Watching Iraq I wondered what had happened to Alex Samizadeh. Turns out he was Iranian but his wiki page surprised me:

In October 2020 Samizadeh and three others were accused of providing Iranian nationals with false identification and travel documents, with a view to helping them enter the UK illegally. He stood for trial where it was stated he had a false identity known as Mohammad Hossein Samizadeh in Italy in which he would use to facilitate the illegal immigrations by opening them bank accounts and make travel arrangements by having them use the false identities. His laptop also contained images of other people's stolen passports. He denied all statements.^[14]

In 2023, while playing in Australia he is accused of conducting a crypo scam where he fled the country with investors money.

In 2024, he became the subject of another fraud investigation, relating to property management and in 2025 he was again investigated for fraud in relation to property and withholding deposits.

We've had a few bad lads over the years.

10 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

A Fendi band and different coloured boots

Didn't he get sent off for a ridiculous challenge somewhere? Shrewsbury maybe

4 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Didn't he get sent off for a ridiculous challenge somewhere? Shrewsbury maybe

I'm sure he got a red at home to Morecambe on his debut that was later rescinded

12 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I'm sure he got a red at home to Morecambe on his debut that was later rescinded

Aye, 12 minutes after he was subbed on.

Edited Tuesday at 18:213 days by Cheese

Surprised no one has mentioned the guy who twats who he wants.

Delroy Facey got time

3 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

Our very own Stig Tofting. Not really a wrong un but crackers and nail hard.

Phil brown told a mate that on the last day of the season when we stayed up against Boro before the game he rang the club and they put him on speaker phone in the dressing room to give the lads a rousing team talk

he was in prison for assault at the time

13 hours ago, Alf Hartigan said:

I think I remember more about the poster on here than I do about George Oghani himself 😃

I’m sure I saw the real George Oghani on the 1% club a while back. He didn’t win.

3 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:

I’m sure I saw the real George Oghani on the 1% club a while back. He didn’t win.

You could well have done. About a year ago. Went out on the 80% (2nd) question.

2 hours ago, TrickyTrotter said:

Surprised no one has mentioned the guy who twats who he wants.

I did.

3 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

Aye he was a right ragamuffin.

A "Maverick" according to Evatt

During the Senegal game last night El Hadji Diouf's name came up on commentary. McCoist was laughing about his time coaching him at Rangers and "what a boy he was by the way".

2 hours ago, Zico said:

Phil brown told a mate that on the last day of the season when we stayed up against Boro before the game he rang the club and they put him on speaker phone in the dressing room to give the lads a rousing team talk

he was in prison for assault at the time

during the same conversation mate said "I've heard a few things about Jermaine Johnson" to which he laughed and replied "whatever you have heard about him is probably true"

Surely Andy Todd makes the first XI of any wrong uns list ?

5 hours ago, Cheese said:

Marcus Maddison. What a fucking oddball he was.

I was having a lovely day until you brought memories of that creep, and where we once were, back up.

A genuinely puzzling human being.

19 minutes ago, Zico said:

during the same conversation mate said "I've heard a few things about Jermaine Johnson" to which he laughed and replied "whatever you have heard about him is probably true"

I remember when he was playing for us, I was stood in the beer garden of The Harvester and there was some sort of electrical fire in the stadium, smoke billowing out of the top of the West Stand. Someone said "Ey up, Ricky and Jermaine are having their pre-match spliffs", and for a few seconds it was the funniest thing anyone had ever said. @gonzo was probably there. Or he might have been there but doesn't remember it. Or he might not have been there. But somebody definitely said it. Unless it was just something I thought of saying but didn't because it seemed a bit racist.

Edited Tuesday at 23:183 days by Cheese

5 hours ago, Tombwfc said:

During the Senegal game last night El Hadji Diouf's name came up on commentary. McCoist was laughing about his time coaching him at Rangers and "what a boy he was by the way".

Wasn’t EHD one of the voices of reason when Senegal stormed off the pitch in the African cup o Nations ?

I seem to recall him being one of the suits trying to get them back out to finish the match.

13 hours ago, Cheese said:

Marcus Maddison. What a fucking oddball he was.

Unbelievably still only 32. Worth a shout?

BBC News

Darlington FC player Marcus Maddison jailed for attack

The 29-year-old's contract at Darlington FC was terminated after the attack in September.

2 hours ago, TrickyTrotter said:

Unbelievably still only 32. Worth a shout?

BBC News

Darlington FC player Marcus Maddison jailed for attack

The 29-year-old's contract at Darlington FC was terminated after the attack in September.

Sadly was suffering from awful mental health issues. The moment someone starts moving tatt's from arms & then legs & onto the neck it's a sign. When the face is a canvas you've lost it.

Sharon, being Sharon did all she could but he was a wreck ... &, it seems, continued to be.

20 hours ago, Zico said:

Phil brown told a mate that on the last day of the season when we stayed up against Boro before the game he rang the club and they put him on speaker phone in the dressing room to give the lads a rousing team talk

he was in prison for assault at the time

I know someone who knows Phil Brown very well. I got them to ask him if this was true today. He said he doesn't remember that happening but he was still in touch with him alot while he was in prison.

