Best players who never made it 19:42 - Nov 20 with 6512 views | MrSheen | Leaving aside our own, who are the best players you’ve seen, who you raved about to your mates afterwards, whose careers either failed to take off or who vanished without a trace? I’ll start with Dean Connolly. I was at a loose end one bank holiday in the early 90s, and made my annual trip to Griffin Park. Brentford crushed Wigan 4-0. The visitors were pretty hopeless except for Connolly, who was fantastic on the ball and incredibly quick to find a pass to a team mate, who quickly lost the ball. At one point, he took the ball with his back to goal about 30 yards out, lost three defenders with a turn and a trick and smashed the ball against the bar. And was then taken off. At the time he was on loan from Barnsley in the next league up, which didn’t surprise me given his air of superiority and an obvious lack of conditioning. Google tells me he was originally a Celtic junior but was picked up by Arsenal in his teens. Barnsley let him go soon after and I never heard of him again. I can’t forget how talented he looked. I wonder what happened. | | | | |
Best players who never made it on 20:00 - Nov 20 with 3778 views | paulparker | Jimmy carter should have gone further I remember watching him at a reserve game for QPR in the late eighties he was skill full as hell Paul Lake had the world at his feet before injury crippled him Lee power tore us a new one year for Norwich but didn’t do anything after | |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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Best players who never made it on 20:05 - Nov 20 with 3767 views | MrSheen |
Best players who never made it on 20:00 - Nov 20 by paulparker | Jimmy carter should have gone further I remember watching him at a reserve game for QPR in the late eighties he was skill full as hell Paul Lake had the world at his feet before injury crippled him Lee power tore us a new one year for Norwich but didn’t do anything after |
Doesn’t Lee Power own Swindon Town? Made a few bob somehow. | | | |
Best players who never made it on 20:10 - Nov 20 with 3754 views | BazzaInTheLoft | Ledesma. What a first quarter of a season he had. | | | |
Best players who never made it on 21:14 - Nov 20 with 3661 views | Esox_Lucius | Justin Channing | |
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Best players who never made it on 21:26 - Nov 20 with 3647 views | loftboy | Anthony German. Thought he’d be the new Gallen | |
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Best players who never made it on 22:38 - Nov 20 with 3539 views | MrSheen | I’ve just looked up Saido Berahino. His first premier league goal was the winner at Old Trafford as a 20 year old. He got 19 league goals in his first two seasons, then 7 in the next 4 (1 of which was in the Championship). He got 10 goals in 11 games for England Under 21, and 1 in 5 full caps for Burundi! | | | |
Best players who never made it on 22:42 - Nov 20 with 3534 views | HantsR | 'leaving aside our own' ? Presume non QPR so the first one that comes to my mind is Tony Green, who looked fantastic playing against us for Blackpool, probably in late 60s. I think he got injured and had to give up early in his career but everyone raved about him at the time. | | | |
Best players who never made it on 22:50 - Nov 20 with 3515 views | Rs_Holy | Ãngelo Balanta | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Best players who never made it on 23:12 - Nov 20 with 3497 views | smegma | I saw Paulo Wanchope play twice for our reserves. Scored twice away to Chelsea in a 3-0 win, then a hat trick at home to Millwall in a 5-0 win (Marc Bircham played right back for Millwall). For his third game away to Spurs, they didn't allow me in. He scored the only goal. Incredible player. Unless your name is Stewart Houston | | | |
Best players who never made it on 23:26 - Nov 20 with 3480 views | stevec | Peter Marinello at Arsenal springs to mind. Know this is not about our own but those are foremost in my mind... Don Rogers Martyn Busby Leon Jeanne Richard Langley | | | |
Best players who never made it on 23:56 - Nov 20 with 3446 views | aston_hoop | I remember as a relative youngster seeing Danny Cadamarteri on MOTD and thinking he looked amazing. I could have just been young, naive and wrong but fck me, he looked a world beater. | |
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Best players who never made it on 02:22 - Nov 21 with 3404 views | PlanetHonneywood | Adel. | |
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Best players who never made it on 05:27 - Nov 21 with 3359 views | loftboy | Russel Beardsmore at Man United, played in Giggs position before Giggs played there. | |
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Best players who never made it on 06:08 - Nov 21 with 3351 views | Hayesender | Back when I used to watch the odd youth and reserve game, I thought Michael Meaker was gonna go right to the top. He seemed to have everything | |
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Best players who never made it on 07:28 - Nov 21 with 3309 views | DWQPR | Never saw him play, evidently an outstanding player in the Stan Bowles mould and of the same era, Robin Friday, played for Reading and Cardiff in the lower leagues. | |
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Best players who never made it on 08:56 - Nov 21 with 3223 views | CliveWilsonSaid | I remember there was a huge amount of hype around Mikael Forssell... | |
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Best players who never made it on 09:36 - Nov 21 with 3178 views | terryb |
Best players who never made it on 07:28 - Nov 21 by DWQPR | Never saw him play, evidently an outstanding player in the Stan Bowles mould and of the same era, Robin Friday, played for Reading and Cardiff in the lower leagues. |
I think he would have argued that he made it! His book "The best player you never saw" is well worth a read. | | | |
Best players who never made it on 09:38 - Nov 21 with 3173 views | terryb | I know this will upset some of you, but Joe Waters. He looked brilliant against us in the spring of 1974! | | | |
Best players who never made it on 09:43 - Nov 21 with 3167 views | PinnerPaul | Denis Bailey | | | |
Best players who never made it on 09:44 - Nov 21 with 3164 views | PinnerPaul | and one who has made a living but who when I first saw him thought would make it to the very top - Martin Cranie | | | |
Best players who never made it on 10:10 - Nov 21 with 3138 views | Dorse | Ricky Otto: early 90's version of Taraabt. | |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
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Best players who never made it on 13:06 - Nov 21 with 3001 views | QPRSteve | David Kerslake. One of the best youngsters I've seen play for us until he contracted glandular fever. Never the same player after that although he did have a decent career after being converted to a full back. Martyn Busby. Leg broken by Paul Went away at Fulham. Let's get revenge on the b*ast*rds tomorrow! | | | |
Best players who never made it on 13:14 - Nov 21 with 2985 views | Antti_Heinola |
Best players who never made it on 10:10 - Nov 21 by Dorse | Ricky Otto: early 90's version of Taraabt. |
Watched a Spurs - Everton youth game years ago. James Vaughan was up front for Everton and looked a class above - and indeed he made a breakthrough soon after, but never really kicked on. Anichebe also played that day and looked very good, but again, he never went as far as I thought he would. For Spurs that day, was Jamie O'Hara, who obviously had class, but a Spurs member of staff I knew said to me, conspiratorially, 'yeah, but he can't run' - and I realised he had barely moved out the centre circle all game. There was a lot of hype about O'Hara, but in the end my friend was right. but the best player on the pitch was Phil Ifil, a natural leader and captain at full back for Spurs. Eneded up at Col U I think - thought he'd be a prem player. | |
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Best players who never made it on 13:15 - Nov 21 with 2985 views | terryb |
Best players who never made it on 13:06 - Nov 21 by QPRSteve | David Kerslake. One of the best youngsters I've seen play for us until he contracted glandular fever. Never the same player after that although he did have a decent career after being converted to a full back. Martyn Busby. Leg broken by Paul Went away at Fulham. Let's get revenge on the b*ast*rds tomorrow! |
To this day, that remains the worst assault that i've witnessed on a football pitch! | | | |
Best players who never made it on 13:25 - Nov 21 with 2968 views | Tonto | For those of us of a certain age and who played football manager.... Freddy Ado | |
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