eddie Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 Has to be the most ballsy move ever - getting your uni mate to prank Souness into giving you a chance to play for saints Just a brief tribute to say...Ali Dia...what a lad !
BARCELONASAINT Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 if you do a search on him you will find we were not the only club he conned. In fact the list is very long and for some of the clubs he joined he was their highest earner!......he seems to have completely dropped off the radar now.
benjii Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I was sad to hear of his passing too. Such a weird accident! What are the chances?
Toomer Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I was there the day the sub got subbed and I still see the odd shirt with his name on.
Dark Munster Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I'm also sorry to hear about his shocking passing.
Spaceman Spiff Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I'm also sorry to hear about his shocking passing. I was just driving that stretch of road last month. Very dangerous, sharp bends, big drops off the side of the cliff. Must have been a mess. Shocked.
Delboy Dave Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I can't find any reports that suggest he's died?
st alex Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I can't find any reports that suggest he's died? I don't think he's died. He was just shocking at passing. After he played for us he disappeared, seemingly off the edge of a cliff...
Spaceman Spiff Posted 26 November, 2015 Posted 26 November, 2015 I can't find any reports that suggest he's died? Not many interwebs news sites in Mozambique. It's on Radio Maputo.
Dark Munster Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 I can't find any reports that suggest he's died? George Weah tweeted it last night, apparently.
Noodles34 Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 George Weah tweeted it last night, apparently. Or not, as the case may be (and is) this Ali Dia thing gets done to death.
Deano6 Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 RIP Ali Dia. Did one on us, but was mostly funny really. Anyway, nobody deserves to have their life ended like that. Hope there is a full investigation to find the culprit(s).
CB Fry Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 Fair play to the club for agreeing to play the Senegalese national anthem before the Liverpool match. Let's hope the scousers respect it and allow us to remember him respectfully.
Miltonaggro Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 Fair play to the club for agreeing to play the Senegalese national anthem before the Liverpool match. Let's hope the scousers respect it and allow us to remember him respectfully. A fitting tribute. Going forward a small statue alongside Ted Bates might be an idea.
ScepticalStan Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 Sorry where are the reports that he's died? Surely it should pop up on Google somewhere? It is astonishing how many planets had to align so to speak for him to actually make an appearance. Not just the injury crisis that led to us being that desperate for players, but also the fact that Sounness was busy on the Friday and couldn't watch the training session which he took part in, on top of the fact that a player Dia could replace got injured during the match, plus (the big one) Dia was actually due to play in a ressies match on the preceeding Wednesday but it was cancelled due to heavy rain! Real shame that there's no footage of the match. You see tonnes of players who look absolutely awful on their debuts! Yet to be so bad that a manager can be 100% confident that you've got no chance of being anywhere near adequate you surely have to be utterly terrible! Bearing in mind how little players actually have the ball at their feet during a game (hell, I think I read somewhere that even Messi only has the ball at his feet for 3-5 minutes per game) Ali Dia must have been ridiculous. Still, I admire the guy. He literally lied his way onto a Premiership football pitch with nothing more than brazen, big brass balls. Fair play I say.
mrfahaji Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 If my memory serves me right he actually came quite close to scoring...!
mrace777 Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 If my memory serves me right he actually came quite close to scoring...! Depends what you call close:
Deano6 Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 Depends what you call close: Looks like a decent attempt to me. Keeper had to make the save.
davefoggy Posted 27 November, 2015 Posted 27 November, 2015 I remember saying to my brother after he came on "he doesnt look bad" Shows how much i know. Then again, i thought stuart ripley was a decent signing....
Spaceman Spiff Posted 28 November, 2015 Posted 28 November, 2015 RIP Ali Dia. Did one on us, but was mostly funny really. Anyway, nobody deserves to have their life ended like that. Hope there is a full investigation to find the culprit(s). Maputo police apparently saying the second car in the canyon was empty. They've issued a warrant for the owner, but not yet found.
SW5 SAINT Posted 29 November, 2015 Posted 29 November, 2015 Fair play to the guy, we'd all have loved to do what Ali Dia did, play for Southampton in a top flight match.
Whitey Grandad Posted 29 November, 2015 Posted 29 November, 2015 He is a part of our rich history. Everybody knows where they were when Ali came off the subs' bench.
PhilippineSaint Posted 29 November, 2015 Posted 29 November, 2015 He appers to have fallen of this mortal coil
naiser Posted 30 November, 2015 Posted 30 November, 2015 Source please. Google turns up nothing. Sent from my E5823 using Tapatalk
eddie Posted 30 November, 2015 Author Posted 30 November, 2015 Source please. Google turns up nothing. Sent from my E5823 using Tapatalk it is a joke. I wrote the thread just so everyone could have a bit more ali dia in their lives, but the 'tribute' language got taken to mean it was a tribute following his death but seriously, spooky that the second car in the canyon was empty huh?
Spaceman Spiff Posted 30 November, 2015 Posted 30 November, 2015 it is a joke. I wrote the thread just so everyone could have a bit more ali dia in their lives, but the 'tribute' language got taken to mean it was a tribute following his death but seriously, spooky that the second car in the canyon was empty huh? breaking news from Maputo police. Body in Dia's car wasn't Dia's! There's now an arrest warrant out for him.
Spaceman Spiff Posted 1 December, 2015 Posted 1 December, 2015 breaking news from Maputo police. Body in Dia's car wasn't Dia's! There's now an arrest warrant out for him. Shootout followed by high speed chase through Maputo reported this afternoon. The suspect, thought to be Dia, has not been apprehended yet though.
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