when it focuses on some idiot dancing about in the rain with a beenie/sun hat on which is about 3 sizes too small & shrinking in the rain
Altogether now – “john deehan is magic, he wears a magic hat & when he saw the championship he said I’m having that!!!!”Just a story about a footballer who has been injured all season and somehow thinks he has the right to play.Rio Ferdinand played 30 games last season. How does that make him a player who was “injured all season”?
Commentator has just said Granqvist will be familiar to Wigan fans.Do you know – I remember NOTHING about him. A vague stirring in the back of my memory, but pretty well nothing.
Come on someone remind me of something he did. I now know he played 14 times in 2007/2008, but other than that I do not remember anything at all about him. Was he good, bad, indifferent, accident prone, a liability, unfulfilled potential… or what? He is one of those blanks that we have about players. I suppose playing alongside Titus always deflected the attention from him, but really!!
Please help!
Paul Jewell brought him in on loan in 06/07 along with that other Swedish fella (Halstad or somet) who had a mare in a 4-0 defeat at Chelsea that season.
Can’t ever remember Jewell playing him & he let him & the other guy go back to their parent club
Chris Hutchings however brought him back on a permanent deal when he took over & I think he started that season as first choice.
personally I thought he was awful – as others have said he was slow, cumbersome & didn’t seem to have any awareness.
He had an absolute stinker in Steve Bruce’s 2nd game in charge away at Bolton when we lost 4-1, Bruce dropped him, put Scharner back at centre half & I don’t think he ever played him again before selling him for £600k the next summer
Don’t think he was any good myself but he was highly rated at whatever Dutch club (was it Groningen?) he left Latics for & I remember an article saying some top flight clubs in England were looking at him, including Latics, but he went to Genoa
Is heavily rumoured to be on AC Milan’s hitlist this summer & this seems to have been confirmed by an AC Milan directorI ran the line at a Marine game last season & that is an odd little ground.
No stand down the whole of one side as the pitch backs straight on to people’s back gardens & the dug outs on that side virtually encroach on to the pitch.
The other side is virtually the same but they’ve managed a covered stand with 2 steps of terracing. Half of one side has a terrace for away fans & then the side of someone’s house.
They’ve managed to build a decent stand on the only area where they have any space behind one of the goals
And the crust on the pie I got for my after match meal was a bit burnt & the gravy was runnyFriendlies are a joke about as much passion as a wet wednesday in Leigh.Have to agree with that bit. I used to go to loads of em but realised eventually that (IMO) as a supporter they were a complete waste of my time & money & gave no indication of how the team would perform or how good players were – I remember seeing Danny Vaughan skin every team in pre-season & thinking we had a belter!! :blink: :blink:
So, something & white gets changed to all white. Yep, that’s very similar to changing blue to red Have a look at the link & tell me the change in kits from those worn from 1934 to 1961 to that worn from August 1961 isn’t a significant change considering it has absolutely no hint of the club’s previous blue & yellow colours
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Leeds_United/Leeds_United.htm Would it have really made any difference to the argument if Cardiff’s new kit had had white shorts as per tradition instead of the black ones they’re introducing? If Latics went to an orange kit would it make any difference if they kept the blue shorts of the current kit?
Thanks for that clarification Mr Motson! Okay – but they weren’t changes made in accordance with a marketing plan.Leeds played in blue and white, then yellow, blue and white, then white; it’s not exactly the same wholesale change to red for a team known as the Blue Birds!
I’ll have to correct you again Mr Walker – Leeds played in blue & white striped shirts from 1920-1934, yellow & blue from 1934-1956 & blue from 1956-1961 – Admittedly they had white shorts for much of that time but I’d say that was pretty much a wholesale change to an all white kit along with the removal of their Leeds coat of arms badge.
Tranmere’s kit change was a marketing plan as was Leeds of sorts – in the days before there was any money to be made out of football
Latics introduced a blue & black striped kit as a marketing ploy to try & take advantage of the new interest in Italian footballI have said that it (the cardiff thing) doesn’t entirely sit right with me but what they’re doing is nothing new other than them being honest & saying it is done purely to bring money from abroad into the club
Yes I know it happened years ago with the likes of Wigan and even Man Utd changing their colours but that was due to things like the availability of a particular colour of shirt – thus the necessity to buy that colour. It was not a marketing ploy or the whim of a club’s new owner. Also, changes of a club’s colour have occurred in bygone times, not after a hundred and odd years of playing in a particular colour, singing songs about that colour, giving your team a nickname referring to that colour etc.
