You remember last week I told you about 20-year-old winger Ishmel Demontagnac getting the boot from Walsall? Well someone was going to take a chance on the trouble-making youngster and it's no surprise who.
Neil Warnock at Palace is giving the 'demon of Walsall' (catchy eh?) a trial. No player better than a free player, eh Neil? Besides, Warnock is the cockiest man in football and he has a sharp tongue to boot. He probably thinks that if anyone can keep a player in-check, it's him.
But can Demontagnac be tamed? He has an awful disciplinary record on AND off the pitch. Is Laaandon the best place for someone who finds trouble, well, easy to find?
Palace assistant Mick Jones thinks so... "If anything happens during the trial that we don't like it will be finished immediately." He went on to say "the shareef don't like it... Rock the casbah"... ok, I made that last bit up. Wrong Mick Jones apparently.
The lad is obviously going to behave himself NOW that he has a chance to move up a league isn't he? In fact, it seems Demontagnac has benefited greatly from being fired. Better football and higher wages.
Let's hope Palace haven't set a dangerous precedent here.
-Bigus
Friday, November 21, 2008
Laaaandon Calling To The Faraway Towns...
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Great Crystal Palace Cradle Crime
It's a funny old game, well that's the saying at least. Simon Jordan was not laughing yesterday though.
The animated Crystal Palace chairman is still fuming at the tribunal decision to allow John Bostock of his academy to join Spurs for a measly 700,000 pounds. So much so that he is selling up.
Well, let's look at this way. You are not a Premiership side and you cannot afford Premiership fees and wages. What do you do? Well, you can either say "sod it" and claim your place in the Blue Square division, getting your thrills sitting on a mini bus to Forest Green, or you can invest in a top-notch academy and find your own future players. Well Mr Jordan did just that, ploughing his own cash into the club. He began rubbing his hands together, dreaming of a home-grown super team. Cue the evil laughter... easy, right? Not quite. You see, that heavy laugh was heard all across London and scouts for Tottenham Hotspur came sniffing around. They had good look around and then left, taking one 16-year-old wonder-kid with them. How good is Bostock? Good enough for Barca! Have a look at this article I found from last year! John Bostock..Look out for him in 2013 But wait a minute? How much did Aaron Ramsey head to Arsenal for? 5 million pounds. Theo Walcott? 12 million pounds. Suddenly it looks as if Mr Jordan has been shafted, doesn't it? The tribunal argued that its previous highest award was 400,000 to Charlton for Jermaine Defoe. What really sticks out here is that Palace rejected 900,000 pounds from Chelsea when Bostock was just 14. Palace then gave him his debut at age 15. Palace Chairman Simon Jordan But I feel for him with this one. It's an absolute disgrace. What kind of message is this sending to other clubs? Don't bother funding academies, because the big teams will come and take the kids anyway. Where does that leave us? With not many young English players, that's where. In the end, all of this has been too much for Mr Jordan and he has decided to pack up his aviators and march his Gucci loafers elsewhere, and Palace are now for sale. Jordan has had enough. Quite frankly, who can blame him? Mr Jordan had this to say: I cannot wait to see what they have up their sleeves for tomorrow! -Bigus.
Back to Bostock for a moment. That's not bad, right? 700k for a 16-year-old kid?
John Bostock just couldn't resist the overtures of playing Spurs reserve games at Stevenage Borough's mighty Broadhall Way, oh wait, no, it was probably the money, that and the delusion that he would burst into the Tottenham starting XI anytime before his 21st birthday. Regardless, Master Bostock is a Spurs man... boy.
The Football League's tribunal decided that 700,000 pounds was a fair price for young master Bostock. Bargain, eh?
I have never been a fan of Simon Jordan. He struts around Laaaandan Taaaaaahhn fondling his long blonde hair while admiring his fake tan. He speaks when he should be quiet and ALWAYS has something to say."It's my specific intention to find a buyer this season... I kept my sanity by pumping millions into my academy, feeling the saving grace of my club was finding players who I thought would be chomping at the bit and ready to play in the first team. But that's been taken away from me as well. Bostock was one of the best players my academy has produced in the last 10 years and he has been sold for a packet of crisps."
What else is left to say after that? Well done, the Football League! On Tuesday you all but buried Luton Town and with Bostock you have truly proved what's important to you... and it certainly isn't grass roots football.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Loose Lips Sink Marginal Young Football Careers
Thank god for football. Without it, we might still be caught up in the insane notion that the English are even a modicum more intelligent or classy than us, Il Brutto Americani.
I understand that your average professional footballer has never been held in high regard by the Limey intellectual classes, but the actions of this blustery young buck, Ashley-Paul Robinson-- formerly, reports have it, of Crystal Palace-- are worthy of a special note.
Defying the impossible standards of the 21st century athlete, Robinson has managed to captivate us with the particular indiscretions that led to his summary dismissal from Neil Warnock's Championship contenders.
The highly-rated-enough-to-get-a- clandestine-call-from-Fulham winger went behind the backs of his bosses at Palace for a workout with Bullard and the Boys, hoping for a transfer push into the top flight. Nothing wrong with that of course, it's the nature of the game. But there was one other issue...
From Saturday: MySpace, perhaps?
More concerned with Pussy Galore than pulling off a 007-esque sweep into Craven Cottage, Robinson delivered a running Facebook status commentary on his trials."Ashley-Paul is goin fulham on monday. If i pull dis off im on dis ting."
From Sunday:"Ashley-Paul is travling 2 Bath With Fulham Fingers Crossed.(Im lukin 2 Get Sum Tips Of Jimmy Bullard He's ON DIS TING NO HYPE LOL"
And finally, after the milk had spilled, no crying:"Ashley-Paul has been very naughty lol!"
LOL indeed, mate!
Said Neil Warnock, after expressing his disgust and releasing the 18-year-old: "We feel it's probably better that he looks elsewhere to further his career."
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