Yes, Stone was a good player. We signed him in the March of the 98-99 season when we went from top of the table to sixth. Stone did ok with us but he wasn't going to be the player to turn us around and win big honours. £5.5m was a lot for a 28 year old in 1999.
Anyone know why Hendrie didn't start the final that day, felt like that was the bit of spark we were missing centrally given we pinned all the creativity on Merson and Carbone.Can't remember him scoring a penalty v Bolton in the SF which was even worse quality game and he was very good for most of 98/99 so had already broken through into team by then.Barry started that day so wasn't like we just went with most experienced 11 we had either.
Quote from: Villan82 on June 02, 2021, 01:49:56 PMYes, Stone was a good player. We signed him in the March of the 98-99 season when we went from top of the table to sixth. Stone did ok with us but he wasn't going to be the player to turn us around and win big honours. £5.5m was a lot for a 28 year old in 1999.He was a funny player Stone, I'd never heard of him until he was about 25 then he was suddenly in the England squad.
2000 FA Cup final for me too. Was convinced it was our year, and that it was written in the stars that it was *our* cup final.