Favourite prem season centre mid?

[Slim Man]

Now then, lots of these to choose from...

Nick Montgomery - I think the most apps that season from a midfielder. Heart on the sleeve die on your feet type character, famously Frank Lampard's 'toughest opponent' that year
Michael Tonge - the crab. Loved a sideways pass, but rarely lost possession. Really stagnated at United, such a shame for a player who promised so much
Alan Quinn - played a lot less than I envisaged. Didn't really do much or have much effect. Played a big part in our promotion though.
Mikele Leigertwood - famously kopped the nickname Legs of Wood. Looked clumsy and out of his depth in.
Ahmed Fahti - what a waste of money... Made his debut in a thrashing at Liverpool. Say no more. Should've been spent on an established premiership midfielder.

Next one... Wingers.

 

[axel smeets]

We've had 3 Premiership seasons. No options for 92/93 and 93/94 then?

 

[Slim Man]

We've had 3 Premiership seasons. No options for 92/93 and 93/94 then?

I'll be surprised if you can remember them, I can barely remember these!

 

[Bladesince59]

I'll be surprised if you can remember them, I can barely remember these!

Yep - except for Monty and "one side" Tongey they are hardly memorable.

 

[Ricky]

Yet again this shows how short on quality we were. Warnock overachieved in getting 38 points.

 

[Slim Man]

Yet again this shows how short on quality we were. Warnock overachieved in getting 38 points.

I'm going to put together the favourites once it's all done and ask if we added to it would we have stayed up... I'm going to suspect no. That side would probably be mid table championship now at the very best.

 

[raul]

Come on Pinchy , nickname bingo ahoy!

 

[Pinchy]

Now then, lots of these to choose from...

Nick Montgomery - I think the most apps that season from a midfielder. Heart on the sleeve die on your feet type character, famously Frank Lampard's 'toughest opponent' that year
Michael Tonge - the crab. Loved a sideways pass, but rarely lost possession. Really stagnated at United, such a shame for a player who promised so much
Alan Quinn - played a lot less than I envisaged. Didn't really do much or have much effect. Played a big part in our promotion though.
Mikele Leigertwood - famously kopped the nickname Legs of Wood. Looked clumsy and out of his depth in.
Ahmed Fahti - what a waste of money... Made his debut in a thrashing at Liverpool. Say no more. Should've been spent on an established premiership midfielder.

Next one... Wingers.

Let's just get this straight. The Frank Lampard "toughest opponent" nonsense was made up. Complete and utter bollocks. Never said, never written. A myth.

Utter garbage, which, by a curious coincidence, sums up Montgomery himself. Any half-decent midfielder with reasonably quick feet and quick thoughts would leave Numpty Nick trailing in his wake. He was a training cone.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Utter garbage, which, by a curious coincidence, sums up Montgomery himself. Any half-decent midfielder with reasonably quick feet and quick thoughts would leave Numpty Nick trailing in his wake. He was a training cone.

Fuck Me.
It's Zidane.

 

[Pinchy]

Yet again this shows how short on quality we were. Warnock overachieved in getting 38 points.

Ol' Big Nose was out of his depth. He is the Alan Partridge of top-flight football. Never got a second season.

He should have been sacked the minute the promotion season ended and replaced by someone equipped to operate at that level.

He didn't recruit a single Premiership quality player. Not one. Instead, he spent vital funds on inadequate nonentities like Davis, Nade, Fahti, and Luton Shelton. Luton fucking Shelton.

Warnock relegated us that season, not Tevez, with a key contribution right at the end from the Everton player Jagielka.

 

[Jan Age]

Let's just get this straight. The Frank Lampard "toughest opponent" nonsense was made up. Complete and utter bollocks. Never said, never written. A myth.

Utter garbage, which, by a curious coincidence, sums up Montgomery himself. Any half-decent midfielder with reasonably quick feet and quick thoughts would leave Numpty Nick trailing in his wake. He was a training cone.

Man City visited the lane during the season they went up. They had one Eyal Berkovic playing midfield who Monty man marked out of the game.

Monty was subbed off late in the 2nd half and still to this day remains the only player I have ever seen to be clapped off the pitch by the opponent he was marking I think Berkovic also ran over to shake his hand.

Monty had his limitations but was a good midfielder.

 

[Pinchy]

Fuck Me.
It's Zidane.

It's Leon Clarke. First of three. Fuck me, it's a gullible numpty.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

It's Leon Clarke. First of three. Fuck me, it's a gullible numpty.

Two signed.
2/3.
66% success rate.
If LC signs, it's 100%.

Raise yer game.

 

[Pinchy]

Man City visited the lane during the season they went up. They had one Eyal Berkovic playing midfield who Monty man marked out of the game.

Monty was subbed off late in the 2nd half and still to this day remains the only player I have ever seen to be clapped off the pitch by the opponent he was marking I think Berkovic also ran over to shake his hand.

Monty had his limitations but was a good midfielder.

No he wasn't. I saw him many many times and watched him carefully. He was fucking rhubarb. A comedy footballer. The most he ever did was temporarily deprive the opposition of the ball, pending the next throw-in, free-kick, or, all too often, penalty. Anywhere but s2, where honest, committed but patently unskilled plodders are revered as heroes, he would have been a figure of ridicule.

