Harry Kane
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SD liked one of my posts from this bloody ancient thread, so I thought I'd highlight this prediction!
Just goes to show how hard it is to judge youth players sometimes.
Some of those with all the natural talent in the world go on to do nothing, while others who don't look anything special step up.
SD liked one of my posts from this bloody ancient thread, so I thought I'd highlight this prediction!
Just goes to show how hard it is to judge youth players sometimes.
Some of those with all the natural talent in the world go on to do nothing, while others who don't look anything special step up.
I wish to place on record that I did not highlight it
If we are highlighting older posts, this is why we listen to OS with such respect in reply to Spurlock (or Dona as he was at the time).
And this was PNPs astute post that stood out when I was looking back through old threads.
He was coming back from an injury, used very erratically and seemed virtually broken mentally during his time at Leicester.
Doesn't look that great for Pearson that he left Kane and Vardy on the bench and picked David Nugent and Chris Wood over them, does it?
Not bad strikers actually, but about average for the Championship.
He did well at Orient and Millwall and then had a bad season due to a broken metatarsal.
I don't think that it had anything to do with changing his attitude or upping his workrate, as they looked good before that campaign.
And Diego Forlan looked ****e for United. It's harder to show your true quality when the players around you are crap
SD liked one of my posts from this bloody ancient thread, so I thought I'd highlight this prediction!
Just goes to show how hard it is to judge youth players sometimes.
Some of those with all the natural talent in the world go on to do nothing, while others who don't look anything special step up.
Which prompts me to mention that Kenny McEvoy, the Bale lookalike, who many thought had a chance of making it, ended the season on the subs bench at York City and has since been released.
Funny old game.
Terrible shame. It must be so so difficult when that happens to a professional footballer, especially those who have been lucky enough to be nurtured at the top academies in the land. You essentially dedicate your whole life to the sport, all the while believing wholeheartedly that it will work out and a star-studded career will follow. Then abruptly, often as late as your mid-20's, the penny sickeningly drops as the bell tolls on the dream career you'd envisioned and fully bought into. You are left with not much money, not many qualifications, and not much experience whatsoever of the 'real world' and what real grafting looks like. I wish the lad all the best but his parting twitter message to the club stank of an appalling attitude fuelled by a sense of entitlement despite having accomplished nothing of significance.
I guess that is the real lesson the Leicester Fairytale (TM) taught us this year. Football has been so saturated in preening prima donnas for so many decades, that in many ways it reached a tipping point and the pendulum began swinging in the other direction. Leicester, and to an impressive degree Spurs too, have shown that at the end of the day, there is no replacement for hard work, dedication and the right attitude.
Quite ironic, given the stuff that he was saying about playing first team football in January.
I expect that he'll still get signed to another club at around the same level, but I honestly thought he had more to offer.
Maybe he'll still make it and move back up the divisions. Time will tell.
On the other hand, he does have a pretty fit missus who he's managed to knock up, so it's not all bad!
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