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[quote author=Krump link=topic=44931.msg1365773#msg1365773 date=1310775757]
He prolly won't read that.
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Stop hatin' on Gary...
 
"It has been a long time coming and I've had to wait a few weeks, but I'm really pleased to be here," said Downing, who joined Villa from Middlesbrough for 10 million pounds in 2009.
"With the tradition, the manager and the players they have here, there was a big temptation to come here and once I knew of their interest, there was only one place I wanted to go."
#Downing
 
[quote author=Modo link=topic=44931.msg1365783#msg1365783 date=1310781528]
"It has been a long time coming and I've had to wait a few weeks, but I'm really pleased to be here," said Downing, who joined Villa from Middlesbrough for 10 million pounds in 2009.
"With the tradition, the manager and the players they have here, there was a big temptation to come here and once I knew of their interest, there was only one place I wanted to go."
#Downing
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Tbf, I fell asleep half way through that, you guys aren't wrong.
 
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365775#msg1365775 date=1310776477]
Gary probably is Downing. Came on the scene about the same time. Boring as fuck. All the clues are there.
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Whereas you ooze excitement.
 
[quote author=Gary25 link=topic=44931.msg1365941#msg1365941 date=1310819390]
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365775#msg1365775 date=1310776477]
Gary probably is Downing. Came on the scene about the same time. Boring as fuck. All the clues are there.
[/quote]

Whereas you ooze excitement.
[/quote]

Uh-oh !
 
[quote author=themn link=topic=44931.msg1365945#msg1365945 date=1310819510]
[quote author=Gary25 link=topic=44931.msg1365941#msg1365941 date=1310819390]
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365775#msg1365775 date=1310776477]
Gary probably is Downing. Came on the scene about the same time. Boring as fuck. All the clues are there.
[/quote]

Whereas you ooze excitement.
[/quote]

Uh-oh !
[/quote]
troll.jpg


Gene ready to crawl out...
 
[quote author=Modo link=topic=44931.msg1365950#msg1365950 date=1310820224]
[quote author=themn link=topic=44931.msg1365945#msg1365945 date=1310819510]
[quote author=Gary25 link=topic=44931.msg1365941#msg1365941 date=1310819390]
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365775#msg1365775 date=1310776477]
Gary probably is Downing. Came on the scene about the same time. Boring as fuck. All the clues are there.
[/quote]

Whereas you ooze excitement.
[/quote]

Uh-oh !
[/quote]
troll.jpg


Gene ready to crawl out...
[/quote]

*says "Uh-oh !" again*
 
[quote author=Gary25 link=topic=44931.msg1365941#msg1365941 date=1310819390]
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365775#msg1365775 date=1310776477]
Gary probably is Downing. Came on the scene about the same time. Boring as fuck. All the clues are there.
[/quote]

Whereas you ooze excitement.
[/quote]

That's semen, not excitement.
 
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365960#msg1365960 date=1310820876]
[quote author=Gary25 link=topic=44931.msg1365941#msg1365941 date=1310819390]
[quote author=gene hughes link=topic=44931.msg1365775#msg1365775 date=1310776477]
Gary probably is Downing. Came on the scene about the same time. Boring as fuck. All the clues are there.
[/quote]

Whereas you ooze excitement.
[/quote]

That's semen, not excitement.
[/quote]
That was literally below the belt.
 
Downing Snr said:

“I’ve been hearing from Liverpool fans that they have been crying out for an out-and-out left winger and Stewart won’t let them down. They’ve been saying they can’t wait until he arrives and they’ve been saying he’s a better player than Ashley Young. I know that they will love him.

“Andy Carroll will be rubbing his hands together. I bet he can’t wait for Stewart to arrive. Carroll will get 20 goals a season, easy, just on our Stewart’s crosses.

"Carroll has a good touch for a big man but he is brilliant in the air and he will lap it up when Stewart starts pinging those pin-point crosses into the penalty area in front of the Kop.

“It’s a mouth-watering prospect. Stewart will be playing with better players – the likes of Charlie Adam and Steven Gerrard - who can pick you out with a pass. He will take to it like a duck to water.

“When they see him week in, week out Liverpool fans will see Stewart is a real team player as well. Ashley Young can’t play left back but our Stewart can. Ashley doesn’t track players like our Stewart tracks them. That is why the right back and left back always say they want him on their side so he can run up and down and look after them.”

“There is a lot of pressure that comes with playing for Liverpool but Stewart will be fine with that,” said Downing Snr. “He has played alongside Steven Gerrard and all of them in front of 90,000 people at Wembley for England and so playing in front of 40,000-plus at Anfield won’t bother him.”

Having supported the Merseyside club since he was a youngster himself during their heyday of the 1970s, Downing Snr is well acquainted with the Liverpool way.

He went on: “I have supported Liverpool since I was a kid. They are the masters. They were the ones who showed everybody how to pass and move. They dominated football throughout the 80s with their pass-and-move approach. Great managers, great players.

“I loved watching them and I used to love the manager, Bill Shankly. And what did Bill Shankly say? ‘There are only two sides in Liverpool – one is red and one is blue and the blue side are the reserves.’

