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Chelsea Slagging Days

Ever since he was beaten 6-0 on his debut by the mighty Chelsea, Wobble seems to have this huge chip on his shoulder. Unfortunately entertainment is seeing him cost the whole country a game.

Chris Waddle.......it's not big........and it's not clever.

You bitter, jealous CUNT.

BUT.. Then again maybe he was right, we are a Boring Classles Team with a Boring classless Manager, Chelsea was everyones second team under Ranieri, under Moan-rinhio it is the world's most hated. GO WADDLE, Go Waddle GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

CHELSEA ARE FUCKING BORING CUNTS

Said Chris Waddle, correctly. Hello Caftards!

Playing career

Early career

Chris Waddle began his footballing career with Pelaw Juniors, moving on to Whitehouse SC, Mount Pleasant SC, HMH Printing, Pelaw SC, Leam Lane SC and Clarke Chapman before joining Tow Law Town in the 1978 close-season. Tow Law Town are a non-league football team in the village of Tow Law, County Durham. ...

Newcastle United

After unsuccessful trials with Sunderland and Coventry City and from working in a sausage and meat pie factory he was eventually taken on by Newcastle United in July 1980 for a fee of £1,000. He made his league debut at St. James' Park against Shrewsbury Town on the 22nd of October 1980 and quickly established himself in the Magpies' side, playing alongside Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley as Newcastle won promotion to Division One in the 1983-84 season. He was called up for the England Under-21 side and soon made the full squad, making his debut against the Republic of Ireland in March 1985. Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club, based at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in North-East England. ... Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, is a football club based in Coventry, England. ... Newcastle United Football Club (also known as The Magpies or The Toon) are an English professional football team based in Newcastle upon Tyne. ... Shrewsbury Town Football Club are an English football club currently playing in Football League Two, the fourth tier of English football. ... Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born February 14, 1951 in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire, England)[1] is a former English football coach and one of the all-time greatest players. ... Peter Andrew Beardsley MBE (born January 18, 1961, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) is a renowned English former footballer of the 1980s and 1990s, who once set a record transfer fee in the game and represented his country 59 times, on one occasion as captain. ... From the 1992-1993 to the 2003-2004 season, the Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League and the second-highest division in the overall English football league system. ... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Biggest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Ireland; 18 February 1882) Biggest defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First in...

Tottenham Hotspur

After 46 goals in 170 games for Newcastle, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur in July 1985 for a fee of £590,000. At Tottenham he established himself as a regular in the England team, playing in the side that reached the quarter finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico linking up again with Beardsley. After the World Cup he enjoyed his most productive season. He won an FA Cup runners-up medal in 1987 when Spurs were beaten by Coventry, while they also finished third in the League and got to the semi-finals of the League Cup. In the same year, Waddle found himself in the pop charts, with the single Diamond Lights making the UK Top 20 in a duet with Spurs and England team-mate Glenn Hoddle. In 1988, he was in the England side which lost all three group games in the European Championships. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English professional football club, who play in the Premier League. ... Qualifying countries The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from May 31 to June 29. ... Note: for the full results of all FA Cup finals, see FA Cup Final The FA Cup - this is the fourth trophy, in use since 1992, and identical in design to the third trophy introduced in 1911. ... From 1889 until 1992, this was the highest division overall of organized football in England. ... The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition. ... Glenn Hoddle (born October 27, 1957 in Hayes, London) is a football manager and former player for Tottenham Hotspur and England. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruud Gullit lifts the trophy after winning the cup with the Netherlands The 1988 European Football Championship (Euro 88) final tournament was held in West Germany. ...

Olympique de Marseille

In July 1989, after scoring 33 times in 138 appearances for Tottenham, Waddle moved to Olympique de Marseille for a fee of £4.5 million, the third highest fee in history at that time. In a team of stars he was one of the top players and during his time there the club were French champions three times (1990, 1991 and 1992). He infamously missed a penalty in a shoot-out at the end of the 1990 FIFA World Cup semi-final against West Germany, ballooning the ball over the bar. Olympique de Marseille is a football team that plays in Ligue 1, the top level of the French Football League, based in Marseille. ... Ricardo scores a decisive penalty in the quarterfinals of EURO 2004 Kicks from the penalty mark (commonly referred to as a penalty shootout) are sometimes used to decide which team progresses to the next stage of a tournament following a tied result in a game of association football (soccer). ... Qualifying countries The 1990 FIFA World Cup, the 14th staging of the World Cup, was held in Italy from June 8 to July 8. ...

