He was far far better than the likes of Darmian or other dross we have now. Sheasy embodied what every player should be. He might not have been the most talented or skillful but he made it up with grit and professionalism.
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True but he did nutmeg Figo, had a last minute chipped goal against Arsenal and a 90th minute winner at Anfield.There's a reason he was nicknamed John O'Shite.
He could clear a ball when he needed to, I'll give him that. But I'll always remember him for his inability to play a 5 yard pass to the feet of his teammate.
Absolutely loved Sheasy when he was here and don't care about his limited quality on the ball etc. We had enough technical quality in our team anyway and he was a squad player. For me, squad players like O'Shea, Brown, Fletch who were great servants to the club are much much more valuable in the history of this club than the likes of Ronaldo etc. who couldn't wait to run away to Madrid.
Our best all time squad player? Maybe one of the best, manager-specific under SAF.
Fantastic attitude and very good professionally, can do the job just reliable enough, and can literally cover all the 11 positions and roles, even keeper, except winger.
He's consistently average and bad technically
oh come on, it's true, yet he have this knack of producing very memorable cult-hero amazing moments.
Love it.
Retiring? Most likely fake news, he can still play at lower and lower level leagues.
Fantastic attitude and very good professionally, can do the job just reliable enough, and can literally cover all the 11 positions and roles, even keeper, except winger.
He's consistently average and bad technically
oh come on, it's true, yet he have this knack of producing very memorable cult-hero amazing moments.Love it.
Retiring? Most likely fake news, he can still play at lower and lower level leagues.
Have a word with yourself man, he megged Figo on the wings!Our best all time squad player? Maybe one of the best, manager-specific under SAF.
Fantastic attitude and very good professionally, can do the job just reliable enough, and can literally cover all the 11 positions and roles, even keeper, except winger.
He's consistently average and bad technically
Love it.
Retiring? Most likely fake news, he can still play at lower and lower level leagues.
Ah yes that one. Just one moment?Consistently, I can't see him do the job playing as a winger (not side midfielder).
If we're being technical, he nutmegged Figo at the furthest advance LM area.
Roles of LW and LM is different.
No United fan has ever called him “O’shite” where the hell has that nonsense come from?
it sucks seeing great players of this club retire at some third rate shitty club like sunderland.
Best of luck Oshea!
Best of luck Oshea!
Underrated stat. Fergie should've played him as a striker and took advantage of his incredible form. He's as good as anyone when played anywhere, He could even be the ballboy or the ref and did well in those positions. The most flexible false 9/1/5/22 of all times.
He was a lot more reliable when it came to actual defending than Darmian, though he was similarly useless most of the time as an attacking fullback.
The most overrated player I've seen play for United. I would say he found his level at Sunderland, but he actually didn't until they dropped right to the bottom of the Championship. That was his level.
Based on his goal just now he's definitely got another few years in him playing as a poacher.
Don’t be so ridiculous.
What a load of nonsense.
Definitely one of the most idiotic I have ever read on Caf.
He was never overrated. Everyone knew his level was solid squad player and that's what he was. No one said he was Maldini.
Scored tonight as Sunderland won 4-1 at Derby. Derby in bad form, but Sunderland's was worse going into this. Nice one Sheasy!
Not his best goal.
Edit: Hmmm, weird. My adblocker stops it playing here but not on streamable. Had to temporarily disable it to see it here.
Not his best goal.
Edit: Hmmm, weird. My adblocker stops it playing here but not on streamable. Had to temporarily disable it to see it here.
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Everyone looks over the moon.
They have just been relegated to league one. No one is going to be happy.
Good point. I hadn't thought of that.
Haha exactly, what does the guy expect when saying “they look over the moon”.
Back to back relegations and finishing bottom of the Championship is tragic. They shouldn’t even have an award ceremony because the players should be embarrassed for any kind of celebratory awards after the shit show they have gave the fans for the last 2 seasons.
Why would you even hold such an award after back to back relegation...
Some of the comments in that thread:We've kept the lowest amount of clean sheets in second tier history
The loss of a sense of humour on here is one of the more depressing developments of recent seasons.
Haha apologies
Everyone looks over the moon.
Fecking hell this is grim. Looks like a wake.He was never nicknamed John O'Shite. what the hell are you on about?There's a reason he was nicknamed John O'Shite.
He could clear a ball when he needed to, I'll give him that. But I'll always remember him for his inability to play a 5 yard pass to the feet of his teammate.
says someone with Mame Diouf as his username.
Why didn't they just scrap the awards, they've had an abysmal season.
What the feck? He scored a late winner at fecking Anfield. He is a legend.
I feel awful for John. I think he looks pretty emotional and depressed here to be honest.
Everyone looks over the moon.
I know quite a lot of people here don't like Sunderland, but I used to enjoy going to matches there with mates when I lived there - it was invariably a laugh, plenty of gallows humour. They've made an absolute mess of tackling the toxic attitude in the club though, and probably deserve to be where they are. They're in a bit of terminal decline now and need to do something drastic to stop the collapse.
I agree that they should have cancelled this award too.
Agreed on all points. I feel bad for John too, and he looks so downcast.
I used to go to uni in Sunderland and I loved it there. Many of my friends supported them and it was always with a sense of humor like you say. They deserve to be where they are, and while I enjoy it for how they behaved after City won the league in 2012, I hope they can arrest the spiral they find themselves trapped in and sort themselves out.
Ha, yes he was. He earned that nickname over 10 years ago. Both here and on the terraces.
13 pages of O'Shit/e references - https://www.redcafe.net/search/85007206/?q=o'shit&o=date
Just about none of those posts are about John O'Shea being nicknamed O'Shit. Just because devilish says it a few times doesn't make it a real nickname.Eh? Yes they are.
The whole first two pages of your 'references' consists of this thread, stuff about Donald Trump, other general forum stuff, people making fun of devilish, and a Spanish tax thread of someone making puns of players names.
The majority of your 'references' are literally just people calling devilish a moron.
And the rest of the pages that you're conveniently ignoring?
You know, the pages that contain posters calling him O'Shite...During O'Shea's career did you honestly never hear anyone refer to him as O'Shite - even in jest!?