Oh, is he still playing?!

[cantagalo]

Mentioned in the matchgoing thread but Stuart Nelson is goalkeeping for Dover Athletic at the age of 41.

[Gangster Octopus]

Ashley Young has scored a goal for Aston Villa. That surprised me even more than it did the Nottingham Forest defence...

[Cousin Boneless]

Dean Lewington has played nine hundred games as of yesterday.

That's pretty impressive. I remember watching him at the National Hockey Stadium when he played for 'Wimbledon'. I think this was 2003.

[Cousin Boneless]

The Infamous Jefferson Louis has signed for North Leigh. he is 43

Just look at this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Louis

[Ray de Galles]

Dean Lewington has played nine hundred games as of yesterday.

That's pretty impressive. I remember watching him at the National Hockey Stadium when he played for 'Wimbledon'. I think this was 2003.

Fuck that scab cunt.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/brfootball/status/1588997794076950531?s=61&t=si0Xlw69O-4V1lX2nYxQPw

[blameless]

That's glorious. The looks on the faces of his coach and goalie are even more fun than the goal.

[Jurgen Sparwasser]

The Infamous Jefferson Louis has signed for North Leigh. he is 43

Just look at this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Louis

Looks like that didn't last long.

[cantagalo]

Tite has just announced the Brazilian World Cup squad.

It includes Daniel Alves, currently playing for Pumas in Mexico. At 39, he is Brazil's oldest player ever to go to a World Cup, beating Djalma Santos who was 37 in 1966.

[Ray de Galles]

An OIHSP? In the wild for me tonight as I've just spotted 37 year old Darren fucking Pratley on the Orient team sheet.

[cantagalo]

Last night, 38 year-old Craig Mackail-Smith came on as a sub for Bedford Town.

[ad hoc]

Not so much, is he still playing, more "Is he still managing them?", Nicolo Napoli has just been hired as manager by U Craiova for the 9th time (NINTH)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%B2_Napoli

[Simon G]

36 year old, Matthew Barnes-Homer, came on for Gloucester City last night in their 1-0 defeat to Buxton.

He's there in a coaching capacity mainly, but they're going through a bit of an injury crisis at the moment/

[Tony C]

I think I may have mentioned this previously on a match going thread but I saw ex Derby (and about ten other clubs) goalkeeper Stephen Bywater play for Wythenshawe Town at Kendal in a North West Counties League game a few weeks ago. He’s 41.

[Southport Zeb]

Last nights match between Southport and Brackley had both teams playing 40 year old goalkeepers - Tony McMillan for Southport and David Lewis for Brackley. Both have previously played for clubs that haven't existed for at least 15 years (the original Runcorn for McMillan, Moor Green for Lewis).

[jameswba]

Spectacular goal by Nicky Maynard for Macclesfield at Trafford yesterday, starting at around 9.52 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnUns814akk&t=619s

I was surprised to find that Maynard is still only 35.

[jameswba]

One from the Czech league ; Marek Matejovsky, who played for Reading from 2008 till 2010, scored for Mlada Boleslav at Jablonec on Saturday. He's now 40.

[Artificial Hipster]

I think I may have mentioned this previously on a match going thread but I saw ex Derby (and about ten other clubs) goalkeeper Stephen Bywater play for Wythenshawe Town at Kendal in a North West Counties League game a few weeks ago. He’s 41.

In spite of his only game for Rochdale being a 6-1 defeat to Carlisle the fee we received from West Ham for the 16 year old Bywater was a club record at the time.

Stephen was from the third generation of the family with a connection to Spotland. Among his many roles dad David was responsible for the development of the women's game at the club while granddad Les used to drive the team bus and ran the coach company that drove Dale fans up and down the country for many years.

[Voidoid]

Last night, 38 year-old Craig Mackail-Smith came on as a sub for Bedford Town.

Bedford Town also have once upon a time future Premier League star George Thorne who is only 29 still although his injuries meant he's only played 27 times since 2016. They also recently signed Michael Harriman who I have no idea why he's dropped to that level at the age of 30 with 300+ appearances as a good league one/two full back behind him.

Last season's title winning top scorer was 36 year old Rene Howe of many a lower league club fame, He left in the summer citing the increased commitments needed at the higher level not fitting in with his post-football career but as far as I am aware is still playing for Ware FC.

[cantagalo]

The latest in my series of players I'd completely forgotten about turning up at non-league clubs is Simeon Jackson (49 caps for Canada) playing for Chelmsford City last night.

[Patrick Thistle]

International OIHSP? moment finding out Luis Suarez* is in Uruguay's World Cup squad.

*Or "Bitey" as Mrs Thistle calls him

[Discordant Resonance]

Wilfrid Bony scored the winner for Newport today in a mid-season friendly.

[jwdd27]

It seems he's been quietly training with them for the past three years while trying to fixed up with other clubs, but with limited success - a couple of short spells in Qatar and Saudi and then a spell at Nijmegen last season which yielded just one 15 minute sub appearance.

[Antepli Ejderha]

It seems he's been quietly training with them for the past three years while trying to fixed up with other clubs, but with limited success - a couple of short spells in Qatar and Saudi and then a spell at Nijmegen last season which yielded just one 15 minute sub appearance.

He got injured in the Netherlands, again, which is why his spell was cut short. It also attracted lots of controversy as he'd previously played for their rivals Den Haag.

His family is still in the Swansea area and his son is in the academy there as well.

[Patrick Thistle]

If Nwwport won't give him a chance, I wonder if he fancies a stint at Barry Town.