Your favourite Spice Boy

i live in america and this post is fucking gibberish

james landslide

It is a huge shame the Spice Boys never won anything. Even their more odious elements (Fowler and Collymore) were still more likable than Neville, Butt and Keane.

Other McAteer stories involve him telling the barman that brown sauce and flogs are his favourite concoction, being asked to pass the ketchup to which he replies "red or brown", filling out a credit card application form where it asked for "position in company", and he turned to the banker to say he could not decide between right-wingback or central midfielder, yelling out at Jimmy White "one hundred and eiiighttyy!" (thinking he had been clever only to discover the maximum break later), publicly declaring he preferred Bob the Builder's books to Roy Keane's hard biography, asking what time it was when the timezones had changed after a Liverpool away game at Vladivostok to which he asked "we're arriving before we've left?", calling team mate Phil Babb the "deepest thinker" because he read Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, a Starsky & Hutch controversy (also with Babb), declaring fellow Spice Boy McManaman to be his role model, eating McNuggets on the bonnet of a stretch limousine, getting dumped by blonde girlfriend Donna Air for not being 'bright', writing his name on a League Cup match ball in response to a dare made by a Coronation Street actor on Soccer AM, dialing his Irish National team coach Mick McCarthy to say he was quitting by leaving this message on his phone: "I'm quitting the National team but if you ever need me, I'm available," and many more stories like these that have entered British football lore[24] and contributed to his and the Spice Boys' popularity.

also makes perfect sense whiney if you know about this thing called football and the time period called the nineties

yelling out at Jimmy White "one hundred and eiiighttyy!"

This is going to make me crack up for the next five hours.

and he turned to the banker to say he could not decide between right-wingback or central midfielder

and he turned to the banker to say he could not decide between right-wingback or central midfielder

and he turned to the banker to say he could not decide between right-wingback or central midfielder

and he turned to the banker to say he could not decide between right-wingback or central midfielder

mad giggles

In another incident during Ireland's successful World Cup campaign in America, McAteer was asked by team-mates if he wanted a game of golf. McAteer replied that he didn't, and relaxed in his hotel watching television. Upon switching to the sports channel he saw that the Open golf was on, turned to one of the team's non-playing personnel and asked "Is that the lads playing golf then?"

McAteer was asked if he wanted a pizza cut in eights and replied, "Nah, I'm not that hungry, just cut it in fours please,"

has to be this guy

The best thing about Jason McAteer's stupidity is that he doesn't even revel in it, he seems genuinely baffled that people think things he says and does are hilarious.

Voted McAteer.

Macca for his Real Madrid period. 2 Champions Leagues!! Even scored in one!

And by Macca I mean McManaman not McAteer. D'oh!

Vaguely recall a pre-FA Cup final intro to the Liverpool team where one of the squad was nicknamed Trigger and McAteer had to have a different nickname because he wasn't as bright as "Trigger"? It's all very hazy one of you oldsters might remember.

Rob Jones might've been Trigger.

Great poll! I've always liked McManaman, he's always seemed like he'd be good company and not sure any of the others do. Also managed to wangle being the highest-paid player in the world for a couple of years, unaccountably.

I voted for Fowler cos McManaman was a fanny tbh

gonna be really fucking boring and vote david james. good bloke who brings content.

Also managed to wangle being the highest-paid player in the world for a couple of years, unaccountably.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:27 (3 minutes ago)

really? really?

Even their more odious elements (Fowler and Collymore) were still more likable than Neville, Butt and Keane.

Wifebeating is so obviously a lesser offence than winding up Patrick Vieira.

David James at least seems like a decent bloke, which you can't really say about Fowler or McManaman. Redknapp is dull. Collymore = scum. Voting McAteer for a laugh.

xp I'd rather be a little ginger fouling cunt than a sex pest mentalist, too.

Oh shit, I guess I forgot about that Matt.

That was always the story when he went to Real xp and I've never seen it contradicted. He was the first high-profile Bosman move (I guess the second, Bosman himself being quite famous) and he was supposed to be on £68k a week.

fair enough. i don't really know my 90s real too well.

http://www.skynewsbusiness.com.au/sport/article.aspx?id=560036&vId=

Vaguely recall a pre-FA Cup final intro to the Liverpool team where one of the squad was nicknamed Trigger and McAteer had to have a different nickname because he wasn't as bright as "Trigger"? It's all very hazy one of you oldsters might remember.

― Tinker Tailor Soulja Boy Tell 'Em (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 16:26 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think the story was back then every football team nicknamed its dumbest player "Trigger", Rob Jones was the long-standing Liverpool Trigger but when McAteer turned up, he was so stunningly dense that he was called "Double Trigger" by the rest of the squad.

