itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

Peter Reid was 4th in the Fifa World Soccer player of the year award 1985 behind only Michel Platini, Preban Elkjaer & Diego Maradona.

I let this go by earlier, but is this for real?

sundland job MON's to turn down and neil lennon said 'penchant'

that's not the most recondite term ever uttered by a fitba manager rite?

it just struck me tbh

o'neill will probably get sunderland to 8th place finishes for the next 239 years

does not make you depressed, it makes you sad

When you're sad enough to repeatedly consider suicide...

considering or even committing suicide doesn't mean you are clinically depressed

Blackburn owners Venky's hoped to use free R&B concerts to woo fans

• Venky's wanted Akon as headliners at Ewood Park
• Emails reveal extravagant failed pop plans

Hey ladies drop it down
Just want to see your secret recipe
Don't be shy girl go Banaza
Shake ya chicken like the beloved Venky

I see you windin n grindin up in those spices,
I kno you see me lookin' at you and you already kno
I wanna eat you, you already know
I wanna eat you, you already know

They won't let me have, they won't let me have, (My Venkys)
They won't let me have no, they won't let me have, (No chicken)
They won't let me have, they won't let me have, (My Venkys)
Blackburn'll let me though no, Blackburn'll let me though

I see the one, because she be that chicken! Hey!
I feel you creeping on, I can taste you from my shadow
Wanna drive-thru in my Lamborghini Gallardo
Maybe go to my place and just kick it like Chris Sutton used to
And possibly bend you over look back and watch me

[Chorus (2X):]
Season that all on the floor
Spice that give me some more
Season that 'till you get sore
Fry that oh-oooh!
I don't know how to cook.

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u guys

i had this idea that we should select a random* established but undernoticed EPL player and devote a thread to them, follow their career in depth kinda thing

* except they can't be /that/ random, it has to be someone aggressively average and self-effacing and a byword for ordinariness

like?

leighton baines would have been great circa 2008 when he was just an average midtable fullback with valuable cultural interests who was only ever alluded to when ppl said things like 'sounds like a town in bedfordshire', which was considered to be quite amusing back then

it's basically got to be a fullback or defensive midfielder, stephen warnock or nigel reo-coker or something

Anton Ferdinand

'self effacing'

Is he not? Must admit I've never taken a black bit of notice of him before.

yah he got cleared of assault for pre-emptively....hitting someone he thought was eyeing up his £50k watch iirc

i mean find a self-effacing epl player

I don't know, most of them probably are

Looking forward to the draw for the Euros later. England would be nice

no they wouldn't

Course they would. Spirit of 88 and all that, not that i remember it

Why didn't they make, say, Ireland and Czech Republic top seeds with Poland & Ukraine, instead of the malformed grouping they came up with?

Come now, England + Ireland would be great

O'Neill for Sunderland btw

'agrees'

england would not be nice tho, they hardly ever are imce

He 'agreed' to take West Ham too iirc, and Leeds back in the day.

Strange how the press uses quote marks to signify that something isn't a quote.

Must admit did not know about O'Neill's tenure as manager of Shepshed Charterhouse

We want someone from Swansea or Norwich maybe?

Also George Elokobi always seems like a good dude.

Wes Hoolahan

The self-effacing Irishman with a name like the rootin'est tootin'est gunslinger west of the Pecos?

I'm going to assume he's self-effacing since he only left the League of Ireland in his mid-twenties

... to go to Livingston! And his head wasn't turned by the bright lights and superficial glamour of Livingston...

I'll nominate Wilson Palacios for the whatever it is
does everyone know the story how he got a call in the middle of the night informing him that his brother had been kidnapped and he waited outside Redknapp's doot till he came out in the morning to tell him that he had to leave cause he didn't want to wake Harry up?

'arry probably gets jumpy at the sound of knocks on the door in the middle of the night, could be the rozzers, and what with his heart...

yep, good call tbh

Palacios hasn't started a game this season as far as i know

his form would prob be separate tho

Self effacing midfielder in a newly promoted team...

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Elokobi's too poor to get regular football, much as i love him and much as our manager's a clown

for spurs i reckon kaboul is a good lad, dawson too. both break my heart, like, but nonetheless

Ward wd be the better Wolves nom, finally playing pretty well and not exackly a celeb or ever will be

scotty parker tho, eh?