First time I've heard the ludicrous Berkovic nonsense. I'll file it under Lampard.

 

[Pinchy]

Two signed.
2/3.
66% success rate.
If LC signs, it's 100%.

Raise yer game.

Third of three then. Please T.I.L.D, come and take this numpty back. He's one of your own.

 

[1973Blade]

Has to be Tonge for me, what a class midfielder he was then. Of all the players we have had in the past 20 years, he and Wayne Quinn are the two who should look back and think, 'I could have made so much more of my career'.
I think Monty had his best season for us that year. Playing a defensive formation against better teams suited his style, especially against the likes of Arsenal.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Third of three then. Please T.I.L.D, come and take this numpty back. He's one of your own.

2012/13 Prediction League Silver Medallist

 

[8lade]

Nick Montgomery was such an effective spoiler (yeah I've heard the shit joke about spoiling our team etc) that Patrick Vieira stuck the nut on him from behind when we played the arse, this I saw with my own eyes and on TV it was passed off as 2 players going up for the same ball and one getting ahead of the other. It was nothing of the sort, Vieira allowed Monty up unchallenged and came in about a second late with his head (very dangerous), had it been a tackle he'd have been off no messing. I think we were so happy with the points (think it was that game) nobody thought any more of it.

 

[Pinchy]

Nick Montgomery was such an effective spoiler (yeah I've heard the shit joke about spoiling our team etc) that Patrick Vieira stuck the nut on him from behind when we played the arse, this I saw with my own eyes and on TV it was passed off as 2 players going up for the same ball and one getting ahead of the other. It was nothing of the sort, Vieira allowed Monty up unchallenged and came in about a second late with his head (very dangerous), had it been a tackle he'd have been off no messing. I think we were so happy with the points (think it was that game) nobody thought any more of it.

Nick Montgomery was a joke. Nothing more; nothing less.

The great Patrick Vieira would not give him a second thought. If asked about this memorable incident, he would doubtless say "Who?"

This is becoming ridiculous even by S2 standards. What next? The day Ploddy reduced Pele to tears?...

Only in S2.....

 

[8lade]

Well it's all about opinions, I know what I saw (sadly not on Youtube) and don't recall Vieira having to do that to anybody else. Have you played football? It's quite easy to ruin the game of a much better player without using foul play but if needed fouling makes it even easier.

 

[Pinchy]

Now then, lots of these to choose from...

Nick Montgomery - I think the most apps that season from a midfielder. Heart on the sleeve die on your feet type character, famously Frank Lampard's 'toughest opponent' that year
Michael Tonge - the crab. Loved a sideways pass, but rarely lost possession. Really stagnated at United, such a shame for a player who promised so much
Alan Quinn - played a lot less than I envisaged. Didn't really do much or have much effect. Played a big part in our promotion though.
Mikele Leigertwood - famously kopped the nickname Legs of Wood. Looked clumsy and out of his depth in.
Ahmed Fahti - what a waste of money... Made his debut in a thrashing at Liverpool. Say no more. Should've been spent on an established premiership midfielder.

Next one... Wingers.

Please don't. This one will provide enough embarrassment to last us through to August.

 

[Pinchy]

Well it's all about opinions, I know what I saw (sadly not on Youtube) and don't recall Vieira having to do that to anybody else. Have you played football? It's quite easy to ruin the game of a much better player without using foul play but if needed fouling makes it even easier.

I've played and watched football for over 50 years. Montgomery does not belong in the same sentence as Vieira. Better players are just that. Better players. They prove it by embarrassing the likes of Plodgomery. Your comment about it being 'easy to ruin their game' is thus self-evident nonsense. Think about it logically, Reflect and try not to be so silly in future.

 

[Pinchy]

Come on Pinchy , nickname bingo ahoy!

Be careful what you wish for mate?...

 

[raul]

Be careful what you wish for mate?...

Vintage x.

 

[Jan Age]

No he wasn't. I saw him many many times and watched him carefully. He was fucking rhubarb. A comedy footballer. The most he ever did was temporarily deprive the opposition of the ball, pending the next throw-in, free-kick, or, all too often, penalty. Anywhere but s2, where honest, committed but patently unskilled plodders are revered as heroes, he would have been a figure of ridicule.

First time I've heard the ludicrous Berkovic nonsense. I'll file it under Lampard.

I can only tell you what I saw and that's what I saw with my own eyes.

Like I said limited yes ... Complete rubbish .. Far from.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Now then, lots of these to choose from...

Nick Montgomery - I think the most apps that season from a midfielder. Heart on the sleeve die on your feet type character, famously Frank Lampard's 'toughest opponent' that year
Michael Tonge - the crab. Loved a sideways pass, but rarely lost possession. Really stagnated at United, such a shame for a player who promised so much
Alan Quinn - played a lot less than I envisaged. Didn't really do much or have much effect. Played a big part in our promotion though.
Mikele Leigertwood - famously kopped the nickname Legs of Wood. Looked clumsy and out of his depth in.
Ahmed Fahti - what a waste of money... Made his debut in a thrashing at Liverpool. Say no more. Should've been spent on an established premiership midfielder.

Next one... Wingers.

There's that fucking myth again about Mongy - find me the quote where Lampard said such a thing. He's more likely to have said the biggest splay footed twat to have ever graced the premier league.