WSM Hammer 10:54 Tue Nov 13
Joe Cole retires from football
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I thought he already had
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46192309
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The_Phantom
11:09 Tue Nov 13
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Just seen this and read the little bit about it on BBC news website.
I regard him as one of ours and seriously forgot he played for Chelsea.
Never quite fulfilled his potential imo
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On The Ball
11:12 Tue Nov 13
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Loved him. He loved us and he loved football.
Had his potential coached out of him by Jose. Cheers, you Portuguese wanker.
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AnotherDay_SameShit
11:14 Tue Nov 13
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Maybe didn't quite fulfill his potential, but none the less had a great career including over 50 England caps. and made a fortune.
Was an utter disaster at Liverpool..was that Jose's fault too?
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Takashi Miike
11:15 Tue Nov 13
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best youngster i've seen play the game, all the best to him if he goes in to coaching
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Takashi Miike
11:21 Tue Nov 13
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....and if coaching doesn't work out, do more punditry. the way you wound up the yid plank sherwood was beautiful :.)
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Bernie
11:25 Tue Nov 13
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Great career, could've been even better if he'd have played under Wenger or Ferguson rather than Mourinho.
One of my favourite players.
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wanstead_hammer
11:29 Tue Nov 13
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Yeh, was a gifted player and a joy to watch. A proper playmaker with all the tricks of the trade. As said, shame it was stifled by the killjoys.
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Westham67
11:30 Tue Nov 13
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Exactly Bernie Mourihno ruined him
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Lee Trundle
11:31 Tue Nov 13
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I much preferred Carrick (who turned out to be the much better footballer) when they were both coming through.
Cole seems to always go on too much about Chelsea to make me give too much of a shit about him retiring.
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Lily Hammer
11:35 Tue Nov 13
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Bernie 11:25 Tue Nov 13
Spot the fuck on.
I will never forget during that demolition of Coventry at Upton Park in the youth final, when he instinctively made a pass over the defence down the touchline that a load of Jimmy White backspin on the ball so it didn't go out of play. I was stunned. Hadn't seen a pass like it, and haven't seen one since. Incredible talent, that was indeed coached out of him by the Special Needs One.
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gph
11:36 Tue Nov 13
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Sometimes he used to annoy me.
E.g., away at Chesterfield in the League Cup (the one we drew and then won on penalties, not the one we lost), he kept beating his man, and, instead of using the momentum to create a chance, he came back and beat him again.
Showboating like that should be reserved for when we've got a healthy lead, if at all.
He annoyed me a lot more when he sold his soul to the Stamford Bridge demons
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,
11:43 Tue Nov 13
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Good luck to him. A whole hearted youngster when busting a gut for us, unlike some seasoned pros, to avoid relegation.
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The Kronic
11:48 Tue Nov 13
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HERP-A-DERP
Decent player but tainted by jumping in with the rent boy crowd after scoring against us.
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Iron Filings
11:51 Tue Nov 13
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Loved watching him play as a younsgster breaking into the team.
Chelsea was a success for him, but for me he was never quite the same player. By the time he came back to us his mobility was shot to pieces. I wish we were left with the memories of the youngster rather than the way he was when he returned.
That said he’s done well to still be nicking a living out of the game all these years later
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,
11:55 Tue Nov 13
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Filings, his return in 2012 was a sad affair especially seeing him substituted by BFS very early in a game at a packed Boleyn ground.
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Northern Sold
11:58 Tue Nov 13
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Terrific footballer who I loved watching play and a great fella... used to do loads and loads for youth football.. just turned up and had a kick about with the kids... great lad... the one game for us that sticks out for me and this may sound daft was the 0-6 massacre in the cup v Man United... players of ours quit that day (Sinclair being the main one) .. but Joe never stopped... he was virtually playing that Man U team on his own... spoke to a few Mancs on the metro back to Eccles after and they was in awe of his performance that day
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madeeasy
12:02 Tue Nov 13
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Ex West ham and Chelsea Player Peter Braybrook was one of the youth team coaches at West Ham and helped bring Joe through the ranks alongside Carr etc.
A few years later when Joe was at Chelsea Peter needed both knees replaced at a cost of about 40k. He asked West Ham and Chelsea at the time and both said no.
A couple of weeks later he got a letter through the post that read.
Peter, thanks for everything you did for me, just wanted to show my appreciation, Joe
Along with a cheque for 40k.
I know Peters daughter and she always talked about what that meant to her old man. Top bloke is Joe in my book. Wish we had more players like him around nowadays.
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Northern Sold
12:06 Tue Nov 13
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Great story that madeeasy and does not surprise me in the slightest... great lad
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ivan
12:06 Tue Nov 13
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I saw his debut up at old trafford.There had been so much hype about him in the Evening standard for months before.I was well happy when i found out he was gonna play.
Her had a quiet game in fairness but all in all a wonderful player for us
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madeeasy
12:09 Tue Nov 13
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Just seen his stats and i thought he was a bit injury prone but he has made over 700 appearances...
Just wish Sir Alex had bought him off of us instead.
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