But Niall Quinn broke his hand playing against west ham midweek and he is playing tomorrow yet our infamous yellow backed flimsey spaniard Marcy broke a fingernail and is out for weeks. What is the deal with that? I think he should save face and give us all the money he has taken from us and leave.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Answers

Gerry Taggart played for Leicester 2 weeks ago with 3 broken fingers!

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

And Gareth Spinanker played a World Cup with a busted arm.

Of course, when you're a crap defender you need yer hands to shirt tug, and when you're a lanky donkey like Quim (sic) you need them to have a good tug before you play...probably.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Marcellino has torn a finger tendon according to the reports I read.

F'ing painful but still no reason not to kick a ball.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Alright its going back I know, but for Christ sake, in the days before subs were allowed the Man City keeper Bert Trautman played most of the second half of a cup final with a sodding broken neck after coliding with the post.

He could have been paralysed as easy as wink, these days they leave the field if their make-up gets smudged.

Alright.....grouchy old fart signing off......!

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Marcelino's injury is a nasty one. However, it is only a finger injury, and given the shortage of experienced defenders, I simply don't understand why Marcelino isn't training with the squad so that he is an position to play in an emergency, with whatever protection is required for his injury.
Something doesn't smell right about this situation to me - did anyone who was at OT actually see him suffer the injury? Has anyone seen him around the Club, or at CLS?

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

I had a pair of unwanted parallels in the 70s or was it the 80s?

They were navy pin stripes with the pocket flaps on the legs made out of Union Jacks.

I don't have them any more!

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000