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Author Topic: ex footballers gone wrong  (Read 32224 times)

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #105 on: September 10, 2015, 12:47:31 PM »
Four goals against us...is it Ridgewell?

Online KRS

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #106 on: September 10, 2015, 12:48:41 PM »
Can you even tell that this person used to be a professional athlete?
Aren't darts players classed as professional athletes these days?

Offline Pete

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #107 on: September 10, 2015, 12:54:11 PM »
Much depends on the time frame when you assess whether a footballer has gone wrong. The best player I have ever seen was John Charles and the crock of gold at the end of his rainbow was the tenancy of a pub, in Leeds I think. That in turn led to excessive drinking and the all too familiar sad end. However, that was considered to be a well planned exit from the game in the not so distant past. Players with less generous clubs got a newsagents.

Anyone remember Craystons newsagents in Blackwood Road, Streetly. Arsenal and England.

I bought my sweets and comics there when I was a kid. And my mom's fags from the age of about five or six ('I've got a note from me mum').

Offline damon loves JT

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #108 on: September 10, 2015, 01:02:56 PM »
I don't want to suggest that he has 'gone wrong' as he apparently 'runs his own waste reclamation firm' nowadays. But I think he should get somebody to look at his blood pressure

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #109 on: September 10, 2015, 01:13:29 PM »
Two opposition player names that spring to mind when I remember extremely bad times at Villa Park - David Fucking White and Trevor Fucking Christie.

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #110 on: September 10, 2015, 01:22:46 PM »
We made David White look like Zico. That was terrible.

Offline LeeB

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #111 on: September 10, 2015, 01:31:52 PM »
We made David White look like Zico. That was terrible.

We made Mickey Quinn look like Gerd Muller, and that was with the best side I've seen us have.

Offline dave shelley

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #112 on: September 10, 2015, 01:40:09 PM »
The appropriately named Tony Woodcock had a tendency to tear us a new one on a couple of occasions as I recall.

Offline Chris Jameson

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #113 on: September 10, 2015, 02:16:01 PM »
We made David White look like Zico. That was terrible.

I loaned my season ticket to a mate for that match whilst I went on a date with my future wife.

A truly dreadful evening all round looking back.


Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #114 on: September 10, 2015, 02:24:48 PM »
Can anyone post a recent photo of Neville Southall?

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #115 on: September 10, 2015, 02:31:19 PM »
Can anyone post a recent photo of Neville Southall?

At a buffet with John Barnes and Jan Molby if possible

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #116 on: September 10, 2015, 02:31:51 PM »
Here you go, Chico.


Offline garyshawsknee

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #117 on: September 10, 2015, 02:35:25 PM »
Anyone got a photo of Neil Shipperley, he must be 20 stone now.

Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #118 on: September 10, 2015, 02:36:37 PM »
Here you go, Chico.



Thanks. He used to be a binman before becoming the best goalkeeper in the country?

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: ex footballers gone wrong
« Reply #119 on: September 10, 2015, 02:38:25 PM »
Here you go, Chico.



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