Rice to Seaborne, to Seaborne Rice
February 23rd 2010 17:49
The biggest comparison to be drawn between the game in South America and football in the English lower leagues is a lack of prime.
No offence to the magnificent servants of Exeter City down the years but history as well as our recent success with youth development shows that our best players move on.
This runs true over here as well as year after year the cream floats across the Atlantic and washes up in the Champions League.
Give these hotshots a few years however and invariably they will end up back where they started, or at least very close it.
Some lads, such as Roberto Carlos or Martin Phillips, get their GPS a little confused while they’re away and end returning to the wrong the club.
Brazil’s thumping free-kick taker made his name back home with Palmeiras in São Paulo before he was brought over to Europe. After a glittering career he has now landed back in São Paulo but this time with Corinthians where he plays alongside Ronaldo in a team of geriat-ticos.
Others miss their target completely when the start out on the rocky road to retirement. In this category I would put Mark Chamberlain. Surely we had no right to sign the mercurial winger but there he was, in the red and white and doing the business.
Every silky run was followed by the murmur across The Cowshed, “That lad used to play for England.” When he had actually managed to get a cross in the reply would come, “Should have got more caps.” If the cross didn’t materialise the reply would tend to be less complimentary.
Of course goalscorers are always welcome home and when the opportunity to resign Darren Rowbotham came along the move was a custom fit for both club and player. The buzz of “Dazza’s coming home!” must have been on par with when fans of Flamengo heard the news that Adriano was resigning.
Last year Adriano goal’s led his hometown club to the Brazilian title just in the same way that Rowbotham’s goals in that second spell kept us away from the dropzone.
In the same way a top striker is fondly remember so are the midfield generals. It is they who dictate the play and decide the pulse of the team. There have been few who could get the pulse racing quite like Danny Bailey and his greased thighs.
In the Championship he was everywhere, after that he literally was everywhere as his Wikipedia page has him down as playing for about 400 clubs after he left us 1990. In that mighty list however there is a considerable chunk of time spent back playing at The Park. It was during this time I swear he scored a bullet header from 30 yards into the St James Road End after a hapless keeper had made a hash of a clearance.
I’ve tried discussing the return of Danny with some Boca Juniors fans over here and while they like to draw comparisons with Juan Román Riquelme I have to tell them its just not the same.
Why put up with some languid mope who will turn it on for a couple of moments of magic every match when you can have a grizzled ball of energy pumping away for 90 minutes.
Honourable mention of course for Sir Scott of Hiley, would have like to have seen more from Chris Vinnicombe though. See you soon Seaborne
Up the City!
Tim
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No offence to the magnificent servants of Exeter City down the years but history as well as our recent success with youth development shows that our best players move on.
This runs true over here as well as year after year the cream floats across the Atlantic and washes up in the Champions League.
Give these hotshots a few years however and invariably they will end up back where they started, or at least very close it.
Some lads, such as Roberto Carlos or Martin Phillips, get their GPS a little confused while they’re away and end returning to the wrong the club.
Brazil’s thumping free-kick taker made his name back home with Palmeiras in São Paulo before he was brought over to Europe. After a glittering career he has now landed back in São Paulo but this time with Corinthians where he plays alongside Ronaldo in a team of geriat-ticos.
Others miss their target completely when the start out on the rocky road to retirement. In this category I would put Mark Chamberlain. Surely we had no right to sign the mercurial winger but there he was, in the red and white and doing the business.
Every silky run was followed by the murmur across The Cowshed, “That lad used to play for England.” When he had actually managed to get a cross in the reply would come, “Should have got more caps.” If the cross didn’t materialise the reply would tend to be less complimentary.
Of course goalscorers are always welcome home and when the opportunity to resign Darren Rowbotham came along the move was a custom fit for both club and player. The buzz of “Dazza’s coming home!” must have been on par with when fans of Flamengo heard the news that Adriano was resigning.
Last year Adriano goal’s led his hometown club to the Brazilian title just in the same way that Rowbotham’s goals in that second spell kept us away from the dropzone.
In the same way a top striker is fondly remember so are the midfield generals. It is they who dictate the play and decide the pulse of the team. There have been few who could get the pulse racing quite like Danny Bailey and his greased thighs.
In the Championship he was everywhere, after that he literally was everywhere as his Wikipedia page has him down as playing for about 400 clubs after he left us 1990. In that mighty list however there is a considerable chunk of time spent back playing at The Park. It was during this time I swear he scored a bullet header from 30 yards into the St James Road End after a hapless keeper had made a hash of a clearance.
I’ve tried discussing the return of Danny with some Boca Juniors fans over here and while they like to draw comparisons with Juan Román Riquelme I have to tell them its just not the same.
Why put up with some languid mope who will turn it on for a couple of moments of magic every match when you can have a grizzled ball of energy pumping away for 90 minutes.
Honourable mention of course for Sir Scott of Hiley, would have like to have seen more from Chris Vinnicombe though. See you soon Seaborne
Up the City!
Tim
Really Long Link
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