Didn't we have to sell Button because we'd delayed paying Spurs for him and when the deadline came up we couldn't afford him?
I understood (from Prothero, as it happens, who did the deal) we didn't have to pay until the summer of 2013 and that was why we were able to sign him. Hence we sold him on at that stage.
I'd add that Etheridge ain't doing too badly at Walsall. He got quite a bit of stick here but has kept a load of clean sheets this season and is a big reason they're doing well.
Another classic case of Nick Pope syndrome: comes into a struggling side, a few nervy games, derision from certain sections of fans and generally believed to be useless. As soon as he was in a settled team with supportive fans he turned out to actually be pretty good! Who'dve thought....
David Button made his Premiership debut aged 29 when he kept a clean sheet for Brighton v Everton yesterday.
Started at Spurs, but never played for them, loaned out to 11 clubs before signing for us in 2012. He then moved on to Brentford and then Fulham. Button turned down other clubs when Brighton came calling. He knew that Brighton's number one would miss part of the season due to the Asian cup where Aussie Mat Ryan would attend.
Button says to play in the Premiership is a dream come true. I don't think anyone could begrudge him his moment of glory having worked so hard and so long to achieve it.
David Button made his Premiership debut aged 29 when he kept a clean sheet for Brighton v Everton yesterday.
Started at Spurs, but never played for them, loaned out to 11 clubs before signing for us in 2012. He then moved on to Brentford and then Fulham. Button turned down other clubs when Brighton came calling. He knew that Brighton's number one would miss part of the season due to the Asian cup where Aussie Mat Ryan would attend.
Button says to play in the Premiership is a dream come true. I don't think anyone could begrudge him his moment of glory having worked so hard and so long to achieve it.
Not quite true to say he never played for Spurs.
It is true that he never appeared in the Premier League, but he did come on as a late sub against Doncaster in the League Cup.
My only memory of button was of him standing rooted to the floor while a millwall player put a 40yd free kick past him! Never moved even though there was only one place that ball was going! Good luck to him, but i cant forgive him I'm afraid...
If he'd just shuffled a couple if yards to the left he'd havd had that
My only memory of button was of him standing rooted to the floor while a millwall player put a 40yd free kick past him! Never moved even though there was only one place that ball was going! Good luck to him, but i cant forgive him I'm afraid...
If he'd just shuffled a couple if yards to the left he'd havd had that
Shane Lowry. Great free kick but completely the keepers fault. He wasn't, however, rooted to the floor. His reactions were just awful.
My only memory of button was of him standing rooted to the floor while a millwall player put a 40yd free kick past him! Never moved even though there was only one place that ball was going! Good luck to him, but i cant forgive him I'm afraid...
If he'd just shuffled a couple if yards to the left he'd havd had that
Shane Lowry. Great free kick but completely the keepers fault. He wasn't, however, rooted to the floor. His reactions were just awful.
My only memory of button was of him standing rooted to the floor while a millwall player put a 40yd free kick past him! Never moved even though there was only one place that ball was going! Good luck to him, but i cant forgive him I'm afraid...
If he'd just shuffled a couple if yards to the left he'd havd had that
Shane Lowry. Great free kick but completely the keepers fault. He wasn't, however, rooted to the floor. His reactions were just awful.
You wait another 50 years time when we next beat them and we have a mental loop like they did for their 1000th victory on the spin against us , they'll be sure to act surprised that it means so much to us !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-09fB9u-9c
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Didn't we have to sell Button because we'd delayed paying Spurs for him and when the deadline came up we couldn't afford him?
Started at Spurs, but never played for them, loaned out to 11 clubs before signing for us in 2012. He then moved on to Brentford and then Fulham. Button turned down other clubs when Brighton came calling. He knew that Brighton's number one would miss part of the season due to the Asian cup where Aussie Mat Ryan would attend.
Button says to play in the Premiership is a dream come true. I don't think anyone could begrudge him his moment of glory having worked so hard and so long to achieve it.
It is true that he never appeared in the Premier League, but he did come on as a late sub against Doncaster in the League Cup.
If he'd just shuffled a couple if yards to the left he'd havd had that
Looked superb from behind the goal as it went in.
They all have this superiority complex, so it's nothing new to us
Not a lot of people know that.