The other week I randomly googled Brett Pittman and this week I randomly google Lee Miller. I was 17 years old when Lee Miller arrived at Ashton Gate for 300k in 2003. And it was the year I worked hard all summer to buy my first season ticket. I’m not sure if many remember Lee, but from my recollection, he was just not cut out to play at that level. We had a good season. I travelled all the way up to Hartlepool for our disappointing 1-1 draw. Where I watch Porter, possibly the biggest nose in football and the ugliest man in the north of England put one past us. I remember my dad surprising me at work with two tickets to the millennium stadium to watch Brighton make light work of us and the most useless lump of meat Danny Cole’s breaking our hearts by gifting them a penalty and zero fight shown in trying to claw the game back. But back to Lee. The biggest standout I remember about him, was that he had quite literally the worst haircut in all of sports at the time. Yet he clearly worked hard on making it look like that. Truly truly awful. Despite the fact he barely scored, it made me think even less of him to imagine how long he stood in front of a mirror to look like such a pleb. So I found it rather interesting and funny upon googling him, to see that during COVID he gave up the coaching badges to retrain as a barber. But then again, it’s not so surprising, as pretty much every barber I’ve ever met, has an awful barnet.
Bloody hell R&W you've woke in one of my bad moods. Very unkind about a person's nose. someone's poor haircut and calling DC the most useless piece of meat. Ps if anyone deserved criticism about the Brighton game it was Danny bloody Wilson for not picking Leroy Lita.
I always thought Lee Miller worked his socks off for the team, but sadly couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo. We've had a few of those at the Gate over the years, Jon Stead springs to mind, and currently, Harry Cornick. I think once he went back north of the border, he suddenly started scoring goals and got selected by Scotland if my memory serves correctly. That's why I never have any faith in any player coming from Scotland to the English game. Miller couldn't score in the English third tier with us, but banged them in the Scottish premiership....
Yeah he wasn’t the last forward we bought from up there either. Remember David Clarkson? Jeeeeee-ZUS! ♂️
Nah I had been up 15 hours before I wrote this. When the wife wants to watch some god awful sh!te on the tv, your mind wanders. You’re right though, the entire section I was sat in that day were complaining about LL not being selected. But I think to criticize Danny Wilson’s decision to pick Tony Rougier instead Leroy is unfair. I mean, just go onto Tony’s Wikipedia page and see how illustrious his career had been before that day and how even more illustrious it was after he left us. Clearly he was an infinite well of talent.
Will never understand that point of view. “He gave his all for the shirt” ya ya ya…. If I’m being paid thousands upon thousand a WEEK to play a game I love. I’d be giving it my all as well. Michael McIndoe gave it his all to look like Ronaldo. Doesn’t mean he was Ronaldo or warranted being compared to him.
Totally agree. I’ve met him personally 3 or 4 times and he’s a genuinely decent guy. Seems way taller in person as well. First time I met him, I thought to myself he was sincere captain material. Doing well for himself now which is good to hear.
