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Did anyone ever get to the bottom (pardon the pun) of whether or not Ars Bandeet actually existed or whether he's just an urban legend? 

 

Supposedly he was an Algerian footballer in the 70s.....

 

Anti-plagiarism spoof, I think

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Michael Ricketts - Now without a club for 3 years, at just 35, he was an infamous England flop. Having scored 15 goals by February, he played for England vs. Holland... then never scored for Bolton again that season. Under 2 years later, he'd dropped down the divisions.

 

Also got done for battering his missus in 2011.

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Fellow South American Carlos Roa decided not to wait until his playing days were over before making a life-changing decision.

 

A devout Seventh-day Adventist, the former Argentina goalkeeper temporarily quit the game at 29 to prepare for the apocalypse.

 

Roa, better known to England fans for saving the fifth and final penalty from David Batty to knock Glenn Hoddle's team out of the 1998 World Cup in France, believed the world would end at the coming of the new Millennium and retreated to a farm in rural Argentina to preach while waiting for the four horsemen to arrive.

 

"The year 2000 is going to be difficult," Roa declared. "In the world, there is war, hunger, plague, much poverty, floods. I can assure you that those people who don't have a spiritual connection with God and the type of life that he wants will be in trouble."

 

Thankfully, Roa wasn't as talented at soothsaying as he was at saving spot-kicks and soon returned to football with his former club Mallorca.

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7255311.stm

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Arsenals 2010 youth team......

James shea - goalkeeper, once trained with england.....without a club

Kerrea gilbert - right back - without a club

Gavin hoyte - right back - now dagenham and redbridge

Thomas cruise - left back - now torquay

Daniel boateng - centre midfield - now without a club

James dunne - right midfield - now stevenage

Sanchez watt - forward - now colchester

Craig eastmond - central midfielder - now colchester

Luke freeman - forward - now stevenage

Mark randall - now ascoli- italian third division.

Philip roberts - centre forward - now falkirk

Jay simpson - centre forward - now buriram in thailand

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