Quote Originally Posted by laddo View Post

Although as you know I've been a big fan Ruben's since spotting his talen in the days of the online streams during the pandemic. A very early bandwagoner , you could say, but Maradona would get the nod.
yeah, you did join my bandwagon, Laddo, and you were very welcome

but I remember it was only me going nuts on here when Ardley marginalised him and it then Burchnall and Ross took about 10 games to think about using him....we'll never know how close we were to wasting and losing him altogether