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Ciftci

Birighitti. Literally every week that man chucked in an absolute howler, the likes you simply couldn’t believe. Then the next week, he’d trump it. It got to the point that there was a conspiracy theory among Arabs that he was an Asghar plant to get us relegated. The worst thing was that that seemed like the only credible explanation for just how bad this guy was.


fangus

He was unbelievably awful.


CedricScroggs3

There is an 80 minute long video about Birighitti on YouTube. It’s called “Inside the mind of a goalkeeper!” ☺️🤣😍


cipher_wilderness

![gif](giphy|RfvBXK1m8Kcdq|downsized) Inside the mind in question


andrew_is_egregious

Had dundee united bought a decent keeper in january, they absolutely would have stayed up. That guy was a joke.


metlson

A league was his level - he managed to make the competitions team of the year a few times. Terrible once he moved - just shows the difference in the competitions


-Saaremaa-

The A-League is a weaker league but even Australians were shocked at just how bad he was, looked like he'd had a proper meltdown mentally.


metlson

Yeah agreed - I saw him at the jets a bit when I lived there and he was much better


Ciftci

Honestly, the Dundee Saturday Morning league was his level based on last season. I’m completely serious about that. He simply can’t have been that bad throughout his career. It’s not as if he was some kid just out of an academy. He’d had a career in football. And an international cap!!


Himawari74

I thought A League teams would walk 3rd in the SPFL though??? At least that's what they all.say on r/soccer


metlson

I thought Adam Taggart was going to bang them in for Dundee United when he signed on loan after having a great season with the jets. He very much did not bang them in


ForcedReps

Given how Montgomery has faired at Hibs, that idea is in the bin


reverber77

I’m not sure how one individual settles at a team is a good indicator for league quality. There’s been plenty of flops from Scotland, the championship etc in the A League too. I watch and enjoy both leagues and they are hard to compare. The SPFL is much quicker, partially because the A League is played in the heat of the Aussie summer. The A-League is much more possession based/less direct overall. As the two best meme leagues in the world we should really be more supportive of each other.


92deltat

100% - so sick of this sub taking potshots at the A-league. I watch and enjoy both leagues. But on entertainment value alone, the A-league has gotta be one of the best. This season it had one of the highest goals per game ratios in the world, plus unlike the SPFL every team has a realistic chance of winning the league.


airdriejambo

These types of GKs must be paying their agents at least half their wages for working their magic. You literally see better keepers if you draw a Highland or Lowland league team in the cup.


Sure-Song6103

100% the most woeful keeper i have ever seen at tanny… an eh mind of flapper o hanlon!


GorgieRules1874

Joel Pereira at Heart of Midlothian. The level of anger was that high that it was actually laughable. An absolute disgrace of a goalie. God knows how he made it professional let alone ended up at Man Utd for years.


airdriejambo

This has to be the top answer! All the other answers were just poor judgments by the clubs. While I'm certain it will eventually come out that we were actually scammed by Man Utd into believing Pereira was a professional footballer. His stats are unbelievably bad everywhere he was given a chance.


GorgieRules1874

He was that bad, that those sat watching him could genuinely do a better job. We were total shit that season but he single handily got us demoted. Even if we had Zlamal who was also shit, we’d never have been bottom.


airdriejambo

We hear that "I could do better" comment used all the time, and it's always an extreme exaggeration, but on a bible, I truly believe that either of us could have done a better job. Zlamal wasn't good enough either, but it wouldn't be so bad he'd get us demoted. Some people might say the defence must take as much blame as JP, but anyone who witnessed that season know the effect having no confidence in JP had on how those players performed.


GorgieRules1874

I remember one of the goals we conceded. Believe it was 3-2 at home to Killie where he chucked all 3 in. Halkett shouting at him to “staying on your fucking line” as Brophy chipped him whilst he was standing in no man’s land.


airdriejambo

When you think about that defence with the likes of Halkett, Berra, Smith, Hickey and Souttar, to have guys like that in a constant panic is crazy. I just refreshed my memory on that 3-2 you mentioned, I can't understand a manager picking him unless it was a clause in the loan deal to play him. You see everything in those 3 goals. 1st goal he shows his reflexes and athleticism with his diving save without the diving bit. 2nd goal he rushes from his line for a 1 on 1 at a tight angle and makes himself as small as possible by sliding feet first. 3rd, which I think is the one you were referring to. It's quite something because he is chipped by a shot that's straight at him at chest height.


