[dubaiowl]

Wim Jonk was 52 years old yesterday

Think his first season was impressive if I recall

I was surprised to see he actually played for us 70 times!!  While he was certainly a very good player earlier in his career, he was one of those expensive foreign signings Pleat made that never lived up to the hype and eventually saw us get relegated from the PL and we still haven’t made it back since.  But as Imre said, he seemed to spend more time on the injury list than not and he had some strange pay arrangement that meant he essentially got paid extra to be injured or something like that!!!

My only memory is he only ever being fit when Chelsea showed an interest.