Waddle was seen as a strong contender for the 1991 European Footballer of the Year. However the tactics of Red Star Belgrade in the 1991 European Cup Final, whose stated tactic was to play for penalties, caused Waddle to have a deeply ineffectual game. Red Star Belgrade went on to win the final and Jean Pierre Papin won European Footballer of the Year. Chris Waddle's performances in the 90-91 season were phenomenal, and probably the most complete season of a British player abroad since John Charles in the 1950s and Kevin Keegan in the 1970s. Because of English disinterest in Continental European football, having just come out of the Heysel ban, and a particular ignorance of French League Football, Waddle's time at Marseille is often overlooked. The (French for Golden Ball) is a football award, created in 1956 by the French football magazine France Football. ... Crvena Zvezda can also be applied to KK Crvena zvezda and VK Crvena zvezda. ... Champions League Logo The UEFA Champions League is an annual international inter-club football competition between Europes most successful clubs, regarded as the most prestigious club trophy in the sport. ... Crvena Zvezda can also be applied to KK Crvena zvezda and VK Crvena zvezda. ... Jean-Pierre Papin (born November 5, 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France) was a French football player. ... John Charles in his 2nd period as a Leeds United player John Charles, CBE (27 December 1931 – 21 February 2004) was a Welsh football player. ... Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born February 14, 1951 in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire, England)[1] is a former English football coach and one of the all-time greatest players. ... Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas. ... The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred due to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29, 1985 during a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus F.C. from Italy. ...

Sheffield Wednesday

Waddle returned to England in July 1992 in a £1.25 million move to Sheffield Wednesday, then managed by Trevor Francis. The club reached both domestic cup finals in the 1992-93 season (losing both to Arsenal - Waddle scored Wednesday's goal in the FA Cup final replay) and Waddle was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year in 1993. His later career at Hillsborough was marred by injury and he was released at the end of the 1995-96 season, having played 109 games and scored 10 goals. Sheffield Wednesday Football Club (abbreviated as SWFC, nicknamed The Owls) are one of the oldest football clubs in England and play in The Football League. ... Trevor John Francis (born April 19, 1954 in Boxhill, Plymouth, England), was a noted footballer and Englands first £1 million player. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in Holloway, north London. ...

Falkirk & Bradford City

He joined Falkirk in September 1996 as a free agent, in an attempt to regain match-fitness; and joined Bradford City the following month, scoring a spectacular goal in the FA Cup against Everton during the Bantams cup run. Falkirk Football Club are a Scottish football team playing in the Scottish Premier League after winning promotion from the Scottish First Division in season 2004/05. ... Bradford City Association Football Club are an English football team based at Valley Parade, otherwise known as The Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), due to stadium sponsorship in Bradford. ...

Sunderland

He moved to Sunderland, the side he had supported as a boy, for a nominal fee of £75,000 in February 1997, but could not help Sunderland from being relegated at the end of the season, receiving a televised slating from Sunderland manager Peter Reid during the fly-on-the-wall documentary 'Premier Passions'. Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club, based at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in North-East England. ... Peter Reid (Born June 20, 1956 in Huyton, Knowsley, Lancashire) is an English former professional football player and manager. ...

Burnley

In May 1997 he was appointed player-manager of Burnley, moving from Roker Park on a free transfer. Burnley had a disappointing season, only just avoiding relegation at the end of the season, whereas they had been expected to be challenging for promotion. Burnley Football Club are a professional football club based in Burnley, in north-east Lancashire, England. ...

Torquay United

Waddle left Burnley in the summer, and in September 1998 joined Torquay United. He played just 7 times for Torquay before taking up a coaching job with Sheffield Wednesday. He was appointed reserve team coach in July 1999, and played for a local pub side, but left in June 2000 on the appointment of Paul Jewell as manager. Torquay United Football Club, nicknamed the Gulls, are an English association football club based in the seaside resort town of Torquay, Devon. ... Paul Steven Jewell (born 28 September 1964, Liverpool, England) is a football manager based in the United Kingdom. ...

Non-League Career

Following his departure from Torquay United, Waddle enjoyed brief playing spells with Worksop Town and Glapwell. Worksop Town Football Club is a semi-professional English football club from Worksop, Nottinghamshire who currently play in the Conference North. ... Glapwell F.C. is a football club based in Glapwell in Derbyshire, England. ...

When not commentating you will often find him making appearances in the Wragg League Sheffield for HSBC Over 35s.

