Micah Richards - overrated tosser

Never rated the clown and was over the moon when the incoming England manager (was it Sven?) dropped the twat and made sure that he'd never establish himself as an England regular. Too keen to go forward, shit at defending. I can remember two England games where England's more forward players had to cover for the useless cunt as he came trotting slowly back from dismal attempts to go forward (SWP was one of them -I'm sure poor little bastard ended up playing most of the game behind the big idle twat)

Article here if anyone wants to know what he's up to now. May he never pull on an England shirt again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30248456

Don't bother telling me he was dropped from the England squad because of injury because he wasn't. I remember checking it out at the time and he played for his club a few games after the international (he may even have been on the bench for it in fact). The manager actually realised that the guy couldn't do his job. If you want a creative midfielder who won't track back and defend then play one - don't play one who's masquerading as a defender.

Slick echoes my thoughts. Never quite understood why Richards played as a right back considering his build. Kudos to him taking the risks few English players are willing to take and going abroad. I don't follow Serie A cause, how is he doing at Fiorentina?

Playing at centre back now..

Possibly too early or not yet the right time to pass judgement but he looks like a right back trying to learn the centre back position at the moment to me

If Remi Garde is the next manager it will be interesting to see how he uses him

Just out of interest I checked his past ...

It seems at ManC he was highly rated by Stuart Pearce and Mark Hughes - then less highly thought of by Mancini and Pellegrini

For England - he often played for McClaren - but was then discarded by Capello and Hodgson

At Villa Sherwood highly coverted him and made him captain of Villa...

What will a foreign manager make of him if Villa do choose Garde

Be interesting to see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Richards

I sense something of a pattern

As I think I've said somewhere on this forum before, I was screaming for Richards to be dropped for England and almost the first thing that Capello did was drop the cunt. No doubt someone will say that it was because of injury but he wasn't injured when he was dropped from the first team to the bench and didn't get a kick (I think I'm right in saying). He got injured shortly after and didn't play for his club for a while but Capello had already seen what I had seen (shrewd man) and Mclaren had failed to spot and that was that Richards was good going forward but the problem was that he went forward with all the pace and gusto of an olympic sprinter but got back into his defensive position with all the pace of Steven Hawking with a puncture. I'm not exaggerating when I say that Small Wright Phillips actually spent more time behind him than in front of him in one half of a game they both played in. I'm all for defenders joining in the attack when needed but if you had to pick who you want doing your attacking and who defending between those two, I think most would agree that the best tactic is probably not to get them to switch roles. Mclaren was a clueless twat and Capello wasn't.

I got the impression that he was a man who got carried away with the praise that he was getting at the time and believed the hype and , although he will no doubt have lost much of the pace he had as a younger man, I've got no doubt that he could still do a sterling job providing he learns to actually play in the position that he should be playing in. If he's got the intelligence to do that and to understand that he's part of a bigger team and not just part of team Micah then the new manager, whoever it turns out to be, won't have a very difficult decision to make. He can potentially be captain and an ever present.

If he hasn't got the brains to work that out then he will go down as a young player who never achieved the potential that he promised.

Completely embarrassed by a division 4 team tonight

And we are stuck with him for 3 more seasons

I'm not asking for sympathy by the way - just highlighting some golden betting opportunities for those who enjoy betting in play