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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 2, 2015 18:04:21 GMT 1
Well as far as other teams are concerned & being an old git, Jimmy Greaves was the best of a great bunch. My Dad used to get tickets for Spurs as freebies so I saw him play a few times in the sixties. He was Jordan Rhodes, who incidentally is some what underrated in my opinion!, with style. (Let's face it I bet Jordan doesn't have a tailor)but the best ever Town player, that I watched, must be F. Worthington. He had it all. Just liked the women and the booze, strictly in that order, too much. Intelligent bloke too. Very personable and articulate. Would be a PR man's dream today and would be earning £100k a week no doubt, despite all the eccentricity! If anyone remembers the Tottenham mods or Lord Jims--all the best. Its difficult to compare Jimmy Greaves with anyone and I wonder how he would fit in to a modern set up! Obviously an incredible goal getter / finisher - but so much more. Lovely dribbler and shoulder dropper. Maybe Suarez / Aguerro better comparisons than Jordan. What we might have hoped Nahki would become when we signed him  |
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Post by yoy on Oct 2, 2015 21:34:30 GMT 1
Remember being excited about Le Tissier coming to play against Town in the league cup. From memory he scored the winner with a scrappy goalmouth scramble. Hardly the 40 yard belted we'd become used to seeing.
Paul Scholes was always great to watch for United - less so for England. Managed to see him live a few times and on every occasion he absolutely controlled it with his range of passing.
Cantona was superb. He's pretty good in the adverts where he's pretending to be a farmer too.
When you look back at goals Shearer scored it always reminds me that there was more to him than I necessarily remember.
However, I'm going for a bit of a cheat for my all time favourite and going for a pairing. Booth and Jepson. Has to be... First promotion I ever saw for Town having experienced relegation on my first ever season.
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Post by wtd on Oct 2, 2015 23:57:30 GMT 1
Well as far as other teams are concerned & being an old git, Jimmy Greaves was the best of a great bunch. My Dad used to get tickets for Spurs as freebies so I saw him play a few times in the sixties. He was Jordan Rhodes, who incidentally is some what underrated in my opinion!, with style. (Let's face it I bet Jordan doesn't have a tailor)but the best ever Town player, that I watched, must be F. Worthington. He had it all. Just liked the women and the booze, strictly in that order, too much. Intelligent bloke too. Very personable and articulate. Would be a PR man's dream today and would be earning £100k a week no doubt, despite all the eccentricity! If anyone remembers the Tottenham mods or Lord Jims--all the best. Its difficult to compare Jimmy Greaves with anyone and I wonder how he would fit in to a modern set up! Obviously an incredible goal getter / finisher - but so much more. Lovely dribbler and shoulder dropper. Maybe Suarez / Aguerro better comparisons than Jordan. What we might have hoped Nahki would become when we signed him Nahki... Jimmy Greaves!!!!   |
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Oct 3, 2015 1:08:23 GMT 1
Its difficult to compare Jimmy Greaves with anyone and I wonder how he would fit in to a modern set up! Obviously an incredible goal getter / finisher - but so much more. Lovely dribbler and shoulder dropper. Maybe Suarez / Aguerro better comparisons than Jordan. What we might have hoped Nahki would become when we signed him Nahki... Jimmy Greaves!!!! Similar height and build  |
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Post by jimmynich on Oct 4, 2015 21:03:53 GMT 1
Town wise...........got to be big Frank for me but in my formative years watching Town 67/68 on......I loved Colin Dobson, Jimmy Nicholson, Bobby Hoy, Jimmy Lawson then Alan Gowling, Kevin Johnson, Robins, Stanton, Terry Curran then Stewart.
