The Emile Heskey appreciation thread

[avfc_1874]

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[PaulTheVillan]

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[avfc_1874]

Fixed.

[Leighton]

Emile is a genius at crossword puzzles.

[PaulTheVillan]

'Googling' Mrs.Heskey brings surprising results.

[Legion]

From The Fount of all Knowledge

Heskey was the partner of Kylee Pinsent but he left her in 2004 and is now engaged to Chantelle Tagoe.[128] He started seeing Tagoe secretly in 2002, who worked part-time as a waitress at a lap-dancing bar in Liverpool, while still in a relationship with Pinsent.[129] Following the revelation of his two-year affair with Tagoe, Pinsent broke up with Heskey.[130] He is the father of five children, three of them with former partner Pinsent and two with Tagoe.[131] His fiancée Tagoe was held at knifepoint at their home in Hale, Greater Manchester in July 2008, while he was at a training session.[132] The thieves burgled the house and stole Heskey's BMW but neither Tagoe, nor their two children who were in the house, were hurt.[132] Following this, he said Tagoe was "very, very distressed" by the incident.[133] In 2009, he was rated as owning a personal fortune of £12 million.[134]  Heskey and other members of the England team supported the Shoe Aid for Africa campaign in 2009, which was aimed at helping underprivileged children in Africa.[135]

[berneboy]

He has never said anything negative about Villa or Villa fans despite being given plenty of ammunition.

[brian green]

He has a nicer shaped head than Marlon Harewood, he drives more sensibly than Ashley Young, he has better table manners than Stylian Petrov, he has more bird feeders in his garden in winter than Carlos Cuellar, he is not smiling in his passport photograph like Brad Friedel, he has fewer fist fights with the manager on the training ground than Nigel Reo Coker, he has a much easier name for the tabloid journalists to spell than Gabrial Agbolanhor, when he does go to a lap dancing club it is only to try to get John Carew to go home, he doesn't wear glasses, he has a private dental plan, he has no Japanese Knotgrass growing in his garden.   For goodness sake how much do you want from a football player?

[darren woolley]

He is a gentleman and a scholar.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Is Capello an idiot? Of course not. Emile is probably the most underrated player in the country. Apart from his vision and his ability to read so well, his attitude is first class.

I'll certainly miss him.

YES 100%

Is Heskey any good? Hopefully somewhere else

[cdward]

Him Sleek Eye is an anagram of his name.

[KevinGage]

Great artists are never appreciated in their own time.

In years to come defensive forwards will become de rigueur. Until then, enjoy and savour the uniqueness of Ivanhoe.

[dave.woodhall]

He makes his team mates look better.

[Legion]

He always tries his best.

[TheSandman]

He is the best defensive striker in the world.

He can fill in at centre-back if you ask him nicely.

He won't cause any trouble.