NCAA football betting players don’t have to worry about their favorite players going for 19 years, but that’s what happened in England with Andy Cole, who is second all-time in the Premier League in scoring.
Cole played for Arsenal, Fulham, Bristol City and Newcastle from 1989-1995, but it wasn’t until the ’93-94 season when he netted 34 times for Newcastle that he came into his own. Then, in 1994-95, Cole was shipped off to Manchester United, where he played with the great Eric Cantona, but it wasn’t until he was partnered with Dwight Yorke that Cole was a real threat. He never again scored as many goals as he did that one year at Newcastle, but he scored plenty of timely goals for Manchester United, and played an instrumental role in the side that won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999. After leaving Manchester at the end of the 2001-02 season, Cole bounced around, playing for Blackburn, Fulham, Manchester City, Portsmouth, Birmingham City, Sunderland, Burnley and Nottingham Forest.
Cole earned just 15 caps for England, scoring one goal, and many are still wondering why manager Glenn Hoddle left him off the squad at the World Cup in 1998, when he was at the height of his abilities.
Cole was a solid finisher who really should have played more for his country, but Manchester United benefitted from that as Cole and Yorke fired them to five league titles. He also won the Young Player of the Year, and the Golden Boot in 1993-94. Andy Cole is a Manchester legend, and online betting players are still on the lookout for the next Cole.