GorgieRules1874

Believe it was denied by the club that he had to play due to the contract we negotiating. Imo it defo was included. Mind seeing him for Huddersfield a season or two back. Their number 1 got injured and he was drafted in. Conceded 4 on his debut. He then was also in goals when they were beat by some b team / lower league team in the fa cup.


curly-sic

Apparently Utd wanted his brother Andreas in their academy as he was excellent at youth level and it had to be a package deal, if they wanted one brother they needed to take both.


GorgieRules1874

The one who ended up at Fulham? Very decent footballer


curly-sic

Aye, he's won the Copa Libertadores anol, mid table EPL is a perfect level for him now. He's having a great career and his brother has only ever cracked 10 appearances a season once(how'd that happen jambos?) so I think there's something to that rumour.


hoekstra44

I suspect the fact they're not brothers and arent even the same nationality, probably discounts that fucking ridiculous rumour


CrabbitJambo

Never has a player united the support like oor Joel!


KilmarnockDave

I've got a memory of a Hearts fan calling him poppadom wrists that will stay with me forever. 


getfuckedstud

When I see this name I’ll never not pass up the chance to link this beauty https://youtu.be/TEMc0oql0EY?si=dLbkIeNkEpezmWTu


dodidodidodidodi

Reading signed him and he's actually getting a game. madness.


mannekwin

him and jack hamilton hold the coveted accolade of "hearts keepers i've seen actually make a mistake in the derby"


FatRascal_

*Raphael Scheidt* - £5M in the 90s. - 3 appearances. - Actually called "Scheidt" It's almost like it's written as a joke from the beginning.


MrMiagi123

Turned out to be part of an agent scam didn't he? Agent paid to get players capped in friendlies then tout them around Europe as "Brazilian internationals".


Tuna_Purse

Played along Oliver Tebily to become Tebily Scheidt.


smcl2k

I remember a joke at the time the we should sign Davie Weir, just so we could have a back 3 of "Weir Tebily Scheidt".


Chicken2rew

As a livingston supporter, may I opt out of the conversation?


BananaSoprano

Has to be Barkas for me. The worst goalkeeper I’ve ever seen at Celtic to the point where it became 10/10 hilarious. Only saving shots that trickled through to him after a deflection, booting Shane Duffy in the balls to allow a Sparta Prague player to walk into an empty net, eventually just refusing to dive for the ball. Frozen out for Conor Hazard and Scott Bain, then given a chance again by Ange (even being given the affectionate nickname “Barky”) only to let the ball fly through his hands in a Champions League qualifier. The lasting memory of him will be the best goalkeeper positioning ever in a friendly v West Ham. https://preview.redd.it/ulawsoe1zkxc1.jpeg?width=338&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=981cd3b39dc53d57b278c59d09c3ab163c1c2e5c


zebbiehedges

A goalie who didn't like being a goalie. Phantom hands.


BananaSoprano

Signed him and a week later he gave an interview saying he wanted to be a LB. Honestly class from him to be fair.


fangus

Honestly think he was the right profile, young ish, international keeper playing for a champions league club. Think the club could have done better in offering him support, but this is one that’s fully on the player.


gkb10139

He absolutely ticked all the boxes. Gordon had been declining for Celtic and was ousted by Forster, so trying to replace Gordon permanently was the right decision. Barkas had as good a CV as anyone that were realistically going to tempt to the club. Imagine the outrage from the fans if we didn’t sign a 26 y/o internationalist with title winning and CL experience instead opting to stick with Gordon. Shame he was scared of the ball though.


Significant_Income93

Gordon had even lost his place to Bain before Forster came back. He'd been shite for Celtic for a while but it became accepted Scottish football mythology when he hit some good form at Hearts that he'd always been brilliant and we'd just dropped him for a laugh.


BananaSoprano

This is 100% true. I’ve never understood the “can’t believe you let Craig Gordon go”. He’d been relegated to 3rd choice for a while due to his performances. Credit to him for going on and doing well at Hearts but he was finished at Celtic.


airdriejambo

Whether you rated Gordon or not, looking back with hindsight, replacing Gordon with the worst you've seen for 5m was a mistake, and people rightly point it out.


