***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

[wpdavid]

Barmby would have been a decwnt enough option. Played on the left in the Sven days quite a bit and always did a serviceable job.

I'm guessing that Anderton was injured. Always a fair bet.
I remember Trevor Sinclair playing the WC two years later, but I couldn't say how he went in the 1999/2000 season beyond playing 36 games in the PL for West Ham.

EDIT
Turns out that Barmby was in the squad but not picked.

 

[sledger]

Sinclair did a really decent job for England on the keft in 2002. Even more impressive given he was called up with little notice at the last minute as a replacement for Gerrard.

Always thought Darren Anderton was absolutely rubbish personally.

 

[wpdavid]

Sinclair did a really decent job for England on the keft in 2002. Even more impressive given he was called up with little notice at the last minute as a replacement for Gerrard.

Always thought Darren Anderton was absolutely rubbish personally.

I thought that Anderton had his moments in 1996 and 1998, but I wouldn't stake whatever's left of my reputation on it.
Anyway, his Achilles tendon kept him out of the 2000 euros.

 

[Uppercut]

I thought Anderton was useless too. I think he made his reputation when I was too young to notice, then by the late 90s and 2000s I had no idea why all the pundits were acting as if he was good.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Going purely from memory, which I acknowledge could be a little hazy now on some details, Darren Anderson's career went roughly:

Euro 1996: England 4 - 1 Netherlands. Glorious.

Late 1996 to date: Crocked.

It's enough for me to rate the guy.

 

[GIMH]

Think he'd have had a great career if he wasn't so injury prone but they zapped his quality quite early on

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Redknapp was similar to Anderton, you knew there was a good player there but they never fulfilled the obvious potential as they were always injured.

 

[Cabinet96]

I will be giving this a watch

 

[Furball]

I thought Anderton was useless too. I think he made his reputation when I was too young to notice, then by the late 90s and 2000s I had no idea why all the pundits were acting as if he was good.

I think Anderton had a couple of decent games around 1995 then spent the next 5 years injured so was one of those players who goes into his 30s with people still banging on about his potential.

See also: Wilshere, Jack.

 

[Uppercut]

I think Anderton had a couple of decent games around 1995 then spent the next 5 years injured so was one of those players who goes into his 30s with people still banging on about his potential.

See also: Wilshere, Jack.

Yeah I thought of Wilshere too. Also of the Torres situation, where a player’s physical ability declines in his mid-20s and for some reason most pundits assume their subsequent mediocrity has something to do with ‘confidence’.

 

[duffer]

So Daniel Levy is a heartless douche. Who'd have thought it?

 

[sledger]

See also: Ashley, Mike.

Honestly, football clubs cutting the wages of all the people who work in the club shop, and backroom offices etc. whilst continuing to pay their players six figure salaries is pretty dire.

 

[sledger]

This is especially galling when you see examples from elsewhere, where major clubs (e.g. Barcelona) have players taking massive pay cuts precisely to ensure non-playing staff continue to get paid.

 

[duffer]

Yeah, poor form. Especially when compared to NBA team owners and players who are going the extra mile.

 

[Furball]

See also: Ashley, Mike.

Honestly, football clubs cutting the wages of all the people who work in the club shop, and backroom offices etc. whilst continuing to pay their players six figure salaries is pretty dire.

Spurs pretty much stand alone amongst Premier League clubs in acting the ****.

It's ridiculous that they're relying on government support while paying the chief executive a £3m bonus.

 

[cpr]

I think you could change the word Spurs for Newcastle in that sentence and nobody would bat an eyelid. There's really little in it in the football **** stakes (though Ashley has diversified somewhat into being a **** in our everyday lives too)

 

[Furball]

I think you could change the word Spurs for Newcastle in that sentence and nobody would bat an eyelid. There's really little in it in the football **** stakes (though Ashley has diversified somewhat into being a **** in our everyday lives too)

I'm sure I read somewhere that Newcastle were paying staff until the end of April?

 

[cpr]

Yeah I think Ashley has changed his tune a lot because of the massive ****storm he's been causing

They did automatically take everyone's season ticket payments for next year without any consultation mind, £600 flying out of peoples accounts the day after they've been laid off isn't a good look

 

[sledger]

Looks like the approach to the ending the season problem is to put the season on ice, and just finish it whenever it becomes possible to do so, then.

Shouldn't have thought anyone would have too many problems with that.

 

[Furball]

Player contracts are the only issue I can really see with that.