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:lol: Are you poo pooing my reply, Mr Oss?

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I once got come in Susan Docherty’s hair. Not a huge mistake in of itself but she punched me in the nuts in swift retribution. :shock:

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:D Chipper

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When I was young it came to me
And I could see the sun breakin’
Lucy was high and so was I dazzling
Holding the world inside
Once I believed in ev’ryone
Ev’ryone and anyone can see

Oh oh the night comes down
And I get afraid of losing my way
Oh oh the night comes down
Oooh and it’s dark again

Once I could laugh with ev’ryone
Once I could see the good in me
The black and the white distinctively colouring
Holding the world inside
Now all the world is grey to me
Nobody can see you gotta believe it

Oh oh the night comes down
And I get afraid of losing my way
Oh oh the night comes down
Oooh and it’s dark again
And it’s dark again
And it’s dark again

Queen ~ The Night Comes Down

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There is nobody here tonight, who doesn’t dance to the same tune as I
Looking for that special someone new, and hey babe it might as well be you

And as I fumble through my change, the dance floor illuminates
And there you are again
I’m looking for someone to hold on to
And hey, babe, it might as well be you

It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight whispers my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with and sing to
That I kiss good-bye to never see again
And through the fog that love creates the night is filled with all the usual mistakes
they say you’re looking lonely babe, and they’ve been looking too
And hey, they might well be for you

And by the light of cigarettes, we introduce ourselves in a way you don’t forget
I’m looking for something and anything will do
So, hey babe, it might as well be you

And if we go home tonight, you might find the very thing
That come the morning light, might well have washed your mind of him
So let me in tonight so we two losers might start to win

It might as well be you that I wake up to tomorrow
And it might as well be you that tonight will call my name
And it might as well be you that I cling to, that I laugh with and sing to
Yeah babe, it might as well be you that reminds me
It was once her here beside me
That I kissed good-bye, to never see again

Del Amitri ~ It Might As Well Be You

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:lol: You support who you want, Robbo. As I said, sorry for implying you were a glory hunter. Touchy.

Surely, if you’re now admitting that Shearer was one of the best players of the nineties, then by extension that makes him one of the best players ever as well. I suppose it all depends how many players make up your list of ‘best ever’. Top ten with Maradonna, Pele etc? Certainly not. One of the best fifty ever? Probably not. One of the best one hundred ever? Maybe.

As a sample, there were about twenty separate players mentioned in the top three of the FIFA World Player Award throughout the nineties. So taken over the sixty years from the end of the war, and assuming a similar pattern for each decade, we could say Shearer was one of the top one-hundred and twenty players.

Out of all the players at every level and in every nation ever to play the game since the Second World War, that’s still not an achievement to be sniffed at, I would say. Quite remarkable, in fact. Seems a bit churlish to insist otherwise.

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:lol: Let’s get this clear, Robbo.

@robbo wrote:

He was never in the top 3…In opinion, but not in awards……

Rubbish. Yes he was. He was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year Award.

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He went to Newcastle, because no bigger team wanted him..

Rubbish. Hitler Youth wanted him.

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We went for him about 3-4 years ago, while he was at Newcastle…We showed INTEREST in him..We never ever put in a bid for him, and it only ever came from Shearer….We didn’t want him before he went to Newcastle…If he had the chance to join United(when we was at the top of our peak)..He would have jumped at the chance…

Rubbish. Hitler youth tried to sign him twice before he joined Newcastle. He didn’t want to play for them.

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I’m pretty sure it was a record british fee…No, I am sure as I just checked up on it.

I suggest you check again; here, here or here.

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He got in the World top 3 once…Well done to him..I hope he feels proud..But people shouldn’t be saying that he was one of the greatest players ever in world football,

The point is, Robbo, that people who know a lot more about football than me or you were saying that about him at the time. You can believe what you want, in the end no one cares, but most people in the game itself disagree with you, evidentially.

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I started supporting United before their huge success…So next time, do try to back your words up and make them a little bit clearer….

:lol: My apologies for implying that you are a common, glory hunting little knobbo.

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check the amount of players who play for these teams who are not even from our country, let alone from the town….Near enough every premier league team haven’t got a kid who grew up in that town, yet they are representing that team…I guess they have no soul neither

They’re professionals, Robbo. It’s just the way of the world. It’s a completely different thing to a knobbo choosing to support a team that has nothing to do with them. Are you saying that some players don’t enjoy returning to their spiritual home, though? How about Fowler? Would Gary Neville be truly happy in any other shirt? Why do you find it so hard to believe about Shearer and Newcastle, in the face of all evidence?

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So, wouldn’t you count Manchester United as a ‘bigger, high profile club’, then? You seem to be under the impression that Newcastle aren’t a ‘big’ club. Now, I have no axe to grind. I don’t support any type of United, but Newcastle paid a world record fee for Shearer. That pretty much makes them a big club at that point in time, I think.

And how is it exactly, Robbo, that you get to be third in the FIFA World Player of the Year Award without being one of the best in the world? At the end of Euro’96 Shearer could’ve played for anyone he wanted. Why do you find it so hard to believe he wanted to play for Newcastle?

Just because you’ve no soul and can’t bring yourself to support a team that has actually got something to do with you, doesn’t mean everyone is like that.

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Oh, and he also came third in the World Footballer of the Year awards in 1996.

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That’s rubbish. Hitler Youth, er, I mean Manchester United tried to get Shearer at least twice before he moved to Newcastle. Check it out here.

I reckon his high watermark was after Euro’96, which he finished as the Golden Boot. He was widely regarded as one the world’s top strikers at that point.

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