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    Feeding from the hand you bit

    For example, Michael Thomas.

    Infamously scored the goal that denied Liverpool the title (and indeed the double) in 1989 and playing a significant part in ending an era. Two years later he was calling Anfield home, scoring a fantastic goal in the FA Cup final at the end of his first season there and ending up staying for seven years.

    There's no doubt myriad other examples but few so explicit (and surely for Thomas himself ballsy - at least at first) as that.

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    Feeding from the hand you bit

    This idea covers an awful lot of Bayern Munich's transfer activity over the last 30 years.

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      Feeding from the hand you bit

      Three Times A Reddy wrote: There's no doubt myriad other examples but few so explicit
      If we're including managers, Paul Lambert's move from Colchester to Norwich has got to be up there.

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        Feeding from the hand you bit

        Brian Clough managing Leeds

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          Sticking with Arsenal, and the FA Cup, Brian Talbot beat them in the final in 1978 before helping them win the cup (and scoring) against Man Utd the year after. Also on the scoresheet was Frank Stapleton, who later joined United.

          I'm struggling to come up with one as powerful as Thomas.

          I remember Ian Ormondroyd did some disgraceful play acting to get a Scunny player sent off v Bradford, so I wasn't pleased when he signed for the Iron. And that was before I saw him play for us.

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            Feeding from the hand you bit

            Kluivert went to Milan two years after scoring the winner against them in a Champions League final.

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              Feeding from the hand you bit

              Brian Horton was Luton captain in the relegation decider at Maine Road in 1984 - the David Pleat dancing on the pitch game.

              10 years later he was a pretty popular City manager - albeit being sacked so that Alan Ball can take over can only improve your public image.

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                Again not quite in the 'Michael Thomas' stratosphere, but Adebayor regularly netted against Spurs as an Arsenal player, and also scored two of the goals for Real that put us out of the Champions' League in 2011.

                Since coming to White Hart Lane, he's managed a couple of goals against the Arse, becoming only the second player to score for both sides in an NLD. (Jimmy Robertson is the other.)

                And sometimes it does feel as though he's still on their payroll...

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                  Feeding from the hand you bit

                  David Speedie. Blatant and ultimately decisive dive in the 1992 Blackburn v Leicester play off final. Surplus to requirements following the post-promotion splurge on the likes of Shearer and Sutton, (not to mention the likes of Mike Newell, who were already there) he was sold to Southampton and subsequently farmed out on loan to Birmingham, West Brom AND West Ham in the course of a single season, helping the latter back to the top division following a late run.

                  When no deal at West Ham was forthcoming he ended up at Filbert Street a little over a year later, to almost unanimous disapproval. Had a very decent season in all fairness but missed the play off final against Derby due to suspension and retired due to persistent injury problems just a few months later, never getting the chance to play for us in the Premier League either.

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