Confession Box

gustavo · 07-04-2008 10:39am

Sligo Rovers

- Thought Sean Connor done a decent job for us
- Thought Paul Cook would fail

astrofool · 07-04-2008 10:51am

Bubs101 wrote: »

- Was unbelievably angry with Ranieri when he started playing Cech ahead of Cudicini despite Carlo being amazing for us.

Didn't Cech arrive after Ranieri had been let go? (i.e. in the summer, even though he was signed on a pre contract during the winter before).

shanel23 · 07-04-2008 11:35am

Leeds fan

- I really thought Terry Venables was a good move for us

- I never thought we would be relegated from the Prem

- I thought we'd completely flop under Denis Wise

- I was sad when O'Leary was sacked

- I really thought that the club that made millioinaires out of many medicore to good players would have been shown some loyalty in it's greatest need !

IrishMike · 07-04-2008 12:01pm

Liverpool fan
Thought money spent on Torres was complete madness.
Still think pongolle would be first choice in an advanced position if he was still at the club.
Thought it was a huge mistake not to buy stelios for 10m when we had the chance, look at him now!
Wanted benitez sacked after the barnsley match

07-04-2008 12:34pm

United fan

- Was baffled when Ince, Hughes and Kanchelskis were sold and thought fergie had lost his mind!

- Thought Barthez was the answer

- Thought Kleberson would be great

- Have never called for Fergie to be sacked ever no matter how illogical that would be (last in the CL group stage only a couple of years ago)

- Think Queiroz is the man and hope he doesnt leave again

- Thought Veron was going to be amazing

- Thought Anderson was rubbish the first few times I saw him

- Used to hate Gary Neville up until "crestgate"

- Was sad to see Alan Smith leave

- Thought the Glazers were gonna ruin United

- Think Wes Brown is a top defender

- Think Ryan Giggs needs to retire (this will be a popular one around here) despite the fact that I said the same a about 4-5 years ago when he lost form and he came back amazing.

PHB · 07-04-2008 12:45pm

United fan: In the last couple of years

- Thought Smith would be a good player after his first few games, how wrong I was

- Thought the Glaziers would keep similar levels of transfer spends, totally wrong

- Have written off Giggs countless times at this stage, he always comes good. [I'm hopeful :P]

- Thought David Jones would make it at United.

- Never thought Rossi would be sold [but knew how ****ing good he was]

- Thought it might be Liverpools year a couple of years ago

- Thought Kleberson could have been a good player at United

- Constantly think that Spurs are going to come good one season, including next season

I notice DesF hasn't been in this thread :P

Zaph · 07-04-2008 2:14pm

Leeds fan

- Agree with shanel23, I thought Wise would drag the club down even further than it had already gone.

- I thought Peter Ridsdale would be good for the club because as a fan he'd have its best interests at heart.

- I wasn't happy when Gordon Strachan signed because of where he'd come from.

Mr Alan · 07-04-2008 2:16pm

PHB wrote: »

I notice DesF hasn't been in this thread :P

oh he's been in alright. he thanked your original post

Bubs101 · 07-04-2008 2:24pm

astrofool wrote: »

Didn't Cech arrive after Ranieri had been let go? (i.e. in the summer, even though he was signed on a pre contract during the winter before).

Actually yeah, that sounds about right. Needless to say I was so pissed off about Carlo not getting his chance I forgot when it was

Jazzy · 07-04-2008 6:02pm

PHB wrote: »

I notice DesF hasn't been in this thread :P

nah, we've had enough man utd fans confessing already

V9 · 07-04-2008 6:56pm

Bubs101 wrote: »

- Still think Vialli should be manager

Amen to that, dear sir.

Malice · 07-04-2008 11:38pm

I'm a Liverpool fan and the one thing I recall from World Cup 2002 was not Diouf but Diao. I was sure he was going to be immense for Liverpool. Sadly that was not the case!

UnitedIrishman · 08-04-2008 1:06am

As a United fan:

- Think Cantona bottled it in European games.
- Thought Laurent Blanc would be a great buy and would work well with Barthez.
- Ran around in the middle of the road with two United friends after we won the CL in 1999.
- Felt we should've bought Kluivert instead of Yorke at the time.
- Thought Veron was a good player for us, particularly in Europe.
- Wanted us to sign Trevor Sinclair after seeing him score 'that' bicycle kick for Sheff Wed against us in 96.
- Thought Kleberson and the Djemba twins would be great buys.
- Thought Chris Casper would make it.

Xavi6 · 08-04-2008 1:45am

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

- Wanted us to sign Trevor Sinclair after seeing him score 'that' bicycle kick for Sheff Wed against us in 96.

Hmmm I always thought 'that' bicycle kick was the one he scored for QPR against Barnsley in 97. Don't remember one as good against United. Plus he never played for Wednesday

UnitedIrishman · 08-04-2008 1:48am

Xavi6 wrote: »

Hmmm I always thought 'that' bicycle kick was the one he scored for QPR against Barnsley in 97. Don't remember one as good against United. Plus he never played for Wednesday

My apologies I meant QPR... the colors made me think Sheff Wed.

Maybe I'm imagining things (the goal) but he was in good form that year from memory.

KnifeWRENCH · 08-04-2008 5:09pm

Man U fan

- Thought selling Van Nistelrooy was gonna kill the club
- Thought Forlan, Kleberson and Djemba-Djemba would all be terrific signings
- Have, at certain times, wondered whether Ferguson had done as much as he could have and perhaps was "past it". I'm ashamed of myself for having ever doubted him:o

Green Giant · 08-04-2008 6:00pm

As a Liverpool fan, I thought:
Mark Gonzalez and Craig Bellamy would be first-team mainstays for several years
Milan Baros was the best striker in Europe following on from scoring five goals at Euro 2004
Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard were only good enough for mid-table Premiership teams
We'd win the Premiership each year from 2001-2003 and 2006-2008

As for football in general, I believed that:
Argentina would win the last two World Cups
The Euro 2004 final would see Italy playing England
Freddy Adu was going to take the world by storm
Southampton would qualify for the Champions League in 2003-04 (I kid you not)

Malice · 08-04-2008 6:41pm

Just thought of another one. I remember when David Thompson and Steven Gerrard were first breaking into the Liverpool team (1997-1998 or so) I thought Thompson was the much better prospect and that Gerrard was quite a limited player

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 08-04-2008 7:02pm

Thought there was no chance in hell that Torres and Crouch would start alongside each other tonight and Rafa would play it ultra defensively - even by his standards....!