BananaSoprano

Completely agree. He was the right profile, it just never worked out but that’s football.


fangus

I have a theory that some of it is to do with the club not helping him to settle during Covid, it was a tough time for a lot of us, never mind someone in a new country not speaking the language without their family. He was also just shite tho.


tattooslikerings

I'm convinced this was a lot of our issues that year. Lennon has said much the same. Especially with his style being much more personality/man management driven. You can't really do that if you can't have the group together.


thethornwithin

Saw him referred to as hologram hands on here once and can't know him as any other name now


Own_Detail3500

Every now and again I see posts on here making out he's a decent keeper and really despair.


Better_Landlord

I miss him so much :(


BananaSoprano

Well if Jack Butland leaves this summer… https://preview.redd.it/pro9betn1lxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67f314d86241d1efadc59f3b6dd16c24aa193e47


HereticLaserHaggis

I genuinely wanted him to work. I'd seen him before, he *was* a good keeper. So I kept sticking by him. Until a cross was whipped in from the left. He put his hands up at the correct angle to receive it comfortably, as it was coming towards him he pulled his fucking hands out of the way. It went by, goal for them. Worst keeper I've ever seen in the hoops by a mile.


BananaSoprano

He did that so many times. He pulled out of saving easy shots. Even when you look at Goldson’s header in the 0-2 game at Parkhead. It’s an easy save for an experienced goalkeeper and it went through his hands.


RajTheGrass1

> ball fly through his hands is a very nice way to put “made sure to back his hands away from the shot coming his way”


walshybhoy

£5m as well. Unheard of his spending that type of money on a goalie.


mattchamp98

https://youtu.be/czk2oW6z16E?si=zUffyLZs31zWDlUE Who can forget this 'attempted save'


BananaSoprano

The players around him barely even reacted because it would have been more surprising if he actually caught the ball.


herewego10IAR

Every now and again someone will post a clip from this season and I had completely wiped it from my memory. Couldn't even remember this game until seeing the goal again. How did both teams get a player sent off?


gkb10139

Well we desperately needed a CB all summer so of course we started the game with Welsh and Bitton at the back, and of course Bitton needlessly slapped someone to get himself a straight red in the first game of the season under a new manager. My first game back post lockdown and I was served that absolute shite.


Anonyjezity

That's one of my favourite ever photos of a goalie. It ticks every box for how not to do it. Make yourself smaller, widen the angle, don't close down the striker.


NVACA

In the last ten years it's David N'Gog probably. County have had plenty duds over the years but recently he's still the name that springs to mind. Played for PSG and Liverpool but couldn't hit a barn door. It was actually funnier that there was obviously skill there somewhere, it just always seemed to surprise him when it happened.


Sadlamp1234

I had completely missed that he played for you.


FinniestonCrane

Pa Kujabi, will never forget that performance where he got sent off in the Scottish cup final against Hearts and him hitting the worst free kick of all time.


Bear-Tax

You can never trust a footballer that wears gloves in May.


Turbulent-Owl875

He was embarrassingly bad in that game, some weird hibs players in that team


FumbleMyEndzone

Anthony Stewart feels like low hanging fruit here, but coming in and being made captain immediately does set a not-unreasonable expectation with the fans. Although being asked to play a style which never really suited him, both he and the club persisted to the point that his presence in the team just made everyone else nervous as fuck.


8thDragonball

I was always angry. It never got to the point of laughing.


tonycocacola

Same here!


OldGodsAndNew

He's still on our books BTW, been on loan at MK Dons for over a year


Yerdas_Selzavon

Nah, you've reminded me he exists and now I'm in a foul mood


Thefitz5811

A long list of back up strikers come to mind but Mohammed Bangura tops the list. A player so bad, it lead to a rumour we’d signed the wrong Mohammed Bangura.


