Best player you’ve ever played with
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Topic: Best player you’ve ever played with
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Subject: Best player you’ve ever played with
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2023 at 10:47pm
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Anyone ever play a match with a famous footballer? A team mate in your youth team who went on to make it, or 5 a sides with a retired player, and how good were they? Read a tweet that an journo for the Athletic was playing 5 a sides with Nedum Onohua, Steven Ireland and Joleon Lescott. He said Ireland was ridiculously good
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Posted By: SeaSharp
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2023 at 11:06pm
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Played on a school team with Max Lowe (Sheffield United). Also played with Laurence Maguire (Chesterfield), younger brother of Harry, and Jake Beesley (Blackpool). All 3 oozed class, not surprised they made it. Jake and Max used to glide past entire teams effortlessly whereas Laurence was a rolls Royce of a defender. Very nice having him as a centre half partner I must say
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Posted By: MC Hammered
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2023 at 11:10pm
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I was briefly team mates with Wes Hoolahan for a few months. He’s the best known of the lads I played with. ------------- El Puto Amo |
Posted By: doherty
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2023 at 11:18pm
Stuey Byrne is that you? ------------- I love beer gardens |
MC Hammered wrote:Posted By: Shedite
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 9:17am
| Gaelic Football with Damien Delaney in school. |
Posted By: drog addict
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 9:55am
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Played a pub league match in Stockholm vs Anders Limpar. Play a bit of 5 a side with lads who were on the books with English underage teams and under age international teams. ------------- Chips don't bounce |
Posted By: BigStrongMan
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 10:01am
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Blueman on the fans team. ------------- PM me for all forum moderation queries. |
Posted By: thebronze14
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:04am
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Seamie Coleman underage a few times...Few LOI players too. Played Finn Harps in a friendly too when I was 17. Felix Healy brought himself on Can say I played against someone who played at a World Cup!
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Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:14am
| Dean Ashton. A great player and a great lad. |
Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:15am
------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 11:38am
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Played up front with Jason Sherlock in a charity match before. ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Banana_RepublicFC
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 12:00pm
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A few of my mates went to the same school as Jeff Hendrick. He fancied his chances at making it as pro even back then. He was right. Obviously miles ahead of your average 14/15 year old Irish teenager.
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Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 12:11pm
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Played on the same side as Alan McCormack before he moved across the water and had a successful career playing in the UK. He's now a coach at Luton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_McCormack" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_McCormack He was by far the best player on the pitch nearly every week. It's crazy how good you need to be to make it ------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: kevjreilly
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 2:10pm
Played gaa with Alan and on the school football team and a few other very good players, including current Palace asst manager Paddy McCarthy. another lad was a Leeds for a while but most skilful was Ray Whelan, was on Arsenal books but ended up playing junior football at a very good level for years. I say played with them but that very much is stretching the truth, basically sat on the bench and went training, but got me out of class ------------- Read it 3 times before posting |
Posted By: Deco79
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 2:25pm
Played with Wes Brown for Manchester Boys (County FA Team) and grew up playing against him too for my club and school teams. Played with him last year at Old Trafford in a corporate match where he made me captain because he was manager of one team and Rio Ferdinand the other  Gets a lot of stick from non United fans but he was a really good player growing up and a sound fella too
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Posted By: Gaz
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 2:50pm
Yeah I played on the school team with Rayo - smashing player  ------------- I dont email the count anymore, its been 9 months : ( He even sent me a YBIG scarf for my Birthday |
Posted By: dangere_here
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 4:47pm
Byrner the pilot
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Posted By: dangere_here
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 4:49pm
I can imagine him probably walking round with his shinpads out and the whole swagger of teenage wannabe pro |
Posted By: dangere_here
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 4:53pm
| probably Peter Hynes who won the FA youth cup with Villa against Rooney's Everton and seems to have fell by the wayside after that after he came back home, very decent player though. |
Posted By: drog addict
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 5:13pm
Forgot i played football with Jay in primary school ------------- Chips don't bounce |
Posted By: eboue16
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 8:47pm
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N'Do ------------- "He f**ked me over and my attitude is an eye for an eye." Roy Keane Talking about Alf Inge Haaland tackle |
Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2023 at 9:11pm
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Robbie Keane ------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Artie Ziff
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2023 at 2:47am
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PE football in a school hall with Damien Duff in secondary school. He ran rings around everyone Richard Sadlier in primary school 50 kids chasing a tennis ball. ------------- It would damage this forums' reputation |
Posted By: turbo10
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2023 at 10:11am
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I grew up in Gakway, and played with or against a few good players. Billy Cleary, Colin Hawkins, David Forde, Tony Folan and Rory Ginty. Ginty was the best I played against. He went on the play a few games with the Crystal Palace first team. I have nightmares of trying to mark him underage. I played against David Forde in Gaelic Football once. He was playing midfield and was excellent.
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Posted By: Shedite
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2023 at 6:20pm
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Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2023 at 8:53pm
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There was an article in him in the 42 a couple of years back. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: Gary McKay
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2023 at 9:10pm
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Ah too many to mention. Met loads of ex-players on coaching courses over the years. Actually nutmegged Gary Howlett doing the UEFA B 26 years ago. A 72yo Charlie Cooke wasnt too bad 😂
------------- "Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex |
Posted By: BabbsBalls
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2023 at 10:10pm
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*Insert Inbetweeners emoji here. ------------- l hear you are a racist now, father ? |
Posted By: Artie Ziff
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2023 at 4:05am
I've been watching the Peep Show series, so it may influence this question. Did you suck him off as part of the paint balling team building? ------------- It would damage this forums' reputation |