I wouldn't have him back.....still remember backing him with the betting shop at the SOL at 20/1 to score first and for us to win 1-0 in the league-cup game against Villa when he missed a penalty at 0-0 with under ten minutes to go!!Two hundred quid profit gone in a flash!!!
Kenwyne Jones is one of only 3 Sunderland players I've ever booed in 4 decades of support. West Brom away in a game we really needed a result from to avoid relegation. All he did was stand with his hands on his hips rolling his eyes at his team mates for 90 minutes. A player with everything but a heart ........... Dean Windass made a career out of very little talent but a big heart and endless courage. If Jones had half of that he'd have been worth £50 million. Sad to see him shuffling round the pitch on Sunday going through the last motions of an inglorious career.
Jones was excellent for us until his injury - he has never been the same player since. John Terry said he was the hardest he'd ever played against in his first season for us! Having seen glimpses of him and now a live show, I'd rather go and watch One Dimension!
Fully agree, when he fancied it, he was literally unstoppable, and absolute beast, he could have not only been a great player, he could have been a bona fide national hero in Trinidad, had he gave a ****. I swear I've never seen a ball headed harder, there was a game at West Ham, and he was stupidly superb, it just never lasted with him.
Sadly he had to split his time between them and Tobago ..... Seriously, his automatic selection for a national side, that would never win anything, was part of the problem. As with his clubs he just never had to try that hard to get a game.
Was so frustrating man, I was very much a fan of Kenwyne, there were games when he genuinely wowed you, and it wasn't a form thing, it was a be arsed thing. A lad of that size with that leap cannot be stopped should he choose not to be. I remember him and Samba having a ****ing ding dong at the SOL, every corner they battled each other, they were giving 5's after every duel, was brilliant to see, he was magnificent front and back that game, but they were so fleeting. He could have been a ****ing legend, the hair, the size, the unorthodox, even clumsy looking gallop, and he was getting 1 in 3 despite a lack of any interest in most games. He could have been so ****ing good man.
I wrote the name out - means I'm not a proper fan - just a placca one - the 1D makes you a proper fan I believe
When I was watching dear old Kenwyne I remember thinking when he headed the ball 'over the bar'...no change there then.
Aye, i would, but not as a player, more of a coach, or a choreographer, dance teacher. The goal celebrations are crap, where's the Kenwyne back flips, or the great Zenden strut?