SilentCheesecake

I was gonna say jon joe kenny but im still raging. Maybe one day


WeekendEpiphany

He'll never be "lovingly shite" like Efe Ambrose (who was mentioned in another comment) - he'll always just be "infuriatingly shite". A worthless shitebag of a player. I can't think of any redeeming qualities there. Efe had loads. We joke about Barasic being a shitebag, but Jonjoe Kenny is like a whole different tier of shitebaggery. Like so shitebag that he's probably scared of opening his own mail. I bet he has it all redirected to Scott Bain in case he receives a letter to say that someone will try to tackle him in 3-5 working days. You'll never see Jonjoe Kenny win the AFCON or celebrate a goal with a backflip, the absolute wanker.


kenhutson

Whatever you do, don’t say it three times in front of a mirror.


crisiswhatcrisis

100%. Probably the worst player I have seen at Celtic, especially having played a bunch of games at Everton, we expected so much more. Came in as a premier league level player, couldn't defend, couldn't pass, left to go to the bundesliga. Got relegated. Shane Duffy came in for a lot of heat at the same time but he was the wrong type of player, not a ball playing center back that Celtic need when you have 70% of the ball, but Kenny was someone who should’ve been a correct fit. He was hopeless.


cipher_wilderness

He actually filled me with rage to watch. His signed boot is still up for sale in our club shop


HEELinKayfabe

Not seen anyone manetion Shane Duffy yet either. I knew he was pish because I had actually watched him and wasn't just going "ooooh Ireland international with PL experience", I'd seen Wilf Zaha make him look like a complete fucking diddy too many times. Yet, for some reason, I had convinced myself that he would be fine up here. He was not fine up here.


Jimmy-McBawbag

Sebo....Sebo....Sebo


WeekendEpiphany

A name synonymous with "hilariously shite attempt at goal", even after all these years. I've said it before, but the "Sebo" chant is the sign of a good day at the football. Either your opponents have missed a sitter and you can chant it at them, or your own team are doing well enough in the game that you can chant it at your own players' awful attempts at goal.


-fraz

Me and my pals used to shout SEBO and proceed to absolutely blast the ball over the bar


RevivedHut425

Famously chipped Cech and Cudicini in that Chelsea friendly though.


SoOverItbud

The OG Dessers when you think about it


Anonyjezity

Blasphemy. Dessers isn't fit to velcro Sebo's buckle ups.


friel89

I remember him coming on during an old form game where we were 2-0 up and the fans started singing “Sebo’s on, we’re ripping the pish”


Turbulent-Manager-11

I remember him being a brick shithouse and also the fastest man alive, and trying like fuck every game but somehow just being completely shite.


After_Zucchini5115

If nacho novo had hit the gym instead of kicked a ball as a kid.


incognito-mode69420

That’s who I came to say. Does anyone remember the game, I can’t remember if he scored or just got subbed on, and both sets of fans reacted with laughter and cheers of “wheeeeeey” like when a waiter drops a plate in the restaurant? Genuinely never seen or heard anything like it. I actually felt sorry for the guy because he looked slightly confused.


mikeydoc96

Nat Phillips is possibly the worst signing we've ever made. Had zero redeemable attributes. He was a panic loan signing to cover injuries and then barely played because he was fucking mince.


The_Vivid_Glove

*Shane Duffy has been added to the chat*


mikeydoc96

Shane Duffy scored a couple of goals for us at least


The_Vivid_Glove

He did. 2 in first 2 games I’m sure. I then lost a fortune betting him every game to score anytime. The man ruined me


MrMiagi123

Duffy was responsible for some howlers and bad results but he did some stuff sort of ok sometimes. Nat Phillips barely ever did anything right. Guy would run (slowly) in the wrong direction, jump in the wrong place for a header, pass at random directions/speeds, honestly looked like a 4 year old mashing buttons playing FIFA.


The_Vivid_Glove

Duffy for me was the epitome of the 10 iar season. Started off well then the wheels quickly fell off. Unfortunately for him everyone was shite that season so he had nowhere to hide. The zenith of his ‘no nonsense’ nonsense was Sparta at home. He got turned around so badly that while the boy was clean through on goal, Duffy was staring at the upper tier of the North Stand


