| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About 13:57 - Aug 31 with 7152 views | BrianMcCarthy |
No. 1 Jean Tigana.
I was convinced that he was the best midfielder in the World. Platini? Pff! Brady? Well, ok...Don Masson...maybe...
I used to play 11 v 11 on the carpet with Panini football stickers, lego goals and a marble.
Tigana was better than any of them. Ran the show. Always on the winning team, too. A fierce man for the last-minute winner.
In real life? Haven't a clue. If he ever saw him on the telly, I'd be surprised. Couldn't even tell you what clubs he played for. But, seriously, look at that wistful little face and tell me there was anyone better.
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 08:27 - Sep 1 with 1692 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 00:25 - Sep 1 by QCR |
Lev Yashin - just the romance of the name, the danger of the CCCP, and I was already infatuated with Yuri Gagarin. Of a different colour, Lee Trundle. Google tells me he's still playing! |
Lee Trundle, what a shout! |  | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 08:39 - Sep 1 with 1678 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Nery Pumpido
Apparently his nephew is also a footballer with the wonderful name of Facundo Pumpido (consul of Rome thrice, Decimizer of Dacia) [Post edited 1 Sep 2023 8:50]
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 08:45 - Sep 1 with 1670 views | MrSheen |
Enzo Francescoli. I convinced myself he was the best player in the world (the name helped), but I doubt I saw more than five minutes of him actually playing. |  | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 08:49 - Sep 1 with 1667 views | Toast_R |
Claudio Cannigia - His speed was incredible and he looked like a girl. That flicked header against Italy in 1990 was one of the best headers I can remember and he also knocked out Brazil in the last 16. A lot of people reckon England were a penalty shoot-out from winning the World Cup in 1990 but I think that Argentina team were dogged enough despite Maradona being spent and the team not quite firing. They would have raised their game against England for sure. Didn't know much about him until he rocked up in Scotland in the twighlight of his career and still made a huge impact. |  | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 08:55 - Sep 1 with 1651 views | numptydumpty |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 08:49 - Sep 1 by Toast_R |
Claudio Cannigia - His speed was incredible and he looked like a girl. That flicked header against Italy in 1990 was one of the best headers I can remember and he also knocked out Brazil in the last 16. A lot of people reckon England were a penalty shoot-out from winning the World Cup in 1990 but I think that Argentina team were dogged enough despite Maradona being spent and the team not quite firing. They would have raised their game against England for sure. Didn't know much about him until he rocked up in Scotland in the twighlight of his career and still made a huge impact. |
Yes Canniggia
Very tricky winger with sidesteps galore
Although when Argentina played Cameroon, that made no odds.
Remember one life threatening tackle from a Cameroon player, followed by a complete decapitation of an assault further on in his mazy run by the next Cameroonian assassin !!! [Post edited 1 Sep 2023 8:57]
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 10:32 - Sep 1 with 1571 views | hook_hoops |
Andoni Goikoetxea, otherwise fondly remembered as the Butcher of Bilbao. His very name evokes memories of the dirtiest player who ever set foot on a football pitch. He had a particular hatred for Barcelona and all who sailed in her. |  | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 10:34 - Sep 1 with 1557 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 10:32 - Sep 1 by hook_hoops |
Andoni Goikoetxea, otherwise fondly remembered as the Butcher of Bilbao. His very name evokes memories of the dirtiest player who ever set foot on a football pitch. He had a particular hatred for Barcelona and all who sailed in her. |
Great call!
Broke Maradonna's ankle and had the boot he broke it with framed on his mantlepiece!!! | |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:21 - Sep 1 with 1462 views | johnhoop |
What about the one member of that incredible French midfield of the early to mid nineteen eighties who nobody’s mentioned yet, Bernard Genghini?
A brilliant footballer who ghosted past players like Eze but could be in for his name alone; The Jean Genie. | | | |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:27 - Sep 1 with 1446 views | DannyPaddox |
Spain v Algeria, 1986. Goikoetxea also ended ex-QPR player Rachid Harkouk’s career via a knee-injury at the World Cup in Mexico. The Butcher of Bilbao vs Rash The Smash. There could be only one winner (or loser) Harkouk, generously, blames it on the long Mexican grass. I think he’s referring to the pitch but I could be wrong.
Rayan Kolli reminds me of Rash. Looks and playing style. Hope his notoriety is in a blue and white hooped shirt on the pitch and not in a suit and tie in the crown courts. |  | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:43 - Sep 1 with 1398 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:27 - Sep 1 by DannyPaddox |
Spain v Algeria, 1986. Goikoetxea also ended ex-QPR player Rachid Harkouk’s career via a knee-injury at the World Cup in Mexico. The Butcher of Bilbao vs Rash The Smash. There could be only one winner (or loser) Harkouk, generously, blames it on the long Mexican grass. I think he’s referring to the pitch but I could be wrong.
