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Edgar Davids new coach/player at Barnet

My hometown, lived 30 seconds away from Underhill \o/

Very good news for Barnet in a few ways. The attendances are generally paltry at the ground, results have been horrible. Hopefully his presence will give the team and whole club a lift.
 
Not the best of starts. Even if he weren't officially in charge the idea of Edgar fudging David's in town should've been enough to spur them on. Losing 1-4 at home.
 
I can see Barnet doing brick, as they are a brick team, leading to Davids coming out of retirement and playing a few games for them and looking poor. Don't do it to yourself Edgar, come and coach the Spurs!
 
Rossi22 said:
Davids in his first 1/2 season for us was so good.
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The first half of the season was the best we had been for years, with Davids and Mido. Then Mido went to the ACN and got fat and Davids got injured. I never saw anything certain about his injury but it was a stress fracture or something. He was never the same when he came back, which was a great shame.
 
Mumorn said:
I can see Barnet doing brick, as they are a brick team, leading to Davids coming out of retirement and playing a few games for them and looking poor. Don't do it to yourself Edgar, come and coach the Spurs!
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Davids isn't playing because he wants to be some sort of hero. He's always understood the concept of the individual being part of a greater thing, the team. In fact I bet he could have played in australia or dubai and earn mega bucks, but he just wants to play football the right way.
 
jts1882 said:
The first half of the season was the best we had been for years, with Davids and Mido. Then Mido went to the ACN and got fat and Davids got injured. I never saw anything certain about his injury but it was a stress fracture or something. He was never the same when he came back, which was a great shame.
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We only lost fourth place to arsenal on the last day of the season, with a very young and inexperienced team save Davids and Naybet, to circumstances beyond our control. How different would we have been if we hadn't succumbed to norovirus.
 
punk_is_back` said:
We only lost fourth place to arsenal on the last day of the season, with a very young and inexperienced team save Davids and Naybet, to circumstances beyond our control. How different would we have been if we hadn't succumbed to norovirus.
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That was as unlikely as Chelsea winning the Champions League.:(
 
punk_is_back` said:
We only lost fourth place to arsenal on the last day of the season, with a very young and inexperienced team save Davids and Naybet, to circumstances beyond our control. How different would we have been if we hadn't succumbed to norovirus.
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Not sure it would have been that different really. We never beat a better team than West Ham away all season. We should have wrapped it up before needing a tough away win like that.
 
[video=youtube;2kUmYLUXG-0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2kUmYLUXG-0[/video]

:lol:
 
The sun certainly wasn’t shining on the 36 Barnet fans who took the supporters’ coach up to Accrington on Saturday.

Already contemplating a 3-2 defeat and potential relegation on the 215 mile journey home, to make matters worse their coach broke down on the M6.

Yet the brave Barnet supporters were saved by an unlikely hero – their player-manager Edgar Davids.

For when the Barnet team coach passed the stranded fans shivering on the hard shoulder for a replacement, Davids ordered the driver to stop at the next service station and told his players to disembark.

The former Champions League winner, who had earlier been dismissed after two bookings, then sent the team coach back up the M6 to collect the Barnet supporters and bring them to the service station where he bought them coffee while they waited.

“I saw the coach on the side of the high way with some of the supporters standing outside in the cold,” Davids told The Telegraph. “It was the least I could do for my team, to send the coach back to pick them up so they don't stand in the cold.

“Shortly after the coach had arrived it started to rain, I was glad I did it. No man left behind!”

One supporter posted on the Barnet fans’ forum: “The coach is warm and very, very plush. It takes us to the services where the players have been treating their bodies like temples at Burger King and sampling the other limited delights of a northern service station.

“To a man they are friendly, talk to the fans, pose for photos and wish us all the best. Then they get back on their bus. Our replacement bus arrives and 11.15pm were back in Barnet.

“You can follow the plastic Premiership as much as you like – but a day like that only happens at Barnet.”

Despite a long playing career which involved many a long journey across Europe, this is the first time Davids has participated in such a rescue mission.

But another user added that Ray Clemence performed a similar act of philanthropy while managing Barnet, sending the team bus to pick up stranded fans on the way to an away clash with Plymouth.

“Also goes to show that both Edgar Davids and Ray Clemence who won everything as players are still decent enough men to respect all football fans,” the user wrote. “Well done to both of them.”

Whether Davids can save Barnet from the drop however remains to be seen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/barnet/9938407/Former-Champions-League-winner-Edgar-Davids-saves-the-day-after-Barnets-fans-are-stranded-following-defeat.html
 
Lovely story

"no man left behind" - an ethos many a top club could do with remembering. the fans are (or should be) part of the journey, wherever the journey may be
 
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