From memory (so no bleedin' guarantee) Orient targeted him and he went off injured. Orient's goal was a classic example of 'drop' the player early, or a little later but just 'drop' him. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
It’s kind of a meme that African players may be quite a bit older than their ‘official’ age. These days with technology and a glut of information, I imagine it’s less of an issue now but 10-15 years ago, falsifying birth records and passports to seem younger to European academies and clubs isn’t that far-fetched.
my least favourite city player ever was richard "i played for ajax" sneekes. completely and utterly useless pathetic and sh!te. the worst city game i saw was a 0-3 defeat at kiddernminster with sneekes in it. usually if we lost the referee had had a nightmare and my anger was all directed at him or one of the referee's sisters as some anal wart decreed we had to call linesmen, but that kidderminster game was probably the only time in about 600 games that i left furious at our team.
Way more of an issue nowadays!!! Thousands of em. They were pioneers back then, ahead of their time. Oops, best not go down that route again
Our strikers were absolute pony in that era. Didn’t we sign Danny Graham on loan the first season back in the PL?
don't! mention of this kind of thing reminds me of motson and his idiotic pan-european accent that he used to mispronounce every foreign player ever. it annoyed the eff out of me. any school child doing their first term of french knows how to pronouce the -er ending, but not old thicko motson who insisted that the -er at the end of roger and the end of miller had to both sound like someone vomiting. lots of people rated motson, but i didn't (and barry davies was no better; the gayard called west ham's pat holland "patsy" all the way through the 1975 cup final (something you're trying to tell us, davies?)) and his stupid mispronunciations didn't help.. the best football commentator i ever heard was maurice edelstone, who i much later found out was born in hull.
There was this terrace chant going around back then (probably just the Amber Nectar lot a few rows behind me in the East). Can't quite recall the exact lyrics, but basically, it was claiming we got the better deal signing Sone Aluko instead of Leicester signing Jamie Vardy (who were rivals at the time). Didn't age well.
chris hargreaves was bad. easy enough to spot so i don't suppose anyone changed their mind about him.
Frig knows how he went on to have such a long career after he left us. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Weirdly, something has just come out tonight about this allegedly happening on a pretty big scale in Cameroon:
Cameron Stewart was the other way round, started off fantastic and then seemed to forget how to play football.
He works in a pharmacy now. Crazy how he went from the biggest English club’s academy to playing regular Championship football, having some unfortunate injuries then being farmed out and having unsuccessful loan spells until he finally packed it in and retired early. Now he’s working a ‘normal’ 9-5 job. I think I read he really struggled with his mental health after his injuries and his career just kept plummeting. It’s still an under-discussed topic in football.
Gary Brabin & a lot of Warren Joyce’s great escape team. He brought in a bunch of “cloggers” & got the ones who were already at the club, who dug in deep & got us out of the **** that Hateley got us in.
Great half a season. Just loved going to City again. No one was going to bully us and you could see that on the pitch. Talk about leaving everything on the pitch. I see this as the start of our climb to the Premiership.