“Stewart has played before at Anfield so he knows what a great stadium it is and that is one of the reasons why he has gone there. He went there and got the sponsors’ man of the match award even though they were beaten. The same happened when his team lost 3-0 at Old Trafford and I’ve got the champagne here to prove it.

“My message to Stewart has always been that if you work hard you get your rewards and thankfully he took that on board. I hope he will be successful and help the team win major honours. If he works hard at Liverpool he will do well.”

Downing helped nurture his son’s talent as a coach with the Teesside-based Marton juniors club - where Jonathan Woodgate also came through the ranks - before he was fast-tracked by Middlesbrough and ended up rubbing shoulders with world-renowned internationals.

“Stewart was at Boro when they had the best players they will ever have,” Downing Snr continued. “Apart from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Mark Viduka and Gareth Southgate, he was there learning the ropes when Juninho, Alen Boksic and Fabrizio Ravanelli and Emerson were there. You are talking world-class players and Stewart used to train with them when he was a kid.

“That helped him develop because that’s what happens when you play with better players. When they were at Boro, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink used to cane Franck Queudrue. He’d say he wanted Stewart up front with him and Mark Viduka, not looking after Franck at left-back.”

Downing’s dad had trials with Aston Villa as a teenager and was a mentor for his son as he harnessed the youngster’s nascent talent both on and off the football field.

“I used to teach Stewart to be two-footed by putting a bigger boot on his left foot to make sure that he used his right foot,” Downing added. “You get a ball, go out to the garages or a brick wall and start using your right foot repeatedly until you get used to it. And then your right foot will be better than your left foot.

“You can’t beat education but you can only coach so many things. One thing you can’t teach anybody are pace and balance. You are gifted with it. You are born with it. Like Ryan Giggs, he was born to be a footballer and when you are born left-footed you are special.”

He would leave little to chance as his children grew up on the uncompromising Pallister Park estate in Middlesbrough.

“When he was a kid we wouldn’t let him play with any of the wrong ones on the estate,” he said. “He was always with me and then he would go to bed with a football. We didn’t have a car so I would ferry him all over the place on my mountain bike in rain, hail, the lot, when he was playing for Marton. I’ve still got the mountain bike.

“He’s a tough cookie because he is Pallister Park born-and-bred. That has given him a hunger, desire, drive and determination. It’s the way kids are brought up on the estate. There are some great kids there still and you could get a football team together from the kids that are playing there now – all dreaming of being the next Stewart Downing.”
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That Shankly quote's incorrect, isn't it?
 
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=44931.msg1365798#msg1365798 date=1310796476]
There's always only one place to go, the best most lucrative place at that particular point in time.
[/quote]FYI Farky, Spurs and Arsenal had bid for Downing at the same time as us and at the last minute Manchester United put a bid in. Downing didnt even want to talk to them, and given the relative offers you would imagine he has chosen us on merit, not on financial gain.
Ive not been massively keen on this transfer especially not for huge money, but the one thing i would say is that im 100% that Downing wanted to be here and only here.
Maybe because his father is a fan, dunno really but he DID turn down Arsenal, Manchester and Spurs to come to us.
 
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=44931.msg1366172#msg1366172 date=1310850841]
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=44931.msg1365798#msg1365798 date=1310796476]
There's always only one place to go, the best most lucrative place at that particular point in time.
[/quote]FYI Farky, Spurs and Arsenal had bid for Downing at the same time as us and at the last minute Manchester United put a bid in. Downing didnt even want to talk to them, and given the relative offers you would imagine he has chosen us on merit, not on financial gain.
Ive not been massively keen on this transfer especially not for huge money, but the one thing i would say is that im 100% that Downing wanted to be here and only here.
Maybe because his father is a fan, dunno really but he DID turn down Arsenal, Manchester and Spurs to come to us.
[/quote]

where did you hear that?
 
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=44931.msg1366172#msg1366172 date=1310850841]
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=44931.msg1365798#msg1365798 date=1310796476]
There's always only one place to go, the best most lucrative place at that particular point in time.
[/quote]FYI Farky, Spurs and Arsenal had bid for Downing at the same time as us and at the last minute Manchester United put a bid in. Downing didnt even want to talk to them, and given the relative offers you would imagine he has chosen us on merit, not on financial gain.
Ive not been massively keen on this transfer especially not for huge money, but the one thing i would say is that im 100% that Downing wanted to be here and only here.
Maybe because his father is a fan, dunno really but he DID turn down Arsenal, Manchester and Spurs to come to us.
[/quote]

Man Utd? You sure about that? The onoly reason I ca think that they would is to mess up KK's plans. They shit wingers.
 
I was having a quick look around to see what we had said previously about Downing on this forum and found this thread
http://www.sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=26295.msg652620#msg652620

St George, Hansern and (Interestingly) Ryan seemed to be his main supporters (to some extent)
http://www.sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=26295.msg652620#msg652620

That's completely irrelevant to the main reason why I'm posting though, I just wanted to laugh at this statement by mystic Glock
[quote author=Glock link=topic=26295.msg652708#msg652708 date=1219301852]
Capel, Quaresma and Luis Suarez are all decent players but would not improve our team and i don't need Wikipedia to tell how stupid you are. Now just be a good little boy and shut the fuck up. OK? Ok.
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http://www.sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=26295.msg652708#msg652708
 
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