Andy Cole - Underrated

[Lee909]

5 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I always think of him as a finisher.  The truly great strikers could/can create stuff out of nothing; I don't think he ever could.

 

He had 73 assists which surprises me. But I don't remember him being involved like that. 

[Clem H Fandango]

8 hours ago, Lee909 said:

 

He had 73 assists which surprises me. But I don't remember him being involved like that. 

 

That would confirm that he himself knew he was shit and would rather pass than shoot.

[Guest]

Prefer Teddy Sheringham over Dwight Yorke and Andrew Cole.

[Bob]

9 hours ago, RJ Fan club said:

he was brilliant for that season or so at Newcastle 
 

He missed a lot of chances while at the mancs, lucky for him he got a hell of a lot of chances when at United, so his scoring record was probably okay/good over his old Trafford career 

That’s my memory of him. He always seemed to score but he always seemed to miss about 3 guilt edge chances first before bundling in a scrappy one.

 

put him in any other team and he’d be Huckerby, Cademarterie or any other of the no marks that came through scored goals, got found out then fucked off.

 

edit: I’ve gone in too strong on that last line. He was better than them. But the Defoe, Ferdinand, Hasselbaink @RJ Fan club listed is about right. And interestingly, Yorke probably sits in that tier of the list too.

 

Double edit: it was @Lee909

[YorkshireRed]

I was behind the goal when he scored a hat trick against Liverpool at St James’s Park. It was blinking freezing.
 

At least one of those goals was later focused on as part of the match fixing trial involving Bruce Grobbelaar. 
 

Slept in a student nurses room that night, in a place for student nurses. This memory trumps the football one from earlier in the day. 

[Tony Moanero]

36 minutes ago, Bob said:

That’s my memory of him. He always seemed to score but he always seemed to miss about 3 guilt edge chances first before bundling in a scrappy one. 

That was how I remembered him. However, I watched footage of a load of his goals a while back and he was far better than I recalled.

[Mudface]

11 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

I was behind the goal when he scored a hat trick against Liverpool at St James’s Park. It was blinking freezing.
 

At least one of those goals was later focused on as part of the match fixing trial involving Bruce Grobbelaar. 
 

Slept in a student nurses room that night, in a place for student nurses. This memory trumps the football one from earlier in the day. 

 

Did she know you were there?

[Guest]

48 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

Did she know you were there?

‘She’?

[Jairzinho]

4 hours ago, Clem H Fandango said:

 

That would confirm that he himself knew he was shit and would rather pass than shoot.

 

They were shots.

[Bruce Spanner]

He was ‘outstanding’ by his own admission.

 

 
But, just like the song, he was shite.

[Curly]

16 hours ago, Clem H Fandango said:

Thought it was Van Persie that nearly died?

 

 

Absolute shithouse that Williams

[Clem H Fandango]

16 minutes ago, Curly said:

Absolute shithouse that Williams

 

Agreed. I did however love Fergie's fume at the incident and the irony of his own players trying to break legs and kung fu a fan in the face.

[suzy]

I couldn’t stand him.

[VladimirIlyich]

He was an excellent striker but always more effective with a partner like Beardsley and Sheringham. 

[VladimirIlyich]

8 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

Did she know you were there?

Thats what he told the Police.

[aws]

He was really good and a great finisher but some distance away from being in the upper echelon of great players. 

[VladimirIlyich]

15 minutes ago, aws said:

He was really good and a great finisher but some distance away from being in the upper echelon of great players. 

He did miss a lot great chance for such a good striker,I seem to recall.

[Ron B]

Take away Cole’s two years(-ish) at Newcastle, and his scoring record becomes a lot less extraordinary. 
68 goals in 84 games for the Geordies - or a goal every 1.2 matches. 

Over the rest of the his career it was 221 goals in 562 games or a goal every 2.5 games. 
Basically his goalscoring dropped off a cliff once he went to Old Trafford. He had some seasons with a decent return, and won a fair few trophies, but perceptions of how good he was are all coloured by remembering a relatively short period of brilliance.

[Baltar]

Never rated Cole. Good but not great. The other striker to play for the Mancs, old horse face Ruud Van Shithouse was underrated I thought. Brilliant striker.

[Raymond Duck]

I had a beer with him when I was at Uni, during the period when he went ”missing” to force his move to United. 
 

He told us it was all agreed and Newcastle asked him to do it to save face. He was pretty sound in fairness.