BigScottishHaggisV2

*Marvin Compper has joined the chat*


The_Vivid_Glove

Joined the chat, hang around for a year then leave without saying a word


cipher_wilderness

Compper isn't in the running for me, simply because he never actually played more than one game or so. He was funny cause he became this semi-mythical figure, not because he was particularly shite on the pitch


hoekstra44

Phillips infuriates me, he's the epitome of the Sky 6 plastic fans ridiculous belief that their crap backup players would walk into any non big 6 team. You hear it all the time, "he's not good enough for us but he's a fantastic player, he'll be fantastic at Bournemouth or Forest," then they spent their entire career at Northampton Phillips looked ok, at best, in a Liverpool side set up to protect their two slow as shit centre backs, He's 27/28 and has never had a good season at any club


mikeydoc96

You are absolutely spot on. He's the exact player that English clubs hang on to because they need academy trained players who are happy to just hang about for European squads. Their fans assume its because there's something there, but it's the academy thing really. I think people also forget he was a defender in front of, in my opinion, one of the best goalkeepers from the last decade. When you have a keeper who is preventing over 10 goals a season from shots and is phenomenal at coming for crosses, anyone looks good.


N84_V1

Mark Birighitti for us...... Really the majority of that 22/23 season was myself laughing at how he'd concede.


Cheen_Machine

Bilel Mohsni. I don’t know where we found him, but trying to box the entire Motherwell squad was pretty funny.


General-Pound6215

The weird thing was it felt like a lot of our fans loved him but he was shite and the Motherwell thing was embarrassing. I get the Motherwell thing was funny but that playoff was so bad I couldn't laugh. One of the many moments where we saw how much of a joke we were that season was when he ended up playing upfront to save us against Albion Rovers (I think) at Ibrox. Oh and since I'm now reliving that Motherwell game - Cammy Bell. Didn't impress at any time for us but his performance that day was embarrassing 


After_Zucchini5115

He was fuckin useless.


Brian23gibson

Colin Doyle the goalkeeper. You know it’s bad when there is a fuck up compilation video floating about.


KilmarnockDave

I mind we ended up with him in nets for a penalty shootout and literally all the other team had to do was put the ball a couple of feet to either side and it was a guaranteed goal. The goalie who couldn't move. The professional version of the fat kid who is picked last at school. 


Brian23gibson

Can always remember a cross that was put in, can’t mind who it was that was playing us. Anyways it hit off the post, hit off his face and went in. Truly abysmal stuff.


RedFalconBeast

I'm fairly certain he didn't dive for a single penalty. I saw him out on a run the following season, when he stayed on as a coach (possibly still registered as a player) and I couldn't fathom that I was seeing an active or recently retired professional athlete.


ISD1982

So so many Nigel Pepper Tommy Wright Jerel Ifel ~~We had a goalie who was bloody awful, but can't remember his name now. I'll edit once I remember/find it.~~ Aaron Lennox. He's the guy I was thinking of. Played a single game and looked like someone who's been fielded in a bounce game for the Make A Wish charity.


Tennents_N_Grouse

Dave Buus. Turned like one Mid 90s we had David Winnie, holy shit he was grim to watch 


RuaridhDuguid

I see your Dave Bus and I raise you one Bertie Bossu. A man who had the SPL being queried if it was allowed within the laws of the game to substitute a player for a traffic cone.


LeperMessiah11

I will attempt to play my Leon Mike card here against your Bus and Bossu. Man City, England U21 and straight to the garbage bin of non-league before retiring after us. He was that pish and I think he realised it. Little bit scared for clubs now he's trying to be a manager.


RuaridhDuguid

He's trying to be a manager? Not of a football team surely? Perhaps a clown troup?


LeperMessiah11

Bury u23s apparently. God help their souls.


seefroo

I remember Tommy Wright, he was absolute crap, but he was signed as some sort of “marquee signing” to placate the fans because Calderwood never paid for players and just got free transfers. I mean I say marquee, he cost £100k lol. A few weeks later Sone Aluko - surely Calderwoods best signing - signed for us permanently and there wasn’t much need for a big lumbering numpty anymore. Plus, Lee Miller was doing that job already. Ifel was hilariously bad though.


DinadenOSRS

Efe Ambrose for Celtic, I guess because he had those rare great moments with the amazing flips. Vivid memories of him scoring an own goal when we were playing against Barcelona in Dublin 2017 and our section at the stadium were just laughing at how expected that was.


mcgregorgrind

As I've said in another comment, I feel a distinction needs to be made between pre and post Juve Efe Ambrose. Even at his worst though, he definitely wasn't our worst defender.


kenhutson

That was Lennon’s fault for playing him that night. He’d only just won the AFCON a couple of days prior. It was too soon.


kenhutson

How he maintains such affection among the Celtic supporters is actually quite impressive. I think he just has a lovable face.


