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Scott Parker on Curbishley

WSS
WSS Posts: 25,089
edited March 2010 in General Charlton
Under the strict guidance of manager Alan Curbishley, a man whose personality clearly borders on the obsessive, Parker likes to think he was brought up the right way during those early days at Charlton.

Under Curbishley you respected everyone and everything. From the manager to the water bottle he gave you at the start of each season.

'If you left it lying around, he made a massive issue of it,' recalls Parker.

'And if you lost it, you had to pay for a new one. He expected you to look after it.

'Curbs was the same with all the kit you were given. He'd go potty if someone left their flip-flops in the middle of the dressing room floor. And you'd always see him out there after training, collecting all the balls. When I think about it now, he probably does have OCD.

'But things were run on a tight budget at Charlton and all those things cost money. He understood that and he made us understand it, too.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1259880/West-Hams-future-line--Scott-Parker-save-them.html
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  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,838
    Modern players seem to know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,034
    How is collecting balls after training OCD?!!!...its called looking after things Scott.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,241
    Yes Gary, what a strange thing to say.

    Please come back Alan - help us. God knows we need it.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Its called attention to detail Scott.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,838
    [cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]How is collecting balls after training OCD?!!!...its called looking after things Scott.

    Considering that's what his main role at Chelsea was you'd think he would realise that.
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,601
    lol!!
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,694
    they say all the best are a bit mental, and considering that he had to count every penny from day one he obviously just carried that philosophy onwards....

    Also its the old fear and respect, if you didnt respect him you feared him, AC this is....

    we need a bit more of that for sure...
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,518
    I'd have him back collecting the balls at Sparrows Lane any time....OCD or no OCD!
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,694
    id become ocd if it meant he came back.....
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    [quote][cite]Posted By: SoundAsa£[/cite]I'd have him back collecting the balls at Sparrows Lane any time....OCD or no OCD![/quote]

    As would i and all i know

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,518
    left....please would you not post with small i's...it's I.....and you should put a full stop at the end of each sentence.

    LOL!!!
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    so sorry.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,518
    It's my OCD kicking in of course!
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,540
    I miss those Scott Parker days, you don't realise how good those times are until they're gone.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    There's a few on here with OCD when talking about Curbs, that's for sure : - )
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,248
    [cite]Posted By: mascot88[/cite]they say all the best are a bit mental
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]There's a few on here with OCD when talking about Curbs, that's for sure : - )

    too true ...........
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    Don't get me started......:-)
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,590
    i sort of picked out from that Scott feels he may feel he left Charlton a bit to early.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,669
    [cite]Posted By: roseandcrown[/cite]i sort of picked out from that Scott feels he may feel he left Charlton a bit to early.

    D`oh
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,034
    [cite]Posted By: roseandcrown[/cite]i sort of picked out from that Scott feels he may feel he left Charlton a bit to early.

    How?

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  • clivey_hero
    clivey_hero Posts: 328
    didnt stop him pissssing off though did it , little shitehouse
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,590
    [cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: roseandcrown[/cite]i sort of picked out from that Scott feels he may feel he left Charlton a bit to early.

    How?[/quote

    The razzmatazz of Chelsea never really suited Parker. 'Moving there from Charlton, I struggled to adapt,' he says.

    'I might have made more of the opportunity had I been a bit older. I was only 23. But I found it a bit of culture shock. Very different to what I was used to.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1259880/West-Hams-future-line--Scott-Parker-save-them.html#ixzz0j14xYRBH
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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,241
    what a winker.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,759
    edited March 2010
    What player was it that leaked in an interview that Curbs was often to be found in the dressing room an hour or so after everyone else had left practising a spot of naked Yoga? Not to be mixed up with practising naked with Youga!?!

    I'm sure it was Eddie Youds.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,980
    Scott Parker was always gung-ho in the tackle:

    "It really is part of our culture. Other than when someone scores a goal, the biggest cheer you hear on a Saturday is when someone puts in a good tackle. It's the way we are brought up. It's what everyone wants to see.


    "I was at Lilleshall with Alan Smith, Michael Owen, Wes Brown and Joe Cole and under Keith Blunt, who was old school, we were taught to be aggressive; taught to win the ball and taught to win the game."


    What's Keith Blunt doing now?

    Is their a vacancy on the Charlton staff for a coach who could teach our players to be aggressive; win the ball and win the game?
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,334
    OH KEITHY BLUNT, HE PLAYS UP FRONT
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,327
    Working in China
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,980
    [cite]Posted By: northstandsteve[/cite]OH KEITHY BLUNT, HE PLAYS UP FRONT

    lol


    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Working in China

    Whatever for? Must be addicted to birds nest soup or lychees in syrup.

    Come home Keithy Blunt, we've got a job for you.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,127
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]Is their a vacancy on the Charlton staff for a coach who could teach our players to be aggressive; win the ball and win the game?


    No, he'd be too unlike the rest of the staff!

    :-(
  • AshTray
    AshTray Posts: 1,036
    One of my close family spent the last six years of Curbishley's time at Charlton wanting him out. In fact, it may have been longer. I remember coming out of Walsall after a 4-2 win, our 12th straight win, and my relative slagging off Curbishley then.

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