EX-spiller: Lee Bowyer

[marve]

Spør igjen hva får folk her inne til å tro at leeds kommer til å hente spillere som feks bowyer ,bates har vell bevist gang på gang at han ikke er villig til å bruke penger .
Bowyer lønns krav vill vell  ligge langt over bates sin lønnspolitikk.
Nei tror hverken bowyer ,wodgate eller smith blir å se i leeds drakt igjen ,vi har rett å slett ikke en eier som er villig til å bruke penger på FOTBALL LAGET LEEDSU.
Kasper er på vei vekk og snart følger snoddy og gradel garantert etter .
Trodde vi skulle bygge vidre på det som var bra fra sist sesong og få inn en del forsterkninger der det trengs men den gang ei.Vi må jo start helt fra start igjen ,halve laget er jo borte .

[Cherry]

Med Bowyer får vi med annet på kjøpet også.....som ikke akkurat trigger meg.
Kom med alternativer...

[Asbjørn]

Vår venn Thom Kirwin twitrer:

For what it's worth, I heard Bowyer to QPR is as good as done

[Jon R]

Iflg Lucas Radebe er Lee Bowyer en grei gutt. Viktig å ta med The Chiefs verdict oppi all hetsen.
Det bør også være et poeng at Bowyer aldri ble dømt for rasistisk motivert overfall. Vold - og asia argumentet faller dermed også bort.  

[Joe Jordan]

Skulle gjerne sett Boywer i Leeds trøya igjen men det skjer ikke. Ja ja, vi har alltids Paynter! :p


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[Hallgeir *]

 Off topic og "surt oppstøt"  , men hvorfor er det så viktig for oss om innlegget er postet via iphone using tapatalk? Blir det bedre eller verre på grunn av framgangsmåten? 

[lojosang]

Off topic og "surt oppstøt"  , men hvorfor er det så viktig for oss om innlegget er postet via iphone using tapatalk? Blir det bedre eller verre på grunn av framgangsmåten? 

Ja, helt klart.
Er det sendt fra en iPhoney er avsender en trendnisse i pologenser med religiøse følelser for epleprodukter. En person som har føleri bak rattet med rasjonaliteten sittende i baksetet. I beste fall. Ellers løper den etter. Det er enda verre.

Dessverre ser ikke Tapatalk ut til å støtte moderatoroppgaver som å skille disse to tråden ut og flytte dem off topografiske der de hører hjemme. Kan noen fikse det kanskje?

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[Hallgeir *]

Off topic og "surt oppstøt"  , men hvorfor er det så viktig for oss om innlegget er postet via iphone using tapatalk? Blir det bedre eller verre på grunn av framgangsmåten? 

Ja, helt klart.
Er det sendt fra en iPhoney er avsender en trendnisse i pologenser med religiøse følelser for epleprodukter. En person som har føleri bak rattet med rasjonaliteten sittende i baksetet. I beste fall. Ellers løper den etter. Det er enda verre.

Dessverre ser ikke Tapatalk ut til å støtte moderatoroppgaver som å skille disse to tråden ut og flytte dem off topografiske der de hører hjemme. Kan noen fikse det kanskje?

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Du får høre med Byggmester Bob. Som kjent fikser han det meste.

[auren]

Vår venn Thom Kirwin twitrer:

For what it's worth, I heard Bowyer to QPR is as good as done

Takk, gud! 

auren

[Hallgeir *]

 Lee Bowyer har nettopp giftet seg. Han er sikkert snill som et lam nå - utenfor banen. 

[lojosang]

Lee Bowyer har nettopp giftet seg. Han er sikkert snill som et lam nå - utenfor banen. 

Uffda. Godt han ikke kommer fra Swansea da hvis han er nygift.

Du vet hvor dette er sendt fra, og hva som ble brukt.

[Here we go again]

Jatakk, men lite sannsynligt.

[Hallgeir *]

Lee Bowyer har nettopp giftet seg. Han er sikkert snill som et lam nå - utenfor banen. 

Uffda. Godt han ikke kommer fra Swansea da hvis han er nygift.

