Fjorfoft spotted in Ipswich town centre!!?

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Blades legend Jan Aage Fjorfoft was spotted in the Southsea area of Portsmouth just hours after Sheffield United played Pompey at Fratton Park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8O_jyuWnf8

With the Blades awful record in goal many United fans will be asking if he has his boots. SUFC have the worst attacking record in the Championship and could probably do with the former Norweigen internationals goal scoring abilities right now. Fjorfoft looked a little tubbier than moist remembered and his hair was darker, but the celebration is unmistakable.

The question is did anyone tell him to get down to BDTBL for 6pm on Tuesday???

**Fookin ell - the title is meant to be Portsmouth town centre :( **
 

He was spotted elsewhere as well I believe?
 
Kingston Blade said:
19 goals in 34 United appearances.

The way things are at the moment, I suppose that makes him a legend.
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Perhaps you were down in Kingston when he was playing at the Lane. They guy was fantastic and UIS a Blades legend. Some of the goals he scored were incredible. I had a season ticket on the kop in the mid to late 90's (bbefore I left S Yorks) and I remember how much everyone loved him. I remember large parts of the kop stood up for 10 minutes after he scored doing the areoplane celebration. There were two blokes near me (proper grumpy gits, rough as guts steelworkers) who used to prance about doing the Fjortoft for large parts of the game after each of his 19 goals.
 
JohnDenver said:
How many seasons would it take Cresswell to reach 19 at this season's rate? 4?

Jan-Aage!

:)
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At this seasons rate yes, but its taken him 2 seasons to reach the same tally.

Cresswell - Sept 2009 to date

LEAGUE FA CUP LGE CUP OTHER
APPS GLS APPS GLS APPS GLS APPS GLS
49 (5) 15 1 (1) 1 1 (0) 0 0 (0) 0
8 (1) 2 1 (0) 1 0 (0) 0 0 (0) 0
 
Another example of a board screwing this football club, in all likelyhood if they had held on Fjortoft and Deane we would have been in the FA Cup final and got promoted that season. He was a Blades legend who although he wasn't there long made a massive impact. I used to love the Jan Aage chant. If only we could even dream of players like that now!!
 
SwissBlade said:
At this seasons rate yes, but its taken him 2 seasons to reach the same tally.

Cresswell - Sept 2009 to date

LEAGUE FA CUP LGE CUP OTHER
APPS GLS APPS GLS APPS GLS APPS GLS
49 (5) 15 1 (1) 1 1 (0) 0 0 (0) 0
8 (1) 2 1 (0) 1 0 (0) 0 0 (0) 0
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and almost twice as many games!

Caveblade said:
Another example of a board screwing this football club, in all likelyhood if they had held on Fjortoft and Deane we would have been in the FA Cup final and got promoted that season. He was a Blades legend who although he wasn't there long made a massive impact. I used to love the Jan Aage chant. If only we could even dream of players like that now!!
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Indeed. I am sure that Jan Aage would have popped up and scored in a game like Saturday's.
 

Caveblade said:
Another example of a board screwing this football club, in all likelyhood if they had held on Fjortoft and Deane we would have been in the FA Cup final and got promoted that season. He was a Blades legend who although he wasn't there long made a massive impact. I used to love the Jan Aage chant. If only we could even dream of players like that now!!
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My favorite ever team ... full of characters any one of whom would walk into today's side ... Kelly, Borbokis, Quinn, McGrath, Holdsworth, Hutchinson, Dellas, Woodhouse, Deane, Fjortoft, Katchuro.
 
Slugger said:
My favorite ever team ... full of characters any one of whom would walk into today's side ... Kelly, Borbokis, Quinn, McGrath, Holdsworth, Hutchinson, Dellas, Woodhouse, Deane, Fjortoft, Katchuro.
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Yup, that first game of the season vs Sunderland... We looked all the world a promotion team.
 
Slugger said:
My favorite ever team ... full of characters any one of whom would walk into today's side ... Kelly, Borbokis, Quinn, McGrath, Holdsworth, Hutchinson, Dellas, Woodhouse, Deane, Fjortoft, Katchuro.
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What a team. Those where the days. We started really well and did not lose until late October. Then McGragh packed in and not so long after McDonald decided to fuck everything up. It all fell apart. We were in with a great shout of automatic when we sold those two. We were still good enough for the play offs, but lost that cutting edge.

Still, even with Fjorfoft and Deane gone we had Katchouro, Taylor, Wayne Quinn, Borbokis, Whitehouse, Roger Nilsen and Holdsworth. In fact didn't we sign Saunders that January too? He was a class act also. All a cut above these planks that we have now. Mind you, that fat Fjorfot in the Co-op could get in our current team.
 
Speaking of Fjørtoft, he's just out of the hospital after suffering a couple of fractures in his back when skiing. He should be fine and didn't need an operation.
 
An ex-United manager who shall remain nameless (Steve Thompson) once told Bert that Fjortoft was rarely picked for away games because he was so nesh. He also mentioned that Roger Nilsen was as hard as nails which he put down to the fact that he had served in the army in Norway.
 