That isn’t the reason for all those shirt colour changes taking place:
Tottenham changed from purple to white & black (admittedly donkeys ago) as a tribute to Preston North End
Manchester United changed as a result of new ownership & to signal a break from the old Newton Heath
Leeds United changed to all white from blue & yellow in homage to Real madrid in the 60’s
Tranmere Rovers changed from blue to white at the managers request to set them apart from everton in the 60’s
Millwall changed 50 years of blue kits to white in 1960, to blue & white in 1964, back to blue in 1967, back to white in 1968, back to blue in 1975, back to white in 1999 (with a new badge) & back to blue in 2001 & then getting their old badge back in 2007
I’m pretty sure Scunthorpe changed from claret & blue to white & then back again over the last 20 years too
It happens & has always happenedI don’t like the way the fans seem to have been held over a barrell of accept the change or see your club go to the wall but that may also have been the reality the owners were faced with when trying to get new investment[/quote]
Yes I know it happened years ago with the likes of Wigan and even Man Utd changing their colours but that was due to things like the availability of a particular colour of shirt – thus the necessity to buy that colour. It was not a marketing ploy or the whim of a club’s new owner. Also, changes of a club’s colour have occurred in bygone times, not after a hundred and odd years of playing in a particular colour, singing songs about that colour, giving your team a nickname referring to that colour etc.That isn’t the reason for all those shirt colour changes taking place:
Tottenham changed from purple to white & black (admittedly donkeys ago) as a tribute to Preston North End
Manchester United changed as a result of new ownership & to signal a break from the old Newton Heath
Leeds United changed to all white from blue & yellow in homage to Real madrid in the 60’s
Tranmere Rovers changed from blue to white at the managers request to set them apart from everton in the 60’s
Millwall changed 50 years of blue kits to white in 1960, to blue & white in 1964, back to blue in 1967, back to white in 1968, back to blue in 1975, back to white in 1999 (with a new badge) & back to blue in 2001 & then getting their old badge back in 2007
It happens & has always happenedI don’t like the way the fans seem to have been held over a barrell of accept the change or see your club go to the wall but that may also have been the reality the owners were faced with when trying to get new investment
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, criticising purely foreign owners and suggesting they will throw away history without any thought is somewhat unfair.If my memory serves meright it was Pete Winkleman (English) who moved Wimbledon to Milton Keynes and our own Dave Whelan (also English) got rid of Springfield Park and the 100 years of history that went with it.
I agree with the sentiment of your post but Wimbledon were owned by Norwegians when they moved to Milton Keynes in September 2003
Winkleman didn’t buy Wimbledon until June 2004 after they’d gone into administration although he’d been the driving force behind the Milton Keynes Stadium Consortium since 2000 who had invited several clubs to move there including Luton & QPRBack to cardiff – as I said originally plenty of clubs have done it in the past but in cardiff’s case do they change their colours or do they have no club to follow? They may well have been held to ransom by the owners which isn’t nice but given that choice we’d all only make one choice
Sad news indeed. I started watching Latics in ’87 & along with David Lowe he was my favourite player
I’m intrigued as to why people think Boselli is more suited to Latics 3-2-2-2-1 system (it isn’t 3 up front!! ;) )
In my opinion, there are two reasons:
1. Because the two wide players in this system are wingbacks who have the primary task whilst in attack of getting the ball into the box.
In the old system the two wide players were additional forwards who were played on the ‘wrong wings’ to encourage them to cut inside, get shots on goal, and support the central striker. This often didn’t happen and the central striker was left isolated – hence why it didn’t suit Boselli.
2. Boselli needs central players to link up with in an around the box; call them additional strikers, deep lying forwards or advanced midfielders, he now has two of them.[/quote]
Good points them & i hadn’t thought of it like that
IMO though the role still needs a striker who will run themselves into the ground putting pressure on the defence when in possession & someone who will drop deep, pull out wide & all that. That’s a massive part of their role (& a far bigger part of it than getting on the end of crosses) & one to which both Di Santo & Sammon are suited (although for the latter i feel its at a lower level) & one to which Boselli isn’t
