Everyone answering this with people who balled for a short while and then dropped off or left, but that isn’t really a streets will never forget player.

Morten Gamst Pederson, Jay Jay Okocha, Juan Pablo Angel, people that consistently played exceptionally for their club but never good enough to get a look or shot at a top 3 club.

Other ones that could be mentioned as a streets will never forget are one’s that had some sort of niche skillset on the field. Rory Delap throw ins, big Duncan Ferguson for being big Duncan, Paul Dickov for looking hilarious in a striker pairing with Big Duncan, Robbie Savage for being one of the league’s top cunts, Riise for having a thundercunt of a left food that destroyed Alan Smith’s career, etc.

That’s just my take though.

30 years

No I’m not salty it’s been 20 for us.

What most people are failing to understand was the 90s and 2000s was the largest growth and innovation in how media was consumed, and how the subjects of that media were treated.

Newspapers and radio had been a dominant for of media, but now the advent of phones and smaller cameras were coming into existence, mixed with the explosion of internet and eventually social media.

Honestly can’t imagine Ferguson was clairvoyant but his method was incredible for the time. Now young players are media trained and have grown up with the media being deployed. Back then, Ferguson kept young players from interviews and it protected them and the team.

Asamoah Gyan had such an incredible World Cup in 2010 and then joined Sunderland. Dude could’ve torn it up in the premiership and most certainly been picked up by a big six club, but he ended up leaving.

Asamoah Gyan had such an incredible World Cup in 2010 and then joined Sunderland. Dude could’ve torn it up in the premiership and most certainly been picked up by a big six club, but he ended up leaving.

I’d like to see the tactical foul punished with a red. Definitely a hot take but I’m so sick of players getting mauled with no intent to play the ball.

I’d say if they at least put a tackle in, then it can be a yellow but using you arms to drag a player down a la Saka Euro should be met with a red.

Game’s not gone. You love to see it. Still one of the wildest things I’ve witnessed as a fan of the sport and have nothing but the utmost respect for this man for the fortitude of character and spirit he’s shown through this entire, unthinkable ordeal.

People keep saying this about Saka but he’s on pace to outperform his G/A from last season. He’s 4 goals and 4 assists in 11 games where Jesus and now Odegaard, two of our most productive offensive players, have been absent for most of those matches.

I get it, he’s not as electric as Salah, Vini, or even Martinelli, so the eye test is extremely deceptive when looking at his performance. But he is doing just fine.

People can pretend it has nothing to do with race, but they’d be completely full of shit. I am not saying that the institution itself is racist, although I am sure they have some prejudicial practices that they may be unaware of, but it starts from the bottom.

I cannot tell you the amount vitriol I received as a CHILD reffing games. Now, imagine you are trying to go through the ranks of Sunday leagues, conference league games, and hopefully up to the professional ranks. Imagine the racial abuse you’d receive if you were a person of color. We can’t protect our own players from receiving racial abuse. Saka, Sancho, and Rashford levels of racial abuse from Euros would be every single weekend with referees of color. Anytime they made a game-changing decisions, there would be fans racially abusing those refs. It is already happening at lower levels, and they drop out.

In America, I was given a stat that something like 60% of refs would quit after their first year and 85% wouldn’t last longer than 4 years. That is an abysmal retention and attrition rates.

I am old enough to remember Uriah Rennie, but he was reffing before social media. Now it is only worse because the abuse isn’t limited to on the pitch.