Can you blame him? Guy went from PL to Puebla, Mexico in a few years. Alchie's don't always make bad players. My hometown team the Timbers have a heavy drinker playing center mid who one of the best hard men in the league. I don't know how he does it.Last time I heard he was still on the piss!
Didn't DM have a sneaky piss on the touchline several years ago? That is what I was referring to.Can you blame him? Guy went from PL to Puebla, Mexico in a few years. Alchie's don't always make bad players. My hometown team the Timbers have a heavy drinker playing center mid who one of the best hard men in the league. I don't know how he does it.
Yeah, the WC match, boy can't believe that slipped my mind. Probably see that on Youtube as well.Didn't DM have a sneaky piss on the touchline several years ago? That is what I was referring to.
I can recall George Best turning out for Hibs, on the few occasions he was sober enough to stand up on a Saturday afternoon. Someone once threw a half can of beer at him when playing. He picked it up, drank it and and threw the can back!Can you blame him? Guy went from PL to Puebla, Mexico in a few years. Alchie's don't always make bad players. My hometown team the Timbers have a heavy drinker playing center mid who one of the best hard men in the league. I don't know how he does it.
I recall that back in the day, Jack Dyson played Cricket for Lancashire, George Hannah ran a newsagent, Andy Black had a pub in Wythenshaw, Franny Lee was into waste paper and Harry Dowd was a plumber.
Mind you Lee and Dowd were doing that when they were playing for City.
No they just did a bit on moonlighting.During the match?
No they just did a bit on moonlighting.
Prior to the big wages of recent years most players had a 'day job' as the £20 a week they would receive was not enough to secure a future.
With the maximum wage in operation until the early 1960s, it was not the best time to be a professional footballer. Some, like Tom Finney, continued their former trade (another plumber), others secured a future in Journalism such as Danny Blanchflower. It was a precarious life as a professional footballer. Jimmy Hill went on to become a trade union organiser with the PFA before moving into management and later broadcasting.
Many ex-United players suffered this after Munich when Busby sacked them as they were recovering from their injuries. Even worse, they were evicted from their club houses and found themselves Homeless and redundant.
A lot of ex-players ended up running pubs or scratching a living.
Aside from Paul Lake, in my time I've not seen a more complete footballer come thru our ranks. The ends of each mens careers was tear inducing but for completely different reasons.I can't think of a younger player who was more loved by the fans, at least in Manchester. Nacho kind of brings out some of that same love. But Johnson was supposed to be the next Colin Bell, wasn't he?
Paul Lake must have been something special. I met an English guy who was hired by my firm, and off the cuff, mentioned I was a huge City fan. He was a Spurs supporter, but he'd seen Lake play for England's youth teams and he gushed about him. Just like what a loss it was and what could have been.... it made an impression.Aside from Paul Lake, in my time I've not seen a more complete footballer come thru our ranks. The ends of each mens careers was tear inducing but for completely different reasons.
it's on youtube mateYeah, the WC match, boy can't believe that slipped my mind. Probably see that on Youtube as well.
Ian or David?
Apparently he's being stalked on Facebook by some dodgy bloke in Florida with the initials PG ;)Ian Scott runs a ''soccer school'' in Indiana USA