| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread 14:14 - Oct 14 with 6893 views | enfieldargh |
Vic mobeley was signed from Sheffield Wednesday for around 50k when I was a mere nipper but due to him being involved in the Peter Swan betting scandal he never played for us and I don't know if we got our money back. Jim Gregory would have been chairman in those days so would love to know the true what's and all story.
The only other high profile player who we signed but never got to see was Richard Ord who I think cost us around 500k from sunland.
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:22 - Oct 14 with 3593 views | Northernr |
Dougie Freedman I don't think made a senior appearance despite being in our first team squad as a youngster, went on to have a decent career.
Massimo Mauro, thick end of 400 games in Serie A for Juve, Udinese and Napoli played a pre-season friendly for us at Brentford one night but didn't sign.
Related to Richard Ord - we only signed him because we had Gerry Taggert all lined up and ready to go but it fell down at the last second. Darren Ambrose had the pics taken in the club shirt, all the official site interviews ready to post and got called back by Palace at the last second. |  | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:22 - Oct 14 with 3593 views | Antti_Heinola |
I remember that it was on teletext and possibly elsewhere that Gerry signed George Ndah in the late 90s from Wolves. Seemed a done deal, but something fell through. He went somewhere else and got an awful injury - not sure he ever played again. |  |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:24 - Oct 14 with 3587 views | Northernr |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:22 - Oct 14 by Antti_Heinola |
I remember that it was on teletext and possibly elsewhere that Gerry signed George Ndah in the late 90s from Wolves. Seemed a done deal, but something fell through. He went somewhere else and got an awful injury - not sure he ever played again. |
Yeh remember spending 50p a minute to listen to Cinzano tell us that Ndah had signed from Swindon only for him to stay. Scored against us for Swindon subsequently I think (we always lost to Swindon back then) and then went to Wolves and destroyed his knee. | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:28 - Oct 14 with 3577 views | Jamie |
Richard Duffy was announced by Gregory at a fans forum/q&a thing that was posted on the official site, only to end up going elsewhere later that day.. |  | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:31 - Oct 14 with 3564 views | johncharles |
Peter Odemwingie ? |  |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:34 - Oct 14 with 3560 views | aston_hoop |
I have a very very vague recollection of Gary Cahill on loan falling through right at the last minute while Holloway was manager many years ago when he would have been very young before he'd played a senior game. |  |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:39 - Oct 14 with 3545 views | bosh67 |
I seem to recall Ollie having Paulo Wanchope on trial for 3 games pre-season and not signing him. In those three games I think he scored 9 goals. |  |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:42 - Oct 14 with 3541 views | MrSheen |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:39 - Oct 14 by bosh67 |
I seem to recall Ollie having Paulo Wanchope on trial for 3 games pre-season and not signing him. In those three games I think he scored 9 goals. |
Blame Houston, not Ollie. Who needs Wanchope when Sheron's coming?
Another very bad miss was Ray Houghton. |  | | |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:47 - Oct 14 with 3526 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Does Sterling count? |  | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:49 - Oct 14 with 3520 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
According to John Barnes's autobiography he had a straight choice between QPR and Watford and chose Watford because the hospitality when they showed him round was better. [Post edited 14 Oct 2015 14:50]
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 15:05 - Oct 14 with 3487 views | batmanhoop |
Vic Mobley actually did get to play for us, a knee injury put paid to his career. Think he played about a dozen times for us | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 15:06 - Oct 14 with 3486 views | isawqpratwcity |
Mobley played for us, 25 times in two years according to Wiki. I wished him well on his first game when he retrieved a ball from the School End in the warm-up.
His knees were cactus. |  |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 15:07 - Oct 14 with 3483 views | Runner14 |
Vic Mobley played for us 20 odd times spanning about 2 seasons but had to retire due to chronic back pain I think. |  | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 16:34 - Oct 14 with 3390 views | kingshill |
Did Jimmy Carter ever play for the first team?
Bit of a favourite for those that used to watch the reserves on a Tuesday afternoon but can't remember if he actually turned out for the first team before he went to Millwall | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 18:00 - Oct 14 with 3309 views | terryb |
Just to reepeat others.
