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

Also Dalglish hasn’t been feeding Lucas properly and hasn’t cleaned out the newspaper in his hutch for weeks.

Full name 	Foluwashola Ameobi
Date of birth 	12 October 1981 (age 30)[1]
Place of birth 	Zaria, Nigeria
Height 	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) [2]
Playing position 	Striker
Club information
Current club 	Newcastle United
Number 	23
Youth career
1995–2000 	Newcastle United
Senior career*
Years 	Team 	Apps† 	(Gls)†
2000– 	Newcastle United 	242 	(250)

It’s the complete absence of material to speculate on the cause that’s the thing xps. You imagine you know a bit about people’s lives because you watch them play or like their music or books or whatever, then something like this happens and you realise you don’t know a thing.

sorry chris, my ‘let’s be hasty’ was a glib response to your entirely sensible ‘there’s more to life than football’ comment, born out of a couple of people pointing out to me just how much time i spend watching, reading, thinking about the game etc

I agree with both Chris and Deems about Lucas really, Dalglish shouldn’t have played him but the fact he felt he had to play him so much is the result of some dodgy squad-building. Stand up Mr Comolli and yr blindspot in defensive midfield.

matt has hit upon the solution. a move for zokora in january.

ah got it, no worries mate. (xposts)

Comolli and Dalglish obviously felt at the start of the season that Spearing would be a suitable stand in (I assume that Spearing is our Lucas-in-waiting—there’s no-on else it could possibly be). I don’t see it myself, but there you go. Could of course play without a DM, but I’m guessing that would require the defence not to drop off and to squeeze the space left by where your covering midfielder would have been, which didn’t happen against Norwich (see their goal).

argh, someone change the subject

regarding Speed & depression in football, this article just popped up about an MLS/Bundesliga player & his battles with depression, it’s a good read

http://www.prostamerika.com/2011/12/01/depression-in-soccer-53315/

Really quite poignant

interesting article but the way it’s written makes it seem that he was dealing with personal and professional problems rather than dealing with clinical depression.

yeah, your wife leaving you with your child does not make you depressed, it makes you sad.

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.

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...

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?

His veins run red white + blue, gawd bless ‘im

too old?

how about james mccarthy?

Should definitely be an Irish. Great bunch of lads

Missin’ their ma + da

Let the folk dancing commence

It’s gone full Eurovision now

oh i still thought you were talking about finding a middling EPL player to get behind, forgot this had started

It’s gone full Eurovision now

― Number None, Friday, December 2, 2011 6:12 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Came here to say exactly that

has to be between eire and poland for the right to be considered the nigel reo-coker of euro2k12

Preparation for England’s inevitable nil points.

xp

lol

Is Ronan on sandbox btw?

who’s the blind lad with the football?

Panenka’s stache is grebt

We are now being paraded by a legend from each European Championship. Watch out for Steve Stone representing Euro 96.

is this a joke? i’m not really paying attention

ok it was a joke

Great in-depth interviews btw

Lol the answers the players give are on the question card of the interviewer already, the Dutch reporter just said

listening to music, god forbid actually watching this stuff properly

I’m in that weird mood, can’t help myself nv :-)

TEH TANGO 2012 LADIES AND GERMS

Can already see the Tango moving in a weird way

Bubka: “It will be an enjoyable and forgettable event”

Sounds about right

hahaha

YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’VE BEEN TANGOED: HART BLAMES BALL FOR SHOCK EXIT

Is it bad to think this lady is crazy cute?

xp HAHA NN

1730: Slovenian legend Zlatko Zahovič presents Bobby Charlton with a commememorative snuff-box to mark the 47th Anniversary of the FAIRS Cup. Zahovič’ slurred speech was thought to contain multiple ethnic slurs and revanchist threats, much to the amusement of Sir Bobby.

Spiffy visuals, looks like they put a lot of effort in this fixed draw!

What are those? Lemons?

They look like rugby balls to me

Well, with a tail

Darwen Hibbert on Twitter: “Impressive verbal sidestep from Wayne Rooney there as he bats away an off colour reference to his acromegaly from Platini, can’t wait to see him literally evade defenders next year in the same spirit.” #Mongface #Banter

You screwed us again MVB!

Have they still not drawn a single team? I hate all this pish just get the fucking draw done.

They’re doing it now

they’re on it now