Nile Ranger, still only 29, has joined Spalding United, intending to prove to everyone that the penny has dropped and he can get his head down and focus on football.
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Meanwhile, the player who scored the first goal after the resumption in South Korea earlier this year, and who had an unsuccessful spell at Middlesbrough in the noughties, Lee Dong-gook, has retired aged 41. He played in the World Cup in France in 1998.Last edited by Capybara; 30-10-2020, 12:03.
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Lescott apparently agreed to play an exhibition match, which got lost in translation and they announced they'd signed him for the cup game.
They have recent form for bullshitting for publicity, they announced Samuel Eto'o's signing last month.
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I've always had a soft spot for Halford and this is a great story ;
At 36 years old, having not played for 18 months and without a club during a financially-crippling pandemic, Greg Halford feared he would have to end his career prematurely.
But last month the former Sunderland, Cardiff, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth and Colchester defender offered to play for free for the rest of 2020 and - after joining League Two Southend at 18:30 GMT on Tuesday - scored in their 3-1 win over Grimsby less than three hours later.
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I've got to thank Liverpool's match programme for this one, but Frode Kippe has come out of retirement at the age of 42 and played a few minutes as sub in two games for Lillestrom because of a defensive injury crisis. In doing so he became the first player who'd played for Liverpool in the 1990s to make a professional appearance in 2020.
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I remember mentioning Baros after my last visit to Ostrava, in April 2018. I first saw him play for them as an 18 year-old in 2000, in Olomouc.
A lot of Czech and Slovak players do what he's done ; end their professional careers and start turning out for 5th/6th tier village sides for free (or perhaps expenses). Rosina, the village nearest to where I live, had a guy called Radoslav Zabavnik playing for them till a year ago - he'd previously played for Sparta Prague and Mainz amongst others, plus 58 internationals for Slovakia. He's probably still on the books, though they've only played 5-6 games since Covid hit. I went to a game there perhaps two years ago, and Rosina played the first 15 minutes with 10 men as Zabavnik had been stuck in traffic coming up from Bratislava.
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Always conflicted when I read these kind of things. On a level it's nice that these folk obviously have such a commitment to the game they're happy to go back down the levels and play for their local team or whatnot, but on the other hand I'm picturing myself as some fat lad who's always been shite but plays on the Sunday for a laugh with mates, and I know that twice a season I'm going to wake up, likely hungover, and spend my morning trying to mark fucking Milan Baros. Doesn't seem quite fair.
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Originally posted by beak View PostI'm picturing myself as some fat lad who's always been shite but plays on the Sunday for a laugh with mates, and I know that twice a season I'm going to wake up, likely hungover, and spend my morning trying to mark fucking Milan Baros. Doesn't seem quite fair.
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Originally posted by Third rate Leszno View PostNile Ranger, still only 29, has joined Spalding United, intending to prove to everyone that the penny has dropped and he can get his head down and focus on football.
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