Du vet hvor dette er sendt fra, og hva som ble brukt.

Bowyer til Leeds ville i alle fall vært "sent from Heaven". Transportmidlet derimot...... ?

[SuperLeeds!]

Nei, beklager...

[p0ndus]

Nei, beklager...

Nei da er det jo bare og glemme..............

[bwirum]

Spør igjen hva får folk her inne til å tro at leeds kommer til å hente spillere som feks bowyer ,bates har vell bevist gang på gang at han ikke er villig til å bruke penger .
Bowyer lønns krav vill vell  ligge langt over bates sin lønnspolitikk.
Nei tror hverken bowyer ,wodgate eller smith blir å se i leeds drakt igjen ,vi har rett å slett ikke en eier som er villig til å bruke penger på FOTBALL LAGET LEEDSU.
Kasper er på vei vekk og snart følger snoddy og gradel garantert etter .
Trodde vi skulle bygge vidre på det som var bra fra sist sesong og få inn en del forsterkninger der det trengs men den gang ei.Vi må jo start helt fra start igjen ,halve laget er jo borte .

Det var vel ikke spørsmålet her. Hvorvidt vi som Leeds-supportere hadde ønsket AS eller Bowyer tilbake har med drømmer å gjøre. La oss drømme. Hvorfor skal vi være så fantastisk realistiske hele tiden? En gang i mellom kommer drømmer i oppfyllelse, de fleste ganger ikke, men vi kan jo ikke slutte å drømme av den grunn?

[Kato]

Drømmer hver dag om at Leeds blir solgt.

[bwirum]

Drømmer hver dag om at Leeds blir solgt.

En gang i mellom kommer drømmer i oppfyllelse, de fleste ganger ikke

Sorry ass...

[Howson]

Når alt kommer til alt hadde det vel ikke vært mye som hadde slått følelsen av og se AS og LB skrive under på en fornuftig lønnskontrakt med leeds i sommer og sett begge de to vise store glimt av gammel storhet og skyte oss til PL.

[DenHviteYeboah]

Drømmer hver dag om at Leeds blir solgt.

Jeg også!!!!

[Joe Jordan]

Off topic og "surt oppstøt"  , men hvorfor er det så viktig for oss om innlegget er postet via iphone using tapatalk? Blir det bedre eller verre på grunn av framgangsmåten? 

Ja, helt klart.
Er det sendt fra en iPhoney er avsender en trendnisse i pologenser med religiøse følelser for epleprodukter. En person som har føleri bak rattet med rasjonaliteten sittende i baksetet. I beste fall. Ellers løper den etter. Det er enda verre.

Dessverre ser ikke Tapatalk ut til å støtte moderatoroppgaver som å skille disse to tråden ut og flytte dem off topografiske der de hører hjemme. Kan noen fikse det kanskje?

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Off topic: Jeg la faktiskt ikke merke til at dette var default-signaturen på Tapatalk, lurte på å ta den bort da jeg så det, men nå skal den stå for evig. 

[p0ndus]

Drømmer hver dag om at Leeds blir solgt.

Jeg også!!!!

Hørte jeg opphørssalg. Ihvertfall ikke opprykkssalg

[Asbjørn]

Merkelig nok intet eget emne på ham. Han tilhørte vel de tidligste utgavene av LUSCOS-nettet den gang han spilte.
...jeg unnlot å kalle ham 'legende'...  
(jeg vil nesten anbefale å trykke på linken, maange glimrende bilder der (som jeg ikke gadd å lime inn...)

Det måtte nesten bli 'fiskeindustrien' på ham etter karrieren

Lee Bowyer left football behind to run a carp fishing lake in France... 'I got the bug as a kid, now I could be a professional'

Former England midfielder Lee Bowyer played his last game in 2012
The 38-year-old represented clubs including Leeds, West Ham and Newcastle
Bowyer now runs a carp fishing lake named 'Etang de Bows' in France
Bowyer was involved in several controversial incidents during his career including being cleared of GBH and an on-pitch fight with Kieron Dyer


By Joe Bernstein for the Daily Mail

Published: 22:43 GMT, 28 July 2015  | Updated: 11:06 GMT, 29 July 2015  


Posing serenely in front of a fishing lake in France’s Champagne region, Lee Bowyer can reflect that he hasn’t done badly for a boy from Canning Town once rejected by Arsenal for being too small.

