In a way it would have been funny if he'd scored a tap in from a rebound or a scramble in the box.. What I will add is that it appears that he is certainly not as bad as he has been made out to be. Several occasions there he's scored some goals. Admittedly not at a decent level, but it's not that easy to make an impression straight away anywhere. Then there's mentions of him having pace. Can't have been all THAT bad to be fair. Obviously not anywhere near prem or a decent standard, but you can see what I'm getting at if you read through it.
I think I saw Le Tiss talking about it once and say Dia had a good chance to score against Leeds. Would've been hilarious... and very embarrassing for Leeds!
He had a very good chance in the only game he played for us. Obviously a Walter Mitty character living out a fantasy...probably had the skill of an average amateur.
Not a bit harsh on an average Amateur........very bloody harsh on an average amateur! I have never seen such a bad player pretending to be a professional before or since. Trust me I have seen a few but non matched the inadiquacies of that person. I knew of more ten year olds that had better football sense than him.
You need to be knocking on a bit to remember this, but back in the late 70's/early 80's there was a TV programme called something like The Big Time in which, for example, amateur musicians would play with the Halle or something. One of them was a Liverpool milkman who wanted to play for the Reds and was allowed to come as a sub in Tommy Smith's testimonial. Bobby Charlton commented afterwards that he hadn't realised the guy was not a pro. That's how much worse than the average amateur footballer this joker was!
Is that not how Sheena Easton was discovered? (singing on the programme, not coming on as a sub for Liverpool) I also vaguely remember a cartoonist trying to make it with a national paper too.
I bow to your superior knowledge on this one, FLT. You were, of course, but a child at the time and those child-watched programmes tend to stick, which is why my best TV memories are in grainy monochrome!
I think she'd have done better coming on as a sub, to be honest .......... I mean "9 to 5"? Dolly Parton did it better. And also responsible for possibly the worst Bond theme (until the latest one imo?) ...........
I remember that, they let him take a penalty which he missed. He got a lot of good-natured stick but generally the players were fairly impressed with him.
This is really showing ages. There's some of us getting dewy eyed about a milkman missing a penalty (at the Kop end too, poor lad) while FLT enjoys re-living a pre-pubescent fantasy. Sometimes life lets you down.
