Jody Craddock and Kevin Kyle

[reeves4england]

Craddock spent a few months on loan at Sheff Utd during Sunderland's first season in the Premiership, then moved to Wolves in 2003 when they got promoted. According to Wikipedia.

[Tails]

I've always thought Craddock was a bit shite but then that was top flight lark so perhaps he could do a job. Didn't he score an own-goal hat trick once or something like that?

The 2 Sunderland fans I know both hated him, and didn't Sunderland fob him off to Shef Utd once they went up anyway?

You're thinking of Sean Thornton is who is at Orient I think.

[Crozzer]

Major John "Johnnie" Whitby Cradock, (17 May 1904 Lambeth, London, England[1] - 30 January 1987 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England [2]) was a cook, writer and broadcaster and the fourth husband of television cook and writer Fanny Cradock.

He attended Harrow School and served in the British Army, reaching the rank of Major in the Royal Artillery.

He is best remembered as being the long-suffering stooge for his wife in their popular United Kingdom cooking programmes which were shown from the 1950s to the 1970s. Wearing a traditional blazer and sporting a monocle above his trademark handlebar moustache, he would remain around the back of Fanny's studio sets awaiting her imperious commands which, when they came, often resulted his being berated for being too slow.

With his wife, he wrote a number of cook books (see below), which were popular reading at the time. Johnnie and Fanny also wrote the "Bon Viveur" restaurant column for the Daily Telegraph newspaper from 1950–1955. This was one of Britain's first restaurant columns and led to their first television series in 1955.

At first they presented the BBC's "Kitchen Magic", but were soon poached by ITV's first cooking programme, which they presented as "Fanny & Johnnie".

At that time Johnnie and Fanny were not married. Fanny adopted his name for their writing and television work and they eventually married in 1977

[DMR]

You're thinking of Sean Thornton is who is at Orient I think.

No, I'm not.

[Arriba]

if i remember rightly, craddock lost a child in tragic circumstances a few years ago

[yeo]

No, I'm not.

I think you'll find we know your thoughts better than you!

[Rich Pullen]

if i remember rightly, craddock lost a child in tragic circumstances a few years ago

Sadly true, his baby suffered cot death. I remember a TV football commentator talking about it in, what I thought at the time, too much detail. Just say a family bereavement and move on.

[Bob's Orange]

unrelated but I only found out the other day that Kris Commons lost a child as well and he nearly gave up football because of it.

[alanmayes]

Is Kyle the one that we was supposed to be signing from Sunderland on loan under Andy King and he made it to the train station as we was given a transfer embargo or am I thinking of someone else ?

Kingy was interested in getting Kyle here,but the player at the station who had to do an abrupt
turnaround was Thomas Butler.He's the Irish winger who's now with Swansea.Craddock would
do a very good job for us i'm sure.We need an experienced leader at the back.

[Power to people]

So which of our strikers will be first to go then....I'd say it will be Corr going on loan somewhere, come to that which of our defenders will be first to go ?..I reckon Hasney to the knackers yard

[Rich Pullen]

I reckon Hasney to the knackers yard

Is this the official term for "The North West" nowadays

[Reg Smeeton]

 Craddock is the sort of thing we need, so let's see....Kyle is the sort of thing we don't need, retrograde step for me.

[Bennett]

kyle will hold the ball up, something most people were highlighting was a failure in our current squad.

i think both would be good signings

[Peter Venkman]

Craddock has a fairly good pedigree..Kyle does not...but I wont judge a player before I have seen him play in the Town shirt.

Kyle may well hit some form for us and really hit it off playing alongside Cox, who knows.....dont write him off before hes even kicked a ball.

[Rich Pullen]

It started reasonably well for Kyle in fairness... It's since his move to Coventry that it's all gone wrong.