Spugsy

as skinny as can be imagined, he has special boots made as his feet are so thin there's loads of room left and right of his feet, they are like little canoes.

He was alright actually, moaned a lot about footie players now who are millionaires and he's got nowt.

Meow

He's a decent chap. Drinks in Fibbers regularly and can be found at every gig at the IV. He does like a drink or six.


He may not have been the world's greatest footballer, but he's hardly a failure.

Blue Cat

he probably sees himself as being though compared to half the tossers out there earning zillions a week.

commander

different era..loads in the same boat.

I agree with Meow, he is hardly a failure.

A failure is a player who had the potential to be one of the greatest but pissed it up against the wall..

Plenty of them in Scotland

CP played for England and fufilled every english schoolboys dream

rowell

Been stopped several times early in the morning as I pulled into the ranches, they are there regular

sherri

seven seas

So someone has a skinful, and makes a nuisance of himself the next morning at the police station.

While they are usually happy to turn a blind eye to the thousands of people drinking at dozens of places every week, they decide to invoke an obscure law and charge this guy.

Sounds good to me.

I take the police version of events this time.

commander

do you want me to real off some names?

Charles Miller...

Ronnie Biggs

Agreed. How can you be a "failed international" anyway - what kind of bollocks is that? He made the most of his talents and had a successful career, 90% of it in the top flight. He's a nice chap who is happy to laugh at himself a bit. Fair play to him I reckon.....

Millhouse

Here we all go. jumping on nothing. How about I change 'failed' to 'washed up'. we are all good on that one, yes?

Personally, I don't see how being skint at the end of an international career and ripping someone off is a success but there we go. Although this is really more of a function of my contempt for 'celebrity sports people'. They are put on a pedestal when the reality is that they have done virtually nothing.

Sandboy

"failed international" is a contradiction in terms surely ? He was nee Zinedine Zidane but he played enough games at the very top to prove he had something.

Had a chat with him one night and seemed a really nice fella, I was less impressed by his team talk to one of his school teams ( age 7-8) about how their performance was unacceptable and he wasn't going to put up with it. DESS beat Repton 3-0

lionheart

Where did you get that from? What did he allegedly do at the Police Station to justify the charges and would anybody else have behaved differently?

Norm_uk

Indeed, we have a few guys in our office who were originally in Dubai but relocated to Abu Dhabi...all have Dubai visas for at least another two years and none have been able to get an AD booze license yet.

Crap system - visas should be on a federal level and licenses should be issued solely on the basis of where you live not where your paperwork was done.

N.

Ronnie Biggs

Spugsy

He did well as a career, wasn't great but was decent enough.

Not good enough for England but there you go.