Nile Ranger

[Mad Cyril]

Training with and helping out with coaching at FC Wood Green (formerly J.H.Sports) no idea who they are just saw it on TT. Must be a very low down league.

They play in the Trumpton and Chigley Sunday league.

 

[londonblue]

They play in the Trumpton and Chigley Sunday league.

Bet that's a riot.

 

[ThurrockShrimper]

Bet that's a riot.

not often you get Half Man Half Biscuit references on here

 

[Shrimpergonzo]

not often you get Half Man Half Biscuit references on here

I wonder if they also play in a Dukla Prague away kit?

 

[ThurrockShrimper]

I wonder if they also play in a Dukla Prague away kit?

Around xmas usually

 

[londonblue]

not often you get Half Man Half Biscuit references on here

I'm actually surprised anyone made the link.

 

[ThurrockShrimper]

I'm actually surprised anyone made the link.

Quite a big fan, seen them half a dozen times or so over the years!

 

[Floval Flyer]

Quite a big fan, seen them half a dozen times or so over the years!

They’re still gigging !!

My all time fave HMHB track has to be Time flies by… (careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation!!)

I digress

 

[Mad Cyril]

I'm actually surprised anyone made the link.

Every Saturday I see the Chigley skins.

 

[bigmolt]

Training with and helping out with coaching at FC Wood Green (formerly J.H.Sports) no idea who they are just saw it on TT. Must be a very low down league.

Teletext. Wow, I didn’t know it was still broadcasting!!!

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Interesting article in The Athletic today on Nile. It’s the ‘if only’ reflection that we could all see coming, sadly. If Nile can get himself sorted out sufficiently he could make a real difference talking to youngsters who are in danger of going the same way:

Nile Ranger: 'I’m Haaland if I’d eaten and behaved better. I didn’t. I thought I knew it all’

Nile Ranger is 32 but playing offers have dried up. He still thinks he can play professionally but accepts his dark past is not helping

theathletic.com

Nile Ranger: ‘I’m Haaland if I’d eaten and behaved better. I didn’t. I thought I knew it all’

 

[hlane17]

Interesting article in The Athletic today on Nile. It’s the ‘if only’ reflection that we could all see coming, sadly. If Nile can get himself sorted out sufficiently he could make a real difference talking to youngsters who are in danger of going the same way:

Nile Ranger: 'I’m Haaland if I’d eaten and behaved better. I didn’t. I thought I knew it all’

Nile Ranger is 32 but playing offers have dried up. He still thinks he can play professionally but accepts his dark past is not helping

theathletic.com

Nile Ranger: ‘I’m Haaland if I’d eaten and behaved better. I didn’t. I thought I knew it all’

Total clown. Reading that, it appears he has learned absolutely eff-all, even if he had 23 hours a day in his cell to reflect when doing jail for fraud.

He will never take any responsibility for his problems. I'd prefer he stays well away from younger players trying to make it in the game, he's already ruined his own career, I'd rather he didn't ruin any others.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Total clown. Reading that, it appears he has learned absolutely eff-all, even if he had 23 hours a day in his cell to reflect when doing jail for fraud.

He will never take any responsibility for his problems. I'd prefer he stays well away from younger players trying to make it in the game, he's already ruined his own career, I'd rather he didn't ruin any others.

Absolutely. I should have been clearer that I can’t see him sorting himself out sufficiently, but it has been known in others. Unless he truly changes then I totally agree he shouldn’t be anywhere near youngsters.

 

[rigsby]

Absolutely. I should have been clearer that I can’t see him sorting himself out sufficiently, but it has been known in others. Unless he truly changes then I totally agree he shouldn’t be anywhere near youngsters.

Shouldn’t be near youngsters…. Or old people or anywhere near a football club.

 

[in the know]

I'm all for rehabi!litation, but he's been given chance after chance and just abused those chances pretty much straight away.
I suspect he will just be an older version of what he has been..... a waster.
While with us Ron gave him a car which he carried on using for a while after not playing. His pay was put away and drip fed to him so he couldn't blow it. So he asked other players for loans!
He trashed where he was staying. He regularly didn't turn up and missed the coach.
Forgot his boots for an away match. On his second chance with us he failed to disclose an imminent court case to the manager (due a few days after first mentioning it to a senior player) just after coming back. There's also the infamous conning old people out of money case.
In hindsight, I think rehabilitation just isn't applicable to these types of people. I've no sympathy at all for any regrets he now thinks he has and don't think he should be allowed anywhere near football in any shape or form.
However, there is no doubt he was talented so it was all wasted.

 

[WestyReturns]

The blokes clearly very poorly educated. Lacks basic understanding of life. Sounds like a naughty 13 year old the way he talks. Never grown up.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

This is cheap press page filler.
It is also an undisguised "wanna nuvver chance" ask from Mr Ranger.
Will there be anyone in football falling for it?
I doubt anyone on this forum would BUT there will be a club out there that might think they would be the one!

 

[Floval Flyer]

The blokes clearly very poorly educated. Lacks basic understanding of life. Sounds like a naughty 13 year old the way he talks. Never grown up.

Seen in a couple of interviews. He’s clearly as thick as pigsh!t

 

[Mad Cyril]

I like to think I could have played at a higher level if I had eaten better.