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Payet retires
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frank marker
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dealcanvey
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I remember watching the FA cup game against Man U when di canio scored against Barthez. I was with my grandad a lifelong hammer from Manor Park. He was a reserved man but that game he was jumping up and down in the living room. It was great!
Go forward some years we had another maverick player at old Trafford. Payet put that free kick against Man U in the FA Cup. Has to be pretty much 10 years to the day as my grandad was in hospital at the time. Took me back to that time when I was with him as a kid. He died couple days later but he would have loved Payet. I thought we were robbed in that tie. If we had see them off I’m sure we would have gone on to win it.
werent to be but what a player he was. We may not get a player like that in the premier league again let alone play for us!
Go forward some years we had another maverick player at old Trafford. Payet put that free kick against Man U in the FA Cup. Has to be pretty much 10 years to the day as my grandad was in hospital at the time. Took me back to that time when I was with him as a kid. He died couple days later but he would have loved Payet. I thought we were robbed in that tie. If we had see them off I’m sure we would have gone on to win it.
werent to be but what a player he was. We may not get a player like that in the premier league again let alone play for us!
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I mentioned on the Carroll daggers manager thread about the palace game.
The last few of months of the last season at Upton park were completely sold out. I kept trying to get tickets and no luck, time was running out and I had to factor in travel and hotel as I was coming over from Ireland, I was getting quite stressed and upset about it all tbh. In the end I got a ticket for palace through a contact at the club.
Payets free kick was just sublime, the icing on the cake. After the match I stayed behind to say my goodbyes to the old place. Everyone had left except around a few hundred who also must have been at their last game, very emotional I was in bits.
So thanks dimi for the kick, a class player indeed.
And thanks to my arsenal cousins who got me a ticket in the arsenal end a couple of days later for the 3-3 Carroll hat trick game, so I had to do all the goodbyes again, and phone a sicky to work to stay in London a few more days . .
The last few of months of the last season at Upton park were completely sold out. I kept trying to get tickets and no luck, time was running out and I had to factor in travel and hotel as I was coming over from Ireland, I was getting quite stressed and upset about it all tbh. In the end I got a ticket for palace through a contact at the club.
Payets free kick was just sublime, the icing on the cake. After the match I stayed behind to say my goodbyes to the old place. Everyone had left except around a few hundred who also must have been at their last game, very emotional I was in bits.
So thanks dimi for the kick, a class player indeed.
And thanks to my arsenal cousins who got me a ticket in the arsenal end a couple of days later for the 3-3 Carroll hat trick game, so I had to do all the goodbyes again, and phone a sicky to work to stay in London a few more days . .
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
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Far Cough UKunt" wrote: ↑23 Mar 2026, 17:24 That free kick defied the laws of physics, some Palace fans were giving it the waaaaaaay and then it went in. I love the sound of it hitting post as it goes in, that one against De Gea of Man U was a bit like that as well
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Far Cough UKunt
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That free kick defied the laws of physics, some Palace fans were giving it the waaaaaaay and then it went in. I love the sound of it hitting post as it goes in, that one against De Gea of Man U was a bit like that as well
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Massive Attack
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The Mercernary" wrote: ↑23 Mar 2026, 16:33 I had an amazing view from the BML of that Palace free kick - it was extraordinary.
The atmosphere at half time in the kiosk area was absolutely bouncing too - best I ever heard there. Then Clattenburg had to intervene!
What could've been indeed...
I recall purposely watching the warm up in that game of Payet practising his free kicks and he fucked up every one of them. Then when it mattered, he always turned it on.
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The Mercernary
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The Mercernary
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I had an amazing view from the BML of that Palace free kick - it was extraordinary.
The atmosphere at half time in the kiosk area was absolutely bouncing too - best I ever heard there. Then Clattenburg had to intervene!
What could've been indeed...
The atmosphere at half time in the kiosk area was absolutely bouncing too - best I ever heard there. Then Clattenburg had to intervene!
What could've been indeed...
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Far Cough UKunt
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For a year or so we had one of the best players in the world, then as everyone knows in true West Ham fashion it went fucking sideways.
What could have been?
What could have been?