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Leaving aside our own, who are the best players you’ve seen, who you raved about to your mates afterwards, whose careers either failed to take off or who vanished without a trace?
I’ll start with Dean Connolly. I was at a loose end one bank holiday in the early 90s, and made my annual trip to Griffin Park. Brentford crushed Wigan 4-0. The visitors were pretty hopeless except for Connolly, who was fantastic on the ball and incredibly quick to find a pass to a team mate, who quickly lost the ball. At one point, he took the ball with his back to goal about 30 yards out, lost three defenders with a turn and a trick and smashed the ball against the bar. And was then taken off.
At the time he was on loan from Barnsley in the next league up, which didn’t surprise me given his air of superiority and an obvious lack of conditioning. Google tells me he was originally a Celtic junior but was picked up by Arsenal in his teens. Barnsley let him go soon after and I never heard of him again. I can’t forget how talented he looked. I wonder what happened.
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Michael Johnson. Apparently the last Mancunian to play in the Manchester Derby. Dietmar Hamann thought he could have been as good as Michael Ballack before he went into meltdown.
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Michael Johnson. Apparently the last Mancunian to play in the Manchester Derby. Dietmar Hamann thought he could have been as good as Michael Ballack before he went into meltdown.
For City, maybe. Rashford is a local boy.
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Oh, Micah Richards. I remember seeing him as a teenager and thinking there was no way he wouldn't go on to be the best centre back in the world. Looked like he had everything. Yeah he played in the prem for years and for England, but he could have been on another level to where he ended up.
Kevin Kingsmore, 80's goalscoring machine for QPR youth team, always saw his name in programme, no idea what happened to him and in all honesty I might have imagined him as I've never met anyone who has heard of him.
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