21st January 2005
By
Jody Jamieson
 Kieron
Dyer has been with Newcastle United for 5 and a half years, played
in one cup final, worked under three Newcastle bosses and been capped
numerous times for England. While his time here hasn't been a rip
roaring success, I feel it has been far from bad on the pitch. I am
sick fed up watching him whap his cock out in the Bigg Market, or
wrapping vehicles around lampposts for example, but I feel that a
lot of the criticism of Dyer is purely speculation.
Everyone criticises Dyer for being head of the "Bling Boys" or whatever
the media have named our team this year. Can that really be proved?
Or are we just jumping to conclusions? And of course there will be
some who see fit to have as go at his injury record. Kieron Dyer,
much like Jonathan Woodgate, never once decided to be injured. It's
not his fault. Don't believe for one second that I feel that Dyer
is innocent in my eyes either. I was appalled when he refused to play
on the right at Middlesbrough for instance.
I think Dyer has the same problem that Steve Watson had. Jack of all
trades. Watson struggled to command a role in one particular position.
Dyer has the attributed to be a good winger, midfielder, forward,
or even a right back if injuries dictated that he was required there.
And I feel that a lot of his good work goes unnoticed. Anyone remember
when England hammered Iceland 6-1 before Euro 2004? Dyer had a big
hand in 2 of the goals, and only one of them did he actually touch
the ball. For one of the goals he made a mazy, darting run that tore
the defence apart which allowed Vassell (I think) to score. Dyer didn't
touch the ball in that build up, but played a massive part with the
type of run your uneducated football fan would call "one of those
bloody pointless runs."
I feel that if Kieron Dyer could stay injury free then he'd be a massive
asset to think club. I agree that he doesn't score enough. I agree
that sometimes he doesn't do enough to beat the man, and more often
than not his touch can let him down, but I feel we need to give him
one more chance. Sure I think that perhaps it's a bit sad that he
was almost in tears because a few fans booed him but what we seem
to forget is that just because he's a famous, 40,000 a week footballer
in the Premiership, doesn't mean he's not a human being. He's shown
by his many misdemeanours off the park that he's far from perfect.
We all make mistakes, and just because he earns a lot of money he
shouldn't be banned from making said mistakes.
Don't get me wrong here. I don't feel sorry for him. But I feel that
everyone deserves a chance to prove they can get it right. And fair
enough this lad has had more than his fair share of chances, but if
he comes good and fulfils his promise will we be complaining? I certainly
won't.
Football is all about opinions, and I can understand why a lot of
people are fed up of Dyer and his meanderings, but some of the best
players in the world have been up to a lot worse than Dyer. Did anyone
see the state of Diego Maradona this past week? Christ the bloke is
like a balloon! And with that tashe he looked like a gay Spanish bull
fighter, but all the cocaine he took didn't stop him from being the
best footballer this world has ever seen. George Best kinda spoiled
his career (although the shame of playing for Hibernian was punishment
enough in my eyes) but he was still incredible when he was on top
of his game. And then there was Robin Friday who was a bloody maniac,
but a brilliant player.
Going onto the continent, some people have forgotten during all the
controversy surrounding Francisco Totti that he is actually a world
class player. He spits on folk, and is a arrogant pain in the rear-end,
but what a player! Olivier Kahn gets up everyone's nose with his arrogance
and his general high ranking on the prat scale, but is still an incredible
player, and let's not look past the Madrid golden boys (or should
that be golden balls?). The blue eyed boy himself Raul has some sort
of superiority complex and hasn't exactly been squeaky clean from
what I hear, and David Beckham has allegedly disgraced himself with
his womanising. But let's come a little closer to home. Sir Bobby
Robson in his playing days was a bit of a lad, but it didn't stop
him being a very good player. But there is one man who left our very
own Newcastle United far too early (even though we had little chance
of keeping him) but wasn't exactly blessed with common sense on or
off the pitch.
We don't have to go into the barmy world of Paul Gascoigne, partly
I don't want to test the server's strength just yet, and a 200,000
word article might just send it to the big PC World in the sky, but
who would have kept Gazza for a further 10 years than we did? Superb
player with bags of talent who still utilised it, despite constant
calls against his weight, his drinking, and his treatment of his wife.
All I'm saying is it's not too late for Kieron Dyer to make a name
for himself at Newcastle United. Sure, I've been annoyed with him
in the past, and sure I've been embarrassed with some of his extra
curricular activities, but I'd hate to see us cash in and then to
watch him tear up the league. But at the end of the day the ball is
in Dyer's court, and only he can turn this around.
Don't let me down lad. |
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