He once drove in to a train
So farewell then to Andy Griffin, who left Newcastle on a free and signed for Portsmouth today. Not perhaps the most cultured defender, but certainly an uncompromising one, which is always a trait I admire in a full back. It also should be noted that he's the only person I've ever heard of who drove his car into a Metro. Probably thought it should have moved out of his way or suffer the consequences, in much the same way as he regularly flattened players on the pitch.

I'm sure Laurent Robert won't be too sorry to see him go, the pair once having a fist fight because he objected to Andy's rather full on approach to tackling in training.

However, in the grand scheme of things we do need to be buying players of a better calibre in terms of their all round game, and so for that reason alone I'm not particularly sorry to see him depart.
- posted by Paul @ 1:52 pm