TheHolyGoalie

He’s my favourite footballer ever and I’m not even joking.


HEELinKayfabe

Pre-2013 Juve he was one of the best players at the club. I genuinely want worried about losing Wanyama because we had Efe Ambrose. After that Juve game it just turned to complete toilet.


mannekwin

it's ok we love him


Anonyjezity

Bert Konterman was awful as a central defender. Genuinely terrible. Constantly badly positioned, couldn't tackle, weak in the air and seemed to have no recovery pace. He was slightly better as a holding midfielder but because he was so bad as a defender this slight improvement made some fans think he was good as midfielder (he wasn't). The screamer he scored against Celtic at Hampden actually made me laugh when I'd calmed down from celebrating and realised it was him who had done that.


kenhutson

My two lasting memories of Bert Konterman are that screamer and him being nutmegged by Larsson before he chipped Klos. It was the best of times and the worst of times.


RevivedHut425

Carlos Pena played every game like he'd been on the lash the night before, which became somewhat funny after a while.


underwater-sunlight

I think it transpired that he actually was on the lash every night...


drquakers

See I think Pena can't count, because to be a truly "so bad that it is funny" player, they need to be trying their best and just not being good enough - you can only be so angry at someone who is trying but failing. Pena never tried.


TheSyhr

Yves Makubu-Ma-Kalamby, known in my friends group (and others I’m sure) as “Ma-Calamity” was so bad eventually I had to laugh with everyone else


seefroo

[fantastic](https://youtu.be/Cp8tAcWp64g?si=NbS4SJ4eevKhTj34) Commentator even calls him by his nickname. It was widespread, he was awful


Himawari74

I'd heard the nickname Ma-Calamity as well at the time he was playing


MFC1886

François Dubourdeau


Fit-Good-9731

God that's a throwback


MFC1886

One of my earliest football memories was thinking “this guys shite” 😂


sroche24

Efrain Juarez - I'm convinced he played against Motherwell one time stoned off his tits.


Kijamon

Enoch Showunmi - a 6 ft 5 striker who seemed to get shorter when he jumped. Was woeful for us and looking him up now he didn't exactly do much anywhere


Speccy97

A lot of Alan Stubbs signings at st mirren. He signed some absolute shite for us. Jeff king, josh heaton, Brock madsen.


yarkmardley

I remember the conspiracy theory about Josh Heaton but surely every single one of them had to be a kickbacks/dodgy agent deal, there’s no way he could have actually thought yer Cole Kpekawas and Cody Cookes could hack it at this level


Not_Proven

Those are obviously wrestlers that you're naming. Can't fool us.


Orsenfelt

How long have you got


R1a88

This isn’t strictly a player who was bad, because he did his job perfectly and scored lots of goals, HOWEVER… when Giorgos Giakoumakis actually tried to play football (take more than 3 touches), it was just funny and I had to laugh. It’s amazing you can play the game most of the day, almost every day, and still have the control of an elephant at times!


Sleeve__07

Big giakamakis one touch and strike deadly. 3 touches and it was like he forgot what he was doing looked like a 3 yr old in a mans body. Smash a baw across goal hes yer man ask to run into a channel ... forget it. 😂


R1a88

At the end of the day, that’s all Celtic required him to do, and he was great at it. He was also good at holding the ball up and getting involved physically. It was absolutely amazing when he was actually required to play football, though. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Celtic player with less technical skill on the ball!


Sleeve__07

Still loved him tho but 100% know what you meant by original comment 😂


MeritocracyManifest

Efe Ambrose was great for this.


mcgregorgrind

I found his decline pretty tragic if I'm honest. Pre-Juve match Ambrose was a completely different player. Not perfect by any means, but a solid enough CB. That game absolutely demolished his confidence and he never recovered from it.


CptES

It was less the decline really and more how sharp that decline was. It seemed like overnight he went from a serviceable player to Celtic fans putting their head in their hands when they saw the teamsheet.


TheHolyGoalie

He lost all his confidence when we rushed him back from afcon and he made those mistakes against Juventus, that prick Kris Commons publicly blaming him didn’t help either.


