Do you think there is such a thing as a lucky professional footballer? (2 Viewers)

Sky_Blue_Daz · Jun 17, 2011

Not just at Coventry but all over the place. I ofeten thought Tommy Johnson{Villa & Derby}Was lucky,

Covstu · Jun 17, 2011

not sure what you mean?????

gouldberg · Jun 17, 2011

The money they earn to play......they're all lucky.

procdoc · Jun 17, 2011

Tommy Johnson was a great player

CovScott88 · Jun 17, 2011

Yes, he goes by the name of Titus Bramble. I'm a better central defender than he is! Awful excuse for a footballer.

MatthewWallis · Jun 18, 2011

Stephen wright, Leon Barnett

blueflint · Jun 18, 2011

any body at man u as they get mege bucks :wave::thinking about:

AlexJohnson93 · Jun 18, 2011

I assume by lucky you mean spent most of their lives training and working hard to try and make it. IMO no such thing as luck.

Marty · Jun 18, 2011

Seth Johnson, Almunia, anyone who currently plays for man city or chelsea.

procdoc · Jun 18, 2011

I'd say Seth Johnson has been unlucky, he won an England cap before getting a bad injury so he couldn't have been too shabby

SkyBluesAndy · Jun 18, 2011

Marcus Bent how he keeps finding new clubs I don't know

pegasus87 · Jun 18, 2011

Kieron Dyer must of made millions out of his potential but actually achieved fuckall

Ernie Machin · Jun 18, 2011

People confuse him with Darren?

So many lucky footballers. Nicky Summerbee was dreadful, he also ended the career of Steve Froggatt (a truly unlucky footballer).

CovScott88 · Jun 18, 2011

pegasus87 said:
Kieron Dyer must of made millions out of his potential but actually achieved fuckall

Good shout!

egastap · Jun 18, 2011

gouldberg said:
The money they earn to play......they're all lucky.

Hear, hear Gouldie. Most of them are way overpaid for the value they bring to the field...... and society.

Moff · Jun 18, 2011

Bellendamy.
Lucky not to have had his career finished by some defender he gobbed off too, or by Shearer who still seems to want to knock him out. Makes Shearer a good bloke in my eyes.

Kuklinski · Jun 18, 2011

Richard Shaw. Unbelievable how he eked a career out of the game.

procdoc · Jun 18, 2011

Steve Harper at Newcastle, spent years playing reserve team football

Ernie Machin · Jun 18, 2011

Kuklinski said:
Richard Shaw. Unbelievable how he eked a career out of the game.

Is you on the pipe? Absolutely definition of a solid pro.

Kuklinski · Jun 18, 2011

Solid pro? Do me a favour, he was worth a goal every other game to the opposition. I'll give him his due, he always made sure he was pleasant to the local media, and conned a career due to it.

Sky_Blue_Daz · Jun 18, 2011

I mean footballers who you percieve to be shocking but make a very good living out of the game,

Ernie Machin · Jun 18, 2011

Kuklinski said:
Solid pro? Do me a favour, he was worth a goal every other game to the opposition. I'll give him his due, he always made sure he was pleasant to the local media, and conned a career due to it.

I respectfully disagree. You generally don't play 600 league games by saying a few nice words to the camera.

Anyone playing for Citeh these days. Silly money for average players like Lescott and Barry. Now there's a name, Gareth Barry. He really is the luckiest player in England, he's not very good at all.

Marty · Jun 18, 2011

I completely agree about Shaw, hes so overrated by cov fans,

Paxman II · Jun 19, 2011

I think you must look at a few and think "how did they get that" when others equally or more talented just did not get the rub of the gree when needed most. Either their face did not fit at given time or a change in manager at a given time etc etc. Yes luck plays a part.
But to some xtent you make your own luck as they say.

Leon Best springs to mind. Average talent currently on high wages at Newcastle.

Same can be said of managers. If you are a little lucky then your name could be Capello on £6+ million a year and still in his job after the world cup farce.

Alex Fergerson...some mighty luck when they beat Bayern in '99 in those last two minutes from 0-1 don't you think? certainly not by design.

Kuklinski · Jun 19, 2011

Marty said:
I completely agree about Shaw, hes so overrated by cov fans,

It's unbelievable how highly they rate this clown.

Ernie Machin · Jun 19, 2011

Yet you liked Evtushok. A game of opinions, aye.

Kuklinski · Jun 19, 2011

Ernie Machin said:
Yet you liked Evtushok. A game of opinions, aye.

Evtushok may not have been the grade, we didn't see enough to find out. But I saw more than enough of Shaw to spot a poor/lucky footballer.

Ernie Machin · Jun 19, 2011

In. Your. Opinion.

Macca · Jun 19, 2011

Shaw was a decent player, no world beater but did a job. Perhaps over rated slightly due to number of appearances but difficult to understand the malice in this thread.

Ernie Machin · Jun 19, 2011

As am I. I don't think anyone has suggested he was Franco Baresi, but he served this club well. As I said, opinions, everyone's got one. Kuklinski doesn't seem to like Cov fans very much, it would appear.

telferstekkers · Jun 20, 2011

Steve McManaman!

He was on 80 grand a week at man city, back in the days before man city had money! and then at madrid he played about tenn games all season, and one of them happened to be the champions league final! and to top it off he scored in it too!

jammy sod just doesnt cover it!

Kuklinski · Jun 20, 2011

To say Shaw was a decent player shows the game is about opinions. It's a novel concept mind, a centre-half who is afraid to head the ball, who panics when he has the ball at his feet and often gave the ball away.

As for Cov fans, it's nothing personal because I don't know them individually, but I stick by my belief; if Cov fans rate a player and talk about him being a great player, he'll probably be no good. If they slate a player he'll probably have talent. Bothroyd and McCallister were booed, while the likes of Shaw and Williams are seen as club legends. It really does say it all.

Moff · Jun 20, 2011

Shaw and Williams are seen as Club legends?

Where did you get that infactual piece of information from as its news to me.

Ernie Machin · Jun 20, 2011

I go back to my original viewpoint, Kuklinski is on the pipe. Move along, nothing to see here.

Kuklinski · Jun 20, 2011

Moff said:
Shaw and Williams are seen as Club legends?

Where did you get that infactual piece of information from as its news to me.

It was only recent that Shaw was in the voting for Coventry's best ever player, God only knows why? Must be his friendship with the Telegraph sports reporter.

Machin, at least you are no longer attempting to argue the merits of Shaw. It would appear once the laughable man marker argument has been shown up for the weak argument it is, there is t a lot left to offer in his defense.

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