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Best 1-11 you've seen for your team

Doon frae Troon said:
Never saw him play but sat in his Taxi a few times!
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Fair enough, you, like myself, obviously agree with the sentiment that we should only name those we have seen. Mind you it is worrying when I look at some of the names included within my selection of Brummie Bashers.
Saw them all although very little of Jeff Hall before he sadly died from polio but he was my first footballing hero as at nine years old I was playing full back for my junior school with a bunch of 11 year olds,
 
My hero was Robin Friday. Perhaps not the best role model, but solid entertainment. Cardiff fans love him as well and he only played about 20 games for them. He tore Bobby Moore apart when Bobby was playing for Fulham, and get sent off for punching Mark Lawrenson and leaving a present in his kit bag.:eek:

I saw him score that goal against Tranmere. Clive Thomas the referee said it was the best goal he had ever seen. He kissed a policeman after scoring once, which was slightly ironic bearing in mind his many brushes with the law. RIP the greatest footballer you never saw play.
 
richart said:
My hero was Robin Friday. Perhaps not the best role model, but solid entertainment. Cardiff fans love him as well and he only played about 20 games for them. He tore Bobby Moore apart when Bobby was playing for Fulham, and get sent off for punching Mark Lawrenson and leaving a present in his kit bag.:eek:

I saw him score that goal against Tranmere. Clive Thomas the referee said it was the best goal he had ever seen. He kissed a policeman after scoring once, which was slightly ironic bearing in mind his many brushes with the law. RIP the greatest footballer you never saw play.
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I moved on to the "bad boys" as I got older,

Bertie Auld was a real favourite and only yesterday myself and another old-timer were reminiscing over the time he decked both Johnnie Haynes and Maurice Cook before falling to the ground clutching his leg in the hope of convincing the ref to not send him off.
It didn't work !
But my word he could play more than just a bit.
 
MetalMickie said:
I moved on to the "bad boys" as I got older,

Bertie Auld was a real favourite and only yesterday myself and another old-timer were reminiscing over the time he decked both Johnnie Haynes and Maurice Cook before falling to the ground clutching his leg in the hope of convincing the ref to not send him off.
It didn't work !
But my word he could play more than just a bit.
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If some of the old hard men played now, they wouldn't make half time in any games.;) I remember seeing a modern day referee watch the Chelsea Leeds FA Cup final from 1970, and he reckoned only one player shouldn't have been sent off. One of the keepers from memory.:eek:
 
richart said:
If some of the old hard men played now, they wouldn't make half time in any games.;) I remember seeing a modern day referee watch the Chelsea Leeds FA Cup final from 1970, and he reckoned only one player shouldn't have been sent off. One of the keepers from memory.:eek:
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Yes I remember seeing that. The ref was David Elleray and I believe he said the game would have been abandoned early in the second half as each team had to have at least seven players on the pitch for the game to continue.
Re: the Leeds team of that era a good friend of mine who played against them on a number of occasions reckoned the hardest and nastiest member was not Hunter, Charlton or Bremner but Johnnie Giles.
 
MetalMickie said:
Yes I remember seeing that. The ref was David Elleray and I believe he said the game would have been abandoned early in the second half as each team had to have at least seven players on the pitch for the game to continue.
Re: the Leeds team of that era a good friend of mine who played against them on a number of occasions reckoned the hardest and nastiest member was not Hunter, Charlton or Bremner but Johnnie Giles.
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Yes, Johnnie Giles was a nasty little .... At least with 'bite your legs' he crippled you face to face.;)
 
MetalMickie said:
Yes I remember seeing that. The ref was David Elleray and I believe he said the game would have been abandoned early in the second half as each team had to have at least seven players on the pitch for the game to continue.
Re: the Leeds team of that era a good friend of mine who played against them on a number of occasions reckoned the hardest and nastiest member was not Hunter, Charlton or Bremner but Johnnie Giles.
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I watched that team play Hibs in the Cup Winners Cup and the hardest man on the pitch to everyone's amazement was Peter Cormack.
 
richart said:
My hero was Robin Friday. Perhaps not the best role model, but solid entertainment. Cardiff fans love him as well and he only played about 20 games for them. He tore Bobby Moore apart when Bobby was playing for Fulham, and get sent off for punching Mark Lawrenson and leaving a present in his kit bag.:eek:

I saw him score that goal against Tranmere. Clive Thomas the referee said it was the best goal he had ever seen. He kissed a policeman after scoring once, which was slightly ironic bearing in mind his many brushes with the law. RIP the greatest footballer you never saw play.
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One of the best football books I've read was The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story. What a life, albeit tragically short, he enjoyed. Highly recommend it.
 
OK how about this team?

The Cat Carter
Ralph Derry
Duncan McKay
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5
Jumbo Trudgeon
Duncan Wallace
Blackie Gray
Roy Race
Gerry Holloway
Vernon Elliot

Can't remember the two defenders - well it has been over 30 years ....
 
Spot on - the editor was once asked "who have Melchester drawn in the cup?" - "they are drawn every week" was his droll reply.
 
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