As Csaba Abrahall bemoans in this month’s WSC, Tamás Priskin’s £1.7m move from Watford to Ipswich last August seemed ill-fated from the off; the ungainly Magyar arriving days after reserve team prospect Jordan Rhodes’s unpopular departure to Huddersfield. Watford website BHaPPY described him as the “ugly duckling finally [who had] matured into a swan” a year ago, but such praise has been less than forthcoming at Portman Road where Priskin’s run in the team coincided with Ipswich’s terrible start to the season. A forgettable loan spell at QPR followed once Roy Keane lost patience; this league is replete with flops,…
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The Monday Profile: Ian Evatt
The sight of Ian Evatt lumbering into an advanced position in Saturday’s Football League Show coverage of Blackpool’s win over Nottingham Forest gave me a nosebleed watching from my sofa, let alone the colossal centre half. That one of the most ungainly players I can remember could stand on the verge of the land of milk and honey is startling. What next? Adebayo Akinfenwa swimming with the big fish? Jon Parkin rising like a sockeye to bring the World Cup home from South Africa?Still, the brobdingnagian Matt Elliott and Peter Crouch have carved out top flight careers, albeit with slightly…
The Monday Profile: Ben Watson
Robert Martinez’s sagacity in affording Ben Watson his first game of the season for Wigan Athletic yesterday was repaid in shovelfuls as the midfielder engineered a football club-defining performance to help Latics defeat the Arsenal. The Londoner was recalled from a loan at West Bromwich Albion at the start of April and those who have remained faithful to the Spanish manager’s romanticism will be feeling warm inside this morning.But does this signal a new beginning for Watson, or should he expect to continue his picaresque Championship journeyings next term?I have seen Watson in the hoops of QPR and the stripes…
A QPR Report
Queen’s Park Rangers have a change of complexion now: gone are the fancy moisturisers and defoliants of the early part of the season. Neil Warnock has thrown the scrubs and cleansers out the window and resorted to good old soap and water. The Ardiles style Front Five are no more and Rangers now find themselves in the uncharacteristic position of being a team of toughs. Damion Stewart’s Thai kick boxing skills on a stooping Shane Long cost a typically aggressive Warnock side the points at Reading last night but it was an encouragingly tenacious showing from the Super Hoops.Neither of…
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