How the mighty have fallen: http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/harper-coup-for-hungerford-14817/? (Er - that's enough of the cliches, thanks, Stan!)
He's signed for Hungerford. I know he was pretty **** for us but Christ, he wasn't that bad, this is an even bigger fall from grace than Craig ***an. Hungerford are in the seventh tier, 2 below the Blue Square Premier (Conference). Or at least I think they are - the leagues get pretty damn confusing after the fifth tier as individual tiers are spread across multiple leagues. Either way, it's a pretty sensational drop - I thought he'd be playing in League One/Two in the coming season.
oh ffs, I just posted a thread on this but didn't notice it until just now when westhulltiger brought it back to the top Merge needed
Sounds about right, I'd rather have a piece of dog-**** controlling the midfield than that ****. It's a good job Nigel ****ed off when he did too, otherwise we'd still have to suffer watching his blue-eyed boy week-in, week-out
He's nowhere near that bad, ok he wasn't great for us but he wasn't total dog ****, I've seen far worse. I'd have thought he could play alright in a championship struggler/league one promotion chaser no problem, just not the calibre we needed aiming for top end of the championship.
Imo, I was harsh on him earlier. He's a top fella just his footballing ability isnt as good as his personality. He could play for a lower L1/high L2 team tbh.
He's a decent bloke, although I was put off slightly when he complained that he wasn't getting as much money with us as he was with Sheff Utd. I said "Tell you what, how about we swap salaries for a year?" Unfortunately, he didn't take me up on the offer.
as soon as another hungerford has mastered pointing , they will probably overtake him and nick his place ..
James Harper IMO is still good enough for league 2 football at the very least. A team like Wycome would have been perfect. But Hungerford ?........
Sounds like he has made his money from football, and now just want to play for the love of it, and be close to where he is currently living.
Bullard or somebody should have got a traffic police guy into training one day and got him pointing about everywhere with Harper looking on, could have seen that getting a few hits on Youtube
