Jimmy Bullard Fan Club

September 18 - 2006

We at Soccernista count Jimmy Bullard among the reasons we love the game of soccer. In addition to being a quality player, he seems to embody most of what we find right about the game.

This past summer, Jimmy made the transfer from Wigan to Fulham. After just a handful of games with his new club, Jimmy established himself as a Craven Cottage faithful. His free kick goal against Sheffield United in Week 2 was tremendous, and his shot that splattered against the cross-bar (in the same game) was somehow even better (both can be seen here). In general, Bullard’s infectious enthusiasm for the game had, er, infected the London club.

But Jimmy will not be pulling on his FFC jersey in the foreseeable future: he ran into some serious bodily harm earlier this week a la Newcastle’s Scott Parker. The collision left Bullard with a dislocated knee and untold ligament damage, and he is currently in the United States visiting renowned knee specialist, Richard Steadman. The footage is also on the interwebtube, but we won’t be posting it because it’s just too gruesome. Suffice to say: Jimmy’s down.

If any good came of this, it’s that we headed over to YouTube (the likely cause of our eventual unemployment) and searched for some Bullard material. We found some classic Jimmy moments: Jimmy being Jimmy in a goal-mouth pile-up, Jimmy being Jimmy after Duncan Ferguson punched Paul Scherner, and Jimmy being Jimmy on Sky Sports. The real gem, though, was buried deep in the belly of the YouTube beast. Soccernista now gives you Jimmy being Jimmy, naked in a laundry cart, with underwear on his head, leading his former Wigan teammates in battle-chant, and finally crashing into the JJB locker room wall. Enjoy:

Get well soon, Jimmy. Your new team needs you on Saturdays and, by the looks of it, every other day as well.