I would never boo Shay the guy was a great servant to the club. I just hate that he palys for Villa, I really hate them.
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Ameobi's Apprentice
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I'm not usually I just hated the way some of their fans went on when we were relegated. I could never do that to fans of any club.
Getting relegated is the worst feeling for a fan.
i hate the way he left
left for trophies? went to man city before they started challenging and ended up bench warming. he left because he was sick of getting hammered, and it is well know (isn't it?) that the liverpool defeat was the final straw.
Yes he was a great keeper for us and should have gone down as a legend, but the way he left tainted his time here for me and left a bitter taste in my mouth. rat deserting a sinking ship comes to mind.
i won't boo because that's not my style, but i certainly won't cheer.
left for trophies? went to man city before they started challenging and ended up bench warming. he left because he was sick of getting hammered, and it is well know (isn't it?) that the liverpool defeat was the final straw.
Yes he was a great keeper for us and should have gone down as a legend, but the way he left tainted his time here for me and left a bitter taste in my mouth. rat deserting a sinking ship comes to mind.
i won't boo because that's not my style, but i certainly won't cheer.
He clearly only left because he knew if he stayed the rest of the season we would have earned at least one more point and not got relegated, which was vital as it allowed for our restructuring and the emergence of Krul...
He gave us every opportunity to be the team where he won a trophy and would have loved it to be us but at the end of the day he realised after Keegan left that this wasn't going to happen. We would have went down far earlier without him.
TomTom94
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For playing on despite his obvious emotion after Speed's death the guy has my utmost respect.
Plus I reckon if we had stayed up him leaving wouldn't have hurt nearly as much.
Plus I reckon if we had stayed up him leaving wouldn't have hurt nearly as much.
won a lot of trophies at man city and villa has he?
how nice of a player to give us an opportunity to be a team he would deem worthy of playing for, after all, we fought off a host of teams to sign him initially.
And he knew that things were going to go that way in 2009 how, did he have a crystal ball?
i'm sorry, because man city had won loads of trophies and were clearly in the champions league when he left.... surely they would guarantee him a trophy before the end of his career?
nope.
the fact is, he chose to leave when we needed him the most. i don't particularly like discussing this as i just come across as bitter, because frankly, i am really bitter that a potential legend idolised by fans could turn out like that.
TomTom94
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They were a damn sight closer to winning trophies than we were at that point, which is of course also ignoring the potential conspiracy theory that Ashley forced him out.
After having to sit behind a defence of Geremi-Kadar-Edgar-Enrique, I think none of us would begrudge him leaving... IF we hadn't been relegated. The timing of his exit has become inextricably linked with that event which is unfair - what took us down was a lack of stability towards the end of the season and a crippling lack of squad depth.
It is worth remembering that when he talks about NUFC he uses the term "we". I do not begrudge him moving, he was (and still is) a top class goalie. Saved them from a mauling against us at the match at the tin shed aka Villa Park
Yes it was on ESPN I think when he was a pundit. Kept calling NUFC "us" and "we". Was last season
say you were dating a model, way out of your league but she says she loves you. she could do far better obviously because you're not the prettiest.
the thing is though, if you were in a horrible state after a car crash and she left at the first chance to date someone who was potentially better looking than you (say they were having plastic surgery at the time of your car crash), would you not be a little bitter? yes 2 years later she may still say she is fond of you and your time together, but come on, this is after the plastic surgery took longer than she thought to heal and has since moved on. again. she left you when you needed her.
the thing is though, if you were in a horrible state after a car crash and she left at the first chance to date someone who was potentially better looking than you (say they were having plastic surgery at the time of your car crash), would you not be a little bitter? yes 2 years later she may still say she is fond of you and your time together, but come on, this is after the plastic surgery took longer than she thought to heal and has since moved on. again. she left you when you needed her.
TomTom94
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My memory might be getting dodgy but I swear when Shay left us we were in mid-table. Certainly we weren't anywhere near the "crisis" that people have portrayed us as being in at the time.
Hell, when Kinnear had his heart problem and had to step down we were still in mid-table!
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