Just started a job on a really big new build house , the project manager repeatedly said that it was for a footballer, I didn’t bite and ask who it was.

I’ve had sciatica lately and took 2 tablets that were prescribed for a mate at work. Since reading the packaging again it says ‘1’ tablet twice a day, so I was really wired.

Popped up there yesterday and wayne routledge was walking round the house with the builder. I had a brief chat and started thinking to myself ‘ you’d better go, you’re off your f*cking nut’

Googled him and see that he’s 36 now and retired.
Was never really sure how good he was at Palace, as at that time all you had to do was pas it to AJ.

Seemed like a nice enough fella, although a little stressed as the job is really over schedule. I on the other hand probably came across like Zammo in 1986.

Nice story about Wayne, but on the sciatica front, get yourself on an inversion table. I suffered in agony for 6 months, got myself an inversion table for £50 after spending hundreds with osteopaths and cured myself in 5 minutes.

Retired. At 36. Poor bloke

I disengage, I turn the page.

He was a good player. Not Wilf / Clyne / AWB / Moses standard but certainly on the second tier of academy graduates with the likes of Ben Watson.

Imagine being retired at 36 though. I'm 36 and still trying to decide which career I want.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Ha ha, it"s a dilemma we have all been through.

Ha. Everyone gets charged the same , although I do apply a £50 fine for every time a builder calls himself a ‘developer’ or when they call a customer a ‘client’. So it might be a few quid more