http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/football/charlton/10065497._/? Well I am shocked. Come on CP, divulge the dirt on Inter Milan and Valencia too.
...pretty much what we all expected it to be at the time, at least someone at the club has confirmed it
Forget Liverpool, whatever happened to the AS Mimosas agreement? Serge Deble - where art thou? I'd like to know whether Liverpool coughed up when Jonjo got his first England cap. Certainly didn't see anything written about this.
Frustrating to think Villa paid £6 million for Fabian Delph and we got £1.7m for Jonjo, I know we were in real trouble at the time but come on, the price implies Delph is 3.5x the player Shelvey is.
Wasn't Serge Deble on our books until last summer? I'm still waiting for him to pop up with the winning goal one day - a real Hollywood moment. The cross coming in by Cory Gibbs of course!
Cory Gibbs and Martin Christensen- a deadly duo down the wing. They were both in pardew's fantasy team.
Martin Christensen - the man we couldn't afford to play...one of the dodgiest deals that was ever committed to paper. With this glittering record, how could he have failed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Christensen Carrying on the 'Lost Scandinavians' theme, anyone remember this one - the 'new Sammy Hyppia'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jani_Tanska And here's the one we should never have let go - fine pass last night for Copenhagen's winning goal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rúrik_Gíslason And here's another sub-standard Scndinavian import. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-worst-Christmas-tree.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Sorry to nitpick but Jani Tanska isn't Scandinavian, he's Finnish. "Nordic" would have been acceptable but then you would have to have written "lost Nordic footballers" or "lost Nordic persons" which both sound a bit feeble. Didn't Rúrik GÃslason have a polar bear named after him in a recent children's film? I cannot believe that Christmas tree. What were they thinking?
Never knew that eddie - we live and learn... Did you ever see anything like that tree? No self-respecting bird would be seen dead perching in that... What about the seasonal spelling mistake in the last sentence as well?
I think a howler of that magnitude deserves a thread to itself, but I need to top up my supplies of supercilious venom first. I get through rather a lot of it these days, being surrounded by Americans. Not entirely shocked. I have always thought of Herne Bay as the most joyless place on earth. If Gulags had their own seaside resorts they would look like Herne Bay (although to be fair it does boast the world's first purpose-built freestanding clock-tower). But I am probably prejudiced. As a small child in the post-war years I was promised a trip to the seaside, my first. A rare treat in those days of strictly rationed petrol though this last was not a problem to our host/chauffeur who was one of my father's dog-racing cronies and a kingpin in the black market. He had a deluxe Oldsmobile and drove at an insane speed down the winding roads (no motorways in those days). The car had very deep and soft upholstery and everytime he braked or swerved I slithered this way and that, so I became desperately car sick. When I arrived at Herne Bay I was bitterly disappointed. I had thought that all seaside resorts were like in Rupert Bear, miles of golden sand littered with huge conch shells and starfish and backed by white cliffs with inviting caves and tunnels. Plus two thirds of the seafront was still closed off with barbed wire for fear of unexploded mines. I spent the whole time there in terror of the return journey and did not dare eat or drink anything. A few years later I asked my elder brother about this Arthur Daley character. I never understood why he had taken my (very upright) father under his wing and showered our family with chocolate and sides of bacon when they were almost unobtainable. My brother explained that it was because he was trying to get into my mother's knickers but I didn't understand what he meant until later in life. I always wanted to ask her if he succeeded, but the moment never seemed right.
Rurik Gislason s=definitely shouldn't have been let go at the time, he was plenty good enough for his pro deal. That's not to say we would definitely have impacted the Premiership side we were at the time, however he was worth another deal.
