Sheff Utd Obscure XI

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Which players have played for us, and have gone on to have the most unremarkable careers?

Just one rule

1. Must have played at least 1 senior game for us since 1988 AD (Anno Deano)

I'm hoping we can populate this list entirely with people I've never heard of.


I'll start us off with Chris Bettney. Played one game in 1996, and had a career so unremarkable that his mid career stats are unknown





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[snb69]

Hmm, is Graham Anthony too well known in the wilds of the north west? Midfielder

 

[dazzlingblade]

Well he apparently played 13 times for us, however I don't recall him or any appearances, then went to non league for the rest of his career

 

[Lebmow]

Jean Calve
Auturo Lupoli
Elian Parrino
Panagiotis Retsos
Dean Sturridge
Benoit Croissant
Manuel Thetis

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Jean Calve
Auturo Lupoli
Elian Parrino
Panagiotis Retsos
Dean Sturridge
Benoit Croissant
Manuel Thetis

No one who has watched the blades in the last 15 years would call Calve obscure

 

[DifferentClass]

Pretty much most of Warnock's early signings.

 

[Tarqs]

Alex notman

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

Nathan Peel.

 

[Lebmow]

No one who has watched the blades in the last 15 years would call Calve obscure

Must be my age! I forgot about that one

 

[Zipwire]

Kristisn Rogers

Goalkeeper signed as an understudy by Warnock. Played one game against QPR in the League Cup after Paddy Kenny had been injured and we signed Paul Gerrard on loan and he was cup tied.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

I'll give you four from Wilder's first season in 2016-17.

Harry Chapman
Reece Brown
Joe Riley
Jordan Hallam

 

[Balham]

Jean-Philippe Javery. 14 games!

I’d have said Mamadou Seck but the internet doesn’t think he ever made a first team appearance. Can anyone confirm/contradict that?

 

[sufc323]

Emanuele Gabrieli

 

[DeanLearner'sCat]

Most of the teams that Elian Parrino played for after he left us sound made up. Juventud Antoniana. KF Shkëndija. I think Club Atlético Douglas Haig is probably the biscuit taker.

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Most of the teams that Elian Parrino played for after he left us sound made up. Juventud Antoniana. KF Shkëndija. I think Club Atlético Douglas Haig is probably the biscuit taker.

Incredible stuff


In November 1918 a group of British workers on the Argentinian Central Railroad set up a football team to take part in the local soccer championship. This required the consent and support of the Chief of the railway, Mr. Ronald Leslie, who, as a condition, requested that the new club name itself in honour of Sir Douglas Haig, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in Western Europe, who had just led them to victory in World War I. Club Atlético Douglas Haig was thereby founded on 18 November 1918.[1]

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

Jean Calve
Auturo Lupoli
Elian Parrino
Panagiotis Retsos
Dean Sturridge
Benoit Croissant
Manuel Thetis

Panos Retsos won the UEFA Conference League with Olymiakos last season, surely you can't include him.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Mark Beard and Rob Scott have to be in there somewhere.

There’s a place for Ben Starosta and Tyrone Thompson as well.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Emanuele Gabrieli

"The sea, you know (points), the fucking sea"

 

[Nedski]

Anders Jacobsen
Erik Tonne

 

[Balham]

Jean-Philippe Javery. 14 games!

I’d have said Mamadou Seck but the internet doesn’t think he ever made a first team appearance. Can anyone confirm/contradict that?

Edit: add in Seamus Conneely. And Kristoffer Løkberg.

 

[Yakblade]

Tony Battersby and Steven Hawes can be added to the list

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Edit: add in Seamus Conneely. And Kristoffer Løkberg.

I was trying to remember the name of the other Norwegian that came at the same time as Tonne

 

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

Tony Battersby and Steven Hawes can be added to the list

Tony Battersby was great on some of the early Championship manager games.

 

[Balham]

I was trying to remember the name of the other Norwegian that came at the same time as Tonne

Got really homesick. He’s had a decent career in the Norwegian league.

 

[dazzlingblade]

Would be a winner for the most highly thought of who fucked it all up, if he had played a first team game for us, reading his stuff on there is incredible really, what a waste he made of it

Goran Slavkovski - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

I thought about Julian Winter, but don't think he ever played a game for us.

 

[s20Blade]

Kristisn Rogers

Goalkeeper signed as an understudy by Warnock. Played one game against QPR in the League Cup after Paddy Kenny had been injured and we signed Paul Gerrard on loan and he was cup tied.

Memories of championship manager 03-04!

Was quote a few strange ones that season, Andy parking allegedly cost 250k and was released for free the season after but I don't remember him at all.

 

[SGBlade]

Well he apparently played 13 times for us, however I don't recall him or any appearances, then went to non league for the rest of his career


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Yes, Blounty. Great shout.

 

[Jon Bon II]

Mike Guy and Peter Dornan

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Ashley Fickling