#12

Have strongly considered getting an old Batistuta Fiorentina shirt for ages

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#13

No way I could get away with that colour but just had a look and they’re only about £30.

#14

Ian Wright at Palace.

#15

Who was the fella at Palace in the 90s, winger, dreadlocks, quite small?

#16

I was at that Barcelona game. It was magic. One of the best nights of my life . We absolutely destroyed them for 60 minutes and then nearly threw it away in classic Newcastle style. Tino was unplayable along with Gillespie. Magic!

I’dve went for Beardsley as my pick but unfortunately he’s a racist bell-end. Very sad.

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#17

John Salako was a winger but he didn’t really have dreadlocks.
Richard Shaw was a full back and had dreadlocks.

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#19

Salako that was it, always used to like him.

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#20

I was at that game. The bloke actually supported Fulham by all accounts, he lived around the corner from my cousin.

Cantona still shouldn’t have reacted like that though, he could easily have hit someone else (and he had a history of stamping on players),. It also indirectly lead to the death of a Palace fan the next time Palace played United. The scariest game I’ve ever been to.

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#21

No you’re absolutely right tbh and had I been a bit older I would have seen it that way I’m sure.

#22

So with this in mind it has to be Sir Alan Shearer. The Lion of Gosforth. For the goals. For annoying Roy Keane. For choosing us over Manchester United.

In the wider world, bar the obvious Messi, Juan Mata seems like a top bloke.

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#23

Met Zola once after an Argyle v Chelsea friendly. What a lovely tiny man.

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#24

He used was a coach (along with Gareth Southgate) at the youth team I used to play for. He gave me an award at the end of season awards at my club, I put the wrong hand out, and we had this awkward swapping of hands, before I got the trophy and promptly dropped it. Goalkeeper I was (not really I was a right back).

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#25

remember seeing this goal live and thinking ‘SHIT. DID YOU SEE THAT?!’

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#27

Also went to Napoli v Cagliari during his last season as a player when he was at Cagliari and he got a standing ovation all around the ground when he went off.

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#28

the glorious few years in English football where they made foreign players do stereotypical things in front of the cameras.

#29

Dwight Yorke (twat)
Raul (seems alright)

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What a player. Quickest i’ve ever seen with the ball at his feet. Basicslly an inside-right forward, but sometimes played as an old-fashioned winger and would sweep these huge, deep, hanging crosses in from the flank. Spent a couple of seasons as a striker. Great first touch, natural finisher, scored all kinds of goals. Absolute travesty he was ever sold.

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#31

Yeah remember him being great. All the more remarkable given what we know now I guess.