Top of the Flops

Just what is wrong with Andriy Shevchenko? Is he misfiring or about to get used to life at the Premiership? When Chelsea splashed out S$90 millions to signed him. I thought oh, he was gonna terrorise all the Premiership clubs, tear apart their defences at will and score spectacular goals for fun.

Well, it was not to be. I waited and waited. It’s around year end now. I am wondering when will he start firing in all cylinders?

I remember back then at Dynamo Kiev, he and Sergei Rebrov were like the twin strikeforce terror. Hey, Rebrov was a flop at Spurs too. When Shevchenko went to AC Milan. He was the epitome of the modern-day striker. He was classy, looks good and score lots of goals. He was a God at the San Siro and adored by everyone in Milan.

How come the goals dried up at Chelsea? Was the pace of the Premiership too much for someone who just hit 30. Quite frankly, he looked pathetic when he was leading Ukraine in the recent World Cup held in Germany. I can’t recall he did anything great. At the Premiership, he fumbled, stumbled, had defenders racing past him, passes going astray, shooting and heading wide. It was real wretched quality.

What a pale shadow of the great striker he used to be….sigh. It would be a shame if he got offloaded to somewhere come this January transfer window. But seriously, that could not happen. Why? He has become the excellent battering ram for Didier Drogba. He gets shadowed more by defenders and so, Drogba could sneak in and score. Disgraceful.

Since this blogpost is on football flops, I am gonna highlight the other flops that I can think of. There is Alen Boksic at Boro. The great Croat, he was so terrific at Lazio but flopped at the Riverside. Massimo Taibi, he cuts a dashing Walter Zenga-like air back then. Flopped at Old Trafford with a series of blunders. A fumbling giant with butter fingers.

The worst of all was Emile Heskey. He sure as hell flopped at the Kop. Can anyone tell me how he got into the England reckoning? Hey, wait…the French guy, Djibril Cissie sucks big time too!

I am not sure if Winston Bogarde and Shuan Wright Philips bombed. But they sure got frozen out at Chelsea. The great Dutch striker, Patrick Kluivert sure looked every bit the lost soul at Newcastle.

On the Arsenal front, Charlie Nicholas bombed too. Hardly score goals with the regularity he did at Celtic.

Carlos Tevez looks every bit like a flop at Upton Park as well. To be fair, most South Americans need quite awhile to settle in a foreign land.