themightykeithfear":228ogbu0 said:mercedes":228ogbu0 said:Emile Mpenza - it seems from Simon Walton's interview that Mpenza had no real interest in training or playing for Argyle. That would explain why Luggy wouldn't pick him. On the very few occasions that he did play he looked a class above the rest.
Oh I wish the full story would come out..........
read Luggy's autobiography, quite revealing eg one day Mpenza said he couldn't come in for training as he had taken too much viagra the night before and couldn't err settle down.
Amazed at this rewriting of history re Walton , he would continually bawl out the kids to cover his own shortcomings,people call George C "Love Island" well Walton was the original with minor celeb girlfriend, at least George is a half decent footballer, Walton found his level in non league football
Totally agree. He said he scored 12 goals in the video and was excellent and kept us up, but the truth is he scored 8 goals and that was only because he was penalty taker! He had a pot belly and barely moved from the centre circle when he was out there on the pitch, but would shout and gesticulate and get aggressive at the teenagers in the trenches with him. Also, as he acknowledges himself, no-one wanted him the same way as Bhasera, Arnason, Wright Phillips, Noone, Mason etc. had clubs phoning their agents. Walton never really had a decent option to leave and get a comparable wage. He was such bad business his wages were staggering for his ability that sticking around to hope his owed wages were paid back to him was about the best option he had.
It is interesting to see his side of the story but I felt I never really saw him get himself fit and try his best in an Argyle shirt. Even in League Two, he let himself get fat and looked like he was going through the motions. Carl Fletcher and a returning Paul Wotton in his late thirties were far, far better centre midfielders. To think he was a £750,000 signing and had played Champions League football, and then he came to Argyle and would get the run around by some Cheltenham midfielder you had never heard of. It was tragic to witness it happen.