There have been some shocking players in the Premiership, haven't there? We tend to think of your Ronaldos, your Berbatovs, and all those great players down the years such as Cantona, Bergkamp et al. But who can forget these numpties? Here's my top 5 Premiership flops...
5. Margo Boogers: Where on earth did West Ham find this guy? He stepped out of a caravan, onto the pitch with crazed-looking eyes and went lunging two-footed into someone's leg. He was given a red card and walked back into his caravan, never to be seen again. Not that the Hammers have a reputation for buying dross at over-inflated prices.
4. Winston Bogarde: You have to take your hat off to old Winston - he probably wasn't even a footballer, you know, but he made Chelsea honour his contract of 40k a week for what seemed like an entire age, without kicking a football. OK, he played 11 games. Nobody would touch him after that, but he didn't seem to care - he had millions stuffed away in his bank account and apparently he was boss at Football Manager.
3. Andrea Silenzi: Everyone thought that Silenzi would be the revival of Nottingham Forest, but the overgrown Italian turned out to be an overpaid waste of space and lost his place in the team to a man whose head looked like a pineapple. Of course, this was back in the days when English managers thought that any Italian would be an improvement on their team, so the signing of Silenzi proved to be something of a watershed in English football.
2. Jean-Alain Boumsong: How? Seriously - how? The question will probably remain for the rest of footballing history - how did this guy EVER get signed to Juventus? After being torn apart by Alan Hansen week in, week out on Match of the Day, this guy, having proven himself to be the single worst defender to have stepped foot on English soil, goes and plays for Juve. Amazing.
1. Ali Dia. I just love to hear about Ali Dia - it's the funniest football story ever, and made especially so because it happened to Graeme Souness - the worst manager ever. Ali Dia comes on for about two minutes before Souness realises he's been had - this is not George Weah's cousin, it's some bloke from a caravan park! Brilliant.
Can you think of anyone worse than this lot? Give me a shout!
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