here in spain they have a rather pathetic looking cartoon character “marcelino“ who bears an uncanny resemblance to our defensive stalwart.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

Answers

Yes we know, we paid £6mm for that Spanish cartoon character!

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

Anyone know if he played for the reserves last night? We won so probably not!

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

Amazing!

Spanish defender Marcelino made a rare but full 90-minute appearance for Newcastle, who also included the soon-to-depart Stephen Glass in their line-up.

Team: Karelse. McGuffie, Marcelino, Beharall, Glass, Boyd, McClen (Cowan), Gavilan, Green, Lua Lua (Coppinger), Bonvin (McMenamin).

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

Aye, but nufc.com reckon he was jointly responsible for Bradford stiffs getting their goal...

Class act

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

Any time ive seen him playing he looks like hes about to s**t his pants. I remember he played well one time this season though. Poor lad lost his confidence the day he stepped into SJP. Spanish blokes i know say he was a great defender in Spain- weird.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

They'll be the same blerks who sold him to us, spud!

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001

He looked shaky during the UEFA (?) cup final before we signed him. What concerns me is that he's become another Perez...not interested, doesn't care, taking the pi$$.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2001