Leon Knight

[Shaggy]

Insane!

OliverKayTimes

Unless you're a solicitor for Rushden & Diamonds, I urge you to follow Leon Knight @knightie82. Truly remarkable claims

11 minutes ago via TweetDeck

http://twitter.com/knightie82

Need to do a fair bit of scrolling down, it's crazy ****!

[Reece]

Can't you just provide a summary please?

[Shaggy]

No.

[Reece]

**** it then, can't be arsed going back through them all. I'm sure I'll find out sooner or later.

[doogle]

Im gonna be going wild on twitter all day **** RUSHDEN&DIAMONDS the crooks

For those who don't know colin hill he's the funder of rusden and diamonds he's the biggest crook EVER!!!!!!!

colin hill turned up in the changing room and gave a team talk hahahahah wait has he got anything to do with rushden ?

ill go against the world when u mess with my kids money them taking up the 3rd year when i was already signed for darlo is a disgrace

i have alot of tweets saying watch what i say tonight ..... sorry people my heads gone im going in on rushden ive held my mouth for 2years

ive been playing abroad for the last 2 years and held my mouth but no mouth im telling all

U will not be getting paid this month we got told this in the middle of the training ground car park and if anyone has anything to say come see me in my office. Lee phillips then pipes up and the chairman walks towards phillips and shoves him so phillips pushed him back hahahahahaha so funny jus one of the many things ill be exposing later this evening


U wanna know what went on when I was at rushden follow me and also tune in tonight

U can't give people things and then ask for them back!!

R&D gave me 2 slk mercs 2 black ones

then when they knew we wasnt good enough to go up they ask for the cars back then reported them stolen

and got my old man and my mate knicked loooooooool

and they still have my 3k cartier watch in the side of the car and my 350 quid marc jacob glasses i might call the police on them loooooool

and they gave me 30k in cash thats the money they want back

then said if i dont give them back the 30k ill end up in a box

ill stop there



someone just tweeted im throwing away my career on twitter - u cant get punished for tellin the truth im not telling no lies here or tonight

[Shaggy]

Yep the pfa and fa r doing nothing rushden and diamonds football club is a joke keith cousins the chairman and colin hill who funds the club still to this date. Gary hill who was the manager when I was there is a complete tit they think there the MOB loooooooool

[Shaggy]

I had to cancel my deal cos rushden and diamonds will not let go my registration they want 30k frm anyone who is gonna sign me this year it ends this season so I will be headin out the country for the last year so they don't get nothing !!

[Shaggy]

Just noticed this

Just to be on the safe side, I'd like to say on record that if @knightie82 makes any allegations about my Dad, they're not true.
12 minutes ago via web

Name Jamie Redknapp

Location Literally all over shop.

Bio I was a footballer and now I talk about football on Sky with Richard Keyes which is literally unbelievable at the end of the day. Wife's a top, top musician.

http://twitter.com/LiterallyJamie

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2 days ago in the northern echo-

PROLIFIC or problematic?

Leon Knight has been described as both in recent years as the reputation of Darlington’s new striker suffered while his career drifted off course.

So off course, in fact, that within the last 18 months he has endured short-lived spells at a minor Greek team called Thrasivoulos Filis as well Scottish clubs Queen of the South and Hamilton Academical.

Such a downfall must have been hard to bear having come through the ranks at Chelsea and once been a regular goalscorer in League One with comparatively bigger clubs Huddersfield, Brighton and Swansea.

It was in 2006 when he left Brighton, after a reported falling out with the manager, Mark McGhee, that Knight, rightly or wrongly, became tagged as a troublemaker which, to some, is how the 28- year-old remains portrayed.

A further nine clubs since Brighton does little to suggest otherwise.

But at Darlington, his 14th different club, Knight is bidding to re-ignite his career and manager Mark Cooper feels he can handle any offthe- field issues.

