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And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 15:36 - Nov 17 with 3894 views
I'm going to add Paul Parker, though it wasn't his fault.
Only Rangers fans know just how brilliant he was at centre-back for us every single match. Bobby Robson, in fairness, realised his potential but played him out of position at right wing-back. Even so he was one of England's best players in the '90 World Cup. Taylor and Venables had a look but both picked other fullbacks in time. Neither tried him at centre-back if I remember rightly. He ended up with a meagre nineteen caps.
When he moved to Man Utd. in '91 we all knew it would be to play right-back, and it was. And we all knew that would limit his enormous potential. He was 27, coming into his prime, yet he would play only 105 games in five years at the club. Out of position.
He had everything. He only played 404 games and 19 times for England. Only those of us who saw him every week know what a criminal waste that sentence represents.
Thanks Ferguson, Taylor and Venables. Thanks.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 19:33 - Nov 17 by BrianMcCarthy
Some great calls here.
I'm going to add Paul Parker, though it wasn't his fault.
Only Rangers fans know just how brilliant he was at centre-back for us every single match. Bobby Robson, in fairness, realised his potential but played him out of position at right wing-back. Even so he was one of England's best players in the '90 World Cup. Taylor and Venables had a look but both picked other fullbacks in time. Neither tried him at centre-back if I remember rightly. He ended up with a meagre nineteen caps.
When he moved to Man Utd. in '91 we all knew it would be to play right-back, and it was. And we all knew that would limit his enormous potential. He was 27, coming into his prime, yet he would play only 105 games in five years at the club. Out of position.
He had everything. He only played 404 games and 19 times for England. Only those of us who saw him every week know what a criminal waste that sentence represents.
Thanks Ferguson, Taylor and Venables. Thanks.
Great post Brian. Separate thread probably but players who have been wasted by persistently being played out of position is a good one.
Listened to an interview with Matt Jackson today about the day he was substituted after 28 minutes of being torn apart by Andy Sinton in our 5-3 at Goodison Park. Said he was never a right back, played there for Luton for nine games as cover and happened to get spotted by Everton doing it, signed as a right back having never really played there and was slung into the Premier League there. All Howard Kendall did was scream at him and take the pis. There was no analysis, no coaching, no tips. Destroyed his love for the game. He subsequently came back to the Prem, and did very well, as a centre back at Wigan much later on.
We've had loads lately - Vargas playing on the wing so we could lump it to Zamora. Isla signed to play wing back then forced into a back four after a game. Richard Dunne asked to play left of a back three. The constant nonsense about where to put Ngbakoto.
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Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:09 - Nov 17 with 3656 views
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 19:48 - Nov 17 by Northernr
Great post Brian. Separate thread probably but players who have been wasted by persistently being played out of position is a good one.
Listened to an interview with Matt Jackson today about the day he was substituted after 28 minutes of being torn apart by Andy Sinton in our 5-3 at Goodison Park. Said he was never a right back, played there for Luton for nine games as cover and happened to get spotted by Everton doing it, signed as a right back having never really played there and was slung into the Premier League there. All Howard Kendall did was scream at him and take the pis. There was no analysis, no coaching, no tips. Destroyed his love for the game. He subsequently came back to the Prem, and did very well, as a centre back at Wigan much later on.
We've had loads lately - Vargas playing on the wing so we could lump it to Zamora. Isla signed to play wing back then forced into a back four after a game. Richard Dunne asked to play left of a back three. The constant nonsense about where to put Ngbakoto.
Funny you should mention Howard Kendall soon after Paul Parker's name came up.
When Parker was up for grabs in '91 it was rumoured that Everton were interested. Just rumoured. The reaction from the fans was...let's say...interesting. The fans needn't have worried - Howard Kendall was manager and.... well, it wasn't going to happen...we'll save that for my next trip to the C&S.
Sorry, folks, but I don't want to get the site in trouble. I'm sure you can all read between the lines.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 19:48 - Nov 17 by Northernr
Great post Brian. Separate thread probably but players who have been wasted by persistently being played out of position is a good one.
Listened to an interview with Matt Jackson today about the day he was substituted after 28 minutes of being torn apart by Andy Sinton in our 5-3 at Goodison Park. Said he was never a right back, played there for Luton for nine games as cover and happened to get spotted by Everton doing it, signed as a right back having never really played there and was slung into the Premier League there. All Howard Kendall did was scream at him and take the pis. There was no analysis, no coaching, no tips. Destroyed his love for the game. He subsequently came back to the Prem, and did very well, as a centre back at Wigan much later on.
We've had loads lately - Vargas playing on the wing so we could lump it to Zamora. Isla signed to play wing back then forced into a back four after a game. Richard Dunne asked to play left of a back three. The constant nonsense about where to put Ngbakoto.
Back to the point. Matt Jackson was a lovely footballer. Always thought he had huge potential. As well as the physical attributes he could really read a game, knew how to stop trouble before it started and could use the ball when he had it. But you're so right that that move killed him. I always thought that he got no coaching or inspiration. Your post makes it clear.