Victor Bloody Mobley played for us far too many times!
The worst centre half I have had the misfortune to see. He has had plenty of competrition, but NOBODY else has been that bad!
Peter Swan was back playing for Sheffield Wednesday at that time & the other two Wednesday players who were prsecuted (and convicted) were David "Bronco" Layne & Tony Kay. Kay had been transferred to Everton by the time the scandal broke.
It is likely that all three would have been in the '66 World Cup squad had the match fixing not occurred. Hurst, Peters & Jack Charlton were the probable beneficiaries.
Many other players from Division three & four were also convicted. | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 18:29 - Oct 14 with 3276 views | enfieldargh |
how silly of me, when I said Vic Mobeley I meant Ahmel tczachunte (spell) | |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 18:33 - Oct 14 with 3266 views | californiahoop |
I remember the Cahill thing, I think Gregory was the manager at Villa at the time, he insisted that Cahill played games, Ollie got on his high horse insisting he wouldn't be dictated to, only when in to win , league titles, captain England, lol. | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 19:12 - Oct 14 with 3222 views | ShotKneesHoop |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 15:05 - Oct 14 by batmanhoop |
Vic Mobley actually did get to play for us, a knee injury put paid to his career. Think he played about a dozen times for us |
Yes, he did play. I saw him. I was not impressed. It was another pre-signing injury.
I think he signed lame and left lamer. |  |
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 19:39 - Oct 14 with 3188 views | paulparker |
Going back to before the 1989/90 season and we agreed terms and a fee for the two highly rated charlton players John Humphrey & Paul Williams I think it was a million for the both ( a steal at the time) only for Charlton to pull the plug at the last minute
We went on to sign Paul Wright instead and later on Roy Wegerle |  |
| 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
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 19:42 - Oct 14 with 3185 views | DannyPaddox |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:49 - Oct 14 by BazzaInTheLoft |
According to John Barnes's autobiography he had a straight choice between QPR and Watford and chose Watford because the hospitality when they showed him round was better. [Post edited 14 Oct 2015 14:50]
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I guess we were having a bad biscuit day. |  | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 05:09 - Oct 15 with 2995 views | BlueandWhiteRiot |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 14:22 - Oct 14 by Antti_Heinola |
I remember that it was on teletext and possibly elsewhere that Gerry signed George Ndah in the late 90s from Wolves. Seemed a done deal, but something fell through. He went somewhere else and got an awful injury - not sure he ever played again. |
Sir Les nearly had a second spell with us. I think big Sam told Oli to say nothing about until it all went through. But alas Oli told the press. No Les | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 08:11 - Oct 15 with 2926 views | californiahoop |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 19:39 - Oct 14 by paulparker |
Going back to before the 1989/90 season and we agreed terms and a fee for the two highly rated charlton players John Humphrey & Paul Williams I think it was a million for the both ( a steal at the time) only for Charlton to pull the plug at the last minute
We went on to sign Paul Wright instead and later on Roy Wegerle |
I was was on holiday, I remember that being splashed over the back pages of the sun, only source of info back in the day. | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 09:22 - Oct 15 with 2895 views | Discodroids |
we were constantly signing Ian Bishop , Alex Rae and ged Brannan Throughout the entire 1994/95 season.
I also remember Ray wilkins saying that Rangers Midfielder Ian Ferguson signing was 'In the Bag' On clubcall |  |
| The Duke Of New York. A-Number One.
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| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 09:54 - Oct 15 with 2874 views | Northernr |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 09:22 - Oct 15 by Discodroids |
we were constantly signing Ian Bishop , Alex Rae and ged Brannan Throughout the entire 1994/95 season.
I also remember Ray wilkins saying that Rangers Midfielder Ian Ferguson signing was 'In the Bag' On clubcall |
Who was the Dundee midfielder Wilkins was on his way to see when he got the sack? Always kept an eye on him after that (never amounted to much) but I've forgotten his bloody name now.
Carl Leaburn played for us for about 15 inglorious minutes at Reading. | | | |
| They almost wore the hoops- Karl Henry free thread on 10:04 - Oct 15 with 2864 views | Lblock |
Can't believe nobodies mentioned Stuart Pearce |  |
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