The one-time Leeds United and England midfielder is a gentleman fisherman these days. The water packed with 200 carp and its tree-lined banks are his, all 12 acres.

Bowyer last kicked a ball three years ago and didn’t want to rush into coaching or the media. So he turned to the pastime that kept him sane throughout a tumultuous 18-year career, and turned it into a business.

Former England midfielder has opened a carp fishing lake in France following his retirement from football

The 38-year-old has named his fishing lake 'Etang de Bows', which translates as Bow's Lake

Bowyer decided on a life away from football after he hung up his boots in 2012


The former box-to-box midfielder is best remembered for his time at Leeds between 1996-2003

‘When I was playing, I used to go on fishing holidays in France for a week every June with my mates,’ says Bowyer. ‘There was this place I loved near a village called Orconte. In November, I called the owner and he was looking to sell because of health issues. So I bought it.’

The lake’s old name was La Fritterie, but Bowyer has renamed it Etang de Bows, which translates as Bows’ Lake â€"his nickname.



Anglers pay to pitch their tents lakeside and spend the week catching mirror carp, common carp and the occasional catfish. There is a two-year waiting list so Bowyer can only use his own lake in winter when the resort is closed.

‘You either love or hate fishing. I love it â€" I used it as my getaway as a player. It allowed me to switch off because I was a nightmare otherwise,’ he says. ‘I was one of those who couldn’t unwind or sleep after games. I’d be up until three in the morning watching replays of the game, seeing what I’d done wrong. The fishing helped me unwind.’



Bowyer (left) 'chipped in with goals' as Leeds chased the Champions League dream under David O'Leary


The former Leeds midfielder believes people have a preconception of him from how he acts on the pitch

Bowyer's time at Elland Road came to an end shortly after he was cleared of GBH charges following an incident outside a Leeds nightclub in 2006 - pictured here outside of court after being found not guilty






He used to bump into David Seaman on the riverbank and still fishes when he’s back home in England with Mark Noble of West Ham and Bobby Zamora, who was at QPR last season. His record catch is a 74lb carp.

‘I got the bug as a kid, catching roach in my local canal. Now I could be a professional I think,’ he says.

Bowyer divides his time between his new venture and his family home in Essex where he’s a proud dad to six-year-old twins. He cuts an affable figure, content with his new life, a long way from the midfielder who helped Leeds reach the Champions League semi-final and played for England, but also collected a record number of bookings and was involved in a high-profile court case.

‘Everyone has got this pre-conception of me, that the way I played is the person I am. I suppose it’s understandable, but I am the complete opposite,’ he says.

‘I didn’t get into my county side as a kid and Arsenal rejected me after three years because I was too small. Being the type of person I am, it drove me to where I was. I probably over-achieved.

‘Every team that signed me knew I’d work hard and chip in with goals. And I got on with everyone I played with.’
Charlton was Bowyer's first club


He brought the curtain down on his playing career at Portman Road

Bowyer started his professional career at Charlton before ending it with Ipswich Town in 2012

Bowyer's best spell came at Leeds in a team featuring the likes of Alan Smith and Harry Kewell (right)

Bowyer twice joined West Ham - in 2003 and 2006 - the club he supported as a boy




The best spell came between 1996 and 2003 at Leeds as part of a vibrant side that included Harry Kewell and Alan Smith.

‘We were a proper team. We weren’t scared of anyone and would attack like you couldn’t imagine. People said we were dirty but we were competitive,’ he recalls.

‘We played a mad formation, three men in the middle, two strikers and Harry Kewell who could do what he wanted. David O’Leary got the best out of Mark Viduka, who was a complex character. When Peter Reid got there, Viduka downed tools.’

With neat symmetry, Bowyer scored 99 goals from midfield in his career and was booked 99 times in the Premier League â€" a record until Gareth Barry passed it last season.

