the Guardian's Secret Footballer

Hasnt been updated in a while.

Im 89% sure it is Duffer

 

* *. It's like a remake of Caligula.

 

It's Kevin Davies.

 

In one article he says he captained England then another says he played in the lower leagues, not got a scooby. I thought it was Owen until the article mentioning lower leagues

 

i know who it is!!!!

took me ages to remember his name though....


alan smith- leeds united. it must be, everything fits.

thoughts?

Edit: he's not a "current" pl player but could have been written a few years ago

 

Scott Parker?

 

Dave Kitson

 

either Stan Collymore or David James....

 

Andy Johnson

 

Based on the evidence, some pretty strange guesses :icon_mrgreen:

What we know;
Ex-EPL footballer.
Has won some trophies of some description.
Back to back player of the year for his club.
Was allegedly addicted to Methadone .
Long-Term wife and kids.

I think the quickest way of narrowing it down if you can be arsed is finding out the player of the years for all the EPL clubs for the last 10 years or so :smiley-laughing002:

 

Or type into youtube for a video of Antonio Valencia putting someone into the stands with a tackle

 

I think it could be Parker tbh.

 

Don't know if it's real or not.
He says an awful lot about his achievements that I'm sure won't be hard to pin down for some.

Could be Barton.

 

It's plausible it's not just one footballer whose been doing this is it not ?

 

I think it's Scott Parker as well.

 

Here's the main clues according to the "who is the secret footballer" site:

1. Is he English?
2. Is he currently married?
3. Has he played under at least 4 managers?
4. Has he had a transfer between 2 Premiership clubs?
5. Was he a Premier League player in January 2011?
6. Has he played with a group of French players at one club?
7. Has he played with a striker who refused to move unless the pass went exactly where he wanted it?
9. Has he played for a manager who lost the dressing room?
10. Does he have a friend who plays for Liverpool?
11. Might he think Harry Redknapp is the Messiah?
12. Has he appeared as a pundit? (TSF probably doesn’t do so)
13. Did he have a long term girlfriend as a younger player?
14. Had/has a strong father figure.
15. Not an Arsenal or Man City player (at end of 2010-11 season).
16. Did he play a match at some point towards the end of March or first few days of April 2011?
17. Not a keeper.
18. Has a daughter.
19. He played with Paolo Di Canio -removed by public demand
20. Someone who’s got a chat about ‘another season’ coming up -see revealing tweet post
21. He’s been involved in a last day relegation battle
22. He’s played for a newly promoted Premier League club
23. Has been subject to a deadline day transfer
24. TSF is Caucasian
25. Has a good friend who is African and has played for a team in Russia
26. Has been diagnosed with depression
27. Played in the lower leagues at start of career
28. Played against Liverpool for a lower league club
29. Was one of the best players in a very successful team
30. Played for a club that got themselves in financial trouble
31. Plays the Paul Scholes role
32. Played under a captain who will go down as one of most successful in the club’s history, without having earned it
33. Played under a stand-in captain wearing a large tubi-grip with a marker pen-written ‘C’ as captain’s armband
34. Has played as captain
35. Has played for a club who promoted their assistant manager to manager (and went on to get bad results)
36. Not a Liverpool fan
37. Played in a team that won promotion to the Premiership
38. Following on from clue 21: That team got relegated due to a goal going in at the other end of the country in the dying minutes of the final game of the season
39. Clue 38 was his last game for that club
40. His wage at the time of clues 38 and 39 was the best part of £100,000 per month
41. He went on to play in the Premiership again after the relegation in clue 38

 

Defo think its Scott Parker

 

Michael Carrick? Played with Di Canio, managed by Harry Redknapp, won the young player of the year two years in a row with West Ham, relegated with West Ham as well.

 

Eh..still some holes

 

For Scott Parker (so far as I know):

A lot of unsure's in there but only one definitive no that I can pick out and that's that if the relegated team was West Ham, then he did play for them again in the first few games of the Championship, meaning it couldn't be him. Also if anyone could find out about his children that would be another YES/NO to the "daughter?" question