Non Town Tony Currie was a joy to watch for SHeff Utd plus George Best/Jimmy Greaves.............UTT
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Post by lgm55 on Oct 4, 2015 22:35:50 GMT 1
Well for me I grew up playing various standards from being paid to pay for mates beers after the game haha to playing against players walking on the field with a beer All told it was the aggressive tackling and the never give up attitudes for me. Darren Bullock Chris Marsden Andy Morrison These type of players could make just one tackle that got the crowd on their feet which upped the tempo and produced a town spirit I feel we are lacking at the moment. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 22:45:30 GMT 1
You could almost smell the fear coming off the opposing keeper as Kindon's huge pale thighs came thundering at them with the ball at his feet or chasing down an errant backpass. It was the era of fairly short shorts which probably added to the effect. A tactic in those days was if Town kicked off 1st half, the ball was hoisted high into the opposing penalty box, and as their keeper leapt to catch the ball, Kindon smashed into him, flattening him. It was bizarre how few bookings this generated, and the result was a keeper spent the rest of the game petrified of high balls. In the modern game, many of those challenges would invoke a red card.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Oct 5, 2015 5:41:14 GMT 1
Brian Stanton and Martin Fowler.....non town is Johan Cruyff. Odd choices. Fowler had that one season and was so coveted that Man U bid 100k. I remember meeting him at the players entrance. He was great on the ball as i recall and went to Port Vale, on a free! |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Oct 5, 2015 5:45:40 GMT 1
by the way....was at Old Trafford for a cup replay between Man U and Spurs (1980ish) when Hoddle had to go in nets (one sub which was never a keeper in those days) after Joe Jordan stamped all over the spurs keeper (foriegn name can't remember...think he came from Luton?) and Spurs won after a brilliant chip from Ardilles in extra time. I went to that! Loads of trouble. 1980. |
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Post by philincalifornia on Oct 5, 2015 6:20:53 GMT 1
by the way....was at Old Trafford for a cup replay between Man U and Spurs (1980ish) when Hoddle had to go in nets (one sub which was never a keeper in those days) after Joe Jordan stamped all over the spurs keeper (foriegn name can't remember...think he came from Luton?) and Spurs won after a brilliant chip from Ardilles in extra time. I went to that! Loads of trouble. 1980. Milija Aleksic, started at Port Vale. Jordan broke his jaw, pretty much ended his career, and he died at 61 (yikes, that's my age). I'd never remember that name, except that his brother, who had a few games for Port Vale reserves, played on our local pub team in the East Bay League in N. California. Daft as a fkin brush he was. |
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Post by Manx Terrier on Oct 5, 2015 8:12:17 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 17:37:52 GMT 1
I like my strikers, so:
Town - Stewart, without question
England - Shearer
Non-town - got to be Ronaldo. The Brazilian one, that is.
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Post by gledholt terrier on Oct 5, 2015 18:18:25 GMT 1
Remember being excited about Le Tissier coming to play against Town in the league cup. From memory he scored the winner with a scrappy goalmouth scramble. Hardly the 40 yard belted we'd become used to seeing. Paul Scholes was always great to watch for United - less so for England. Managed to see him live a few times and on every occasion he absolutely controlled it with his range of passing. Cantona was superb. He's pretty good in the adverts where he's pretending to be a farmer too. When you look back at goals Shearer scored it always reminds me that there was more to him than I necessarily remember. However, I'm going for a bit of a cheat for my all time favourite and going for a pairing. Booth and Jepson. Has to be... First promotion I ever saw for Town having experienced relegation on my first ever season. Should've gone to the 2nd leg - he scored 4! |
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Post by Porrohman on Oct 5, 2015 19:48:22 GMT 1
Remember being excited about Le Tissier coming to play against Town in the league cup. From memory he scored the winner with a scrappy goalmouth scramble. Hardly the 40 yard belted we'd become used to seeing. Paul Scholes was always great to watch for United - less so for England. Managed to see him live a few times and on every occasion he absolutely controlled it with his range of passing. Cantona was superb. He's pretty good in the adverts where he's pretending to be a farmer too. When you look back at goals Shearer scored it always reminds me that there was more to him than I necessarily remember. However, I'm going for a bit of a cheat for my all time favourite and going for a pairing. Booth and Jepson. Has to be... First promotion I ever saw for Town having experienced relegation on my first ever season. Should've gone to the 2nd leg - he scored 4! Good night that, apart from the score and getting off the coach 3 hours before work started Sent from my SM-G900F using proboards |
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Post by gledholt terrier on Oct 5, 2015 22:08:39 GMT 1
