Soda Jerk Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Lassana Diarra is only 29. It feels like an eternity ago he was at Chelsea. Obafemi Martins is always common when mentioning surprising footballer ages. Again, only 29. I swear, he's been 29 since 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Put differently, Lassana Diarra would've been a year ahead of me at school. That's just not right. I feel like he was playing (and being an adult whilst doing it) when I was at school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Just googled Robbie Keane... he's 34. That's more like it. He seems 34. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Florent Malouda is only one year younger than Nicholas Anelka. It's most probably because Malouda played in France for a long time, but it doesn't feel like he's been around all that long, where as Anelka has been knocking about since before time began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Remember that one season Malouda had where he was practically the best player on earth? It was weird, because he was pretty awful for ages, and then reverted back to the awfulness after that freak season. Edit: Actually, it was two seasons. Edited September 2, 2014 by Soda van Jerk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 It was really bizarre. He scored like 30 goals in two seasons despite doing nothing before or since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 The season he was really amazing was the title winning year under Carlo. Everyone got loads of goals that season, they loved kicking small teams when they were down, no taking their foot off the gas at 3 or 4 nil, 6 was the minimum requirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 And while on the topic of ages, any chance to repost SEVENTEEN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted September 2, 2014 Report Share Posted September 2, 2014 Best Malouda moment: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delboy1969 Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 After a ten year absence was bed wettingly excited about Cambridge competing in the football league trophy only to be given the shittiest tie we could have got - away at Crawley Town - resulting in a predictable 2-0 defeat so we can now concentrate on the league! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Diego Costa being 6 months younger than me is bothering. I assume he was at least 30, just a late bloomer. Like the Brazilian/Spanish Ricky Lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 If I were a professional footballer I'd be in my final season before retirement probably. And all the fans would be saying my legs had gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I still can't believe that Kanu is only 24. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I think a lot of people think Costa is older than he is and think it was a case of spending a lot of money on a short term solution when actually he could be leading in the line and smashing in goals for 7 seasons to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 That and the fact that he looks like a man with a two-packs-a-day smoking habit who lives in a motorway underpass and needs a good shower. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-manager-alan-pardew-has-two-games-to-save-his-job-at-st-james-park-9707489.html Good news Murrr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) It would be, but so many of these articles have appeared over the past season or so that I've learned not to put any stock into them. It could be true, of course, but it just smacks of an Ashley PR move: appease the fans with a non-story following what was a pretty disastrous transfer window. If he gets fired, though, I'll be drunk for a month. It'll be the greatest of days. Edited September 3, 2014 by Murrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Jobs for the Moyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I think Moyes would do well at Newcastle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted September 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 Mike Ashley isn't going to do anything approaching that level of competency. That's a ridiculous assumption. It'll be Stuart Pearce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 It'll be one of John Carver, Peter Beardsley and David O'Leary. Quote me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 A thread of mascots observing minutes silences. It's pretty great. http://www.wsc.co.uk/forum-index/27-football/852607-mascots-observing-minutes-silences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 It'll be one of John Carver, Peter Beardsley and David O'Leary. Quote me.Gary Megson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 14,000 turned up to watch Republic Of Ireland v Oman tonight. Looked like even less on the telly. Does anyone pay the slight bit of attention to international friendlies? I don't even look at the score most of the time, never mind watching. Totally pointless IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 You get some good ones sometimes. Some great stuff in Germany - Argentina tonight. I wouldn't watch Ireland - Oman obviously, who would? And I'd most likely struggle to find any interest if it was Scotland instead of Ireland. The Irish FA really should have done much better and organised a more exciting / useful match. I'd have watched Scotland tonight against any team of our level or above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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