Stan Collymore anyone?

[Lonnie Lynn (Common) 0]

Just read on teletext that Collymore has recently rejected 5 championsip clubs. I reckon Norwich were definitley one of them. Ive also seen that Villa are sniffiing around him. This proves he must still have it. I believe he would be a great great great signing. Yes, ive read his book and its a classic. Hes 35 so at leat oneseason out of him. I would prefer him to sutton anyday thanks. Can anyone remember that hatrick he scored for leiscester or that brilliant overheadnkick for Bradford. No im not his agent, not on drugs and dont drink, i just like watching good football. If worthy misses this chance, i will be a worthy outer.

[Lonnie Lynn (Common) 0]

Look on www.youtube.com then you will see why.

[Saint Canary 0]

Very funny.

[Saint Canary 0]

Actually this may not be a bad idea.......

We could team him up with Sutton and Dion Dublin - what a strikeforce.................. it would have been in 1997.

 

[Marty 0]

this is a joke right?

anyway, what is the Norwich dogging scene like.......!!!!

[Tom NCFC 0]

?

If your being serious then would you really want him associated with your club with his (odd) history! He hasn''t played regurly football since 2000!

[ZLF 335]

At their peak I would still take Sutton anytime.

[dr livingstone 0]

how about joe jordan, just the type of player we need.

or maybe ian rush.

[FilletTheFishWife . 0]

isn''t he ''dogged'' by injuries !

[Bobert 0]

It was reported today here in Perth WA (we are 7 hours ahead) that Stan has signed for one of the East Coast "A" league teams as a guest player. I think that means 4 matches. The fee would be about 12,000 pounds a game

[ManchesterCanary 0]

You are off your trolley...

[Lonnie Lynn (Common) 0]

[quote user="ZippersLeftFoot"]At their peak I would still take Sutton anytime.[/quote]

Please tell me when Suton was at his peak,

Stanley Victor Collymore (born January 22, 1971 in Stone, Staffordshire) was a talented but controversial English 1990s footballer, who has become as well known for his off-field activities.

Cover of Collymore''s biography

Bloody good read if you get the time.

After learning his trade as understudy to the prolific Crystal Palace partnership of Mark Bright and Ian Wright, Collymore dropped down a division to Southend United and there scored 18 goals in 31 games to help keep the club in the then First Division when the odds of relegation seemed certain.

Collymore enjoyed his time at Southend saying, "I still rate helping keep Southend in the old first division as one of my finest achievements."^{[citation needed]}

It came down to the last game of the 1992-93 season and Southend beat Luton Town 2-1. Forget the England caps and fetching almost £20 million in transfer fees, memories of that game are as vivid as any Collymore possesses. "I’d scored two or three on the bounce, it was a real bone-hard pitch and the weather was nice" he said. "When the final whistle went there must have been 1,000 fans on the pitch. I got stripped of everything but my underpants — nobody wanted those. It was an incredible day. A lot of people will go through their careers without knowing what it feels like to experience that happiness at lower-league level."^{[citation needed]}

He nearly went to Nottingham Forest on deadline day in March 1993, but Brian Clough had not seen him play, so reversed a decision made the previous day.

However such were the quality of his goals, usually spectacular solo efforts, Nottingham Forest changed their minds and bought the striker for a club-record fee that reached ₤3 million in the summer of 1993, having only been bought by Southend also for a club record fee of ₤150,000 six months earlier. Collymore''s goalscoring record with Forest (50 goals in 71 games) was highly regarded, and after being the main catalyst for helping Forest to immediate promotion back to the Premiership in 1993, cemented his reputation as one of the brightest young talents in British football by finishing his first season in the top flight with 25 goals and helping a team that had been relegated only two years earlier to finish third in the Premiership. That prompted Liverpool to come in for him with a then British transfer record bid of ₤8.5 million at the end of the 1994-95 season.

Collymore scored a spectacular goal on his Liverpool debut and began a fruitful, enigmatic, and controversial two-year spell at Anfield. Highs included scoring at a ratio of a goal every other game and creating many goals in a superb partnership with Robbie Fowler, who were regarded as one of the best strike partnerships in Europe, to winning caps for England. He also scored two goals, including the winner against Newcastle United at Anfield in a game that was regarded as one of the most exciting in the history of the English Premiership. Indeed, it was voted by viewers of Sky Sports as the greatest sporting moment in the channel''s first ten years. Lows saw Collymore fined after refusing to play for the reserves, refusing to move closer to Merseyside from his home town of Cannock, publicly criticising manager Roy Evans and his tactics, and playing badly in the 1996 FA Cup final against Manchester United, during which he was substituted. Liverpool lost 1-0.