Bowyer regrets the lack of modern-day box-to-box midfielders, saying players are either pigeon-holed as Claude Makeleles or as creative No 10s.

‘There are only a few around now but it’s not the players’ fault,’ he says. ‘Jordan Henderson at Liverpool could do it if he had licence but when I see him he’s sitting, which isn’t his game.

‘Tom Cleverley should get more goals, he is that type of player. But it’s difficult with formations today.

‘I’d always have a box-to-box player. A No 10 is easy to mark. But coming from deep against someone who doesn’t like to track back, you can run off them. You’re harder to pick up.

‘George Graham taught me at Leeds. I turned up from Charlton and he dropped me because I’d leave it to other people to defend.

‘With George, you had to do the dirty side of the game. He only picked me when he thought I was ready to do what he wanted. I was 19 and it was a tough lesson, not to leave your team-mates in the lurch. I owe him a lot.’


Bowyer scored 99 times from midfield during his Premier League career... and was also booked 99 times

Ex-Leeds manager George Graham, who 'liked the dirty side of the game', was influential to Bowyer's career


The tough tackling midfielder only earned a single England cap, although insists he should have had more


The glory days at Leeds didn’t last for ever. In 2001, Bowyer was found not guilty of grievous bodily harm and affray after a fight between two groups in the city centre left a man with serious injuries. He left the club two years later.

One side-effect of the court case was that he couldn’t play for England while it was ongoing. A captain of the Under 21s, he ended up with just one senior cap, against Portugal in 2002.

‘I should have had more,’ he says. ‘While the court case was happening, I was playing my best football.’

He had two spells at West Ham and three years at Newcastle before finishing at Birmingham and Ipswich.

He never publicly said he was hanging up his boots after his final game against Leicester in April 2012.

‘We can announce it now, I am officially retired,’ he smiles. ‘I just didn’t think it was a big deal. I loved the game but my body was telling me it was time to stop.

‘The Championship was too many games. We had a match on the Saturday and (Ipswich manager) Paul Jewell said he needed me to play again on the Monday. I was still stiff as a board and I snapped my groin after 20 minutes.

‘That was it. I had offers the following season but I wasn’t enjoying it any more.’



Bowyer argues with former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamman during his controversial spell at Newcastle


Bowyer found himself in hot water after getting involved in an on-pitch fight with team-mate Kieron Dyer (C)

Bowyer thought that Alan Shearer's goals between player's legs were luck before witnessing them first-hand

Besides his lake, Bowyer rents out a couple of properties. He doesn’t need football but it’s unlikely he will be lost to the game for ever.

He has his UEFA B licence and may yet move into youth coaching.

‘As a player, you’d get used to arriving at 9am and leaving by 1pm. As a coach, you’re there from 9am and might not get home till 11pm if you do a match. So be sure about it.

‘At the same time, it would be a shame not to pass on the knowledge I’ve picked up through the years.

‘I remember training with Alan Shearer when I first went to Newcastle, he kept shooting through the defender’s legs, and it kept scuffing into the bottom corner. I thought it was luck but after a month I realised it happened every day.

‘He would pause for that split-second, see the defender stretch his legs out to block, then pull it back into the other corner. I’d love to teach things like that to kids. Coach kids first, then see if I want to be a manager.’



Bowyer reveals he caught the fishing bug as a kid, but now believes he is good enough to turn professional

Bowyer, who won 12 Under 21 caps, was disappointed by England's performance at the Euros this year


Bowyer won 13 Under 21 caps and watched the Under 21 Euros this summer with a degree of sadness as England went out at the group stages.

‘I was surprised Harry Kane went. He’d had a long season and is Tottenham’s main striker. Nine times out of 10, it is the clubs calling the shots. And not just the Under 21s, the full national side too. How many times do you see people pull out having just played on the Saturday?

‘It is a fine line because you want the strongest England team at all levels but I understand why that doesn’t happen sometimes.’

Not wanting to get too despondent about the national game, Bowyer focuses again on the glorious view in front of him. Football has given him a lifestyle he couldn’t have dreamed of. But for the time being he is the one who got away.