"Razor seemed to pick up a lot of injuries," said Collymore. "Once, he
and I and a couple of the other lads were in the little gym at Melwood
doing some recuperative work while most of the players were outside on
the training pitches. The physio came in and told Razor he wanted him
to do half an hour's running on the treadmill while he went out and
supervised some of the lads who had just returned to full training.
"As soon as he was a fair distance away, Razor, who weighed about 18
stone by then, hopped of the treadmill but left it running. He reached
down into his bag and pulled out a foil container which had a bacon
and egg sandwich in it. He sat down, whipped out a newspaper and
started reading through it.

"I was keeping a lookout for him and eventually I saw the physio start
to make his way back towards the gym. Razor had a bag of ice that was
supposed to be for him to strap around his injured foot. Some of it
had melted so he rooted around in it and splashed the water over his
hair and face and a bit on his t-shirt for good measure. And then he
jumped back on the treadmill.

"The physio came back in, saw a guy who seemed to be sweating like a
pig and was fill of admiration. 'Razor, f***ing great professional,'
he said, looking at everyone in the room as if we should all be using
Razor as our model.

"If you could get away with it at Liverpool, you did get away with
it.

ruddock a bigger scumbag than all of these tho tbf. dunno why the fa's never got at him for his repeated boasts about deliberately breaking both andy cole's legs ("if my mate teddy sheringham hated him, then i hated him too."). maybe cos it was in a reserve fixture.

Think McAteer might've been "Dave", as in Trigger calling Rodney "Dave".

voted mcmanaman anyway. shame stan was such a dick, he really could have been some player.

I remember Ruddock taking part in a tabloid April Fool thing where they had him wearing an Adidas Predator Headband that allowed him to get more power and bend on his headers.

Voted James in haste, mostly because the rest of them are mostly cunts. Warming to McAteer with the thicko stories.

Remember Robbie's honesty in telling the ref he shouldn't have had a penalty again Arsenal? He hit the penalty tamely at Seaman as it seemed he didn't want to score it. Seaman spilled it and McAteer slammed in the rebound.

That lot are only a Seaman, Shearer and Sheringham away from being the spine of England's best modern side

less the spine, more 'the other tissue', come to think

What about Phil Babb?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Fgemz7Pjg

Think McAteer might've been "Dave", as in Trigger calling Rodney "Dave".

Yeah I think that's right.

all likeable dudes cept collymore, who was the biggest talent.

Feel like they all wasted their potential but mcmanaman, tho for redknapp and fowler it was injuries done for em.

James turned out a goodun, voting him

was amazed at Fowler's City stats, I had him pegged as washed up totally by 97 or so

a Starsky & Hutch controversy (also with Babb)

like the mystery of this one

McAteer should've guested on Father Ted, the 90s could have just ended a few years early if that had happened

voted James though because we've all had a friend who's been "addicted to Playstation" iygm

go on

Robbie fowler was in a pub in liverpool when he played for them first time round and some dopey scouse LAD gets a footy, starts doing loads of tricks and shouts "oi fowler, can you do that"? him and his pals are lovin it. Fowler pulls a 50 from his wallet, sets it alight, puts it on the bar and says "no but can you do that?" goodcomebackLAD

nice

I heard that story about someone else, I think Charlie Nicholas.

anecdoteLAD in 'passing off shitty old wives tale as his own' shockah?

anyway i kinda have some fondess for all of these ppl except collymore, tho i prob detest him a little less than most thanks to his somtimes amusing challops

Actually I have a bit of respect for Fowler for being such an A+++ troll and this picture shows he's still got it:

http://estb.msn.com/i/29/F1268CABC73629108D5A3952038F8.jpg

oh yeah fowler's attitude is a total bonus, not a hindrance.

haha, I like that. He's got Lennon-at-the-Royal-Variety-Show's grin there

What's that Lego he's holding?

^^^ffs

also yay fowler :D

soz

The fact that Fowler scored more goals for England as a Leeds player than he did as a Liverpool player is frankly stunning.

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oh man, so very otm

robbie fowler's goal against (iirc) albania is the best live goal i've seen by an england player

there's a beaten by collymore joke in here somewhere

http://www.thefa.com/video/England/Mens-Seniors/GreatestGoals/Fowler-v-Albania

forget the nutmeg and the finish, that first turn is on a different planet to most things done by english footballers

nah it's just an ordinary turn of direction, defender gets a foot on it and everything. in fact, it's the only part of that goal you're likely to see wayne rooney ever replicate again on a regular basis.