Collymore was also labelled along with his colleagues at the time like Jamie Redknapp, David James and Steve McManaman for being ''Spice Boys'' - a derogatory term used to signify the players as underachieving lad culture playboys in the game. He also helped Liverpool to third place in the Premiership, the club''s highest position since winning the old First Division title in 1990. Undoubtedly a great footballer on his day, Collymore set himself up for a head-on collision with his club that made a transfer inevitable and was compounded with the emergence of Michael Owen through Liverpool''s ranks. The striker was sold to Aston Villa in 1997 for ₤7 million, again a club record.

Collymore''s time at Villa was eventful off the pitch, with his long-term treatment for depression earning him harsh criticism in the British tabloid press and the ridicule of manager John Gregory, yet widespread public support for confronting an illness that affects so many people. In the three years that he spent at the club, Collymore scored only 15 goals, having been frozen out of the squad for over a year of Gregory''s reign as manager, and received regular treatment for clinical depression. Highs included being only the third Aston Villa player in history to score a hat-trick in European competition (the other two being his boyhood idols Gary Shaw and Peter Withe).

After he finished playing, Collymore took up a role as an accomplished summariser for BBC Radio Five Live and showed insight and much promise, proving his long-time assertion that he was far more intelligent and articulate than the majority of footballers. During the 2002 World Cup a caller recommended that Sven select him for the upcoming game against Sweden. When Stan asked why the caller said it, it was because he was good at beating Swedes. However, he was then relieved of his duties after publicly admitting that he took part in open-air sexual activity known as dogging. He argued that there was more to life than tea with digestive biscuits, insisting dogging was the future of British relationships. Collymore made the point after being relieved of his BBC duties that he was the subject of double standards at the BBC as the Corporation have employed and continue to employ people that have serious criminal convictions, which were far more serious than a consensual sexual activity.^{[citation needed]}

The aforementioned autobiography, Tackling My Demons, was released in 2004 to critical acclaim for its portrayal of the modern footballer, together with its honesty.

In 2005 he took a film role alongside Sharon Stone, in the second Basic Instinct movie, Basic Instinct 2, which has seen him again hit the headlines as his character in the movie, Kevin Franks, and Catherine Tramell (Stone), have sex in a car in the opening scenes. Collymore is seen and heard regularly on television and radio in the UK, and owns Maverick Spirit Productions, a UK Television Production Company

[Huddy 0]

No thanks

He is about 40!, he hasnt trained properly for years. Can you imagine worthy ever accepting his fitness levels, he would be 50 by the yime he got them up to scratch!

I would rather have worthington up front!

[The Voice of the Thorpe Area 0]

And lining up for Norwich today, strikers Peter Thorne and Stan Collymore.

Mmmmmm, Jim Magilton and other managers will be bricking it!

[Alex Harvey-Jones 0]

Sutton - yes please, Collymore no way! I''m amazed so many teams are interested in him - 35 and out of the game for years - talk about a gamble!!

[ZLF 335]

Sutton scored 20+ goals in a season for us (92/93) and has subsequently been top scorer in both the english and scottish prem leagues.  His link up play was far superior to anything Collymore has done, although collymore probably had a little more pace.  His goal scoring record was restricted due to his ability to play equally well at centre half as he did up front.  

But for a refusal to play a meaningless B international he would have secured several Engaldn caps.

Collymore was a good player - but sutton just had that little bit extra  

[alex_ncfc 686]

[quote user="Saint Canary"]

Actually this may not be a bad idea.......

We could team him up with Sutton and Dion Dublin - what a strikeforce.................. it would have been in 1997.

[/quote]

LMAO

Oh dear!

[Saint Canary 0]

[quote user="alex_ncfc"][quote user="Saint Canary"]

Actually this may not be a bad idea.......

We could team him up with Sutton and Dion Dublin - what a strikeforce.................. it would have been in 1997.

[/quote]

LMAO

Oh dear!

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That will teach me to joke!  Collymore tomorrow followed by midfield dynamo''s Peter Reid and Bryan Robson, who are all without clubs.