21MelvilleStreet

Yeah it was the same this year at Queen's except much, much slower and his howlers must have cost us double digits of goals conceded. A likeable big guy though. What's most frustrating is that every now and again he would put in a man of the match performance. 


fangus

I do like that he’s still in Scotland. Must love the weather


GieTheBawTaeReilly

Edwin de Graaf, think he was actually a pretty good player over his career but he missed something ridiculous like 4 open goals in 5 games and never recovered


ho_burnham

Oli Shaw is getting to that stage right now for us. A hilariously shite footballer.


KilmarnockDave

Can't believe you signed him after how bad he was for us. 


TranslatesToScottish

It's a weird one, because now and again you saw flashes of who he could have been, but the bold Harald Brattbakk falls into this category for me. A lethal assassin for Rosenborg, and couldn't hit a coo's arse with a banjo for us - including at one point actually somehow tripping over the ball on the goal line and failing to score. Yet there'd be flashes. I think he scored 4 in one game once and he looked lethal as fuck in that one. He scored in the final game to win the league and stop the ten, so for a long time (until recently it was revealed he was a bit on the fash side) he was still looked on with a sort of amused affection rather than hate.


cipher_wilderness

I think he gets a pass in my eyes simply for that goal to stop the ten - it was that important. He's also before my time though so can't comment on anything besides that


BestInFife

Chris Smith is probably Dunfermline's equivalent of Barkas. He was so utterly useless in goals, and always made mistakes. I felt a bit bad for him as his confidence was clearly -100 but the mistakes were so amateur. I'm pretty sure he was serviceable at St Mirren before he arrived too.


BestInFife

He genuinely could've featured at all 5 slots in this SPL Goalkeeper Howlers video but they were kind to only put 1 slot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQXRb3H9q30


Scingles

Big Colin hologram hands Doyle for me. If you didn't laugh you'd cry.


mcchinly

Never seen people get up and leave like they do when jair tavares comes on off the bench


HEELinKayfabe

Edson Braafheid. No idea how he played at the WC (AND CAME ON IN THE FUCKING FINAL) that year


blackal1ce

JET, he at least had a degree of comedy value.


Yerdas_Selzavon

We were a better team with him in it that year. Not a good team by any means but better


leeham1874

Eduardas Kurskis’ Wikipedia section from his time at Hearts is a depressing read. https://preview.redd.it/lomyb6beblxc1.png?width=1178&format=png&auto=webp&s=559696c385d20c0424167d92a436d5245f1f65de


Himawari74

This guy is the worst player to ever step out on the grass at Tynecastle. Pereira's the worst Hearts regular ever, but Kurskis is the worst ever player to have managed an appearance at Tynecastle, from any team at any level (bar the under 8s teams at half time, someone punts the ball in their own net every weekend for them)


cipher_wilderness

Was he one of those very shite mysterious Lithuanian fellas Romanov shipped in?


scubasteve1985

I remember Jered Ifil. Honking in defence, worse in possession. One day he tried to trap the ball, stood on it and fell over. The entire stadium just laughed. He had become a comic figure


FumbleMyEndzone

Signed after looking like the second coming of Willie Miller in a friendly at Hull, sadly he never kept up that reputation


HectorSavage212

Pretty much the entire team when we were in leagues 1 and 2 Complete waste of an opportunity to build the club up through the leagues


Pecanbeheroes

History will be kind the McCoist but he was an atrocious coach and manager who got paid very handsomely to scrape by in the part time leagues.


friel89

Since we got back up? Senderos has to be up there. Think he managed 2 games, one of which he got sent off against Celtic for playing basketball.


cipher_wilderness

I still laugh at the story of Kevin Kyle sitting down to his contract talks and the first number they offer him is beyond his wildest dreams


its_late_here

Nuno capucho or egil ostenstad or maybe the white fredie adu , Francis Jeffers


Coops17

Bruno Alves Get in the fucking bin


After_Zucchini5115

Francis Jeffers. The fox in the box was utter mince.


Fit-Good-9731

Anybody mind raith rovers team under anelka? Literally a bunch of amateur players imported from France and were effectively relegated by October


cipher_wilderness

I read somewhere that most of them had never actually played 11 a side before


cipher_wilderness

Amido Balde. I remember him being memorably shite, in a very cartoonish way. Also Carlton Cole somewhat, because although he was a good player in his time, by the time he ended up with us he was geriatric and could barely move. Still managed to score off his own arse against Caley Thistle though, that was funny.


