SKD testimonial happening

[TKIZ!]

Definitely going to this one if Campo is playing, I really hope they can get Jay Jay and Le God to play as well

[Prufrock]

If I can work it as a visit home weekend I'll defo be there. Balls to Emma, Davo was king, and hopefully they'll get as many of the old boys back as possible.

Jussi's was shit, but I think that's because he still played for us so they made it a normal pre-season. Hopefully this will be more exhibition stylee. It needs to be about more than the football, because these games are always shite.

[ChrisC]

Only heard Campo & Stelios mentioned at the moment.

[General Mannerheim]

I would imagine Hierro and Youri dont recall their time here as fondly as we do, and therefore probably CBA coming back for some testamonial?

[bobo the clown]

I would imagine Hierro and Youri dont recall their time here as fondly as we do, and therefore probably CBA coming back for some testamonial?

Regrettably correct I fear.

Hierro was here one year, struggled for fitness for the first part of it ... and then showed to be possibly the best player I've ever seen despite being 37.

Youri was fantastic, but he was always more about himself than the club. His exit was a shambles and I don't recall him ever uttering one thing about his time with us .... not even when he turned up down the road.

[Beefheart]

Hierro recently appeared in a Real Madrid Legends XI with the likes of Zidane, I think the SKD testimonial might be a step down for him.

[plymouth wanderer]

Would love to see N'Gotty, Jay Jay, and Nolan( not a chance though)

[lionelator]

I find football in this country so difficult to understand.
Firstly, people who are constantly stressed about financial problems queue up to pay thousands of pounds a year to watch people play football, in addition to watching it on TV.
Those thousands contribute to obscene amounts paid to players who, realistically, don't deserve even a fraction of that, but it's maintainable because so many people spend their wages on tickets, despite spending the rest of their time complaining about how they're skint!

Then you find someone like SKD, captain for a long time of a Premier League football team, making a public spectacle, along with his wife, about basically being made redundant, something most of us have had to face at some point in their lives, just without the benefit of a previous salary of tens of thousands of pounds a week.
Even lower, his wife starts basically threatening the future of charities in the area.

Finally he gets his way, and gets a testimonial, which, as I understand it, is an opportunity for someone paid very very well for kicking a ball around for years, to get one match where the adoring public pay more money, in a non competitive match, which goes into the footballer's pockets, tax free.

And people complain about bankers...
SKD, for me, has absolutely massacred his legacy. Which is an absolute shame. Not that he'll care, like JT, with the amount of money they earn, they won't care if people think they're pillocks.
The average football fan, paying all that money though, I don't think I'll ever understand that.

[plymouth wanderer]

I'm sure monies raised will go to his charity.

But I know where you're coming from

[Prufrock]

That money is going to charity. They all do. Just like all those shit-bag England players give their match fees to charity.