Posted January 17, 201213 yr Quality player. Think he's probably the last one (before Terry) to come through our youth team and actually break into the first team and become an established player. Always very underrated and didn't get anywhere near as many England games as he should have.
January 17, 201213 yr About 2min48sec into that clip, he scores at Selhurst Park, and a few Chelsea jump up in the home end. His best days were at Blackburn IMO. Edit: Just realised, I think that lob he scores against Utd was Gullit's last game in charge. Edited January 17, 201213 yr by Davey Baby
January 17, 201213 yr Im pretty sure Ruuds last game in charge was sometime after that game, I think it may have been a League Cup semi first leg at Highbury but can't be sure. Anyway, LeSaux - a fine player. Scandalous we swapped him for Steve Livingstone who was a joke of a footballer and then paid £5 million for him 4 years later. He loved Chelsea too.
January 18, 201213 yr Im pretty sure Ruuds last game in charge was sometime after that game, I think it may have been a League Cup semi first leg at Highbury but can't be sure. Fully correct, that was it.
January 18, 201213 yr He was some player if you ask me, a lot of great memories of Berg... I dont know why he got the treatment he did from some of his managers over the years not least England. When he came back to Chelsea he was great and all there was in the press was that England didn't have a left sided player, yet he was brilliant down the left defense and midfield. Very underrated in my opinion.
January 18, 201213 yr Author And of course that elbow in Robbie Fowler's face was spectacular. That little scouse scrote certainly had it coming.
January 18, 201213 yr And of course that elbow in Robbie Fowler's face was spectacular. That little scouse scrote certainly had it coming. The chapter in his book about that incident and the fallout is fasciating. The lack of support he got is stunning, even from within the club. In fact his whole book is an interesting read. Ashley Cole he is not.
January 18, 201213 yr Can anyone summarise whether he and Fowler patched things up or not? Surprised we don't see more of Soxy on TV - very eloquent chap and always came over very well. What's he up to these days?
January 18, 201213 yr I always used to model mysel on him when I was a kid, always had my haircut like his as well. I've still got this knocking about somewhere: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superstar-Coaching-Defender-Graeme-Saux/dp/B00004CU45
January 19, 201213 yr http://www.amazon.co.uk/Left-Field-Footballer-Graeme-Saux/dp/0007225814#_ Here you go
March 15, 201213 yr Loved Soxy, quality player. And his on-field punch-up with David Batty while he was at Blackburn was great!
March 15, 201213 yr Loved Soxy! That's one for the 'istory book BB liking something with a French name
March 15, 201213 yr Can anyone summarise whether he and Fowler patched things up or not? Surprised we don't see more of Soxy on TV - very eloquent chap and always came over very well. What's he up to these days? I believe he's currently a Chels ambassador. Allowing for the chasms in my Swiss cheese memory, I may have witnessed his last game before his departure to Blackburn. I'm fairly certain it was against Ipswich who had John Wark (the player's always the last person to know he's finished) kicking everything up in the air, viewing the game through the clouds of the East Stand, "Socks" took the ball to the corner flag (Shed End) which inspired John Wark to launch a hefty kick at what used to be called, in Doug Rougvie's day 'man and ball', that "Socks" only avoided by a spectacular jump. Shortly after Glen pulled him off, which prompted "Socks" to pull his shirt off and walk to the bench with an obvious hump and consequent rant, though a passing cloud obscured my view. Seemingly within days "Socks" was out in a not too dissimilar way to Glen Johnson/Jose. I considered he was a better player following his experience at Blackburn as he seemed to relish joining up in midfield (where he collected that woeful tackle from Gerrard in that fantastic 03/04 game which gave us the CL spot under Claudio)... though I'm the first to admit my memory is a pavement sausage... as the mothers of my children confirm far too frequently for my lasting comfort. Edited March 15, 201213 yr by fishCFC
March 15, 201213 yr Super player , he scored against Leeds or Sheffield Wednesday one afternoon at home we were 2-0 down i think game was up. But he ran through them from the halfway line towards their goal (shedend!!) and put it home. He was young during his first spell and i thought he had a bit about him from them on.
March 15, 201213 yr That's one for the 'istory book BB liking something with a French name Ah, but Soxy overcame his frogginess to become a true Brit
March 16, 201213 yr Ah, but Soxy overcame his frogginess to become a true Brit Brilliant -- and leading with his left disposes of suggestions he's not "orthodox"
March 16, 201213 yr Author What where they even fighting about? Batty just seems to come from nowhere and then it begins.
