Leon Best, any developments?

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26/01/2006, 10:49 AM
pedro

Leon Best, any developments?

A while back this guy was all the rage in this forum, havent heard a thing about him in a while and with Theo Walcott making his big move to arsenal it seems he has been forgotten about. Does anyone know if he's still making good progress or first team appearences?
26/01/2006, 10:58 AM
tetsujin1979

Linked with Palace according to football365
Only played 5 times this season, scoring once while on loan at Wednesday according to soccerbase here: http://www.soccerbase.com/players_de...playerid=38733 but he was injured early in the season. Also his nationality is down as English.
26/01/2006, 12:05 PM
as_i_say

i hear barrell scraping again. oh dear
26/01/2006, 12:43 PM
eirebhoy

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Originally Posted by as_i_say

i hear barrell scraping again. oh dear

Leon Best was the most highly rated youth player at Southampton this time last year. He was playing for us at the time. There is a bit of confusion as to what country he has declared for though. Sheffield Wednesday took him on loan this season but he broke is foot after about 1 match:
http://212.58.226.40/sport1/hi/footb...ed/4138666.stm
26/01/2006, 1:58 PM
drinkfeckarse

I'm sure I read or saw somewhere recently that he was being linked with a move to Plymouth.
26/01/2006, 3:41 PM
livehead1

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Originally Posted by eirebhoy

Leon Best was the most highly rated youth player at Southampton this time last year. He was playing for us at the time. There is a bit of confusion as to what country he has declared for though. Sheffield Wednesday took him on loan this season but he broke is foot after about 1 match:
http://212.58.226.40/sport1/hi/footb...ed/4138666.stm

scored on debut n broke his foot.
at the start of last season rodney marsh sed he was the player 2 watch out for, he has the talent.
26/01/2006, 4:16 PM
pedro

so when Rodney Marsh was raving about leon best what the hell was Theo Walcott doin? cud it b that Rodney Marsh is a crap judge of players, as much as i'd like to believe ol Marshy im think he doesnt know his arse from his elbow!! i hope im wrong
26/01/2006, 5:04 PM
Dan K

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Originally Posted by pedro

so when Rodney Marsh was raving about leon best what the hell was Theo Walcott doin? cud it b that Rodney Marsh is a crap judge of players, as much as i'd like to believe ol Marshy im think he doesnt know his arse from his elbow!! i hope im wrong

Last season Walcott was only 15, so was never going to be on anyone's radar bar those of us who had seen him play. Best was 18 and pushing for a first team place.

Best seems to have stood still as a player for a while, and it does indeed look as if he's on he's way out of St. Mary's.

I've been covering the odd reserve match for the Southern Daily Echo and have spoken to Leon a couple of times. I asked him about his nationality, and he was a bit coy, saying he hadn't "made his mind up" who to declare for. That was about 3 months ago.
26/01/2006, 7:12 PM
TheJamaicanP.M.

I'm pretty sure Leon Best declared for England after being involved in our underage set-up. In the meantime, he was overtaken at Southampton by the likes of Theo Walcott and Dexter Blackstock. Don't be surprised if the fcuker comes crawling back to us. He has an Irish mother as far as I know.
26/01/2006, 9:06 PM
eirebhoy

He has an Irish mother and an African father. It was his mother that travelled miles with him for football every week and he credited her for this in an interview. In this situation I'll give him the benefit of the doubt if he wants to play for us.
26/01/2006, 11:58 PM
livehead1

He used to walk from st anns to the county training ground in the city centre most evenings after school, it would be about a 3 mile walk each way, with his mother.

....it doesn't take a lot to work out his father is african, his mothers from dublin.

I can remember one time we were on the way back in a van from a school football match and were talking about nationalities, we were only about 14. Leon said im half english, half irish, and half jamaican. the fella driving the van says your some man leon. :rolleyes:
27/01/2006, 7:58 AM
shakermaker1982

what school did he go to livehead1? Did you play in the same team?
27/01/2006, 12:02 PM
OwlsFan

There's a rumour he's either going to sign for Palace or Wednesday. If the latter I am sure Whelan, Partridge, Coughlan and Corr can remind him of his green blood.
27/01/2006, 2:13 PM
livehead1

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Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

what school did he go to livehead1? Did you play in the same team?

Trinity school, played for same school side and same saturday side
29/01/2006, 10:03 PM
pete

Is he irish? Should this be in General Football?
29/01/2006, 10:07 PM
TheJamaicanP.M.

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Originally Posted by pete

Is he irish? Should this be in General Football?

I'm pretty sure he's English. He declared for England last year.
29/01/2006, 10:53 PM
eirebhoy

Nah, leave it here. He has played plenty of times for us at underage level and never played for England. We'll find out in the next couple of months if he has changed his alliance but for now he's Irish. His mother's Irish, he has no English blood, maybe he really is confused as to who to declare for. :) We should know whenever the next U19 squad is announced anyway.

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Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.

I'm pretty sure he's English. He declared for England last year.

I don't think he did. He was called up the the England U20 squad but got injured so we don't know whether he would have accepted the call.
30/01/2006, 12:45 AM
TheJamaicanP.M.

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Originally Posted by eirebhoy

Nah, leave it here. He has played plenty of times for us at underage level and never played for England. We'll find out in the next couple of months if he has changed his alliance but for now he's Irish. His mother's Irish, he has no English blood, maybe he really is confused as to who to declare for. :) We should know whenever the next U19 squad is announced anyway.

I don't think he did. He was called up the the England U20 squad but got injured so we don't know whether he would have accepted the call.

That's fair enough. I was under the impression that he pledged his allegiance to England. Therefore, I'd given up on him.
Shouldn't be in the under-21 squad?
30/01/2006, 7:51 AM
Don Vito

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Originally Posted by Dan K

I've been covering the odd reserve match for the Southern Daily Echo and have spoken to Leon a couple of times. I asked him about his nationality, and he was a bit coy, saying he hadn't "made his mind up" who to declare for. That was about 3 months ago.

F~~k him, I'd leave him where he is. And while we're at it leave leave Kevin Nolan where he is too.
30/01/2006, 9:46 AM
Pablo

does anyone know if he might be interested in being Irish????

dear oh dear.

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