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19-02-2009 10:23pm#1Post your worst team that has played in the premiership (based only on their performances in the premiership!)
EDIT: Seems I missed some obvious players........I'll re-edit when I actually put some more effort it as I put this together in like two mins!
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LOL nicely put!Juan Pablo wrote: »I cannot believe I forgot Chistian Negouai. Three minutes of Premier league football, sent off after coming on as a sub against Everton. Only man to ever have had negative fantasty football points for a season? He can take Fadigas place. And wear the armband. Keegan hailed him as his most exciting signing ever. lol.
The list on that site is well written, an enjoyable read. I never get tired of reading the Ali Dia story
Despite his patent lack of footballing ability, I actually ummed and arred as to whether Ali Dia should be included on this site.
My problem with Dia is that unlike other rubbish footballers he hasn't suffered the slow torture of ritual, weekly humiliation. Instead, he waltzed in to Southampton, put in 52 minutes of unrivalled ****ness, and then, like Kaiser Soze, was gone (that is if you discount a brief stint in Gravesend's stiffs).
For those unfamiliar with the story, Dia was perhaps football's greatest ever bluffer. Despite having no footballing pedigree whatsoever, he persuaded his agent (why he had an agent is a mute point that has never been satisfactorily explained) to ring the Saints claiming that he was George Weah's more talented cousin.
Glancing at a squad that included Neil Heaney, Robbie Slater and Ulrich van Gobbel, then Saints boss Graeme Souness concluded that maybe he could do with a potential World Player of the Year.
In fact, he was so impressed with Dia's invented CV that he decided to forgo with the usual trials and tests and instead put his new striker straight into the squad to face mighty (at least they were then) Leeds United. As you do.
Half an hour into the game, the inevitable happened as Matt Le Tissier limped off. Souness looked at his subs - Ken Monkou, Neil Maddison, Robbie Slater and the untried Dia - and weighed up who to bring on. It wasn't a tough choice.
Dia made an instant impression, miscontrolling a simple pass, bumping into Egil Ostenstad and generally making a tit of himself. It says much that Dia, aged 20, was thoroughly outshone by Ian Rush despite the Leeds striker being a good five years past his sell by date.
Amazingly Souness failed to do the decent thing by putting Dia out of his misery at half time and so the circus lasted until the 82nd minute. In the whole of the second half, Dia touched the ball at most three times - his teammates having quickly realised that playing with 10 men was the safer option.
And finally it was all over. To Dia's credit, the score was only 1-0 to Leeds when he departed, a score that doubled within a minute of him taking his place on the bench.
However, Souness had seen enough. Dia's contract was promptly terminated and by the time of Southampton's next Premiership match a a new forward had been brought in from the reserves as forward cover.
Steve Basham - a much safer bet indeed.0 -
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Ali Dia, signed by Souness for Southampton, disaster.
Ali Dia...A true legend in Portsmouth
Constantino Chalkias. To be fair, he cost us about 2% of what Spurs paid for Gomes and he was no worse. No better granted, but certainly no worse.Juan Pablo wrote: »GK -- That Greek dude that Alain Perrin had playing for Pompey a few years back, he was a bit of a puddin. Can't remember his name.
How can you have a worse team without honourable mention for Djimi Traore?...He just can't, He just can't, he just can't control his feet.
I also feel John O'Shea should be in this team. He is awful but somehow, by the grace of god or something, he manages to play for the European champions
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