Miguel Sanchez Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Rolled up at Wigan. Can't be many people in history who've moved from Lazio to there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefan27 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 By all accounts lazy in training, wouldn't eat Italian food, made no effort to learn the language... Ergo four Serie A games in 18 months. I'd call him the Derek Riordan of England, but he might actually have achieved less. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 What a nice bump. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 1 hour ago, killiefan27 said: By all accounts lazy in training, wouldn't eat Italian food, made no effort to learn the language... Ergo four Serie A games in 18 months. I'd call him the Derek Riordan of England, but he might actually have achieved less. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Who wouldn't eat Italian food?? It's lovely....is he one of these only eats McDonald's types??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer Jag Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 It must be harrowing - being expected to shovel all that foreign, tally muck down your throat everyday. He would be missing his fried chicken, innit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Simao Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 7 hours ago, killiefan27 said: By all accounts lazy in training, wouldn't eat Italian food, made no effort to learn the language... Ergo four Serie A games in 18 months. I'd call him the Derek Riordan of England, but he might actually have achieved less. That should be at the very top of the Beastisms list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcat1990 Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 To be fair, gorging on a diet of pasta and pizza isn't typically the blueprint for the modern athlete. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 I'm fairly sure he refused to even stay in Italy for a while, not long after signing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefan27 Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Apparently as a youth player his agent used to fly out to bring him Mars bars and Lucozade because he thought foreign food would poison him... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 He just sounds like a fucking moron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Utterly bizarre. Why couldn't they just tell him - eat normal food, nae c**t is trying to poison you? Or something along those lines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 21 hours ago, killiefan27 said: By all accounts lazy in training, wouldn't eat Italian food, made no effort to learn the language... Ergo four Serie A games in 18 months. I'd call him the Derek Riordan of England, but he might actually have achieved less. An appropriate example to choose. When Riordan returned to Scotland from China and signed for St Johnstone he described the appalling conditions he'd had to endure playing with Shaanzi Chan-Ba... Who could ever have anticipated that playing in an Asian country might have meant Asian food being the main local delicacy, and English not the main language: Riordan revealed: “It was a nasty experience for me. I lost a stone in weight in three months. It’s not like you can just go down to Asda to get food. The nearest European supermarket to where I stayed was a half-hour walk. “Just buying the right food was really hard. I spent a lot of time with an Italian player, Fabio Firmani who used to play for Lazio, and I think we had tomato pasta just about every night. He’s left as well. Four out of five who came across have done the same. “Nobody spoke English and I didn’t want to bring my girlfriend and child over. “It was like an army camp, basically. ... “It was alright for the first few weeks and at least I tried it. It was certainly an experience. “A lot of things just weren’t right – we would have chicken fried rice for our pre-match meal. While I was over there the chairman of Shanghai got arrested for launching a bottle at one of the players from the stand. It was nuts. It was the food that was the hardest thing though. All the European guys found it very hard. It was really draining. I couldn’t wait to get home for a decent meal “I was down to just over 10 stone, but I’ve put the weight back on since I’ve come home Truly a harrowing tale. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer Jag Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Riordan's idea of a 'good meal' will be interesting. I'm guessing Super Noodles and potato smiley faces. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Rustlers burger and micro chips 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Considering he could barely last ten minutes for us, I can't imagine what he ate once he returned 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Whilst I agree with all of the slating of Riordan as he is clearly a Brit-abroad, steak pie loving jake, having chicken fried rice as a pre-game meal does seem a bit mental to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefan27 Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said: Whilst I agree with all of the slating of Riordan as he is clearly a Brit-abroad, steak pie loving jake, having chicken fried rice as a pre-game meal does seem a bit mental to me. I'd agree. Although perhaps it was just chicken breast and white rice and Deeks assumed, since he was in China, it was chicken fried rice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estragon Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 To be fair, gorging on a diet of pasta and pizza isn't typically the blueprint for the modern athlete. Aye, because that's what comprises the entirety of Italian cuisine right there... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcat1990 Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Aye, because that's what comprises the entirety of Italian cuisine right there... Nice to see humour isn't lost on you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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