18 hours ago, Cheese said:

I remember when he was playing for us, I was stood in the beer garden of The Harvester and there was some sort of electrical fire in the stadium, smoke billowing out of the top of the West Stand. Someone said "Ey up, Ricky and Jermaine are having their pre-match spliffs", and for a few seconds it was the funniest thing anyone had ever said. @gonzo was probably there. Or he might have been there but doesn't remember it. Or he might not have been there. But somebody definitely said it. Unless it was just something I thought of saying but didn't because it seemed a bit racist.

Haha yeah I remember that

On 23/06/2026 at 19:25, Dr. Feelgood said:

Chic Charnley played 3 league matches on loan for Bolton Wanderers in the spring of 1992. His brief stint consisted of appearances against Derby County (April 4, 1992), Bristol Rovers (April 11, 1992), and Blackburn Rovers (April 18, 1992). (Wiki).

Charnley was very much the hero of the most notorious story to involve him. As one of Partick’s assorted rogues and rapscallions, presided over by enduringly oddball manager John Lambie (a man who once hurled a dead pigeon at a player, and dropped a medicine ball on Charnley’s head), Chic and teammates were training in Ruchill Park – not-so affectionately known as ‘dogshit park’. The club’s lack of a training ground meant they had to train on whatever loosely-termed greenery they could find, leaving the players open to the occasional interaction with their adoring public.

On this particular morning in 1990, they met with a torrent of abuse from some local ne’er do wells. Charnley invited them to take their leave and to come back in an hour if they wanted to continue the ‘conversation’; the duo took him at his word, and returned a short while later with a carving knife, an Alsatian and a samurai sword.

At this point, most of the squad wisely took a powder. “I’ll argue with a player all night,” said Lambie, “but I’m not arguing with some fucking nutter with a sword”. Charnley and a couple of teammates however, remained to face down the would-be ronin. When the dog blinked first and scarpered, causing a distraction, Charnley’s mates acted quickly to take down the man with the knife. That left Charnley with the swordsman, and he bravely charged towards him, inexplicably taking a stray traffic cone as a makeshift weapon, only to see a flash of the blade and blood pouring from his hand. That his assailant dropped the weapon in the process allowed Charnley to deliver unto him an absolute pasting and drive him off, but he still bears the scar to this day. Just another day at Partick Thistle.

6 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Charnley was very much the hero of the most notorious story to involve him. As one of Partick’s assorted rogues and rapscallions, presided over by enduringly oddball manager John Lambie (a man who once hurled a dead pigeon at a player, and dropped a medicine ball on Charnley’s head), Chic and teammates were training in Ruchill Park – not-so affectionately known as ‘dogshit park’. The club’s lack of a training ground meant they had to train on whatever loosely-termed greenery they could find, leaving the players open to the occasional interaction with their adoring public.

On this particular morning in 1990, they met with a torrent of abuse from some local ne’er do wells. Charnley invited them to take their leave and to come back in an hour if they wanted to continue the ‘conversation’; the duo took him at his word, and returned a short while later with a carving knife, an Alsatian and a samurai sword.

At this point, most of the squad wisely took a powder. “I’ll argue with a player all night,” said Lambie, “but I’m not arguing with some fucking nutter with a sword”. Charnley and a couple of teammates however, remained to face down the would-be ronin. When the dog blinked first and scarpered, causing a distraction, Charnley’s mates acted quickly to take down the man with the knife. That left Charnley with the swordsman, and he bravely charged towards him, inexplicably taking a stray traffic cone as a makeshift weapon, only to see a flash of the blade and blood pouring from his hand. That his assailant dropped the weapon in the process allowed Charnley to deliver unto him an absolute pasting and drive him off, but he still bears the scar to this day. Just another day at Partick Thistle.

Excellent. This is the spirit the kids today wouldn't recognise. More please, more !!

John Lambie: Partick Thistle's ultimate character still stands tall | Nutmeg Magazine

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Just 'Reject All' & a live story to John Lambie may be fouund.

On 23/06/2026 at 18:25, Dr. Feelgood said:

Chic Charnley played 3 league matches on loan for Bolton Wanderers in the spring of 1992. His brief stint consisted of appearances against Derby County (April 4, 1992), Bristol Rovers (April 11, 1992), and Blackburn Rovers (April 18, 1992). (Wiki).

I don’t think we played Derby and Blackburn in that era. I think he played for us at Deepdale, from memory. As he was confused by the “Chic chic chic Charnley” chant.

On 23/06/2026 at 08:28, gonzo said:

He used to drink in my brothers pub the crosspool tavern in Sheffield.

Every night, same time. 4 pints. Then he'd have a session on Sunday.

Small world, my daughter went to Uni in Sheffield (still lives there), lived round the corner from the Crosspool for a short while and went in now and then. Lives near Hillsborough now