Should've gone to the 2nd leg - he scored 4! Good night that, apart from the score and getting off the coach 3 hours before work started Sent from my SM-G900F using proboards I got stopped for speeding on the M62 at Heywood. Copper asked me where I'd been and let me off as "you've suffered enough" |
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Post by duffterrier on Oct 7, 2015 20:16:08 GMT 1
Brian Stanton and Martin Fowler.....non town is Johan Cruyff. Odd choices. Fowler had that one season and was so coveted that Man U bid 100k. I remember meeting him at the players entrance. He was great on the ball as i recall and went to Port Vale, on a free! Odd choices!!....Fowler had so much ability it was a joke to see him in old division four....perhaps he found it all too easy and couldn't or wouldn't put the hard work in. Stanton was everything you wanted in a player....scored with head and both feet,worked hard but just seemed to love playing. |
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Oct 8, 2015 1:12:08 GMT 1
Odd choices. Fowler had that one season and was so coveted that Man U bid 100k. I remember meeting him at the players entrance. He was great on the ball as i recall and went to Port Vale, on a free! Odd choices!!....Fowler had so much ability it was a joke to see him in old division four....perhaps he found it all too easy and couldn't or wouldn't put the hard work in. Stanton was everything you wanted in a player....scored with head and both feet,worked hard but just seemed to love playing. Stanton was my favourite too as a young lad. Met him in Bennys in Bury a few times on the lash! |
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Post by captainblack on Oct 8, 2015 6:19:55 GMT 1
Just talking about strikers in general , I wish more would actually take on a defender and try and round them . It seems as though
teams try and want to pass the ball into the net. I remember a televised game featuring QPR and Warnock was the manager at the time. You could hear Warnock above the sound of the crowd balling to Wright-Phillips "Take him on" "Take him on" , great manager.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2015 16:00:30 GMT 1
Les Massie. A mention for Martin Peters Otium, saw him play at Wembley for England schoolboys against West Germany in 1959 aged 15. How I wish I'd saved that programme.  The only name I recall on the team sheet that day. Martin Peters West Ham. An update. Managed to get another programme for that game. I was mistaken, the team sheet mentions Martin Peters Dagenham (not West Ham) But obviously the one and only. Anyway the teams that day were as follows. ENGLAND Goal M. Dixon (Reading) (2) A. Clay (Barnsley (3) M. Niblett (Nottingham (4) R. Smith (Manchester) (5) C. Lawler (Captain) (Liverpool) (6) M. Peters (Dagenham) (7) N. Ashe (Brierley Hill) (8) A. Baker (Brierley Hill) (9) G. Sharples (Wirral) (10)B. Caple (Gosport) (11)R. Fortt (Hornchurch) RESERVES Goal K. Rowley (Plymouth) R. Smithson (Leicester) J. Sleeuwenhoek (S.E.Staffordshire) F.Taylor (Doncaster) GERMANY Goal Peter. Reclik (Spfr. Gladbeck) (2) Ottmar Lusch (Germania Hamm) (3) Jurgen Winskowski (Sv. Porz) (4) Peter Paffen (Sv. Ringsdorf-Mehlem) (5) Klaus Beckfeld (Captain) (Bfb.Bottrop) (6) Klaus Plischke (Union Hamborn) (7) Herbert Gronen (Borussia Brand) (8) Karl Heinz Schmidthofer (Westfalia Herne) (9) Hans Otto Blumenschein (Spfr. Nievenheim) (10)Wolfganmg Overath (Ssv. Siegburg) (11)Karl Heinz Arnold (Fortuna Koln) RESERVES Friedhelm Zielony (Tus Meerbeck) Willi Theis (Turu. Dusseldorf) Gerhard Borgs (Bv. Holsterhausen) Joachim Vollmer (Vfl. Horde) Couple of names stand out immediately (apart from Martin Peters) in Chris Lawler and Wolfgang Overath. Don't know if it will work but found a LINK |
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Post by Sugy , Paignton Devon Terrier on Oct 11, 2015 14:46:31 GMT 1
Remember being excited about Le Tissier coming to play against Town in the league cup. From memory he scored the winner with a scrappy goalmouth scramble. Hardly the 40 yard belted we'd become used to seeing. Paul Scholes was always great to watch for United - less so for England. Managed to see him live a few times and on every occasion he absolutely controlled it with his range of passing. Cantona was superb. He's pretty good in the adverts where he's pretending to be a farmer too. When you look back at goals Shearer scored it always reminds me that there was more to him than I necessarily remember. However, I'm going for a bit of a cheat for my all time favourite and going for a pairing. Booth and Jepson. Has to be... First promotion I ever saw for Town having experienced relegation on my first ever season. Should've gone to the 2nd leg - he scored 4! I Had a long chat with Matt Le Tissier recently when he was the guest speaker at the recent sportsmans dinner down here in Paignton Devon. He remember his days playing against Huddersfield , and also mentioned both legs of what seemed the two legs of the old league cup league. We had Kindon down here a couple of years ago at the Sportsmans dinner and was mentioned as being the best speaker ever . My job down here gives me the the privilege of looking after them on the night.. |
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Post by Sugy , Paignton Devon Terrier on Oct 11, 2015 14:57:46 GMT 1
I find it hard to think of a better performance than Frank Worthington's demolition of West Ham in the 4-2 F A Cup match win in 1972. In that Hammers team were some of the world cup winning squad, and Worthington totally outclassed them.
