After mentioning John Spencer in the Meireles thread I googled his goal against Austria Vienna

and then came across this commercial from 2011

... seems like he's done okay in the USA!

Edited September 3, 201213 yr by superdan

I think he got sacked in July from Portland something or other

Fantastic goal, that one. Reminiscent of Torres at the Nou Camp.

But I think this was maybe even better:

as was this, possibly:

That volley against Liverpool was quality. He scored a pretty nice half volley against Leeds at the back end of the 93/94 season too. Good player. It was a shame he got frozen out when Gullit became boss in 96' but we were moving onto another level.

Love that Spenny goal in Vienna. Partly as I was there of course.

Yup - he got booted from the Portland Timbers earlier in the year-currently not doing anything. I'm not sure if he will be able to get another managerial job in the MLS at the moment, despite a good first year - I'm sure there are countless teams that would want him right away as an assistant.

Fantastic goal, that one. Reminiscent of Torres at the Nou Camp.

But I think this was maybe even better:

as was this, possibly:

Great goal, some volley.

My first ever favourite player

Quality finisher.

Loved Spenny, such a busy player and always niggling and hassling opposition players.

Love that Spenny goal in Vienna. Partly as I was there of course.

what a night :-) time might have clouded my memory but I'm sure there twice as many Chelsea unofficial as there were for Kens official trip.

what a night :-) time might have clouded my memory but I'm sure there twice as many Chelsea unofficial as there were for Kens official trip.

Definitely. It was weird in those days. I can't recall the name of the sports tour organisers that I used for that trip but our tickets were given to us on the coaches that took us from the airport to our hotel and it wasn't until we got to the stadium that we discovered our tickets were for in the Vienna end. Of course we were turned away but we're sent to a garden shed that happened to be selling tickets on the night for the Chelsea end. As you say, it was a quite a while ago but I'm pretty sure that there were 4 or 5 thousand over there for that game. I'm sure were played Sheff Wed the Saturday before and we were singing Ultravox's Vienna throughout the game.

The things that remind me of how long ago it was was that we flew with Lauda Air from Manchester (not sure Lauda even exists now) and you could smoke on the plane. Also, it was my first ever trip abroad and I had a cardboard one year passport that you could get issued at main post office for a tenner.

Edited September 25, 201213 yr by Snedger

Found it sad the things you keep from a mis-spent youth

Air track football we went with, all of us proud yearly passport holders!!

Our support was phenomenal that night those were the days eh!!

I though Spenny did a decent job coaching over here in MLS.

His teams just always seem to come up a little short.