The Abridged version. My name is Jimmy and I am 35 years old. I lik to play jokes and I lik to play football and I lik to play golf and I lik to fish for fish. I lik to drink and I lik to drink and I lik to drink. When I grow up I want to be famoose and win the "x factor". I will sing a song and everyboody will clap. If I do not win I want to be on Blue Peter. My bestest friend was Scott Parker, but he hurts my knee all of the time and I am going to tell some one that he is not a nice boy.
Bet his book doesn't tell the story of how some Hull FC player decked him after he was bragging down the pub about how much £££££ he earned in comparison to them!
We paid the going rate for Bullard at the time. £5m was the average fee paid for a Premier League player that particular season. His wages have nothing to do with it. He got injured playing for City. He might have been carrying an injury but we should have checked that, like we did with Charlie Austin last season. He also created a bit of history by allowing or getting his very lucrative contract terminated by the club and he never uttered a word in protest. Barmby should have had a bit more class then making Bullards wages an issue. Ian Ashbee has said that players wages were a private matter between player and club.
@thekempton Search 'Jimmy Bullard charity' for angry tweets from people who paid to play with him in a game only for him not to turn up. Some things don't change.
Regardless OLM, he would have cared 10 x more about not turning up and not giving a toss than Barmby EDIT: Indeed Barmby would have shown up and played just to show what an utter and complete **** he is ...
you had been doing OK for about 3 years and then bang! your popularity ratings just plummetted.. remember the play-off final - Barmby really didn't care, did he? FFS
Why would Barmby be jealous of Bullard? Barmby played for England, played in Europe and won medals. What did Bullard ever do? Barmby only said what everyone else thought.
Have read todays bit about his handbags with Nick and the WI. It was funny if not professional at that time. They should have sold tickets and done it in a boxing ring.
Will it be stocked at Waterstones in Hull? TWF - attack one owner, so don't be surprised if someone reminds you of the crooks you lauded and defended on this board.
He's only saying what the sane ones of us are already thinking. I'm genuinely surprised if St Nick wasn't at Wembley supporting his club, that can't possibly be true? Football and your home town club either run through your veins or they quite clearly don't. Revelations like these make for sad times indeed, we all know some players are mercs and only in it for the money but some others you have higher hopes for.
Bullard used to brag to his fishing mates down here about his contempt for our club, so I'm led to believe....
Considering the way he was treated I've no doubt he held the club, or people running it at the time, in complete contempt. Quite rightly so.
Oh right, sorry then. I assumed he played for us because we were in his heart and soul, his DNA, and not just because he was chasing one last pay packet after he'd long seen his best. I'd also just assumed he might have gone to see his home town club with real fans off his own back and under the radar. Yet knowing this revelation (to me at least it's a surprise), you still hold him in high esteem. Each to their own I guess.
