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I thought Harry Kewell would be a world beater. I thought Cisse would be better than Drogba. I thought Alonso would be too slow for the premier league. I thought Roy Keane would be a great manager.

What have you been terribly wrong about?

wishing luis suarez got the hell out of anfield.

fast forward to now,by far the most promising,not to mention fucking exciting time reds fans have felt for a long time now.

wrong,misguided or just plain rose tinted fickle.

i go with the latter.

not that i will give a monkeys if we keep this up till may.

1994 World Cup.

Talking Colombia up loudly and declared early on that it was not possible for either Brazil or Italy to win the tournament which left me a bit red faced come the final.

Thought Carlos Vela was a future golden boot winner in PL when first saw him. Admittedly he just started to progress his career now but still not to the level his potential promised

I thought there was no way the FA would allow Milton Keynes to buy a league place for a property development :-(

Thinking it would be fine to walk from tube to WHL on my own in Arsenal shirt circa 1996, that went well.

Booing John Barnes @ Wembley because everyone else was just before he took that free kick.

Refusing to sit down as the Spurs fans sang "naughty" songs about Wenger on Wembley way before the Spuds vs Leicester league cup final - I got quite a lot of grief when I looked around to see about 30000 people sitting on the floor, in fact taking a woman on a date to a team you don't support at Wembley is just wrong.

Agreeing to go a first date July 4th 1990 at 19:30.

Standing in the Blackpool end with Wigan fans before kick off of an FA cup tie @ Blackpool.

Fraser Campbell being a world beater - Saw him tear Norwich apart for Hull in the Championship a few years ago, he looked like he would be amazing.

Confidently predicting that Juan Pablo Angel would go on to be a better player than Thierry Henry.

Daniel Sturridge.   

I have eaten a lot of humble pie.


Not the only one though......

Danny Mills was "potentially" better than Gary Neville. FML

I predicted John Welsh would be a future England captain.

I thought that David Moyes would avoid embarrassment humiliation in his first season at Old Trafford.

Thought it was brilliant we'd beat Man Utd to sign Hysen.

Thought Hicks & Gillette would be the start of something great.

didnt think Woy could lead us to world cup glory ;bigadz;

post dated june 2014

I thought Hernan crespo would score bucketloads of goals for Chelsea that never happened

Henrik larsson and his funky dreadlocks. 1st game for celtic, he came on as a sub. Gave the ball away which lead to them scoring the winner.

That boy will never make it at celtic.

Thought Sturridge was a good, but not an exciting signing for Liverpool.  We needed a forward who could manage to stand up and kick a ball a bit, so thought he'd fit that bill.  An improvement on Carroll, but more of a stop-gap is what I saw him as.

But he's been so much more, as his stats show over his first 33 games for Liverpool compared to Torres:

Torres - P33 G24 A3
Sturridge - P33 G28 A8

I thought big Trevor Crutchley wouldn't notice me wiping my nose on his goal-post jersey.

Football Manager guru's knew.

Haha.

I bet the stats comparing their last 33 games show an even bigger difference :D

I wish Nem was on this thread. I'm still waiting for Steve McClaren's big future! :D

Steve McClaren took my small town to a European final only twenty years after we were minutes from going out of business and to our first cup win.  He did alright in my eyes and given he has since won the first Dutch title in Twentes history and taken Derby from also rans to automatic promotion contenders you could argue he has acheived more in his career than most managers with less resources.

That said in spirit of the thread I thought Tony Mowbray really was the messiah....

Me too :(

My dad said to me at Wembley:

"Micky Gray wont miss"

"I really don't think this is going to work" I turned to the then Mrs in the main stand at Filbert Street

Six games into MON's Leicester job, 2-0 down at home to Sheffield United in the second half

We then went on an eight game unbeaten run, got up via the play-offs, won two league cups in three finals, played Red Star Belgrade and Atletico Madrid in Europe, were top of the Premier League in mid October

and then he left for Celtic

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"I really don't think this is going to work"

when Peter Taylor was appointed and spent £5.2m of the Heskey £11m on Akinbiyi

I was right next time!

Still think that has to go down as one of the worse £5m + signings in football history relative a) the year in question and how much £5m bought u then and b) how much £5m meant to a club the size of leicester.

Dan Petrescu was one of my favourite Premiership players.  Thought he always seemed to be excellent for Chelsea.  Thought he'd be out best ever signings, and couldn't believed we got him for £1m.  17 games later we sold him to Southampton for £100k, and I think we mugged them. 

A racing thread like this would be about 100 pages long with just my contributions.

Believed the hype and thought Hugo Viana was going to be as good as Ronaldo.

Thought Gullit was a good appointment as manager.