Fabrice Muamba

Fabrice Muamba will appear on a Christmas special of Strickly come dancing. I also saw that he hopes he can pkay again, maybe in a couple of years if his heart problem sorts itself and someone will take the risk with him.

Every time I hear about him I wonder if we would have stayed up if he had not had his heart attack. Very selfish I know, and of course if we had stayed up Coyle would still be our manager and we would be bottom of the Prem now.

BoltonTillIDie wrote:Fabrice Muamba will appear on a Christmas special of Strickly come dancing. I also saw that he hopes he can pkay again, maybe in a couple of years if his heart problem sorts itself and someone will take the risk with him.

I can't see him ever playing again because if he did he would have to pay back the £4 million insurance that he was allegedly covered for. Anyone remember the case of Gary Bailey the former United keeper who prematurely retired from English football with a bad back? After a substantial insurance payout he returned to South Africa and then started playing again. He was pursued by the insurance company and had to pay back a substantial amount of his lump sum.

I like Fabrice but I can't see him winning the dancing competition. From what I saw of him on the football pitch I would liken his dance moves to that of a disjointed spider.

Is Muamba the new Jade Goody? I'm starting to really dislike the fella.

xmiles wrote:Every time I hear about him I wonder if we would have stayed up if he had not had his heart attack. Very selfish I know, and of course if we had stayed up Coyle would still be our manager and we would be bottom of the Prem now.

He wasn't even in the team at the time of the incident. He'd also been tweeting extremely childish things about in a "cryptic" manner about the manager and his selections.

So I suspect the answer is no.

I like the guy and I'm delighted he's able to do things like this, unfortunately with celebrity culture as it is he will probably incur some negative press from it.

I think Fabs agent is putting his name forward for everything at the moment. First that "Celebrity" jungle bollocks and now this. Next up, Celebrity Big Brother no doubt! I actually hope Fab pulls out of this one as well, because I suspect all the guy really wants to do is relax & recover with his family.

Lt. Boon wrote: I actually hope Fab pulls out of this one as well, because I suspect all the guy really wants to do is relax & recover with his family.

I suspect he is loving every minute of it. Isn't his agent Max Clifford?

Natasha Whittam wrote:Isn't his agent Max Clifford?

I hope not, can't stand that guy!

Let's face it, he is being made into a 'celeb' because his heart stopped beating for 70 odd mins.

Mind you some of the other 'celebs' have even less claim to fame.

After his 'death' he had sympathy from all over the world and all the world's leaders. Obama, the prime minister of China (sorry mate I don't know your name) the Taliban asked to be kept up-dated of his progress every 30mins. The Pope cleared his diary for two weeks. The Queen had a room made available at a palace of his choice and then he got better, good, and that was that ........ or so I thought.

I can see him being in the New Year Honours list.

The sad thing for us is that he is exactly what we need in this league. With Muamba in front of the back 4 OCs attacking strategy might well have worked and we could be up there near the top.

I don't blame him for cashing in, but I think that people will eventually get fed up with him.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Is Muamba the new Jade Goody? I'm starting to really dislike the fella.

I concur! Why doesn't he just keep his head below the trench level for a bit?

It has become embarrassing, through little or no fault of Muamba's own. I can't bare comments like "Fabrice Muamba: forever a part of the Bolton family". What? Because he had a cardiac arrest? He spent half his four years at Bolton the target of heavy supporter criticism.

He was a massively influential player, whether beneficially or detrimentally. I'd love him back, only with Pratley and Andrews on the go, who wouldn't?

Muamba was rubbish. There, I've said it.

He couldn't shoot for toffee but he worked hard just in front of the back four. We have missed his energy if not his shooting.

People also seem to forget in the days leading upto his celebrity near death he was on Twitter slagging off the manager for not picking him.

Perhaps he was homesick but didn't want to admit it ?

Natasha Whittam wrote:People also seem to forget in the days leading upto his celebrity near death he was on Twitter slagging off the manager for not picking him.

Already said that Nat.

Natasha Whittam wrote:People also seem to forget in the days leading upto his celebrity near death he was on Twitter slagging off the manager for not picking him.

In what way does that make any difference to what anyone on here has said?

He made one slightly sulkish remark about a managers regime that has been shown to be error filled. A manager that you 'apparently' wanted out since day one.

But he still gave 100% on the field.





Literally the smallest basis for a grudge against someone ive ever seen...

Lofty_Love wrote:

In what way does that make any difference to what anyone on here has said?

He made one slightly sulkish remark about a managers regime that has been shown to be error filled. A manager that you 'apparently' wanted out since day one.

But he still gave 100% on the field.

Literally the smallest basis for a grudge against someone ive ever seen...

My grudge is the fact he has milked this near death experience for everything he can. I have no problem people milking a "talent" but the only talent on show here was the doctors who saved his life.

I brought up the Twitter incident because I'm sick of the media making out he was some great footballer who lived like a saint. In reality he was a waste of money, truly one of the worst players ever with the ball at his feet, and then went to Twitter when the manager quite rightly dropped him.