Mackie, Buszaky and anyone that rhymes with the West Indian fruit ackee (except Steve Blackie). Nelsen, Helgusson, Magnus Magnusson, David Dickinson and anyone else's offspring. Esteban Granero.
Since Les Ferdinand and Trevor Sinclair, the only two players I can recall to have had a decent career after us are Routledge and Dani Parejo. You might just squeeze Delaney, but really? Pretty sad indictment of our scouting system. We are The Damned, The Damned I tells ya or perhaps one of us has proclaimed the name of the play that begins with: When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?
Puncheon hasn't done too badly, I would have liked to have seen more of him when he was here. We could certainly do with him now.
Is that from Hearts of Darkness or The Hollow Men? I do like Macbeth, and studied it in English Lit. Dame Judi... '' Come mortal spirits.. Unsex me here.'' Classic stuff. Where was I ? Oh yeah, Mackie wanted out, he didn't want to stay with us due to the savage 50% wage cut on getting relegated.
Couldn't agree with that. He played a vital role when he joined us on loan in the first promotion season. Gave us a lift when we needed it to get us across the line. If Tango and Cash had left earlier we would definitely have signed him. The one who got away.
Very good Ninesy, it's both - from Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but used by TS Eliot as the first line of the Hollow Men. Which ends of course with "This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper" I really hope we can avoid another whimper finish this season.
Indeed. I don't think we'll end with a whimper now Redknapp has gone. Hearts of Darkness would be a good description of us R's fans. Let's hope that our dystopian club changes for the better soon. Wasn't Kurtz also a character from Apocalypse Now? Inspired by the above two works you mentioned. I could 'Google' it but thinking off the top of your head is more fun and enlightening especially when wrong.
Ah yes... but he was on loan, wasn't he? But you're right, should have offered a permanent that was a pealing to him.
Yep, Coppola had Marlon Brando play Colonel Kurtz as a powerful white man gone mad in the jungle. For me the book is one of the greatest written in the English language (or at least of the ones that I've read) by a Pole who didn't speak English well until he was in his twenties. Of course nowadays people would be moaning about him being an immigrant. Perhaps we should start a literary quotation association thread, see if we could get 30,000 posts and mess up the board. Nah, let's not bother.
Not possible at the time awjm. Bernie and Flavio stopped all investment in the squad and by the time TF came in he had signed for Swansea.
I didn't realise he was Polish. I always thought he was American. That's what I love about this board. Every days a school day. Lord Jim wasn't too bad an effort either. Polish? Well I never. Apologies for hi-jacking your thread awjm. It's a good one btw.
Yes, apologies for straying off topic, but read his bio on Wiki Nines, really interesting bloke, learned his English as a merchant seaman. The Secret Agent is another good one. Anton Ferdinand. [not really]
That is quite a remarkable tale, the man was a genius. I'm surprised that there isn't a film based on his life story. Thanks for the heads up Stan, I'll try and catch up with all of his works in due course. Tommy Smith.
Simple answer,Raheem Sterling!Scandalous,think what he could be doing for us now.I've come over all depressed now!
