Leon Best

**irishfan86** · 18/07/2010, 7:30 PM

My mistake on the transfer fee....for some reason that number was embedded in my head, but I did a quick google search there and you're right, clearly. Makes more sense as well!

**Sullivinho** · 18/07/2010, 9:16 PM

Originally Posted by irishfan86

he IS their attempt to strengthen! I think he just needed some time to settle in...hope he has a good season -- he'll need to!

Very rough around the edges as a player, Leon. I dunno if I'd want to be pinning my survival hopes on him but absolutely, hope he has a great outing.

**AlaskaFox** · 28/11/2010, 12:11 PM

On the bench today for Newcastle against Chelsea.

**weldoninhio** · 04/12/2010, 10:22 AM

"Met" him out in a club a few months ago, proper big time charlie, came over trying to move me and others out of the area we were standing because he couldn't see the dancefloor from where he was sitting. Seemed to think he was someone very important. Told him where to go.

**mark12345** · 04/12/2010, 1:46 PM

"Told him where to go!"

Where did he go?

**The Fly** · 04/12/2010, 2:15 PM

To find a table with unobstructed views of the dancefloor, obviously.

**SkStu** · 04/12/2010, 3:09 PM

Originally Posted by weldoninhio

"Met" him out in a club a few months ago, proper big time charlie, came over trying to move me and others out of the area we were standing because he couldn't see the dancefloor from where he was sitting. Seemed to think he was someone very important. Told him where to go.

met him? or "met him" met him?

**tetsujin1979** · 04/12/2010, 3:58 PM

Originally Posted by weldoninhio

"Met" him out in a club a few months ago, proper big time charlie, came over trying to move me and others out of the area we were standing because he couldn't see the dancefloor from where he was sitting. Seemed to think he was someone very important. Told him where to go.

Probably went back to his mates and told them the same thing about you.

**livehead1** · 04/12/2010, 5:38 PM

Originally Posted by weldoninhio

"Met" him out in a club a few months ago, proper big time charlie, came over trying to move me and others out of the area we were standing because he couldn't see the dancefloor from where he was sitting. Seemed to think he was someone very important. Told him where to go.

Really? What club; I'll ask him? He isn't like that at all.

**paul_oshea** · 04/12/2010, 6:58 PM

i say weldoninhio saw some black lad and decided it was leon best.

**Paddy Garcia** · 05/12/2010, 8:06 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

i say weldoninhio saw some black lad and decided it was leon best.

I think it was probably Clyde.

**weldoninhio** · 05/12/2010, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by livehead1

Really? What club; I'll ask him? He isn't like that at all.

The Wright Venue, he was with Andy Keogh, Darren Gibson and Dean Kiely. From what i've heard he was brought out to his car surrounded by bouncers with a few lads trying to get at him. Seems like i wasn't the only one he acted the ***** with.

**shakermaker1982** · 07/12/2010, 11:07 AM

Why was Dean Kiely there?!

**SwanVsDalton** · 07/12/2010, 12:52 PM

Really don't like the 'met a player in a club' anecdote. An aul mate of mine once talked about meeting Shay Given in a club in Derry, went in to one about how arrogant and ignorant he was. I didn't think any less of Shay Given, but I definitely thought less of the guy telling me.

**paul_oshea** · 07/12/2010, 2:05 PM

Well i see your point but with no disrespect that can sometimes be because of an arrogance or naievty in that 'oh well i wasn't there' but if it happened to you you would be more believing and discerning.i certainly wouldn't have less respect for the person telling me but i would be more wary of both in the future.one from what he says and the other from an arrogance/ignorant point of view.i wouldn't like the idea of ppl only believing something when it only happens to them.

**SwanVsDalton** · 07/12/2010, 2:18 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Well i see your point but with no disrespect that can sometimes be because of an arrogance or naievty in that 'oh well i wasn't there' but if it happened to you you would be more believing and discerning.i certainly wouldn't have less respect for the person telling me but i would be more wary of both in the future.one from what he says and the other from an arrogance/ignorant point of view.i wouldn't like the idea of ppl only believing something when it only happens to them.

That wasn't my point - I did believe the guy, I just didn't care. Shay Given's a goalie, his personality doesn't interest me in the slightest. And him telling me came across as a bit of celeb tattle nonsense you'd get in the middle pages of Heat Magazine.

**geysir** · 07/12/2010, 2:20 PM

Not quite Paul, disbelief can rationally be parked away in an unsubstantiated zone , more so when the source is a gossip and especially more so when the gossiper is prone to posting attention seeking nonsense.

**paul_oshea** · 07/12/2010, 2:33 PM

Ya of course geysir that was what i meant by being wary of the person in future,however i was speaking from the viewpoint of it was the first time you heard this person say something like this.ya swan fair enough coming at it from a different angle thats fair enough,however the attitude reminds me of the local politics attitude!

'ah sure i don't care about that,isn't he doing a good job for me/us and looking after our interets anyway'.i.

**SwanVsDalton** · 07/12/2010, 2:55 PM

He is looking after our interests, by keeping the ball out of the Irish net! But I might become a bit more negative about Shay if he somehow:

A) turns out to be a criminal overlord, pulling the Irish government's strings to protect his greedy investment interests at the expense of the Irish people.

B) is running a shady smuggling operation across the border at Lifford, causing misery to thousands of local people.

C) has been spending his down time at Man City masquerading as an X Factor contestant called Wagner.

D) (re)signs for Celtic.