Absolutely Random footballers from the 1990's

Redlambs

Played for West Ham in the season 96/97. Was crap.

At least he had style though, he chose shopping at Harvey Nichols to actually playing a game, not a wonder when after signing he was taken to the Chadwell Heath training ground and breaking down in tears thinking he was in a war zone.


Florin "Two-bob" Raducioiu. West Ham legend.

CockneyHammer

Do you want me to delete and we'll both pretend it never happened

Here's one for you



Jordi Cruyff

Spent years at Man United yet rarely featured in the first team

He plays for Metalurh Donetsk now and has started his own fashion label Cuyff fashion

CnutOfAllCnuts

Redlambs

Nope, I've done another one for you

Look up.

CockneyHammer

CockneyHammer

Judas

Redlambs

I thought you might like that one!


BTW what's with West ham buying the Ford place for training? Is that happening? I used to play over there, shame to see the standard drop

CockneyHammer

Yeah we should be there this time next year, it's a bigger faculity than what we have and it needs is the building built there as it already has pitches.

The club seem to think our current training ground is down to a lot of the injuries too so they was keen to move.

As for the standard dropping, I don't think it will it's not as if anyone will train there they'll all just use the injury room

Wes

#52 Bruce Grobbelaar



A classic. Most notably played for Liverpool during their good times in the 1980's winning plenty of silverware and almost single-handedly winning them a penalty shoot-out against Roma in 1984. Vetern of the Civil war in Zimbabwee, he used this to defend his madness, which was evident for all to see, including him usually clicking his heels in front of the kop after conceeding soft goals. He would sometimes go properly mad and was known to have put Steve McManaman and Jim Beglin on their arses at half time after dodgy passing. Later involved in match-fixing scandal, whereby some Malaysian business man gave him a suitcase full of money to carry on conceeding goals for Liverpool. Caught on video-tape discussing match-fixing by The Sun and still had the pleasure to plead not guilty. Obviously guilty, he got away with it because he said he was claiming he was "only gathering evidence with the intent of taking it to the police", and presumably, because he's only that mad fecker Bruce Grobbelaar. Subsequently sued The Sun, but was only awarded £1 and ordered to pay their charges which he was unable to and was declared bankrupt.

His mission is now to become Liverpool manager, appartantly, which I've no doubt he will. Oh, Brucie, Brucie, Brucie, Brucie, Brucie, Brucie, Gobble shit.


Bruce Grobbelaar

Redlambs

There is a shit load of room there, plus I'll beable to through things at them! Everyone wins


You missed my joke. Let me spell it out for you

I used to play over there.

West Ham will now play over there.

Me > West Ham 'players' (using the term loosely).

CockneyHammer

[quote]Why do it when their in training, go down faces on the weekend and you'll always see a few players down there. no security there either

No I got the joke I think you missed my blatent sarcasm

Wes

#24 Temuri Ketsbaia



Known for kicking the advertising hoardings around St James's after scoring goals, this man briefly was mentioned in conversations regarding football in the late 1990's to which I was exposed. Legend apparantly, Dagleish thought otherwise and rarely gave him a game, branding him a wierdo.

Temari Ketsbaia

Redlambs

No I got the sarcasm, I think you missed my blatant stupidness to miss the sarcasm and now try to come back


Oh and blatant is spelled like this. Phew, now I feel better!

Redlambs

Because Faces is a shit-hole, and I'm scared if I get in a fight Neill might flop and I'll get sent off!

CockneyHammer

Neill is an Aussie he goes to Walkabout. sad twat

Ivor Ballokov

Gilles de Bilde



Despite an initially fruitful start to his spell with Sheffield Wednesday, De Bilde's association with the side's decline as a footballing force and the perception that he was a mercenary figure who cared little about the club's fortunes made him a particular hate figure for Wednesday fans. De Bilde became synonymous with the crop of players who received hefty salaries yet failed to perform to the expected standard. This was especially the case following the club's relegation to the old Division One (nowadays known as the Football League Championship). The nadir of his Wednesday career came during a 4-1 away defeat to Wimbledon at Selhurst Park - De Bilde's arrival on the pitch as a second half substitute brought instant cat calls from Wednesday fans and a serenade of "Gilles de Bilde, can he fix it? Gilles de Bilde, can he f*ck" to the tune of the theme of popular children's show Bob the Builder.[citation needed] Wednesday manager Paul Jewell was sacked in the wake of the defeat.