“He can be as bad as he wants as long as he scores goals,” quipped Cooper when Knight arrived for a trial that this week saw the forward join the club for the rest of the season.

Knight is in the squad that has travelled to Bath City for today’s game and will be on the bench at Twerton Park assuming international clearance, required due to his spell in Scotland, is received in time.

Cooper has admitted the forward is not yet fully fit. The manager said: “He’s scored a lot of goals wherever he’s been, so his scoring record is not in question.

“The only thing that’s an issue for some people is the off-field stuff, but I haven’t got a problem with that. I’m confident I can deal with that and get him scoring goals for the club.

“You take people in life as you find them, don’t you? I’m not going to judge him on what other people have said about him, I’m going to take him on face value and for me he starts here with a clean slate.

“I’m sure I’ve got enough man-management skills to get the best out of him.

“He’s got on well with everyone here and what’s helped is that he already knows four or five of the lads because he’s played with them before.

“I don’t see him as a problem and I’d rather be talking about what he does on the pitch and hopefully that is going to be scoring goals for us.”

Knight fired Brighton to promotion from League One in 2003-04, bagging 27 goals, including the winner from the penalty spot in front of 65,000 during a play-off final at the Millennium Stadium.

His stay at Swansea lasted only a year and, after meandering from club to club, in 2008 he dropped into the Blue Square Premier for the first time when signing for Rushden but that stay also ended in acrimony.

Rushden sacked him after only four months, explaining “continuous breaches of the club’s code of conduct” which were understood to include turning up late for both training and games.

Cooper added: “There are talented people who have not fulfilled their potential in every walk of life. I’ve got to get as much out of him as I can.

“You’d have to ask him if he sees it as a last chance. From my point of view I want to bring good players to the club, he knows this division after playing at Rushden – and the levels about – and there were a few clubs chasing him.

“He’s only 28 so he may be thinking ‘I’ve got four or five years left in me, I’ve got to do as much as I can to squeeze a living out of the game’.

“He came up here for a couple of days for training, he saw the way we do things and then watched the game last Saturday and I think he thought that with the way we play he might score a few goals.

“If we can continue to get as many balls into the opposition penalty areas as we have been then someone is going to score a lot of goals. Whether that’s Leon Knight or somebody else, I don’t mind who it is.

“Having seen what I’ve seen in training, I’m sure he’s got enough about him to make a difference.”

[Shaggy]

I'd be inclined to believe him over Rushden....£30k in plastic bags, trying to take Mercs off them and reporting them stolen ....they sound like comically small time wannabe gangsters. He'd look the ultimate cunt if he was making this up, I see no good reason why he would. It goes on at lower division clubs. Chesterfield were taken over by a massive crook a few years ago and they got hammered by the authorities when it all came out.

[Shanks]

Stan trying to calm things down.

@knightie82 Leon,S Collymore here.I know youre obviously angry and upset but keep your own counsel mate.Twitter isnt the right platform.

[Lee]

Stan trying to calm things down.

Can't see that on Knight's wall?! Or do I have to sign up for Twitter to see the lot?

He's gone off his rocker though reading those posts. Proper radio.

[Shanks]

Can't see that on Knight's wall?! Or do I have to sign up for Twitter to see the lot?

He's gone off his rocker though reading those posts. Proper radio.

Should be able to see it here from Stan.
Not sure if it shows up as a reply though...

http://twitter.com/CallCollymore

[Lee]

Should be able to see it here from Stan.
Not sure if it shows up as a reply though...

http://twitter.com/CallCollymore

Ah he protects his tweets - that'll be why I can't see what he's written then

Cheers moosh, let us know if he says anything else of interest

[Shaggy]

I am gonna say no more I have loads more to tell that I can back up with paper work and pictures and have players that will come forward to back up what I'm saying what I have said is the truth and not even half of the story I will go to national papers and tell all in detail. DM me if u are a journ pls thanks once again much love for all ur support and tweets.