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Post by hantstownexile on Oct 11, 2015 19:37:22 GMT 1
Frank was class. No doubt about it. My most exciting though was J R at Wycombe away.I took an old inter city boy to watch the midweek spectactcle to just to show him what the Hammers couldn't afford. I was so proud of our lot that night. He too is class with the right service mind. Does anybody remember Billy Legg? Ex Town who got injured very badly early in his career.
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Post by tafftheterrier on Oct 12, 2015 20:20:06 GMT 1
Well for me I grew up playing various standards from being paid to pay for mates beers after the game haha to playing against players walking on the field with a beer All told it was the aggressive tackling and the never give up attitudes for me. Darren Bullock Chris Marsden Andy Morrison These type of players could make just one tackle that got the crowd on their feet which upped the tempo and produced a town spirit I feel we are lacking at the moment. I don't remember Chris Marsden being much of a tackler? |
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Oct 12, 2015 20:21:40 GMT 1
Well for me I grew up playing various standards from being paid to pay for mates beers after the game haha to playing against players walking on the field with a beer All told it was the aggressive tackling and the never give up attitudes for me. Darren Bullock Chris Marsden Andy Morrison These type of players could make just one tackle that got the crowd on their feet which upped the tempo and produced a town spirit I feel we are lacking at the moment. I don't remember Chris Marsden being much of a tackler? Yeah he had a big tackle in his locker |
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Post by Porrohman on Oct 12, 2015 20:29:12 GMT 1
Well for me I grew up playing various standards from being paid to pay for mates beers after the game haha to playing against players walking on the field with a beer All told it was the aggressive tackling and the never give up attitudes for me. Darren Bullock Chris Marsden Andy Morrison These type of players could make just one tackle that got the crowd on their feet which upped the tempo and produced a town spirit I feel we are lacking at the moment. I don't remember Chris Marsden being much of a tackler? He put Psycho Pearce 6' up in the air in a 50/50 at the city ground in the 89 cup tie. He could definitely put his foot in. Sent from my SM-G900F using proboards |
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Oct 12, 2015 20:31:27 GMT 1
Though weirdly when he first arrived at Leeds road we played him on the left wing and he was as soft as shit
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Post by Porrohman on Oct 12, 2015 20:31:46 GMT 1
I don't remember Chris Marsden being much of a tackler? Yeah he had a big tackle in his locker He was forever getting his tackle out in that church that became a nightclub opposite the multi storey car park, it want that big Sent from my SM-G900F using proboards |
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Post by Porrohman on Oct 12, 2015 20:33:17 GMT 1
Though weirdly when he first arrived at Leeds road we played him on the left wing and he was as soft as shit Yep, although I think he still managed to get sent off as a soft as shit winger then that tackle at Forest and it all changed Sent from my SM-G900F using proboards |
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Post by BottomLip on Oct 12, 2015 21:16:27 GMT 1
Non Town player Georgi Kinkladze, unreal ball control and finishing. Growing up as a kid he was one of my faves.
Town player id go for Rocket Ronnie, zero fucks attitude and his one step penalty, passionate as they come
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The only name I recall on the team sheet that day. Martin Peters West Ham. 
