# SDMB Footie Focus: december **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480 "2003-12-02T12:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/181 "2003-12-31T14:21:58Z")
The Bohse article is spot on (Mihir Bohse is a dyed in the wool yid and really does have some insight into what’s going on). There’s an interesting article in the standard which compares our current team with the relgation side of 77. [http://www.thisislondon.com/sport/football/articles/8379015](http://www.thisislondon.com/sport/football/articles/8379015) Frightening reading. For the John Pratt memories alone. Let’s see what happens tomorrow eh? Given Levy’s statement above about “major changes” it will be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/182 "2003-12-31T14:22:29Z")
And from that forum . . . “I see that Pleat was at the Wimbledon V West Brom game last night sitting next to Paul Hart perhaps not coincidentally. I would have thought that he was watching Reo-Coker and Mcanuff again.” Reo-Coker, anyone ? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/183 "2003-12-31T14:30:38Z")
Reo-Coker looks like a good prospect. A few clubs after him. I read that he’s team captain at only 19. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/184 "2003-12-31T14:34:30Z")
Good memories from that Standard article! That was a grim season but the one after was the most fun I’ve ever had supporting Spurs. Some wonderful away days in that (then) Second Div. A wekend in Brighton, for example. Brilliant! Even though pretty young, I’m pretty sure I went to more games that season than any other. That aside, the strike force of Gerry Armstrong and Chris Jones still sends shivers up my spine . . . ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/185 "2003-12-31T14:39:57Z")
which message board is this LC? ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/186 "2003-12-31T15:08:31Z")
Cheers **crusoe** , and a Happy New Year to you and Oldham! **Owl** - I didn’t link to Telegraph articles in the above post (because of that sign in thing) but to a message board where they’re posted - as mentioned most of them are your usual fodder but one or two are genuinely insightful. btw, I know people still talk of Keith Osgood as being “under-rated” but I never was too convinced. Willy Young, though, dear oh dear . . . See you all on the other side . . . have a good one! ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/187 "2003-12-31T15:28:45Z")
Willy Young? The only player i was happy to see as a gooner. And talking of gooners: [http://www.chavscum.co.uk/](http://www.chavscum.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/188 "2003-12-31T15:49:06Z")
The headline ‘Reid set for Spurs’ sent a chill through me… Until I realised it referred to the player… ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/189 "2003-12-31T15:49:06Z")
The headline ‘Reid set for Spurs’ sent a chill through me… Until I realised it referred to the player… ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/190 "2004-01-02T08:16:51Z")
well **London** the supporters I know are fairly peeved to be losing a key player for such an extended period, but don’t really think it will result in an out and out collapse. On a side note, does anybody know anything about this striker Bolton are supposedly getting on loan from Athletico Madrid, name of Javi Moreno? ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/191 "2004-01-02T09:13:21Z")
Is there a January thread? I am interested to see what further developments may have happened to our quondam star striker. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/192 "2004-01-02T13:12:37Z")
The latest name in the hat for THFC - Roy Hodgson. For Fuck’s sake. Also today is the aniversary of the Ibrox disaster that killed 66 people. ---
**Author:** ![\_Mr\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_Mr\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Mr_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/193 "2004-01-02T14:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by One And Only Wanderers \* > \*\*Im much more hopeful of Bolton avoiding _The Drop_ again this season after recent performances. Hope they can weather their next 6 games, some real stinkers coming up \*\* Waay heyyy!!! We have a white! Yeah, the Leicster game was bad, hopefully after we stuff the Scum things will pick up. Hopefully we will sign Javi Moreno. He is a good player. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/194 "2004-01-02T14:59:07Z")
No January thread yet. **Sentient Meat** looks to be away at the moment. Lets give it until Monday to see if he wants to start a new thread ? I know nothing of Javi Moreno but if it’s a loan there’s not a lot to lose . . . didn’t realise just how much debt Bolton had, something like £37-£38 million I believe ? Went to Croydon vs. Horsham yesterday in sunny Sarf Norwood. Forgot how much I love non-league football and why. Haven’t laughed so much in ages. And met some old chums. Lost 4-2, though. Will Spurs scrape a draw against Palace ? Very nervous about this game . . . ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/195 "2004-01-02T15:04:47Z")
I too love non-League - I sometimes go and watch Tooting and Mitcham - egad they’re crap. It like watching a playground game. If you’re in the general area I can heartily recommend AFC Wimbledon at Kingsmeadow for a “jumpers for goalposts” day out. All your small club cliches are here - old ladies with rattles, a meat raffle, adverts in the programme from local shops, wagon wheels, changing ends at half time (the fans that is). They get more fans that MK Wimbledon too. I even saw a pensioner with a rosette. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/196 "2004-01-02T15:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \* Mr Bean \* \* > \*\*Waay heyyy!!! > > We have a white! Yeah, the Leicster game was bad, hopefully after we stuff the Scum things will pick up. Hopefully we will sign Javi Moreno. He is a good player. \*\* Welcome **Mr Bean** good to see another Trotter around the place. glad to hear Moreno is decent - how about this jamaican goalkeeper (Ricketts?) that we’re supposedly after? ---
**Author:** ![\_Mr\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_Mr\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Mr_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/197 "2004-01-02T15:06:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\* > > I know nothing of Javi Moreno but if it’s a loan there’s not a lot to lose . . . didn’t realise just how much debt Bolton had, something like £37-£38 million I believe ? > \*\* He is a good player. AC Milan signed him from Alaves when they went on that good run in the UEFA cup, when they played Liverpool in the final. Yeah thats the debt, but we have a new owner, Eddie Davies, he owns Eddie Stobart lol, and he is meant to be stabalising the debts so we don’t have to sell. ---
**Author:** ![\_Mr\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_Mr\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Mr_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/198 "2004-01-02T15:13:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by One And Only Wanderers \* > \*\*Welcome **Mr Bean** good to see another Trotter around the place. glad to hear Moreno is decent - how about this jamaican goalkeeper (Ricketts?) that we’re supposedly after? \*\* Yeah thanks. Donavon Ricketts is ace. We’ve signed him on loan till the rest of the season, he played for Jamaca against Brazil a few months ago at the Walkers Stadium and he was brilliant, that match is were all the interest has arised from. Looking forward to seeing him play tomorrow. So where abouts in Bolton you from? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/199 "2004-01-02T15:15:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \* Mr Bean \* \* > \*\* > So where abouts in Bolton you from? \*\* I’m actually from Featherstone in West Yorkshire, but I live in Horwich. It’s just a 20 minute walk to the Reebok for me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![\_Mr\_Bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9fc348/32.png) [@\_Mr\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Mr_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480/200 "2004-01-02T15:22:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by One And Only Wanderers \* > \*\*I’m actually from Featherstone in West Yorkshire, but I live in Horwich. It’s just a 20 minute walk to the Reebok for me 🙂 \*\* Are right. So not that far from me. I live just of Beaumont Road:) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-footie-focus-december/216480.md?page=11)