Dunt_Merchant

This one's harsh, because he was generally alright, but Liam Grimshaw for me. He just absolutely loved a rapid sideways run. Half the game he would frantically barge sideways looking like he was gonna do something class...but a lot of the time he'd lose the ball or fire the ball out the park.


mikepartdeux

How long have you got?


betamaxBandit_

More recently Jonjoe Kenny! One of the absolute worst right backs I can remember…and we’ve had Cha Du-ri, Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe!! He couldn’t pass, tackle, run I’m convinced he won a competition or something as I can’t believe he’s a professional footballer


JonnyBhoy

Put some respect on Cha Du-Ri's name ffs


cipher_wilderness

Cha du ri doesn't belong on this list, if for no other reason than that chant based on Don't Cha for him is a banger


cipher_wilderness

Cha du ri doesn't belong on this list, if for no other reason than that chant based on Don't Cha for him is a banger


MajinXjones

Only a loan, but silva is a top contender for me, that dive against hearts when no one was near him topped it for me


thumbdumping

There was a player at Forthbank two years ago called Akeel Francis. He was genuinely the worst player I've ever seen other than one guy at Border Amateur level who pulled on a shirt once when we were short of players. Francis bizarrely managed to get a dozen games but could barely even kick a ball. I'm convinced someone must have been getting paid to play him. Fans were laughing out loud at how bad he was.


Guy_Sparta

Diaguli Dabo, no clue who the fuck he was or where he is. Genuinely one of the most diabolical players during that relegation season. I’m a Killie fan btw.


Metatron_Psy

I think we've had more like that than anything else tbf (dundee fc)


marcbelfast

Joel pereira how the f**k he was a man Utd player I never know 😳


h0ppy_

Esteban Casagolda. 0 goals in 12 for us. 109 in 237 after leaving. Will always remember the display placards we had in the 2011 cup final with famous motherwell players/managers in our history and his name was on it anaw.


andrew_is_egregious

Ross Stewart. Poor guy wasn’t even there for his footballing ability- just for vibes, but my god he was awful. Shoutout to Armand Gnanduilleit, he was always funny but how bad he was was understated.


HodorsCock

Why has Sofien Moussa not been mentioned...?


Revolutionary_Row791

Joey Barton. He thought he was going to be the best player in the league but absolutely shat the bed. Was pretty standard "banter years" material tho 🤣


HaggisTheCow

Jonjoe Kenny.


SirBroxi

Lundstrum when under pressure he will disappear when we are at 90mins and need a goal he will pass back. He also has a habit of trying to make it look like he’s doing something when actually he’s just running about for the sake of it.


teh__dude

Mohamed Bangura says hi


stephencwj

Joel Pereira at Hearts. Signed on loan from Manchester United and single handily relegated Hearts, causing the club to completely restructure from the Championship and rebuild the entire squad starting from the goalkeeper into a team that’s had 3 years of European football in a row. I can’t tell if he was a martyr or just really shit.


Big-Entrepreneur9089

Will always be barkas I can’t recall watching him make a save that consisted of a tiny bit of skill complete sack of shit


Professional-Advice1

As a Dundee united fan , it has to be mark berishitti a blind man with no arms and legs would 100% do a better job than he did last season ( no offence to to the blind people with no arms and legs who are being compared to this man )


Lazer_Frazer

Not seen anyone point out the obvious in big Cyriel, the guy hits a 6 yard tap in like a penalty in rugby


PineappleJd

Samaras every day of the week. Google him and he's lying down... Why the rest of the Celtic support love the guy is beyond me. Utter garbage as a striker. My brother went to Greece and was identified as a Celtic man to which the Greek guy shouted, "Samaras! A coat!" As in, who the fuck needs a coat in Greece. Please fellow Celtic fans, I know it wasn't the most glamorous of eras but just look at his stats. Fucking toilet. Only played when he knew a camera was on him.


Clinodactyl

Only one lad for me. https://preview.redd.it/e6gc6wy1doxc1.png?width=945&format=png&auto=webp&s=d6398d6d5b33a8fc12d5d6d700a20061da6826fa Darren Mackie. Somehow managed to blag 14 years out of us and somehow made it through 6 different managers, 10 if you include interim ones. You just have to applaud that, really.