That honour belongs to Thomas Vermaelen. The over-rated, shít****.Originally Posted by Yesterday Once More
That honour belongs to Thomas Vermaelen. The over-rated, shít****.
Not even close. Just off the top of my head Pascal Cygan, Igor Stepanovs, Sebastien Squillaci and Mikael Silvestre were all worse.
A player who left us to join a prime Barca is our worst ever CB? Not for me Clive.
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No. Cygan was responsible for one of my fave ever moments. Winning 3-1 at Roma.
!-0 down after 4 mins. Then we equalise through Titi 1 min later. Later in the first half, Totti shoots. You see the goal. The keeper's beaten and it's going into an empty net on the far side. Then, as if by magic, Cygan's bald head appeared in the shot from nowhere and he cleared it off the line.
2 more for Titi in the 2nd half. Heroic win. All down to Pascal's magically appearing from nowhere. Far better defender that the 3 Ss you mention.
Not so. Maybe Squillaci was close.
TV5 scored on his debut in a rout and we got our hopes up. Then there was that awful performance against Chelsea and he just got steadily worse.
He then, bizarrely, went to Barca and did fúck all, other than being unable to drive into their car park properly. Sums him up...
Cygan was far from a dreadful defender. In fact, on a couple of occasions he was the only player in our team who exhibited some self-belief and a pair of cojones. Am I thinking about a home game against Chelsea when we looked beaten before kick off?
Never said he was dreadful. Just that he was worse than Vermaelen. What was that game where Cygan scored two late goals?
Golly yes, I was on the north bank for that game... he was serenaded as Pascal Zidane. Or Zinedine Cygan, I remember not. Nor could I say who were the opposition. In short, I've gone all Alzheimery.
I was there as well, but was at the Clock End. I seem to remember it was a midweek game, but this could be nonsense. No idea as to the opposition.
This is the sort of situation where la could actually make himself useful for once.
Fair point. He looked a steal when we bought him, especially considering Rio Ferdinand's price-tag, that same Summer. Time (amongst other things) somewhat modified that view though
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