names of footballers that float through your head

amazing

marco delvecchio

Kyle Lightbourne

Jason van Blerk

Diomansy Kamara

https://twitter.com/90sFootballers

Emerson

whose full name is apparently

Emerson Moisés Costa

I was trying to remember who it was that fucked off from Middlesbrough because his wife said it was cold and shite. I'd completely forgotten his wee spell at EBT-era Rangers.

i was thinking of the various brazilians who decamped to boro earlier tonight

used to have a fondness for them, gibson is the most admirable of the various small town made good types who used to predominate

It was Christian Karembeu with the Middlesbrough-averse wife. Unless there was a whole raft of them (quite plausible, I expect).

We got post-Boro Juninho for five minutes, his impact at Celtic was about the same as Emerson's at Rangers. As far as I know he's the only World Cup winner to ever play competitively for Celtic (Bobby Charlton played for us in a testimonial).

Emerson was famously unsettled and at one point he pissed off to Brazil without permission. I thought his wife complained about the cold - there was definitely some family-related excuse.

was it Emerson who said - "I looked on Middlesbrough and knew it was a cold and terrible place"

We don't have a football boots thread, do we? I was trying to find Bobby Charlton in the Hoops and found this instead
http://www.footy-boots.com/vintage-football-boots-6437/

62/- (that's £3.10 kids) for a pair of Bobby Charlton Brazilias. Bargain.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/archive/2000/10/09/The+North+East+Archive/7128657.N_E_under_fire_from_soccer_wife/

Superb

"We didn't move here for the weather. When we first looked at the countryside I didn't think anything could grow here because there is no sun.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boro-seek-inquiry-on-emerson-1313252.html

Emerson, who will not play at Leeds tomorrow even if he returns today, laid bare his problems in a Portuguese newspaper. "I am starting to live a drama," he said. "My wife is ill. She doesn't like Middlesbrough as she feels it is too cold. I find it hard to concentrate on football as my wife is unhappy living in Middlesbrough."

such times as we'll never see again

Nottingham Forest have quashed speculation that they will be selling Ian Woan to Tottenham for pounds 3m, and Birmingham have turned down an offer from Bolton for Mike Newell, the striker they signed for pounds 775,000 from Blackburn last summer.

Uefa, European football's governing body, responding to the Bosman ruling on transfer fees and attempting to help smaller clubs, has proposed that players should be signed on long-term contracts until the age of 24, during which time they will be subject to a transfer fee, and after which time they will be available on free transfers.

pietro vierchowod

sylvain kastendeuch

peter fear

steve death

Lawrie Dudfield

Eric Djemba-Djemba

Also worth keeping an eye on the wonderfully named Britt Assombalonga, who last season was the 50th graduate from the Watford Academy to make a first team appearance.

that's my weekends brain floating sorted

Marius Lacatus

Marius Lacatus

Bright Dike.

It's pronounced 'dee-kay'.

Björn Vleminckx

mapou yanga-mbiwa

Banana Yaya is a Cameroonian professional football player who plays in central defence or at right back. He plays for French club Sochaux in Ligue 1.

re thread intention, ilkay gundogan this week

Paul McStay

Celestine Babayaro

I've had a ton of rubbish ex-SPL journeymen in my head recently since trying a sporcle quiz on "first person of X nationality to score in the SPL". Names still keep randomly popping into my head every so often, like Pasquale Bruno and Jerome Vareille and Jason De Vos.

Badr El-Kaddouri

Jeremie Aliadiere

perry suckling

Andy Pando

Lauri Dalla Valle

boubacar barry

remember encountering him in football manager years ago, while playing a joint game with one of my brothers, not the one called barry. seemed like the funniest thing in the world.

Scott Minto

Péricles "Pecks" Pereira

Kjell Olofsson

Asa Hartford

Ranko Despotovic

Kjell Olofsson

Weirdly, he cropped up in a conversation I was having with my old man the other night.

Also, from his Wiki page "Several years later Kjell made a cameo appearance at Tannadice, dressed as Terry The Terror (the club mascot) before a home league game.". I believe a citation might be needed for this.

http://i.imgur.com/nRAHJIY.png

Richard Rufus

Averaged an own goal every 20 games in the epl and rounded off each one with a hilarious expression of incredulity.