Bergen Blade said:
Speaking of Fjørtoft, he's just out of the hospital after suffering a couple of fractures in his back when skiing. He should be fine and didn't need an operation.
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think you are mistaken Bergen. Either that or he has made very quick recovery. He was definately spotted running around in Portsmouth (see the you tube video) on Sat-di neet :D
 
Caveblade said:
Another example of a board screwing this football club, in all likelyhood if they had held on Fjortoft and Deane we would have been in the FA Cup final and got promoted that season. He was a Blades legend who although he wasn't there long made a massive impact. I used to love the Jan Aage chant. If only we could even dream of players like that now!!
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I remember McDonald saying that it had to be done because we'd lost £4 million quid in the first half of the year. A few weeks later Middlesbrough announced losses of £4 million for the first 6 months as well, but their chief executive said that you had to expect losses at that level if you were going to get promoted.

And they did - at our expense !!!
 
Ollessendro said:
What a team. Those where the days. We started really well and did not lose until late October. Then McGragh packed in and not so long after McDonald decided to fuck everything up. It all fell apart. We were in with a great shout of automatic when we sold those two. We were still good enough for the play offs, but lost that cutting edge.

Still, even with Fjorfoft and Deane gone we had Katchouro, Taylor, Wayne Quinn, Borbokis, Whitehouse, Roger Nilsen and Holdsworth. In fact didn't we sign Saunders that January too? He was a class act also. All a cut above these planks that we have now. Mind you, that fat Fjorfot in the Co-op could get in our current team.
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Whilst the loss of McGrath was a blow, it was the loss of Whitehouse to a career ending injury at port Vale at the tend of November that derailed our season. (IMO)

Up to then we had been playing 5-3-2 (or 3-5-2) with Whitehouse excelling in an attacking midfielder role.

Once we lost him, we had to revert to 4-4-2 and weren`t quite the same again.

At that point we had, on the books as strikers, Deane, Fjortoft, Taylor, Marcello, Katchuro.

So in December Spackman went and bought Saunders as well. If ever there was a signing that was not needed it was that one.

With 6 strikers on the books, it was inevitable that we sold 1 or 2. taylor was rumoured to be on the way out, but we speant almost an entire game (Charlton at home, 4-1, 28/12/97) singing his name and this convinced the board that we would be happy to sell "other strikers".

The problem being, we sold our best 2 strikers. Madness.
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Whilst the loss of McGrath was a blow, it was the loss of Whitehouse to a career ending injury at port Vale at the tend of November that derailed our season. (IMO)

Up to then we had been playing 5-3-2 (or 3-5-2) with Whitehouse excelling in an attacking midfielder role.

Once we lost him, we had to revert to 4-4-2 and weren`t quite the same again..
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Very good point. I think it was probably a mixture of the events listed in this thread (McGrath blow, Whitehouse knock down and Fjortoft/Deane the knockout punch).

SellyOakBlade said:
At that point we had, on the books as strikers, Deane, Fjortoft, Taylor, Marcello, Katchuro.

So in December Spackman went and bought Saunders as well. If ever there was a signing that was not needed it was that one.

With 6 strikers on the books, it was inevitable that we sold 1 or 2. taylor was rumoured to be on the way out, but we speant almost an entire game (Charlton at home, 4-1, 28/12/97) singing his name and this convinced the board that we would be happy to sell "other strikers".

The problem being, we sold our best 2 strikers. Madness.
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Saunders went onto become a very good Blades player, so I am reluctant to say he was surplus to requirements, but I take your point about the other strikers. Saunders could also play out wide though and could potentially have covered Dane's position.

I have argued before that the fans played a role in the selling of Fjortoft. Don't get me wrong it was an awful decision (and ludicrous to sell him and Deane) but the fans chose Taylor (or seemed to) on that game against Charlton. Taylor and Fjortoft were similar and it was always going to be one or the other. In that Charlton game I remember the constant chants of 'one Gareth Taylor' and to me it seemed we were showing the board we wanted to keep him. I have heard the argument that it was a send off (a thank you) and indeed he threw his shirt in the crowd at the end of the game. The board heard the chants and then acted on it. Depending on your view they either listened to the fans or made a massive error of judegement. To choose Taylor over Fjortoft was a poor deicsion* (imo), but to let Deane go as well was ludicrous.


* it has to be said that Taylor got off his fat arse and played some of the best football of his career (including scoring a belter of a volley to beat Forrest at the Lane) when it looked like he was getting sold. Unfortuantely he went back into his comfort zone not longer afterwards and we were left smarting the sale of the fantastic Fjortoft to the Dingles.
 
Mr Deane left a sour taste in the mouth too. It was reported in FB that Boro came in with a late bid of £4m which he refused to consider (from memory, the quote was "You're not making £3m out of me") and off he went to Benfica for a sum never paid, except for the contribution made by Blades fans to watch him play for his new club in a pre-season friendly as some sort of contra deal. His wages stopped being paid shortly after so off he went to....... Boro for.....£4m, apparently untroubled by the concept of a club who screwed "his" club over "making £4m out of me".
 

raul said:
Mr Deane left a sour taste in the mouth too. It was reported in FB that Boro came in with a late bid of £4m which he refused to consider (from memory, the quote was "You're not making £3m out of me") and off he went to Benfica for a sum never paid, except for the contribution made by Blades fans to watch him play for his new club in a pre-season friendly as some sort of contra deal. His wages stopped being paid shortly after so off he went to....... Boro for.....£4m, apparently untroubled by the concept of a club who screwed "his" club over "making £4m out of me".
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Forgot about that. Would Boro seriously have bid £4m for someone with 6 months on his contract?
 
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