Ferguson signed Pallister who was a very similar player as a teenager and you could see how he progressed through coaching. What's more, Ferguson haunted him after training each day sending him to the gym to build strength so that Pallister won the ball he needed to. Jackson seemed to never have that connection or inspiration in his career, I would always contend that no-one should have to coach a player to be the fastest, fittest, strongest they should be and that that is on their own shoulders but we all know enough about life to realise that every one of us - surveyor like me or footballer like them - benefits from help and coaching and suffers without it.
(Awaits surveying classmate to mention college pub sessions etc etc)
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:09 - Nov 17 by BrianMcCarthy
Funny you should mention Howard Kendall soon after Paul Parker's name came up.
When Parker was up for grabs in '91 it was rumoured that Everton were interested. Just rumoured. The reaction from the fans was...let's say...interesting. The fans needn't have worried - Howard Kendall was manager and.... well, it wasn't going to happen...we'll save that for my next trip to the C&S.
Sorry, folks, but I don't want to get the site in trouble. I'm sure you can all read between the lines.
No great secret what you’re alluding to there. Les always said he took extra special pleasure scoring at Goodison...
Look up The Match Podcast Brian, the Matt Jackson one this week is v good, your sort of thing.
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Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:25 - Nov 17 with 3630 views
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:09 - Nov 17 by BrianMcCarthy
Funny you should mention Howard Kendall soon after Paul Parker's name came up.
When Parker was up for grabs in '91 it was rumoured that Everton were interested. Just rumoured. The reaction from the fans was...let's say...interesting. The fans needn't have worried - Howard Kendall was manager and.... well, it wasn't going to happen...we'll save that for my next trip to the C&S.
Sorry, folks, but I don't want to get the site in trouble. I'm sure you can all read between the lines.
When Kendall took over at Sheffield. United a certain category of players were shown the door. I'm sure you can guess the category!
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Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:27 - Nov 17 with 3625 views
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:28 - Nov 17 by easthertsr
I know he wasn't a world beater but that afternoon against Arsenal Diakite looked like one of the best midfielders in the country.
He really did.
Quashie is the one, though, as Sheen and Bosh pointed out.
When a gang of the QPR Yoof Mob (not the Burberry clowns, I mean the anorak crowd who used to watch South-East Counties games) hesitatingly pointed out to our manager Des Bulpin that Quashie was only 15 and underage (don't worry, we left it until we had the league wrapped up) he was genuinely nonplussed, so mature was our Nigel, no-one had seemed to notice.
One of our lads, Keith, used to regularly hum the tune "we're only making plans for Nigel". And we were. As a club. We never argued about whether he'd make it. Few made it, and we knew that. But he would. And he'd make it big. Why not? He had it all. Baseball talks bout the five tools necessary to excel in their game, football must have twenty. He had them all, perhaps bar speed. As Bosh says, that wouldn't have hampered him today. In truth, it didn't hamper him then. He was lightning up top.
What we argued about was what kind of player he would become. He reminded Keith of Ince, me of Brooking, Alan Barnes of God.
He made his breakthrough in '95. It was years in coming. He was 17. He was instant magic. A player you could dream on. Again, I thought about Brooking. He would run the show for you. Maybe you'd have to get the ball for him, though. It's not that he couldn't tackle, as any player who riled him would tell you, but you had the sense that he believed that tacking was something someone else did before he'd show for the ball and the pitch would open. There was the goal against Chelsea, there was effortless game management, there was...a player you could dream on...
I moved home to Ireland in the Summer of '96. On one of the many trips back I brought a non-Rangers friend to see us host West Brom. I'll never forget that game. It's one of my ten favourite games. Quashie ran the show. If you whisked the grass out as if by magic and replaced by ice it would not have stirred his serenity. The dream was real. He'd arrived.
I have no idea what happened to him afterwards. I don't want to know. That moment was utterly beautiful and I will remember it as long as I remember my name.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:27 - Nov 17 by BrianMcCarthy
Will do, Clive. Thanks for the recommendation.
There's a Dion Dublin-Howard Kendall story as well that has to be heard to be believed.
Got me intrigued Brian but just googled and all I can find between the two of them is that Kendall left Everton when the club refused to let him sign Dublin. Dublin also tweeted when he died that he would have loved to play for him, so I'd love to know what the story is!
I'll keep digging.
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Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 21:51 - Nov 17 with 3528 views
Players Who Were World Beaters At QPR, But Never Made Anything Of It? on 20:18 - Nov 17 by Northernr
No great secret what you’re alluding to there. Les always said he took extra special pleasure scoring at Goodison...
Look up The Match Podcast Brian, the Matt Jackson one this week is v good, your sort of thing.
Love Everton, had a really nice experience in the White Horse with a group of them looking for retribution for what happened to them the year before. Think it was the game where they were singing "We are white" and then Devon White punched in the winner. Laugh? Hell yeah!! I heard that Parker got a lot of post from their fans when that move was mooted.
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