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Post by spitthedog on Apr 22, 2014 19:53:10 GMT
BBC Sport 20.45
Dean Whitehead must be close to being on first-name terms with most Championship referees. The Middlesbrough midfielder has picked up his 14th yellow card of the season.
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Post by Sergeant Muttley on Apr 22, 2014 19:57:57 GMT
I more booking then and he gets a 3 match suspension
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Post by scfcwebby on Apr 22, 2014 20:00:09 GMT
Strange one this, I cant remember him picking many bookings up in a Stoke shirt?  |
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Deano!!!
Apr 22, 2014 20:07:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 20:07:21 GMT
Tough tackling midfield player getting booked quite a lot. Who'd have thought it.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 22, 2014 20:10:21 GMT
Tough tackling?  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 20:28:48 GMT
They must be booking him for his dashing looks.
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Post by scfcwebby on Apr 22, 2014 20:44:27 GMT
 They must be booking him for his dashing looks. |
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Post by markytcd on Apr 22, 2014 20:48:47 GMT
Must have lost a little of his pace! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 20:49:07 GMT
He made Glenn Whelan look like lionel Messi
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 20:58:09 GMT
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Post by alexk on Apr 22, 2014 21:02:25 GMT
Not having to watch that clown has been one of the highlights of the season.
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Post by dirtygary69 on Apr 22, 2014 21:08:19 GMT
The white Salif Diao.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 22, 2014 21:20:46 GMT
When I hear or see the name Deano or Dean Whitehead, my very first thought is why the hell did Pulis pay 5.5m for the useless bastard.
He was utterly wank whose only real talent was to be able to run a marathon every day of the week.
As a footballer he was even more limited than Jon Walters.
Some liked Deano. I thought he was wank.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 21:58:14 GMT
Fine servant save your bile for those that deserve ir who robbed us blind or never bothered
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Post by luke45 on Apr 22, 2014 22:10:14 GMT
I absolutely loved Deano personally. Technically limited perhaps but he suited our caged system perfectly, broke play up, tracked the runners and worked his bollocks off for 90 minutes. We let him go at the right time but he was a great servant to the club in my opinion and I wish him all the best.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 22:55:52 GMT
14 yellow cards, that is some achievement  I doff my cap you Deano |
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Post by lancer on Apr 23, 2014 8:39:23 GMT
BBC Sport 20.45 Dean Whitehead must be close to being on first-name terms with most Championship referees. The Middlesbrough midfielder has picked up his 14th yellow card of the season. Nice to see Deano's quietened down a bit, then.  |
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Post by robwahlmann on Apr 23, 2014 8:49:17 GMT
Liked Deano too! Despite his lack of passing ability and technical skills never let us down when it came to comittment! |
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Deano!!!
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Post by jarhead on Apr 23, 2014 8:55:03 GMT
When I hear or see the name Deano or Dean Whitehead, my very first thought is why the hell did Pulis pay 5.5m for the useless bastard. He was utterly wank whose only real talent was to be able to run a marathon every day of the week. As a footballer he was even more limited than Jon Walters. Some liked Deano. I thought he was wank. Ditto |
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Post by thestatusquo on Apr 23, 2014 14:13:50 GMT
We paid way way way too much for him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 14:30:14 GMT
I absolutely loved Deano personally. Technically limited perhaps but he suited our caged system perfectly, broke play up, tracked the runners and worked his bollocks off for 90 minutes. We let him go at the right time but he was a great servant to the club in my opinion and I wish him all the best. nothing wrong with a bit of light hearted mickey taking but on a serious note i agree with this.. having the likes of him and Rory in the side was massively important in making us the dogged, hard working, never say die team we were in our first couple of seasons. always think Deano was underrated (but that tends to be by the usual suspects who don't appreciate any player unless they're flying past players and scoring "Worldies") |
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Apr 23, 2014 14:52:02 GMT
I absolutely loved Deano personally. Technically limited perhaps but he suited our caged system perfectly, broke play up, tracked the runners and worked his bollocks off for 90 minutes. We let him go at the right time but he was a great servant to the club in my opinion and I wish him all the best. nothing wrong with a bit of light hearted mickey taking but on a serious note i agree with this.. having the likes of him and Rory in the side was massively important in making us the dogged, hard working, never say die team we were in our first couple of seasons. always think Deano was underrated (but that tends to be by the usual suspects who don't appreciate any player unless they're flying past players and scoring "Worldies") 100% agree with these 2 posts. £5M for a proven Premier League player isn't exorbitant, and his wages were probably fairly sensible relatively speaking (if £20k + a week can ever be called sensible!) Always gave 100% and made the best of his ability. Good pro and did a job for us when called on. He's not YaYa Toure, but he wouldn't be at Stoke if he was.
Sometimes you have to go with what's available. The cage was a massive part of our set up then and we needed a reliable squad member with Rory and Glenn.
He makes N'Zonzi look good value though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 14:57:35 GMT
He was a yellow card waiting to happen!
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Apr 23, 2014 18:13:14 GMT
The glorious days of "The Dean Whitehead Sweepstake" name your time of the yellow card NOW!  |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 23, 2014 18:21:03 GMT
Whitehead never superceded Whelan and Delap as our best midfield and then N'Zonzi and Whelan last season. He was never part of our best midfield. All for 5 million.
And mentioning Delap and Whitehead in the same breath is sacrilege, one was a bloody good footballer.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 23, 2014 19:46:56 GMT
Whitehead never superceded Whelan and Delap as our best midfield and then N'Zonzi and Whelan last season. We was never part of our best midfield. All for 5 million. And mentioning Delap and Whitehead in the same breath is sacrilege, one was a bloody good footballer. This, this and more of this. Rory Delap was a fine and massively underrated footballer. Dean Whitehead was a wank and vastly overrated footballer. Mentioning the two in the same breath is bordering blasphemy! |
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Post by salopstick on Apr 23, 2014 19:51:59 GMT
He was a yellow card waiting to happen! And peno |
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Post by spitthedog on Apr 23, 2014 23:02:35 GMT
We paid way way way too much for him. This 5.5 million was outrageous. He only had one decent season for Sunderland. Other than that he had done nothing in his career. Was struggling at Oxford until he was about 24. |
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Post by okeydokeystokie2 on Apr 24, 2014 8:37:06 GMT
I tend to see the good in all things Stoke City and sometimes lose a bit of objectivity. When I was a kid, the 11 players in red and white were my heroes, no matter how they played, and it seems like 40 years later not much has changed!
Maybe there's still time for me to win you over. I give you the case for Deano.
He never shirked, never stopped working and always gave his best. Maybe that wasn't quite good enough in our elevated status of the last few years, but he scored at Old Trafford and from memory the decisive 3rd goal in a famous FA Cup win against Arsenal. I also love that classic pic where he is sliding in to challenge Suarez at Anfield. Have some of that!
When I think of Deano, I think of the line from Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar:
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war"
Good luck, Deano.
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I doff my cap you Deano 
