JGL07
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I couldn’t think which category to put him in: clogger or player. Like Billy Bremner he was a bit of each. But Giles wasn’t as good as good as Bremner at either!
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Total Boll&x, Giles was the far superior player.I couldn’t think which category to put him in: clogger or player. Like Billy Bremner he was a bit of each. But Giles wasn’t as good as good as Bremner at either!
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Giles the only player I can think of who's career improved once he left the ragsTotal Boll&x, Giles was the far superior player.
When Peter Reid was sacked, the rumour was that we were going to get the brightest young manager in the lower leagues - at the time many felt that was Martin O'Neil, who had just taken Wycombe up from the Conference. Much as I enjoyed Brian Horton's style, I sometimes wondered if O'Neil would have been more effective - based on his record at Leicester, we might at least have won the League Cup. And just like Horton he would have had to deal with being Swales man when Lee took over - although checking the dates, I see that he actually left Wycombe for Norwich when Lee decided that Alan Ball would lead us to glory ...
JGL07
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Apart from Memphis Depay, Gary Birtles, Christiano Ronaldo, Sean Goater, Wilfried Zaha, etc., etc. …..,Giles the only player I can think of who's career improved once he left the rags
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Sorry should have added of that eraApart from Memphis Depay, Gary Birtles, Christiano Ronaldo, Sean Goater, Wilfried Zaha, etc., etc. …..,
Giles, a clogger!?I couldn’t think which category to put him in: clogger or player. Like Billy Bremner he was a bit of each. But Giles wasn’t as good as good as Bremner at either!
I can only assume you're too young to have seen him play and are working on some crude national stereotype?
If it's a thing you are old enough to have seen him play, all I can suggest is the next time anybody asks you if you know anything about football, look down at your shoes and mumble, "no, sir".
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I remember Hiddink claiming that City had spoken to him back in around 2008-2009. I think he would have been very good for us, always rated him.