SkyBlues_Matt
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Anyone remember this bloke?
Still playing at the age of 38.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24036393
Still playing at the age of 38.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24036393
Dele Adebola CCFC (1 Viewer)
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Maybe we should scout this Kid playing alongside him. Oh and Dele ,top man.
TrueSkyBlueLiam
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I'd have him back here any day. Great player, a big part of my early days as a Coventry fan
sw88
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Our season changed after he left us.
Was very badly treated in his first season with us. Boo boys on his back early on if I remember right.
Will always remember his goal in the cup V Blackburn, and a similar one in the league against Forest (I think). Used his power (not so much his pace) to go from the half way line to goal and score. He was one hell of a unit!
Think he does part time coaching with Birminghams academy too now
Was very badly treated in his first season with us. Boo boys on his back early on if I remember right.
Will always remember his goal in the cup V Blackburn, and a similar one in the league against Forest (I think). Used his power (not so much his pace) to go from the half way line to goal and score. He was one hell of a unit!
Think he does part time coaching with Birminghams academy too now
ThievingScally
Active Member
About one game in twelve - be was immense. Against Blackburn - he was unplayable. Drogba-esk
The other 11 games - he was woeful. Control was dire. No heading ability considering he was a big bloke.
Glad he's still enjoying playing. Can't justify paying him to do so.
TSx
The other 11 games - he was woeful. Control was dire. No heading ability considering he was a big bloke.
Glad he's still enjoying playing. Can't justify paying him to do so.
TSx
SkyBlueSid
Well-Known Member
Adebola was a hard-working journeyman who had the occasional good game. Most of the time he was quite ordinary. Nice bloke, apparently, and glad to see him still playing, albeit at a pretty low level.
I have to say too that it shows how much our club has diminished when younger fans are fondly remembering a player as ordinary as Adebola as one of the club's 'greats' of their time supporting City. I am grateful that I saw two promotions as champions, an FA Cup win, and most of the club's greatest players. It's a real shame that anyone under about 30 has seen nothing but mediocrity and failure.
I have to say too that it shows how much our club has diminished when younger fans are fondly remembering a player as ordinary as Adebola as one of the club's 'greats' of their time supporting City. I am grateful that I saw two promotions as champions, an FA Cup win, and most of the club's greatest players. It's a real shame that anyone under about 30 has seen nothing but mediocrity and failure.
Evans1883
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This
SlowerThanPlatt
Well-Known Member
Liked Big Dele and scored some memorable goals. A great? No.
LastGarrison
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Always remember when he was playing awful then so we shipped him out on loan for a while. When he came back from his loan period we were playing somone like Bradford at home and he came on as a second half sub to massive ironic cheers from the West Terrace, only to instantly pick up the ball on about the half way line and go on what seemed like a 50 yard run towards goal with the crowd going mental.
One of those had to be there moments but it was funny how it went from us taking the piss out of him to cheering him on like our lives depended on it within a matter of seconds! He went on to have a great remainder of the game if my memory serves me right.
Ahhh fickle football fans at their finest........
One of those had to be there moments but it was funny how it went from us taking the piss out of him to cheering him on like our lives depended on it within a matter of seconds! He went on to have a great remainder of the game if my memory serves me right.
Ahhh fickle football fans at their finest........
ollyservetta
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dele as I remember was a good professional on and of the pitch ,still playing and giving his all ,good on him
LastGarrison
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Massively disagree with this, yes he was no world beater and was never gonna bang in 30 goals a season but far from one of the worst considering some of the absolute pish that have pulled on a City shirt over the last few years.
Grendel
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Mmmmm as strikers go post premier league I struggle to see many better in the championship for us. Aside from king - who only signed due to boothroyd and circumstance - I am struggling to see many better at all.
Ranson sneered when he managed to sell him for £350,000 citing his poor goals for games ratio. Ranson then spent 3 times that on Eastwood. That's ray "the football man" for you.
lordsummerisle
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Would have to put Stern John as the best striker we've had in the Championship myself, great player but underappreciated by many.
Grendel
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I wouldn't disagree with that. He was football wise far better than most.
torchomatic
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play_in_skyblue_stripes
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I agree with a lot of the above.
I admire Dele , not the best striker we have ever had of course but tried very hard and very good team player. The odd bit of pure magic too!
Sterling Archer
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Spot on. His football brain was mistaken by the usual idiots we have, as "laziness".
In fact, I judge a lot of City fans footballing opinions in the bar or at the ground or on the forums on whether they regarded Stern John as shit or not.
Sterling Archer
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As for Dele, hard working, limited but probably in the too 'half' of strikers we've had since relegation.
That goal away at QPR brings back good memories as well and a volley at the Ricoh.
That goal away at QPR brings back good memories as well and a volley at the Ricoh.
SlowerThanPlatt
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[video=youtube;jHfz_enUvrM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHfz_enUvrM[/video]
Adebola goal at 5:15. Cracking day out that was.
Adebola goal at 5:15. Cracking day out that was.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Beat me to it. Without doubt one of, if not the, most enjoyable games I've ever been to and his goal was something else. Mifsud also a cracking little player when he was played in his correct position. As soon as he got shunted out to the wing his goals dried up almost immediately.
sw88
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Most footballers would have been throwing themselves to the floor atleast three times in that run he made! What a tank
Sky Blue Harry H
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Had some fun days at Blackburn - missed this, but remember beating them in the cup when Huckerby scored a cracker, too.
sw88
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Whatever happened to David Bentley???
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He was the next big thing at one point wasn't he?
Think he finished at Blackburn (maybe Spurs, which ever club came after), and was without a club by 28/29?
Sterling Archer
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Isn't Bentley running a bar in some overpriced sunny area of Europe where ex big brother contestants go and drink champagne in an attempt to get papped and still seem relevant?