Oh Huckerby ...

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'Recently the imploring chant has been heard whenever Carlos Tevez is on the ball. You can see why United fans are so intent on giving the little fellow a home because it is plain to any seasoned observer that with his hunch-shouldered, scurrying style Tevez is the Latin Darren Huckerby. And that's an intoxicating prospect in any language. Somehow, though, you know that the more insistently United fans clamour "Can we keep him, can we keep him, please, please, please!" and the more Tevez capers about trying his best to look like he won't pee on the best rug and dig up the prize pelargoniums, the more Sir Alex Ferguson will set his stony heart against the perky little scamp.

The Scot is an inveterate crusher of childish dreams. Look how Hull fans implored him to part with Fraizer Campbell at the end of last season, only to be cruelly rebuffed. Campbell, it should be said, is a player whose favoured position is "on loan". More or less his entire Manchester United career has been spent playing for somebody else (Royal Antwerp, Hull, Spurs). Indeed, it looks like the young striker may be taking a lead from the aforementioned Huckerby, who made a habit of popping up for loan spells, scoring a goal every other game before returning from whence he came leaving behind him a trail of broken hearts. The Tevez of the Trent pulled off the trick at Millwall, Nottingham Forest and Norwich, before finally deciding to commit to the Canaries full-time.'

Posted By: Old Git, May 15, 14:27:46