Not sticking the boot in, but you really had me sold on aqulani (sp), I'd never seen him & you made him sound like a phenomenon, I was expecting this beautiful graceful strong player who would wow us all with technique whilst holding his own.
I got a seemingly uninterested Italian fanny who crumpled every time some fucker tried to tackle him.
I thought sterling would be too lightweight til I saw him tussle with a few players & that remarkable strength his body hides so well.
Le gems let me down, I always remember reading the echo whilst very young & lapping up their bullshit, with no other frame of reference or source of info at the time I ended up extremely disappointed. I always remember going to a youth or reserve game le tallec should have been playing & watching him, whilst injured, fucking about in the stands with his mates wearing an astonishingly stupid hat & feeling let down like you can only feel betrayed when you're young enough not to know better & protect yourself with natural cynicism.
Job Cole, I had pegged from the start, was pissed off we'd signed him, even more so watching him get sent off, then a few games later, watching him wave at his daughter & wife in a box whilst playing a match he'd contributed fuck all to & we were being outplayed in (in mark mcs seat so could hear everything his idiot wife was wittering on about above me during the game).
