Euell love his articles
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-Thanks Ben W for all of the above (click here to see evidence)
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23. Twice: Charlton to Middlesbrough, 31 August 2006 and Middlesborough to Southampton, 31 August 2007.
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24. TSF is white
The Checklist
(The origins of these clues can be found here)
1. Is he English?
2. Is he currently married?
3. Has he played under at least 4 managers?
4. Has he had a transfer between 2 Premiership clubs?
5. Was he a Premier League player in January 2011?
6. Has he played with a group of French players at one club?
7. Has he played with a striker who refused to move unless the pass went exactly where he wanted it?
8. Did he play for one manager for a considerable amount of time who was great before losing it?
9. Has he played for a manager who lost the dressing room?
10. Does he have a friend who plays for Liverpool?
11. Might he think Harry Redknapp is the Messiah?
12. Has he appeared as a pundit? (TSF probably doesn’t do so)
13. Did he have a long term girlfriend as a younger player?
14. Had/has a strong father figure.
15. Not an Arsenal or Man City player (at end of 2010-11 season).
16. Did he play a match at some point towards the end of March or first few days of April 2011?
17. Not a keeper.
18. Has a daughter.19. He played with Paolo Di Canio –removed by public demand 20. Someone who’s got a chat about ‘another season’ coming up -see revealing tweet post
21. He’s been involved in a last day relegation battle
22. He’s played for a newly promoted Premier League club
23. Has been subject to a deadline day transfer
24. TSF is Caucasian
25. Has a good friend who is African and has played for a team in Russia
26. Has been diagnosed with depression
27. Played in the lower leagues at start of career
28. Played against Liverpool for a lower league club
29. Was one of the best players in a very successful team
30. Played for a club that got themselves in financial trouble
31. Plays the Paul Scholes role
32. Played under a captain who will go down as one of most successful in the club’s history, without having earned it
33. Played under a stand-in captain wearing a large tubi-grip with a marker pen-written ‘C’ as captain’s armband
34. Has played as captain
35. Has played for a club who promoted their assistant manager to manager (and went on to get bad results)
36. Not a Liverpool fan
37. Played in a team that won promotion to the Premiership
38. Following on from clue 21: That team got relegated due to a goal going in at the other end of the country in the dying minutes of the final game of the season
39. Clue 38 was his last game for that club
40. His wage at the time of clues 38 and 39 was the best part of £100,000 per month
41. He went on to play in the Premiership again after the relegation in clue 38
3 responses to “Jason Euell”
TSF’s first article was published in the Guardian on 22nd January this year – which might well have been an opportune time for Jason Euell to pick up some extra income: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1350020/Blackpools-Jason-Euell-goes-bankrupt.html
The September 9 article about racism clearly implies TSF is white – “Growing up on a multicultural council estate, we were blessed with a healthy dose of colour blindness. Indeed, the first time any of us were confronted by racism came as a big shock because, very often, it would be directed at the friend you had grown up with.”
TSF also mentions Jason Euell by name in the third person.
Interesting website, thanks for a good read.
Spent 10 minutes flicking through the web, here’s what little I can offer to the debate:
While I agree with Tom above, I still like Euell as the best of the candidates.
He himself is quoted as saying he was “shocked” (same word as TSF, note the repeat use of that word twice in such a short statement):
“It did hurt. I felt I had to stand up for all colours and creeds and show that we won’t accept it. I’m proud that I made a stand. It was a shock to hear what came out of the guy’s mouth. Racism in football is not dead and buried but it’s still a shock to hear that kind of thing in close proximity. There were people near the idiot who didn’t agree with it, but there were others who turned a blind eye, which was disappointing.”
From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/24/jason-euell-racism-blackpool-stoke-city
Experience with Styles as a bad ref:
“Styles had enough of Boro’s protests, as he issued a yellow card to Boateng, with Euell also making his thoughts clear.
The referee was soon reaching for his pocket again.
Boateng then went flying into Ljungberg just in front of the dug-out, and ended up in a heap on the floor himself, needing treatment.
The referee immediately ran over and produced a yellow card for the Boro captain, followed by a red.
Southgate was incensed, his captain eventually carried off on a stretcher.”
From: http://crystal-yifei.net/index.php?showtopic=927&st=40
I would also suggest that Southgate could be a good candidate for “the manager who still wanted to be a player”
Euell seems to hold TSF’s view on the current state of Twitter/social networking: http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/news/2011/01/23/blackpool-s-jason-euell-slams-fa-twits-102039-22868228/
We know Euell’s an active tweeter, did anyone notice he follows Rio Ferdinand but not John Terry? ;) (Capello post).
Agree that the music taste doesn’t match though.
He also had a very good first season, from wikipedia:
“After scoring on his debut in October 1995 against Southampton as an 18 year old, he went on to make further a further eight Premier League appearances, and scored one more goal, in the 1995–96 season.”
He’s the right position being a midfielder (not a defender re: shepherding, not a keeper, but attacking enough to have heard the Man U defender complaining about the free kick).
Lastly, and definitely not to be underestimated where footballers are concerned, Euell is clearly both intelligent and eloquent enough to be producing these TSF posts (even accounting and allowing for ghost writer/editor clean-up arguments).
Eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcmmx-kqrA
I think one of the questions hanging over him at this time, is whether he has any children.
Without trying to go internet detective, I believe he’s married to an Andrea, who’s 3 years older than him (34 vs 37), but no idea about kids.
From: http://www.192.com/atoz/people/euell/jason/
Good luck!