Granit Xhaka

Nope

You really had to remind us this terrible day didn’t you Marty? :rofl:

Have you ever been to stamford Bridge?

There’s a huge banner to him.

ā€˜Probably’ Kante saw the banner there when he signed for CFC, then maybe googled the greatest player Chelsea ever had? Maybe?

Or do you think Roman told him to say that?

Or Kante’s advisor?

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He was a GREAT.

Alf Ramsey didn’t pick him because of his playboy life-style.
Like Alan Hudson, Stan Bowles, so many fantastically talented players that England didn’t ā€˜need’, as they were winning World Cups, etc., by the barrel-load

Osgood has a statue outside Stamford Bridge as well. And Chelsea fans sing about him all the time. ā€œThe king of Stamford Bridgeā€. So it’s quite plausible that Kante would be familiar with him.

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Well, ā€˜scored in a couple of finals’ is talking it down a bit.

Scored against Real fucking Madrid twice in the Final and the replay, to win a European trophy for CFC

Also against ManU at OldT to win the cup in the replay.

Yup.

Interesting fact…

Osgood had trials with The Arsenal, but at the time he was playing for WIndsor, his local team, and working on building sites, and he didn’t fancy the long trip to The Arsenal to ā€˜work’, so he threw away his contract.

Fun Fact 2

Osgood got married on the Saturday morning, and on the same day, in the afternoon, scored a hat-trick for Chelsea.

Now that was definitely one hell of a Saturday night!

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Reminds me of that fella who scored for Hereford in the cup against Newcastle in 72.

How did he celebrate? Went home and treated himself to fish and chips :grin:

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It’s f’ckin 8.45am, Marty!

Well, firstly it’s 9.45 here

Secondly I haven’t had proper fish and chips for a few years now

Can’t get it here, not even close

Last time was pre-covid, so I really want some now!

Just writing this post has me drooling and slobbering…

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Crap goal compared to Mullers’ goal of the season winning goal in 74/75.

Besides, we don’t talk about the cup run of 73 on here. The semi final is still a sore point for @Stroller and @JohnnyH

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…and me, actually

I won’t mention it again

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Sadly I tried to post it again, just for you, but it was removed by the admin, who - let’s be fair - do a fantastic job on here in their free time, and should be rightly praised at every opportunity

PM me for it, if that’s allowed, admin?

No, none of us removed it. In fact, I tried looking for it a couple days ago, because I thought it was pretty funny.

But it appears that every single post you made before going off on one in the Xhaka thread and getting banned the other day has been deleted.

Given none of us did that, and we never mass delete someone’s posts, I assumed it was you who went back and deleted something like all 100 of your own previous posts. I was quite bemused as to why you’d have done that.

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He means today. He posted it again and I did remove it cos I don’t want it becoming some default response or something that pops up every few posts, funny or not. :slight_smile:

@Marty by all means send it over PM so long as people have asked you to

@Marty PM me it please :crazy_face:

You can see it with you mod powers by scrolling back up :slight_smile:

Can I also post it without you deleting it? :wright:

Could be an epic battle of deleting and reinstating. :pires2:

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Against stoke in the League cup final but lost.:wink: