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20. Out of contract in the summer
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21. Has never been involved in a last day of the season relegation match (despite being at West Ham during both their 2003 and 2007 final day relegation deciding matches)
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
27 responses to “Lee Bowyer”
1. yes
3. Alex McLeish (current – Birmingham City), Glenn Roeder (West Ham when they went down 02/03), David O’Leary (Leeds United 01/02 and before), Bobby Robson (Newcastle United, 03/04), there’s others as well
4. Newcastle > West Ham
5. yes
7. Di Canio
8/9. Could be O’Leary?
15. Birmingham player.
16. 2nd April vs Bolton – Lee Bowyer played 65 minutes. http://www.football-lineups.com/match/77475/
B. 2002/3 season at West Ham United
1. Yes
2. It’s likely, but can’t be confirmed. He has a family, whether that’s with a wife is conjecture.
3. Alan Curbishley (Charlton), George Graham, David O’Leary and Terry Venables (Leeds), Glenn Roeder, Trevor Brooking and Alan Pardew (West Ham), Sir Bobby Robson, John Carver and Graeme Souness (Newcastle), Curbs again, Kevin Keen and Gianfranco Zola (West Ham), Alex McLeish (Birmingham)
4. Leeds to West Ham, Newcastle to West Ham, West Ham to Birmingham
5. With Birmingham
6. Possibly Newcastle – Olivier Bernaud, Laurent Robert, Charles N’Zogbia. Lomana LuaLua and Amdy Faye would have been French speakers, too.
7. Plenty of candidates.
8. Again, a few candidates. Might be referring to Sir Bobby Robson in terms of his whole career.
9. A few candidates. Graeme Souness at Newcastle is the most likely.
10. Would’ve played in the U21s with Jamie Carragher, and at West Ham with fellow TSF candidates Joe Cole and Paul Konchesky.
11. No more than any other English footballer of his generation, perhaps. Would Redknapp’s managerial stint at West Ham swing it?
12. Not to my knowledge. He’s certainly not a regular.
13. Can’t confirm it, can’t rule it out.
14. Ditto.
15. Never in his career.
16. He would have played for Birmingham. We would have roasted him for a poor pass as one of our engine room midfielders, too.
17. Midfielder.
18. Has at least two children, can’t confirm whether either of them is a girl.
19. Briefly, at West Ham.
Very strong candidacy, if you ask me.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article6927428.ece
Lee does have a wife and daughter.
21. Probably, West Ham in 2003 and 2007, I’m not 100% sure he was playing in either of the final games, but i’d be surprised if he wasn’t at least benched for either (and i would guess he started in 07)
21. He’s been involved in a last day relegation battle
In 2002-2003 with West Ham, where they got relegated on the last day.
Worth considering the following too..
22. Should his identity become public knowledge, would the Guardian wish to be associated with him?
For Bowyer, this is an almost certain ‘no’. His well-publicised off-the-field issues, and the alleged racist motivations to them would make him poison for any paper, but particularly one as left-of-centre as the Guardian. It’d almost certainly force the resignation of the Sports Editor, so would he risk it?
He didn’t play in the match
He didn’t play a part in either match
It is Lee Boywer he had final day relegation battle with West Ham when Bolton beat Middlesbrough on final day to send West Ham down. Quincy is the African player, Charlton in 1986 is the FA Cup game against Liverpool as Lower Division. Plays Paul Scholes role was top player on top team and payed that much. Also checks off your other checkpoints
25. Obafemi Martins
27. Charlton
29. Leeds
30. Leeds
31. Yes
35. O’leary and Eddie Gray
He talks about how he played away at a club and was constantly booed as a newspaper wrote a story saying he refused to sign for them and it was not true. Bowyer was constantly booed at Anfield after he was set to sign for them but instead ended up at West Ham. Bowyer said it was Houiller who changed his mind about signing him and said Bowyer didn’t seem up for playing for a club like Liverpool.
22. West Ham
23. Not sure
24. TSF is Caucasian
25. Obafemi Martins?
26. ?
27. Charlton
28. Charlton
29. Leeds
30. Leeds
31. Yes
32. ?
33. ?
34. Yes
35. O’Leary (George Grahams assistant), Eddie Gray (O’Leary’s assistant)
36. West Ham fan
TSF talks about being booed at a ground after a newspaper wrote a story saying he refused to sign for them which was false.
The only footballer I can think that this has happened to in recent years is Lee Bowyer at Anfield when he was set to sign for Houllier. Instead he signed for West Ham from Leeds. Infact it was Houllier who changed his mind about Bowyer after saying he did not think Bowyer was up for playing for a club like Liverpool.
he says in his book that he had a Leeds champions league semi-final shirt signed by the squad, suggesting that he played for Leeds during this time
Lee Bowyer is a simpleton, he couldnt possibly have composed the book or the columns
In the book he goes on about the seth johnson deal at leeds who was an ex-player from crewe like danny murphy and danny has commented on stokes style several times who he made comments about.
Nonetheless, he was part of the squad…
Also, the second book details the following:
-He regularly took marijuana as a youngster (banned from England U18s for cannabis use).
-Details how he played for a club that hit financial troubles and wasn;t paid for the last year of his contract at one club. I would suggest this was Bormingham City, whom he left in 2011.
Furthermore, he states that one of his managers was about two weeks away from the sack and then got a job with a rival club = only for it all to end badly at his new club. Sounds to me like Alex McLeish.
Plus, an earlier chapter in the book details how one of hios closest friends in football was a teammate of Gazza’s at Rnagers and rave about the Geordie. I think this mate is Barry Ferguson — played at Birtmingham at the same time as Lee Bowyer.
He also states that one of his managers was an extremely insecure individual.
Judging by his time as our manager at Norwich, Glenn Roeder could well be that manager
28 – Lee Bowyer was a Charltion player in 1995/96 season. Played in 41 league games that season. Charlton lost toLiverpool in FA Cup fifth round that season (cannot find Charlton team on that day but seeing as he played in most ofleague games, good chance he did play).
29 – at Leeds under David O’Leary. Didn;t win anything – but were highly lauded across the nation at the time – and rose from previously being a humdrum mid-table side.
30 – add Birmingham to Leeds
32 – Lucas Radebe at Leeds?
38 – yes. Birmingham City in 2010/11. Birmingham were safe until Wolves scored in final game elsewhere in 86th minute
39 – yes. Released on a free that summer
40 – Entirely possible at Birmingham.
It cant be Bowyer as its Dave Kitson
Can’t be Bowyer because of no.25, the man is a massive effing rascist with no black friends whatsoever.
He probably can’t write either
Dave Kitson