Dwight Yorke

[sherro]

Sorry if this is in another thread (very busy at work atm)

The coverage of Dwight Yorke's arrival yesterday was good, except for one thing. "Glamour club Sydney's glamour signing". Does anyone know why they got the tag? Surely not because of the WCC victory? Surely not because of La Paglia? Is is just razzamatazz? Media spin?

It's a dangerous thing to do. What if, after we spank them in Sydney, they then go on to lose one of their next two or three? They will have set themselves up for a fall, and the media will eat them up.

Yorke said good things, as you'd expect him to, about the A-League and the quality of the football, and there's no doubt he's a real drawcard, and his presence on the pitch will draw crowds. As much as I'm behind MVFC, we just ain't got one of them!

[SMan]

I think the Yorke signing is a great thing for the game and Sydney. But let's face it, Sydney has always been full of glamour, the best example of that would be the mardi gras :D

[M.R.M]

I think the Yorke signing is a great thing for the game and Sydney. But let's face it, Sydney has always been full of glamour, the best example of that would be the mardi gras :D

Warwick Capper?

[alastair]

I'm sure i've heard The World Game refer to Sydney as the glamour club.

[M.R.M]

I think the Yorke signing is a great thing for the game and Sydney. But let's face it, Sydney has always been full of glamour, the best example of that would be the mardi gras :D

Sunny Redfern?

[SMan]

Warwick Capper?

Yes, definitelly, and FLAMBOYANCE ;)

[Kieran]

Yes, definitelly, and FLAMBOYANCE ;)
Don't forget the SPEED as well :p

[Rob]

Sunny Redfern?

The jewel of Australia.

[Modi]

I had the great *pleasure* of watching Dwight at Ewood Park in the spell he had with Rovers.

Unfortunately, he didn't live up to the reputation he came with. In fact, as I posted on a Rovers board after one of his last matches for the club, the player doing the half time draw put more effort in than he did and was a greater threat to ManUre as well.

He was a very frustrating player, as you just know he had the talent but so rarely showed it. Hopefully raise the profile of the game in Australia, but if he's going to be a success will really be down to him.

[Kieran]

I had the great *pleasure* of watching Dwight at Ewood Park in the spell he had with Rovers.

Unfortunately, he didn't live up to the reputation he came with. In fact, as I posted on a Rovers board after one of his last matches for the club, the player doing the half time draw put more effort in than he did and was a greater threat to ManUre as well.

He was a very frustrating player, as you just know he had the talent but so rarely showed it. Hopefully raise the profile of the game in Australia, but if he's going to be a success will really be down to him.
Great post :cool:
Completely agree.
If he wants to do well, and get fully fit, and concentrate on his football:
We'll definitely notice it :o

[Dermot]

He’s into it already “he (Dwight Yorke) was spotted at Hugo's Lounge in Kings Cross at the weekend” SMH :D

[gweeds]

From today's Australian (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15828001%255E23215,00.html)

Dwight's sex life still news
From correspondents in London
05jul05

DWIGHT Yorke has moved to Sydney FC but the former Manchester United star's sexual exploits are still making headlines in Britain.

The Trinidad and Tobago international and his Aussie mate Mark Bosnich are included in a new book Playing Away – The A-Z of Soccer Sex Scandals.

Yorke was sold to Blackburn Rovers when Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson finally lost patience with the striker's socialising.

Shortly after moving to Old Trafford in 1998, Yorke teamed up with Bosnich, his former Aston Villa colleague, for an orgy with four women that he videoed.

Anxious to avoid detection, he threw the tape into his rubbish bin but it still ended up in the hands of a national newspaper, which printed a picture on its front page.

But Yorke was not known to everyone. He convinced one of his nightclub conquests that he was a postman named Brian.

"People were coming past and saying hello to him and he said it was because he delivered their letters. I believed him. He seemed a lovely bloke," she is quoted in the book.


Footballers' celebrity lifestyles offer many temptations.

"It wasn't as often as a different girl every night, but it could have been," Scotland striker Frank McAvennie, who moved to London in 1985 when West Ham signed him from St Mirren, recounts in the book.

"Frank was mobbed wherever he went, even in Marks and Spencer," said Anita, his girlfriend at the time.

"We used to go on holiday to places like Ibiza and there would be one topless girl after another coming to talk to him as if I wasn't there."

Former Portsmouth and Newcastle United striker Micky Quinn was another 80s star with a regular supply of goals and girls.

"Women would throw themselves at me," he says.

"I felt like Rod Stewart. When I was at Portsmouth I actually had four birds on the go at one time. They were all barmaids, which says a lot about the life I was leading."