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Kevin Poole, legend!

  • 05-10-2010 4:46pm
    #1
    Sunset V
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭


    Kevin Poole is starting between the nets tonight for Burton Albion at the ripe young age of 47 and is the oldest player in the Football League. Are there any other footballers of note that defied age, expanding waist lines and receding hairlines to throw on the jersey?!

    http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6428113,00.html


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  • #2
    Gillington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    Sunset V wrote: »
    Kevin Poole is starting between the nets tonight for Burton Albion at the ripe young age of 47 and is the oldest player in the Football League. Are there any other footballers of note that defied age, expanding waist lines and receding hairlines to throw on the jersey?!

    http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6428113,00.html

    Me,every Sunday :(

    altough I dont think you're talking Wicklow League here


  • #3
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,909 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Jaysus I remember when he was between the sticks for Leicester in the days before Kasey Keller. Real blast from the past.

    I think 47 makes Poole older than John Burridge was when he last turned out.


  • #4
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Nwankwo Kanu is still playing for Portsmouth at the ripe old age of 45 34.


  • #5
    Pinturicchio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭Pinturicchio


    I can beat that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Tacconi

    53


  • #6
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    According to wikipedia Sir Stanley Matthews was player manager for Hibernians in Malta in 70/71 which would make him 55. Mad bastard.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Matthews


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  • #7
    Dolph Starbeam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭Dolph Starbeam


    Pinturicchio wrote: »
    I can beat that.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Tacconi

    53

    He's only with an amateur club though. Still some age to be playing at the same time.


  • #8
    Pinturicchio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭Pinturicchio


    MOG7 wrote: »
    He's only with an amateur club though. Still some age to be playing at the same time.

    He also happens to be one of the only 5 players to have won the European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and the Intercontinental Cup.

    4 of the 5 players won them all with Juventus.


  • #9
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,339 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    JerryHandbag wrote: »
    According to wikipedia Sir Stanley Matthews was player manager for Hibernians in Malta in 70/71 which would make him 55. Mad bastard.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Matthews

    He played his last game for Stoke in division 1 just after his 50th birthday.


  • #10
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Papin played a season or two ago.


  • #11
    Pinturicchio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭Pinturicchio


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Papin played a season or two ago.

    At 45! He's merely a toddler.:P


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  • #12
    Dolph Starbeam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭Dolph Starbeam


    Pinturicchio wrote: »
    He also happens to be one of the only 5 players to have won the European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and the Intercontinental Cup.

    4 of the 5 players won them all with Juventus.

    Ye fair enough but he is still playing for an amateur club, i would have thought they would have to be playing professionally to be counted. If not i know about 5 players playing in my league every sunday older than him.


  • #13
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    I can vividly remember Peter Shilton lining out for Leyton Orient in the late 90s at the age of 48.


  • #14
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    What age was Sheringham when he packed it in?


  • #15
    Hoki
    Registered Users Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭Hoki


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    What age was Sheringham when he packed it in?

    42-colchester


  • #16
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Hoki wrote: »
    42-colchester
    He is my favorite player ever.

    I will never forget how before his last season at Utd people said he was too old etc... he showed them :)


  • #17
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,630 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Socrates at age 50 turned out for non-league Garforth Town.

    http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/It-was-22-cold-for.892291.jp


  • #18
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭Degag


    How did Poole get on anyway?


  • #19
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    MUSSOLINI wrote: »
    He is my favorite player ever.

    I will never forget how before his last season at Utd people said he was too old etc... he showed them :)

    Top United scorer and an England recall at 36. Theres hope for Michael Owen yet :pac: Look at Kevin Davies gettin called up at 33!


  • #20
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    Steve Ogrisovic was my favorite old timer. Won a champions league medal in 1978 at Liverpool and he was still playing for Covenrtry in 2000. What a hero!


  • #21
    Dolph Starbeam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭Dolph Starbeam


    Just found this, Neil McBain, 51

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_McBain


    He remains the oldest player to appear in an English Football League match.


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  • #22
    Sunset V
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭Sunset V


    Degag wrote: »
    How did Poole get on anyway?

    Lost 2 -1 Rotherham skysports.com just told me. Rotherham scored a "superb 22 yard strike" and a penalty so he must've done alright!

    I just love the big guy!


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