As mentioned back somewhere in this thread they did play together for a while at Sunderland (in games I couldn't watch due to the front two pairing sporting numbers 3 & 52) so it may be a nod to the Ghanaian.
Bendtner said when he joined that his mother chose 3 for him.
Bayern's numbers disgust me. Generally, their homegrown players like Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Bastuber and Muller, have kept their high numbers even after establishing themselves as first-teamers.
For all my dislike of Ferguson, he knew the score, generally reducing the numbers of players as their status grew.
The greatest player of the Ferguson era kept his 16 shirt all the way through his Man U career though.
True, but that was by choice. A first-teamer staying in the teens (Henry another example) doesn't bother me that much, it's the 20+'s which grind my gears
I'm not overly fussed with what number a player chooses (within reason - I don't think for example that #3 has to go to a left back, however it MUST go to a defender) but I do think that the Prem's 25 men squads should be numbered 1-25.
But surely West Brom shouldn't have disavantaged themselves in comparison to Leicester by going the whole 1968 hog and only sticking one or two players on the bench?
And I'm pretty sure even the earliest (officially sanctioned, anyway) substitutes had numbers on the backs of their shirts.
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