Post football career

He now frequently appears on BBC Radio Five Live as a summariser at Premier League matches and also writes a column in The Sun newspaper. BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... For the Scottish equivalent see Scottish Premier League The FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclays Premiership in England and the Barclays English Premier League or just simply The EPL internationally) is a league competition for football clubs located at the top of the English football league system... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

He also plays 5-a-side at Dore for Loxley Bears where the team often is highly successful, however their most embarrassing defeat came at the hands of the mighty Porn vale who defeated Chris and his team 9-4 in January 2007. Afterwards Chris refused to shake hands with anyone but the goalkeeper, Martyn 'The Hammer' Arnold who he thought had a good game.

He contributed commentary to Electronic Arts' lineage of football video games, infamously including the ironic commentary remark "That's how we score'm, John." for a successfully-taken penalty. His name and occasionally photograph also appeared regularly on the Chanel 9 section of The Fast Show EA redirects here. ... Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a cultural phenomenon. ... Chanel 9 was a recurring sketch in the British sketch comedy TV show The Fast Show. ... The Fast Show is a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for four series from 1994 to 2000. ...

In 2005 he was charged with attacking a man in a pub in Dore, Sheffield, however the charge was dropped for insufficient evidence. He has one daughter, Brooke, and a son Jack. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada... Dore (grid reference SK311812) is a village in South Yorkshire. ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ...

Waddle was one of the England's fiercest critics after defeat to Portugal on penalties in World Cup 2006. In an article for the BBC website immediately after the defeat some of his harshest quotes included:

• "...we are a quarter-final team and no more"
• "Every time we play a team with a bit of craft and skill we can't deal with it."
• "We have got to face reality that we are a team nowhere near the top seven countries in the world."
• "But we have got to wake up in this country and realise that we are not a great team."

The comments were part of an article which included the post match thoughts of several high profile football analysts. [1].

He is to represent Sheffield Wednesday in the 2006 Yorkshire Masters.

His cousin, Alan Waddle played league football for Halifax Town, Liverpool, Leicester City, Swansea City, Newport County, Mansfield Town, Hartlepool United and Peterborough United. Alan Waddle (born 9 June 1954) is a former English footballer who played as a striker. ... Halifax Town A.F.C. are an English football team currently playing in the Nationwide Conference. ... Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club based in Liverpool. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) are an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... Swansea City F.C. are a Welsh football team currently playing in the English Football League, specifically in Football League Two. ... Newport County AFC are a football club with a chequered history. ... Mansfield Town Football Club is an English football club who currently play in League Two of the Football League. ... Hartlepool United Football Club are an English football team currently playing in League Two. ... Peterborough United Football Club are an English football team currently playing in League Two for the 2006-07 season. ...

Chris has also expressed an interest in the vacent managers position at Bradford City since the resignation of previous manager Colin Todd. Bradford City Association Football Club is a football team based at the Bradford and Bingley Stadium (formerly known as Valley Parade) in Bradford, England. ... Colin Todd (born 12 December 1948 in Chester-le-Street) is a former English football player and future manager of Randers FC (summer 2007). ...

Honours

• 1990 French Championship (With Marseille)
• 1991 French Championship (With Marseille)
• 1992 French Championship (With Marseille)
• 1993 PFA Player Of The Year (With Sheffield Wednesday)

• 1987 FA Cup Final Runners Up medal (with Tottenham Hotspur)
• 1991 European Cup Runners Up medal (with Olympique Marseille)
• 1993 FA Cup Final Runners Up medal (with Sheffield Wednesday)
• 1993 English League Cup Runners Up medal (with Sheffield Wednesday)

In popular culture

Chris Waddle's name was often used amidst the nonsensical speech used in the Chanel 9 sketches on the British sketch comedy show The Fast Show. Its use in this context has no easily apparent meaning; it might perhaps relate to the fact that Waddle became well-known on the Mediterranean coast, where "Chanel 9" was vaguely supposed to be based, but "Chanel 9" seemed more likely to be Spanish or Portuguese than French. Chanel 9 was a recurring sketch in the British sketch comedy TV show The Fast Show. ... The Fast Show is a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for four series from 1994 to 2000. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ...

Chris Waddle is remembered also for his tragic penalty miss in the 1990 World Cup Semi-Final v. West Germany, when his kick sailed far over the bar, destroying England's Cup hopes.

Chris Waddle also had a Mullet (haircut) while playing in the late 1980's - early 1990's hence his nickname of Mr Mullett A mullet A mullet is a hairstyle that is short in the front, on the top, and on the sides, but long in the back. ...

External links

• Chris Waddle on RSSSF-site
• Website dedicated to Chris Waddle and Tottenham Hotspur