Travelling with Tino

By Dave Eadevic
February 11 2004

Faustino Assprilla's search for footabll and a wage packet continues with him jetting off to China, in search of a team. Its always sad to see a former star coming to the end of the road, but few who witnessed Tino at his best could forget the mans talent.

His hatrick against Barcelona is still one of my personal favourite footballing memories, also his first game against Boro, where he arrived fresh from the airport to the bench, when he was brought on changed the game almost instantly.

Then came the downward spiral, that saw him almost join Darlington, luckily for Tino he saw sense and got out of there as fast as possible, a spell back in his homeland followed a spell in the middle east.

But now he finally seams to have reached the end of the road and like that other local hero Gazza has decided chinese money is as good as anyone elses.

Good luck to him, I will always have my memories of barca.