Mcfaul unlikely to feature

[Jimmy Grimble]

That is according to BBC Sport:
http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/7184719.stm

Not match fit... Lack of games over in Ireland ? Injured already ?

I still think he'll be on the bench.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/arg...lay.var.1978356.0.forster_skippers_albion.php

"likely to be on bench"

 

[Scotty Mac]

doesnt irelands season run through the summer, like the mls?

 

[SNOOBS]

Cadamateri out for them - I remember him being a handful before (can't remember who for though) good that he's out.

 

[Scotty Mac]

Cadamateri out for them - I remember him being a handful before (can't remember who for though) good that he's out.

take yor pick - he must have played for about 100 teams by now

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

He's served some time hasn't he?

 

[bright1064]

I hope McFaul gets a decent run out. By that I mean longer than the token 3 mins that elder seems to endure every game!

 

[Statto]

One for the future methinks.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Danny Cadamateri was once supposed to be the next best thing for Everton - until he suddenly wasn't - in a partnership along with Francis Jeffers

 

[Scotty Mac]

Danny Cadamateri was once supposed to be the next best thing for Everton - until he suddenly wasn't - in a partnership along with Francis Jeffers

him and owen were englands next big prtnership

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Why did he end up in jail? He did didnt he?!!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Cadamateri details

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=10582

 

[Beach Hut]

What ever happened to Jeffers, last I heard he was at Charlton

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Cadamateri details

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=10582

Huddersfield arent much kop away from home judging by that

 

[Cheshire Cat]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1962146,00.html

Cadamarteri returns from depths for fight of his life

One-time Everton prodigy craves second chance after serving six-month drug ban

Dominic Fifield
Saturday December 2, 2006
The Guardian

There was a time when Danny Cadamarteri revelled in his reputation. As the great Evertonian hope of his day, the dreadlocked teenager who humiliated Liverpool in the city's derby, had five countries - from Italy to Ireland - scrutinising his eligibility. Now, discarded by the game he once hoped to take by storm, he must reinvent himself to revive his career. "It doesn't matter that I played in the Premiership," he said. "After six months out I may as well be untried, a YTS, but on top of that I've got this stigma attached to me: 'Does he do drugs?'"

Cadamarteri, now free to play again, is club-less and craving a second chance. Everton fans who watched him stutter at Goodison Park after such a breathless introduction would argue that his career stumbled some time ago but the 27-year-old can pinpoint when his world collapsed. Back in mid-March, he stood in the home dressing room at Valley Parade peeing into a pot to satisfy the UK Sport testers. Bradford City's substitute had entered the fray against Oldham with his side trailing 3-0 and, despite City succumbing 4-1, had done enough to earn himself the sponsors' man-of-the-match award and a random post-match drug test.
A fortnight later, the striker's mobile trilled and City's physio Steve Redmond delivered the desperate news. Traces of ephedrine, a common decongestant but banned as a stimulant, had been found in Cadamarteri's sample. "The Professional Footballers' Association suggested I admit it and I'd most likely get a reprimand," said the striker. "I wondered why I was holding my hands up when I didn't know what I'd done - I'd been taking off-the-shelf training supplements but I'd also had a cold in the week up to the Oldham game and had taken some Day Nurse to play.

"I ran around like a man possessed in that match, so it was sort of inevitable I'd be tested. John Bramhall, the Professional Footballers' Association's doping expert, advised me initially but by the time I was called to a final disciplinary hearing in Birmingham in May, he'd passed my case on to [the PFA executive] Richard Jobson. As we waited to see the FA panel, he told me that this was the first case he'd ever done. That made me think it couldn't be that serious or they'd have had someone more experienced representing me.

"The Bradford club secretary and Steve Redmond didn't even turn up, which didn't impress the panel. They pumped me for two hours, chastising me. We got out and Jobson said he thought I might get two months and I was devastated to think I'd miss that much. We were called back after about 50 minutes and, when they said they 'intended to ban me from all football activities for six months' I nearly fell off the chair. It was unreal, as if everything around me just slipped away."

Cadamarteri was instructing lawyers to mount an appeal when Bradford, with whom he was one of the highest earners having made 97 appearances in two spells after his release from Everton, attempted to sack him for gross misconduct. He had played seven games after the Oldham match, helping to haul the club up League One. "They'd got the disciplinary hearing put off until the end of the season because they needed me to play. Then my club hearing wasn't taken by the manager, the secretary or the chief executive, but by a guy called Chris Patzelt, who was in charge of match-day security.

"They tried to terminate my contract immediately with no money in lieu and Patzelt ended up escorting me out of the building. While I was disgusted by the club, I wasn't surprised. We'd been through it all when the club went into administration a year earlier, so I'd witnessed that they were willing to ruin someone's career over money."

His own career was in tatters a few weeks later when his ban was upheld on appeal, consigning a player who has both delighted and infuriated into the wilderness. Nine years ago the 17-year-old tormented Bjorn Kvarme and Neil Ruddock to score a scintillating second goal for Everton against Liverpool, his fifth in six senior starts. Cadamarteri left Goodison on the shoulders of delirious fans who bellowed his name as a possible for the World Cup ahead of the other local bright young thing, Michael Owen. The Yorkshire-born Cadamarteri went on to win three England Under-21 caps.

Within weeks he had been rewarded with a five-year contract worth around £10,000 a week, though he never scaled such heights again. There were controversies off the pitch which contributed to Everton releasing him after 110 games and 15 goals and, in many ways, he is still suffering the legacy of that perceived wild youth. "Everyone had me branded a 'drugs cheat', but it was never about ephedrine. I was up there with Adrian Mutu, Paul Merson and Mark Bosnich. The assumption was I'd been using social drugs, cannabis, coke, Es, not Day Nurse.

"My mates still call me Cada-mutu but people would stop me in the street saying: 'I can't believe you took drugs.' It just made everything an uphill battle and I was finding it hard enough coping with the ban. I couldn't get my head around it. Everything I knew had been ripped away. I went for a kick-around in a school playing field over the road with some mates but the caretaker came running out, saying it was private property. The first thing that went through my mind was: 'He knows I'm banned.'

"I even tried to go and watch my mates at Bradford play but apparently they didn't think it was appropriate me being there and tried to have me ejected. They even turned down my request to buy a box for the season. All I could do was get my head down and make sure I was fit because I had to hit the ground running when the ban ended come November."

His luck has not turned yet. Cadamarteri's name was circulated and, having impressed on trial at Barnsley, the striker was due to sign. Then the manager, Andy Ritchie, was sacked. Oldham welcomed him on trial last week, though the task of winning over the doubters is ongoing.

"There will be managers out there thinking: 'It's drugs, so is he a bad egg?'" added Cadamarteri. "But I won't walk away. I've gone from being a kid who made a bang in the Premier League to someone looking for another chance. Once I sign for someone, they'll benefit from the backlash and a lot of clubs will be on the end of it. I will prove myself again."

 

[Cheshire Cat]

What ever happened to Jeffers, last I heard he was at Charlton

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=13590

Sheffield Wednesday so downhill all the way.

 

[Screaming J]

To be fair when I rememberd Cadamateri my thoughts were "Oh, another scouse junkie scrote a la Barton - f*** off" but having read Cheshire Cat's post I am warming to the guy.

 

[dougdeep]

Booth is out for them too, their elderly striker.

 

[SeagullEd]

It's not really surprising. Obviously he'll need time to get his fitness up etc. I haven't seen him so I'm not going to say ' he's a good player' but reports of him I've heard seem to be positive. I doubt he's on a very big wage so could be useful!