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Showing your age here. Geoff Thomas, Tony Daley, Andy Sinton...?Barney Rubble said:
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*Official* English Football Season 2005-06
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Barney Rubble
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Sorry to sound like I don't believe you, but which ones? I'm asking because I can't remember them and am curious, not because I'm still arguing.Tom Halsey said:
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None of them can have been worse than Andy "Oops-I-dived-to-try-and-get-a-penalty-but-instead-I-just-ended-up-with-grass-all-over-my-face-and-my-legs-in-the-air-flailing-madly" Johnson, surely? Johnson is barely top-flight standard, let alone international.Neil Pickup said:
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Yes, they were. Comfortably.
Carlton Palmer, Alan Thompson, Steve Froggatt, Darren Eadie, Steve Guppy, Michael Ricketts, John Scales and Jason Wilcox have to run them close too.
Carlton Palmer, Alan Thompson, Steve Froggatt, Darren Eadie, Steve Guppy, Michael Ricketts, John Scales and Jason Wilcox have to run them close too.
Barney Rubble
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Actually now you mention it, there's a few in that group (Froggatt, Guppy, Ricketts, Wilcox) who would run him very close.Neil Pickup said:
My opinion on him is probably borne more out of my hatred of the fact that everyone raved about him all of last season than anything else - I just wanted to say to all the newspapers and Sky Sports pundits who sang his praises all the time, "HE ONLY SCORES BLOODY PENALTIES, SHUT UP!!!!"
If you take away the penalties, he scored something like 10 goals last season in the Premiership - that wouldn't have ever got him picked for England, so why should he have been picked with the addition of 10 penalties to the tally? The conclusion that can be drawn is that either Sven values penalty-taking as a skill for a striker very highly, or that Sven picked him after a glance at the top-scorers' list and without seeing him play.
Tom Halsey
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Stumped.Barney Rubble said:Sorry to sound like I don't believe you, but which ones? I'm asking because I can't remember them and am curious, not because I'm still arguing.
To be honest there probably are a few because I regularly think "that was a good run" when Ruud scores, I can't think fo the games etc. too. He also scoores a lot of vollies, far from the easiest skill.I'm not saying he isn't a goal poacher, because he clearly is, but he does score some good goals, and it is being in the right place at the right time a lot aswell.
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Michael Ball, Warren Barton, James Beattie, Lee Bowyer, Nigel Clough, Tony Dorigo, John Fashanu, Anthony Gardner, Michael Gray, Owen Hargreaves, Lee Hendrie, Andy Hinchcliffe, Steve Howey, Francis Jeffers, Seth Johnson, Paul Konchesky, Zat Knight, Gavin McCann, Danny Mills, Mike Phelan, Chris Powell, Kieran Richardson, Stuart Ripley, John Salako, Lee Sharpe, Tim Sherwood, Paul Stewart, Steve Stone, Chris Sutton, David Unsworth, Matthew Upson, Ian Walker, Mark Walters... pick however many from that identity parade.
Eadie and Froggatt made squads but never played.
Eadie and Froggatt made squads but never played.
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Think you're a bit harsh on some in there; well, Dorigo, Sharpe & Stone, anyway!Neil Pickup said:
Mike Phelan was the target of one of my favourite crowd songs "You've lost that hairline, Phelan, who-oah that hairline, Phelan" to the tune of "You've lost that loving feeling"
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Sharpe is probably coloured by his stint at Exeter. Still, there are plenty of disasters there.
Scaly piscine
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I reckon he's one of the main candidates given how he didn't even stand out for Middlesbrough when they were a yo-yo side.Neil Pickup said:
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Grimsby went down today to a late Alan Shearer goal. 
I'm not unhappy really as the only difference in the sides on the day was a finish from a world-class striker. Has a tart of a Newcastle fan next to us in the pub though, he knew all the worlds to a Backstreet Boys song.
I'm not unhappy really as the only difference in the sides on the day was a finish from a world-class striker. Has a tart of a Newcastle fan next to us in the pub though, he knew all the worlds to a Backstreet Boys song.
Tom Halsey
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Haha, see ya later Chelsea.
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Not really, Shearer and the defence/keeper were the stars.marc71178 said:But was a star at blackburn in the side that won the league
Barney Rubble
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Sylvan Ebanks-Blake scored for Man Utd tonight - can somebody explain to me how, with a name like that, he's English and not Northern Patagonian or something? 
Then again, the Bucs did have a Welsh youngster called Ramon Calliste last year. Welsh?!? He sounds more like a Colombian drug lord!
Then again, the Bucs did have a Welsh youngster called Ramon Calliste last year. Welsh?!? He sounds more like a Colombian drug lord!