guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.
Scatman wrote:Two years today
john@staustell wrote:guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.
I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.
Dameerto wrote:john@staustell wrote:guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.
I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.
Or a BBC pundit. Shearer STEALS a living from us. He specialises in repeating what someone has just said, and if there's nothing for him to repeat he states something obvious. He was at it again last night.
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Dameerto wrote:john@staustell wrote:guv111 wrote:Boyhood hero. Didn't he have a struggle with alcoholism for years? To be honest, I'm surprised that didn't happen more often with players of his era and before. To have the highs of playing in front of tens of thousands every week for a top side, then retiring and not even having a great deal in the way of money (as was often the case) must have been quite some comedown.
I think it happens to a good few. The worst of the worst fate though is to be an ITV pundit.
Or a BBC pundit. Shearer STEALS a living from us. He specialises in repeating what someone has just said, and if there's nothing for him to repeat he states something obvious. He was at it again last night.
I can't abide Shearer and I never could. To me he's just the epitome of abject mediocrity and his greatest claim to fame is probably managing Newcastle for a brief period of time and overseeing their relegation from the Premier League.
As a footballer, as a competitor, as a personality and also as a human being, Shearer wasn't/isn't fit to lace the great Mike Doyle's boots.
I just wish we had another Mike Doyle in our team today.
Burt wrote:For those of us old enough to remember the reglar Kippax chant:-
M I
M I C
M 1 C K
MICK DOYLE!!!
Evenmydoghatesunited wrote:Burt wrote:For those of us old enough to remember the reglar Kippax chant:-
M I
M I C
M 1 C K
MICK DOYLE!!!
Blooooody he'll that takes me back. Nearly as that sha la la la thing I used to do.
It ended in lee . Think it was a song f the time.
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