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[Tom]

Herlig lesning om en gammel helt! Definitivt på min top 3 liste over leeds spillere de siste 25 årene. Like greit at vi ikke fikk han tilbake til Leeds på tampen av karrieren

[sportcarl1]

Herlig lesning om en gammel helt! Definitivt på min top 3 liste over leeds spillere de siste 25 årene. Like greit at vi ikke fikk han tilbake til Leeds på tampen av karrieren

på plan hade han några riktigt bra år i Leeds, men sista åren gav en fadd eftersmak likt kewell, en riktig skitstövel vid sidan av plan

[Promotion 2010]

Jaja...

Lee Bowyer: If Rosler gets the boot at Leeds Hasselbaink will replace him, and I'll join him
Sun 16 Aug
Dan Coombs
@hitcdancoombs

Lee Bowyer has backed Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink to be the next Leeds United manager.

Former Leeds United midfielder Lee Bowyer has told Radio Yorkshire he sees Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink taking over as head coach if it does not work out under Uwe Rosler.

Speaking ahead of the weekend's draw with Reading, Bowyer was giving his overview on the club's promotion chances and general progress, and believes they could sneak into the play-offs in a best case scenario, and would love to see his former club back in the Premier League.

Bowyer, who now runs a fishing lake in France but has done his coaching badges, even said that if Hasselbaink returns to Elland Road, he will be up for joining him.

He said: "They could do what Bournemouth done last year. It can happen.

"I think Rosler is a good manager, he did well at Brentford with no money. If not then Hasselbaink will be in there. If Jimmy gets it, I'll go as his right hand man."

"I don't think it'll be that long before I'm back in football."

Bowyer retired in 2012 after a short spell with Ipswich Town, also playing for West Ham, Newcastle and Birmingham City after leaving Leeds nine years earlier.

His former teammate Hasselbaink has carved out a promising career in management for himself already, with Royal Antwerp in Belgium and Burton Albion in England, who he got promoted from League Two last season.

He was even linked with a return to Leeds in the summer as a replacement for Neil Redfearn, by The Mirror, but owner Massimo Cellino preferred the more experienced Rosler, who had Championship football already on his CV.

Hasselbaink is a logical option in the future as Bowyer suggests, and the prospect of the former midfielder joining him at Elland Road is a fascinating one, but for now Rosler is in possession of the coveted role, and has no intention of blowing his chance.

[Cherry]

Vil ikke ha igjen denne usympatiske fyren i klubben vår, sammen med Danny Mills og Paul Dickov er han noe av det værste og minst markedsførende for klubben - som vi har hatt innom.....

[Sydhagen]

Vil ikke ha igjen denne usympatiske fyren i klubben vår, sammen med Danny Mills og Paul Dickov er han noe av det værste og minst markedsførende for klubben - som vi har hatt innom.....

Kan ikke huske at Danny Mills gjorde noe spesielt galt?
Husker han som en av de beste høyrebackene vi har hatt siste 25 årene.

[Cherry]

Vil ikke ha igjen denne usympatiske fyren i klubben vår, sammen med Danny Mills og Paul Dickov er han noe av det værste og minst markedsførende for klubben - som vi har hatt innom.....

Kan ikke huske at Danny Mills gjorde noe spesielt galt?
Husker han som en av de beste høyrebackene vi har hatt siste 25 årene.

Stein, hakke`gal.....se på Arsenal-Leeds der vi vant 3-2 borte ......

[Runar]

Vil ikke ha igjen denne usympatiske fyren i klubben vår, sammen med Danny Mills og Paul Dickov er han noe av det værste og minst markedsførende for klubben - som vi har hatt innom.....

Kan ikke huske at Danny Mills gjorde noe spesielt galt?
Husker han som en av de beste høyrebackene vi har hatt siste 25 årene.

Stein, hakke`gal.....se på Arsenal-Leeds der vi vant 3-2 borte ......

Mills gjør ikke noe gale i den kampen, så det skjønner jeg ikke noe ut av..