132. Jerel Ifil

[DiV]

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20050116

[DiV]

Video doesn’t show it but I’m pretty certain that’s what lead to the free kick that’s crossed in for the Torquay opener.

The way Jerel gets caught ball watching for the 3rd though 🙈

[Red Frog]

What a slip of a lad Akinfenwa was in those days.

[river monster]

Remember the diving header winner at Millwall right in front of us in the last 10 mins. We went mental.

[Peter Venkman]

Remember the diving header winner at Millwall right in front of us in the last 10 mins. We went mental.

[river monster]

That's the one

[horlock07]

That's the one

Its also a decent illustration of many of his shortcomings.

[Oaksey Moonraker]

Listening to the podcast Jerel and those videos and he got on the end of some rough refereeing decisions. He said when he went to the FA after the Rovers sending off that he was refused his appeal on reputation.

[DiV]

Just listened to this one.

I reckon I was at, roughly 90% of the games he played for us & I rated him but the area he was lacking was football intelligence...

So, I will be honest. I wasn’t expecting him to be such an intelligent, switched on, well articulated man. I mean don’t get me wrong I wasn’t expecting him to be at the level of Donal Trump or anything.

Now, in retrospect I wonder whether his mental lapses on the pitch were not because he wasn’t thinking but because he was over thinking about the other players and what they were supposed to be doing.