Jewell claimed that, during his time at Wednesday, De Bilde turned down a loan deal because there was no-one to look after his dogs. The striker rejoined Anderlecht in 2001 on a free transfer and played in the UEFA Champions League before moving on to SK Lierse in 2003. His love for "man's best friends" got him into trouble again in September 2006. He missed a match for his club at the time, Willebroek Meerhof (of the Belgian Third Division), due to the death of his pet dog.[1]

3Sixty

Ali Dia


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The former Paris Saint-Germain legend who was capped 13 times as a Senegalese international, joined Southampton in in 1996 under the recommendation of his cousin and long time admirer George Weah.

or at least thats how his agent tells it.

Ali Dia joined Southampton after a brief stint at semi-pro club Blyth Spartans, on the recommendation of, well his agent, doing his very best George Weah impression. His one and only Southampton appearance came against Leeds united in which he came off the bench to replace Matt Le Tiss, only to take one shot and be subbed off again 20 odd minutes later, he then was released and signed with non league gateshead, his whereabouts our now unknown.

Wes

#15 Glen Helder



Absolute madman who played for Arsenal, signed by George Graham, so presumably for some sort of financial reward, which would explain a fair amount, really. More or less a regular in his first season, Wenger took one look at him and sent him to Benfica on loan, and by the time he came back Overmars had robbed his place, probably because Marc Overmars was actually good at football. Went and played for some random clubs after being given his marching orders including some Chinese club named Dalian Wanda, who sound terrific. Attempted sucide in 1999 because of problems resulting from compulsive gambling yet continues to gamble, and is even seen playing poker on the British Five television station, representing the Netherlands, good old Holland and blatant disregard for mental health, eh?

He was imprisoned in September 2007, on account of threatening his ex-girlfriend and physically abusing her current partner. In March 2008, Helder accepted to be treated at De Waag, an institute for ambulant forensic psychiatry in Haarlem, where he currently resides.

Glen Helder

djemba's arse

Added simply because his name fittingly describes liverpool at the moment if you switch the 'n' and the 'r' (and add a little goodwill in pronouncing the first word).

Rowem

Absolutely love this thread. Used to collect the old sticker books and occasionaly was allowed to stay up late and watch MotD so remember the players from that.

One thing it does make me think though - how shit was the PL in the 90s?

Ivor Ballokov

Samassi Abou

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Can't find much about him but I remember he was truly awful.

Harry Redknapp had this to say.

* On Samassi Abou: "He don't speak the English too good."

* On Samassi Abou's mystery ailment: "The lad went home to the
Ivory Coast and got a bit of food poisoning. He must have eaten a dodgy
missionary or something."

klebersomeone

Any mention of Graham Fenton yet?

Wes

@Rowem

pretty feckin shit. Championship now is comparable to the PL back then. Absolute rubbish, the majority of it. More characters around then, though.

Wes

Yep. Feckin pissed myself at that one aswell. Cnut is keeping me laughing with those random Scandanavians who were littered throughout in the 90's as well.

a_devil_inside

John 'Budgie' Burridge

sidsutton

No picture as the function is fucked for me

John Spencer - known more for his uncanny resemblance to Wee Man than for his footballing prowess, Spencer managed a couple of years at Chelsea when they were wank.

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sidsutton

Mark Stein - another Chelsea midget from the 90s. had one great season which got me loads of points in fantasy football. His brother was better.

sidsutton

Jason Cundy - did the rounds of london clubs as a distinctly pedestrian centre back. Scored an amazingly flukey goal one time, kicking it from a tackle at the half way line. Think he lost a bollock. Great name for piss taking.

enghuei