Forgive me Chris, Which one is he?? I only saw him play once at Cambridge United away I think.he was pure comedy gold. I have never seen anything like that before or since!!
Back row 2nd from the left, and back row far right.
Despite looking like he’d never seen a football before, he’d actually played 91 times for Necaxa who were one of the top Mexican clubs at the time - and was in the Mexican Olympic soccer squad in Barcelona 92.
He played at left back in place of regular Chris Vinnicombe and gave the worst performance ever seen by a professional footballer. He looked completely out of his depth.
@Chris said:
He played at left back in place of regular Chris Vinnicombe and gave the worst performance ever seen by a professional footballer. He looked completely out of his depth.
Far too kind. Most pissed blokes from a pub could play as badly as that
About 5 years on.
Fans totally over looking that he'd played about 5 games a year since, so the idea of suddenly playing 30-40 a season was madness. I think even Sanchez said something along these lines.
Retired at 29 apparently. With about 60 appearances all in!
@Guppys_Left_Leg said:
Was it really that many years between his two stints? Bl**dy hell I must be getting old
I knew it was longer than 2 years without any doubt, but had to go to wiki to be sure on 5.
I remember he signed a 3 year deal, but I'd love to know what the logic was from Sanchez.
By his own admission he said the guy had barely played a game for years, so don't expect high appearances.
Did he sign him just as squad filler, or did he think he'd grow into a regular?
His finest work second time around, was getting his model-esque build into the Leicester game celebrations!
I remember him scoring against barnet in the cup.... Sanchez brought in Devine and Curry so credit where credit is due they are two of my favourite all time players.
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Forgive me Chris, Which one is he?? I only saw him play once at Cambridge United away I think.he was pure comedy gold. I have never seen anything like that before or since!!
Back row 2nd from the left, and back row far right.
Despite looking like he’d never seen a football before, he’d actually played 91 times for Necaxa who were one of the top Mexican clubs at the time - and was in the Mexican Olympic soccer squad in Barcelona 92.
He now apparently works as a scout for Man Utd (!) and as a sports pundit. This is his Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/cordobeslopez?lang=en
Nice to know. So many find that impossible to achieve on Twitter.
What happened at cambridge?
He played at left back in place of regular Chris Vinnicombe and gave the worst performance ever seen by a professional footballer. He looked completely out of his depth.
It was more than that, it actually looked as though he had never played football in his life
Or knew what ‘football’ was.
or running
Far too kind. Most pissed blokes from a pub could play as badly as that
He did understand the value of a solid forward defensive stroke tbf
Can anyone elaborate on the performance? Was there a stand out moment?
It was a real you had to be there i'm afraid. Imagine yourself playing left back in the football league and you'll get the idea.
???who signed him?
“the Sanch”.
‘quality in layers’.
Ah Sanchez. I remember that summer where we made 1 signing - Charlie Mapes.
It'd be a toss up who had the least links in his network, him or Waddock.
I can't remember him at all... i recall the bfp's two dedicated pages for the Castledine signing though?♂️!!!!
Castledine had been great on loan a season or two before hence the excitement at the time.
This was proved to be misplaced
About 5 years on.
Fans totally over looking that he'd played about 5 games a year since, so the idea of suddenly playing 30-40 a season was madness. I think even Sanchez said something along these lines.
Retired at 29 apparently. With about 60 appearances all in!
Was it really that many years between his two stints? Bl**dy hell I must be getting old
I knew it was longer than 2 years without any doubt, but had to go to wiki to be sure on 5.
I remember he signed a 3 year deal, but I'd love to know what the logic was from Sanchez.
By his own admission he said the guy had barely played a game for years, so don't expect high appearances.
Did he sign him just as squad filler, or did he think he'd grow into a regular?
His finest work second time around, was getting his model-esque build into the Leicester game celebrations!
I remember him scoring against barnet in the cup.... Sanchez brought in Devine and Curry so credit where credit is due they are two of my favourite all time players.