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Ukraine international Rebrov, who failed to make an impact in his three years at the club, sparked a racism row by warning new Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko to avoid walking in the area near the ground.
Rebrov told Russian magazine Football Weekly: "A lot of dark-skinned people live there. So naturally the crime rate is higher than anywhere else.
"It is not nice to be a robbery victim. So I suggest that Roman doesn't walk but drives around that area."
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Ukraine international Rebrov, who failed to make an impact in his three years at the club, sparked a racism row by warning new Spurs striker Roman Pavlyuchenko to avoid walking in the area near the ground.
Rebrov told Russian magazine Football Weekly: "A lot of dark-skinned people live there. So naturally the crime rate is higher than anywhere else.
"It is not nice to be a robbery victim. So I suggest that Roman doesn't walk but drives around that area."
Spurs slam Sergei Rebrov for racist jibe
Tottenham today defended their local community after Sergei Rebrov's astonishing outburst about "dark-skinned people" threatening crime around White Hart Lane.
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You'd probably get a packet of Hob Nobs and half a Curly-Wurly for it.
I was one of them....
But unfortunately, it was like a Theatre booking 'Cannon' without 'Ball' or 'Wise' without 'Morecambe' for their Summer show....it's just not the same!
Rebrov & Shevchenko were a *double act...
The only time we really got it right was Ardiles & Villa!
* just to prove the point that it doesn't ALWAYS work out, you only have to look at our misguided 'double act' signings of Etherington & Davies, then Dawson & Reid ...only Dawson really worked out there!!
Okay then !
Spurs made a basic mistake in buying Rebrov - they didn't check his record.
At Dynamo Kiev he was part of a striking duo with Andrei Shevchenko who terrorised the CL with string running and the duo scored goals.
However the Ukrainan league was (and probably still is) weak. And that mean that aside from the CL matches in the season before we bought him (and the season before that), Rebrov only played about FOUR Ukrainean league matches. Which of course meant that he only needed to focus on CL for which he was absolutely match fit to play in - whilst the opposition were generally just recovering from playing a tough match the weekend before, and that's the reason that Rebrov in particular (but also Shevchenko) looked great in CL but didn't translate their form as well in the clubs they went to.
There is no doubt that Rebrov had lots of talent, but he was of slight build and had never needed to work as hard as or play as many games as he was being asked to do at Spurs - and hence couldn't produce the form we bought him for.
So maybe if he had been given a 6 month training course (and it would need to be that much to transition him into a top athlete) before coming to Spurs he could have become a top player. But I'm really not convinced !
Shevchenko was shit for Chavs at £30m
He was crap and never came close to justifying his fee. And he never produced at any of his clubs bar Kiev.
Didn't help that he was 5 ft 6 and George Graham signed a wimbledon goalkeeper alongside him to punt long balls to him all day long.
For what it's worth I seem to recall that a lot of his goals came in big match situations. As opposed to someone like Darren Bent who's goals always seemed to be consolations or the last goal in a 4-0 win.
I thought Hoddle would have been able to get more out of him but it wasn't to be.
For what it's worth I seem to recall that a lot of his goals came in big match situations. As opposed to someone like Darren Bent who's goals always seemed to be consolations or the last goal in a 4-0 win.
I thought Hoddle would have been able to get more out of him but it wasn't to be.
He didn't do it for me, although he looked good in his debut, and was unlucky to hit the bar with a brilliant shot, that's all I remember about him, TBH
Fuck him, he was shit and a complete tosser
When asked, by a Russian journalist, how Pavlyuchenko should adapt to British life, the former Ukraine forward Rebrov said: 'A lot of dark skinned people lived near White Hart Lane so the crime rate was high.'
He also claimed that if Pavlyuchenko didn't want to be a 'robbery victim' he should avoid walking around the area close to the Spurs ground.
When asked, by a Russian journalist, how Pavlyuchenko should adapt to British life, the former Ukraine forward Rebrov said: 'A lot of dark skinned people lived near White Hart Lane so the crime rate was high.'
He also claimed that if Pavlyuchenko didn't want to be a 'robbery victim' he should avoid walking around the area close to the Spurs ground.
Where have you got that stat from?
He played around 30 league matches a season, every season at Dynamo.
He wouldn't have had to play so many matches at Spurs as we were dogshit and never in Europe around that time
Can't rember the exact site as I looked him up a couple of years ago but seemed a legitimate source of stats - and also seemed to explain why he seemed to tired to play even one game a week at Spurs so I accepted the info
I remember that article from back in the day and a Martin Samuel comment that when he played for us someone got "mugged" but it certainly wasn't Rebrov.
Thanks for the correction.
I know he was a fairly slightly built man, but I'm now at a loss to understand why he generally looked tired and unassertive playing for Spurs, and generally poor value as a striker vs the player he had been in Ukraine. Think it goes way beyond the PL being a better league. I thought I had found the answer in the stats I found -but if they are incorrect, the question is why was he so ineffective ?
TBH, I was about 19 when he came to Spurs and, having fallen in love with football around 14 years of age (late starter) I had fallen out of love with it a bit then. Spurs weren't on TV that much in those days and I didn't have anywhere near enough money (or Spurs friends) to go to games with. Therefor, I actually hardly ever saw him play for us.
9 goals in 29 league games in his first season 12 in 36 in all is a 1 in 3 strike rate, which tbh, isn't terrible. It isn't brilliant, but it's not terrible.
Perhaps Hoddle found him to be a racist little shit behind the scenes and decided he shouldn't be at Spurs.
9 goals in 29 league games in his first season 12 in 36 in all is a 1 in 3 strike rate, which tbh, isn't terrible. It isn't brilliant, but it's not terrible.
Perhaps Hoddle found him to be a racist little shit behind the scenes and decided he shouldn't be at Spurs.
Eh???
I think if was used as an att midfielder then he would’ve been a great player during some dark old days