RE: Yep, repeat what he did in his early career Apparently Bobby Robson signed him by mistake. The story goes: In the early days of managing Newcastle, Bobby Robson saw Jason Euell playing upfront for Wimbledon and thought he was a fantastic player. But Bobby Robson is not very good with names and tells his scout to make enquires about the young black lad, England under 21 player, who plays upfront for Wimbledon. The only problem was that Wimbledon had moved Jason Euell back to midfield and put Carl Cort up front for Wimbledon, who is also a young black lad and an England under 21 player. So the scout comes back and asks Bobby Robson if he wants to put a bid in for Carl Cort and Bobby Robson says yes put a £7.5 million pound bid for the young black lad, England under 21 player, who plays upfront for Wimbledon. Now Jason Euell is arguably a much better player than Carl Cort and maybe worth £7.5 million pounds but Carl Cort is not worth that much, so when Wimbledon received a bid of £7.5 million pounds for Carl Cort, they could not sign fast enough.
That sounds remarkably like the story about AC Milan signing Luther Blissett by mistake when they had scouted John Barnes!
RE: That sounds remarkably like the story about AC Milan signing Yeah, it does have a slight whiff of urban legend about it, but I really want it to be true.
ide have that ricketts fella, winger got good pace,played with spurs for abit didnt he b4 wolves signed him
