Non-hateful footballers XI

[Sadken]

On the Guardian podcast someone was saying that his band have a really famous ultra Croatian fascist type playing guitar and apparently they've been banned from playing in some towns and allsorts. Bit mental if true.

People used to always say I looked like him at school and afterwards. Basically, his entire, about four year career in England everyone said I looked like him and I don't. He looked like fucking Frankenstein's monster at the time and that's completely out of order. Fuck him, he's not in. In fact, he's an enemy of every right thinking footballer and the final XI of this team are going to fight him in a cage.

 

[imposs1904]

On the Guardian podcast someone was saying that his band have a really famous ultra Croatian fascist type playing guitar and apparently they've been banned from playing in some towns and allsorts. Bit mental if true.

People used to always say I looked like him at school and afterwards. Basically, his entire, about four year career in England everyone said I looked like him and I don't. He looked like fucking Frankenstein's monster at the time and that's completely out of order. Fuck him, he's not in. In fact, he's an enemy of every right thinking footballer and the final XI of this team are going to fight him in a cage.

He does have that ugly but interesting look to him.

 

[Sadken]

Interesting like a fox! He seems to have sorted himself out a bit now but back in the day he was a total monster.

 

[paulhackett]

roy keane.. duncan ferguson.. anyone else who didn't play the media game

 

[Dr. Furface]

Ulysses De La Cruz - hardly one of the premier Premiership earners, but consistently donated about 10% of his pay to his impoverished home town in Ecuador, which paid for its schools and just about everything else.

 

[imposs1904]

Interesting like a fox! He seems to have sorted himself out a bit now but back in the day he was a total monster.

i liked his recent bobble hat and designer suit combo. You can't buy class like that.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Lucas Radabe

Does loads of work back in South Africa for youth football projects in Soweto.

 

[Wilf]

Think George Weah used to do the same

 

[Mr Retro]

Practically St Thomas Aquinas

Dennis Irwin.

 

[Gingerman]

I'd have Bilic as manager....just like the guy

Remember how he cheated Laurent Blanc out of a place in the 1998 World cup final

 

[Red O]

On the other hand, footballing fash: De Canio and Buffon

And on the same subject:

Scolari: "Pinochet tortured a lot, but there is no illiteracy in Chile".

Capello: "In Madrid, I breathed a sparkling atmosphere, the air of a country in Europe making the greatest progress. When I returned to Italy it seemed I had taken two steps back. Spain in two words? Latin warmth and creativity regulated by a rigorous order. The order which comes from Franco... he left a legacy of order. In Spain, everything works well, there is education, cleanliness, respect. We should follow their example." (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/internationals/a-touchline-philosopher-the-real-fabio-capello-764813.html)

As for Bilic's politics, I've no idea, but Croatian nationalism has a somewhat chequered history. The first Croatian republic was founded in 1941 as a fascist, pro-Nazi puppet state, and murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, as well as many thousand Jews and Gypsies. It's something that always come to my mind when I hear the Croatian support described, like today by Peter Drury and Jim Beglin, as merely displaying the pride and enthusiasm of any young nation that has had troubled birth pangs.

 

[Sadken]

Matt Lockwood.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

In Spain, everything works well

I beg?

 

[DRINK?]

Remember how he cheated Laurent Blanc out of a place in the 1998 World cup final

all adds to my like of the guy

 

[g force]

Remember how he cheated Laurent Blanc out of a place in the 1998 World cup final

Aye as much as I like what he's done with the Croats he's always gonna be a cheating, faking drama queen who denied one of the nicest guys in football the opportunity to lead his country out in the WC final on home soil.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Di Canio may have dubious political leanings, but what about the fair play incident?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I'd have Bilic as manager....just like the guy

Strong rumours that if our board get fed up with Curbs, Bilic will step in

 

[Sadken]

Virtually certain, I'd say.

 

[kained&able]

Unless he becomes too good for us anyway.


dave

 

[tbaldwin]

Pat Nevin.Brian McClair,John Colquohn,Paul Canoville,Ashley Cole,Tony Cottee....All done good things over the years....

 

[Artie Fufkin]

geoff thomas. great for Palace, rubbish for England but a remarkable man.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Schmeichel - lovely seeming bloke. Radiates an aura of decency. I also like the mancunianisms that slip into his danish accent once in a while.

 

[Paul Russell]

Juan Sebastion Veron – apparently he paid for loads of facilities for his childhood club in Argentina and has returned to play out his career there. He even turned down a lucrative end of career deal in the US to stay at his childhood club and help them get promoted and ended up ploughing more money back into improving facilities there.

A while back (maybe about 5 years ago) I read about a couple of Italian players who had ploughed a massive wodge into completely regenerating their home towns, rather than just buying another six cars. Don't suppose anyone knows who they were?

 

[Red O]

Matt Lockwood.

Just take cover when he shoots. Or tries to control the ball...

 

[brianx]

Peter Crouch. No ego, treated badly by Liverpool but gets on with it without moaning and stuck with the lovely Abi after her tabloid exposure during the world cup. Top man Peter Crouch I salute you.

 

[Phenotypic Dai]

"Crouchy's having his nachos!"

 

[phildwyer]

If Bobby moore is playing, then I think John Charles should be in, nice guy and amazing player.

For loyalty can I put forward the name of Phil Dwyer, Cardiff's record appearance holder. And great to have a pint with after, may be more than one tho!

John Charles always struck me as a bıt twp tbh.

I've seen Dwyer out drınkıng loads of tımes, but have always been too scared to approach hım--hıs reputatıon on the pıtch precedes hım!

 

[kained&able]

Peter Crouch. No ego

Bollocks! I've heard him in interviews saying how brillient he is and when he took an elbow he was going on about how it may have ruined his sexy face and stuff. Was clearly a joke but tis stil ego.

dave

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Craig Bellamy in "worthwhile human being" shocker

 

[Artie Fufkin]

Sothampton's Francis Benali for his commitment to the club, charities and curries!