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GwladysPhil
Player Valuation: £35m
Nope I'm not very good but I've played quite a lot and you can always tell who played semi pro as they usually controlled/bossed the game
Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
Interesting all this. Many,many years ago I played in the old Liverpool Shipping League(and I wasn't very good!), but at the same time I got involved in Sunday morning 'friendlies' with the bulk of our team and the likes of Tony Kay, and a few RS, St John, Harrower, Hunt would turn out for us. Others as well...it was the time when lots of the players lived in the Ormskirk/Maghull/Lydiate area.
The difference in ability was incredible....even players not known for great technical skill had the time and quickness of thought to stand out alongside the rest of us. The gentleman Tony Kay christened me 'The Grand Old Man Of Football', because I was never quick enough to read his pin point passes inside the full back for me. The RS St John played full back on one time, and twice in the game he sent a high clearance from our own area and collected the ball as it dropped in the centre circle...ok he was showboating, but he had the skill and timing to do it. Great days and fond memories, confirming that the gap between pros and 'hobby footballers' is immense. All down to having the gift, and improving with superior coaching. We once played Everton B(schoolboy signings?) in a Senior or Junior Cup game after we had done a trip round Threlfalls Brewery with lots of sampling in the morning.We started like world beaters...2 up in 5 minutes, and finished up losing 14-2 ! Even the Everton kids played the game at a different level.
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The difference in ability was incredible....even players not known for great technical skill had the time and quickness of thought to stand out alongside the rest of us. The gentleman Tony Kay christened me 'The Grand Old Man Of Football', because I was never quick enough to read his pin point passes inside the full back for me. The RS St John played full back on one time, and twice in the game he sent a high clearance from our own area and collected the ball as it dropped in the centre circle...ok he was showboating, but he had the skill and timing to do it. Great days and fond memories, confirming that the gap between pros and 'hobby footballers' is immense. All down to having the gift, and improving with superior coaching. We once played Everton B(schoolboy signings?) in a Senior or Junior Cup game after we had done a trip round Threlfalls Brewery with lots of sampling in the morning.We started like world beaters...2 up in 5 minutes, and finished up losing 14-2 ! Even the Everton kids played the game at a different level.
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Why is this Bellend still being discussed?
Davek, not Mcgeady.
Davek, not Mcgeady.
d34noj
Player Valuation: £40m
Same here.
I played against Chris Waddle when he was in his late 40s when he was playing Sundays, pretty sure he didn't move from the centre circle, yet was always in space and was the best player on the pitch by a country mile.
Pro's these days have been getting top coaching for around 15 hours minimum a week for around 10 years before even playing a pro game. Ovcourse they are very good at even the simplest of things.
I played with a 19 year old from Bolton Wanderers about 10 years ago....he had played v sporting lisbon in the Europa league for them.
He looked like messi against us.....proper different level mindblowing stuff, scored about 15. He was a guest for our works game lol
He now plays for Connahs quay!!
I played with a 19 year old from Bolton Wanderers about 10 years ago....he had played v sporting lisbon in the Europa league for them.
He looked like messi against us.....proper different level mindblowing stuff, scored about 15. He was a guest for our works game lol
He now plays for Connahs quay!!
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
But how big was he then? Joking apart he's the most overweight player I've ever seen play for the club. I'd wonder how he would have fared nowadays with all the nutritionists, dietitians and fitness experts at each club.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
It was brutal mate. It was just before the season started early 80s and he was obviously looking for fitness after being on the ale no doubt all summer. But I took the lad apart. Sweat pissing out of him.
I think he decided to retire soon after that.
Sorry Billy, lad.
CahillsCornerFlag
Player Valuation: £70m
Played 5 a side against Nedum Onouha once, he was head and shoulders above anyone else, and I don't think he was even exerting himself.
But yeah glad Aids is finally off.
But yeah glad Aids is finally off.
It finally comes out, no wonder you didn't want a stadium there, only room for one footballing dynasty in Kirkby.
I saw Thomas Radzinski in a furniture store once.
McGeady is turd.
McGeady is turd.
orly
Please check with me for Blammo criteria
Are you good at the footballing then David?
Half expecting the Gruesome Twosome from the @Blue Cheese watchlist to say something bantz about being "phenomenal"
Alas, McGeady- tosh
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Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
Exactly. Re my post above, in the Shipping League we had a guy in his mid-late 49s who had played in the top Scottish League, and his technique was far better than the rest of us, his timing as well. As you say about Waddle, stood in the centre circle and controlled the game, never breaking into a run.
Kever10
Player Valuation: £25m
No, I don't remember that at all, and I was at the match and saw him come on to the pitch, and then saw the pictures of him afterwards, and read the comments of people saying it, and looked at the pictures again, and still didnt see it.
But it seems to have gone down in folklore now. And in this age, with Google and everything.
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