The joys of football. Singled out for his contribution to promotion one week, and released on a free the next.
Does he have another season in him?
Played his final professional match today. Great servant to us.
Great servant to Ireland.
His goal Vs Italy one of our finest ever goals.
Would have been nice for him to finish his international career with that effort (that walloped off the bar) going in Vs Switzerland
One of the most underappreciated players we've probably ever had. Great servant over the years, and will likely go on to have a fine coaching career too.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Underappreciated? Not by himself, anyway.Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
https://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...parison-200002
A dire player.
A good servant and nothing bad to say about him really, but he had the misfortune of being a midfield mainstay in a period where our manager/managers didn't want us to have a pro-active ball-retaining midfield. Too many games passed him by through no fault of his own.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
A dire post.
Another yard or two of pace would have brought him to that next level player.
I am sure he has made a very good living out of football = = Fair play to him.
Dire players don't make 277 Premier League appearances. We could really do with someone as bad as him right now.
Dire Glenn Whelan 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCrsI__k36U
Dire Glenn Whelan 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWV5omYkyQ
Dire Glenn Whelan 3
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...n+best+moments
With 91 caps and an excellent club career - the dire Glenn Whelan sure fooled a lot of good football managers along the way.
good player who had a career 90% of academy players would bite your hand off for. good luck to him
We could use a player like him now. He became a scapegoat for the style we played under successive managers at times. Gave us a lot more than he got credit for. Good luck to him.
21 leagues and 25 cups.
He performed a very specific role for us and he performed it well most of the time. He was limited but effective and never shirked his role or responsibilities. He suffered, i think, a little bit from being an ever-present player in teams where the managers had us set up to be uber-conservative - and as a result didn't get a lot of love from the terraces.
I did feel bad for him towards the end of his international career as his legs had clearly gone, and he was never the most mobile in the first place. He deserved more love than he got.
A rare interview with Whelan on the42 today
https://www.the42.ie/glenn-whelan-in...87686-Jun2023/
That about sums him up, I think.In 2018, Pulis told The Irish Mail on Sunday that during their five years working together: “We tried to sign someone better.
“We always looked for an upgrade on Glenn, someone we thought was more mobile, technically better, quicker, stronger, but every year the bugger would confound you by playing better and better and get his place back.”
Even after Pulis’ departure as manager, this pattern continued for a period, and when Whelan finally was sold by Stoke, the club were promptly relegated the following season.
There was no need to agonise about his legs. He was one of our best performers in McCarthy's final campaign.
I wasn't agonising at all to be fair but the guy had already "retired" from international football to preserve himself. He knew it himself before he made himself available for a few more run outs. He never let us down but there were moments in his last two campaigns where, on the turnover, he was beaten before the race had started.
Was a Good player similar to John Sheridan, with McCarthy he had a Good partnership in France , McCarthy coming and going like an engine he doing just like the wolf stuff in Pulp Fiction
I think we all wheelie liked him.
He was absolutely nothing like John Sheridan. As for the second half of the sentence....what?
Folding my way into the big money!!!
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