Rayan Kolli reminds me of Rash. Looks and playing style. Hope his notoriety is in a blue and white hooped shirt on the pitch and not in a suit and tie in the crown courts. |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:46 - Sep 1 with 1389 views | MrSheen |
One player I was smitten with on first sight was Alexandr Chivadze, who was the star of the Dynamo Tblisi team that destroyed West Ham at Upton Park about 1980. He looked like an accountant but was a superb libero, either gliding forward with the ball or smashing first-time balls 60 yards to his wingers in the style of Krol and Lerby. The only other time I saw him was in a lacklustre Soviet team who were ordered to throw a game against Poland in the 1982 World Cup. What a waste.
What a collector's item of a tournament! Celtic and Roma getting binned in the first round, Newport County getting to the quarters, David "Psycho" Cross the top scorer. Tblisi played their home games in front of 80,000, 50,000, 90,000 and 80,000 fans, against Kastoria (?), Waterford (!), West Ham and Feyenoord. Carl Zeiss Jena knocked out Roma, Valencia and Benfica on the way to the final, which was played in front of fewer than 5,000 people in Dusseldorf. I loved the Cup-Winners Cup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381_European_Cup_Winners%27_Cup [Post edited 1 Sep 2023 12:02]
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:53 - Sep 1 with 1366 views | Lanhoop |
Gunter Netzer. If ever a man should have worn the Rangers number 10 shirt it was him. How could a West German be that cool? And seemingly not give a sh1t about it. | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:02 - Sep 1 with 1343 views | Jules4367 |
For the R's there are a couple who were 'there' (I won't say "loved"- but greatly appreciated) and instrumental but often get overlooked.
Of course there was Bowles, Thomas, Francis but very rarely mentioned are the two different, but equally important, workhorses that were Mick Leach and Tony Hazell and I am sad to say I knew very little about them - they were just there! | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:42 - Sep 1 with 1273 views | paulparker |
Socrates from Brazil , no clue who he played for or what he achieved I just always remember him at the World Cup with Brazil and that he scored a couple of world class goals |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:43 - Sep 1 with 1278 views | DannyPaddox |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 11:46 - Sep 1 by MrSheen |
One player I was smitten with on first sight was Alexandr Chivadze, who was the star of the Dynamo Tblisi team that destroyed West Ham at Upton Park about 1980. He looked like an accountant but was a superb libero, either gliding forward with the ball or smashing first-time balls 60 yards to his wingers in the style of Krol and Lerby. The only other time I saw him was in a lacklustre Soviet team who were ordered to throw a game against Poland in the 1982 World Cup. What a waste.
What a collector's item of a tournament! Celtic and Roma getting binned in the first round, Newport County getting to the quarters, David "Psycho" Cross the top scorer. Tblisi played their home games in front of 80,000, 50,000, 90,000 and 80,000 fans, against Kastoria (?), Waterford (!), West Ham and Feyenoord. Carl Zeiss Jena knocked out Roma, Valencia and Benfica on the way to the final, which was played in front of fewer than 5,000 people in Dusseldorf. I loved the Cup-Winners Cup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381_European_Cup_Winners%27_Cup [Post edited 1 Sep 2023 12:02]
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And the star of Newport County’s romp through Europe …
The legendary Karl Elsey | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:57 - Sep 1 with 1253 views | MrSheen |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:43 - Sep 1 by DannyPaddox |
And the star of Newport County’s romp through Europe …
The legendary Karl Elsey |
I thought it might be Rachid Harkouk. | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 13:00 - Sep 1 with 1237 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:43 - Sep 1 by DannyPaddox |
And the star of Newport County’s romp through Europe …
The legendary Karl Elsey |
I thought that might've been one of your photoshop efforts, DP.
I don't remember this lad at all! | |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 13:15 - Sep 1 with 1207 views | terryb |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 12:43 - Sep 1 by DannyPaddox |
And the star of Newport County’s romp through Europe …
The legendary Karl Elsey |
NO! There will be a picture of Brian Wililams next!
I had no idea that Karl existed as a footballer until Docherty made us suffer from watching his "graceful" appearances for Rangers! | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 13:23 - Sep 1 with 1188 views | DannyPaddox |
Harkouk was more a permed Pete Townsend. Elsey a Rory Gallagher. | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 14:39 - Sep 1 with 1112 views | QPRSteve |
Jan Ceulemans - 1970's Belgian striker. Big bastàrd I wanted at Rangers.
Willi Kreuz - Austrian striker whose name I took a liking to.
Włodzimierz Lubański - Polish and played for Górnik Zabrze. Knew next to nothing about him until one day he tore Glasgow Rangers a new ârsehole. How I'd love to seem him do that now. | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 14:40 - Sep 1 with 1113 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 13:23 - Sep 1 by DannyPaddox |
Harkouk was more a permed Pete Townsend. Elsey a Rory Gallagher. |
Harkouk as Townsend is a great shout.
Gallagher was far, far cooler than our man Elsey.
I'm a tad piqued, I'll have you know. | |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 14:47 - Sep 1 with 1084 views | DannyPaddox |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 14:40 - Sep 1 by BrianMcCarthy |
Harkouk as Townsend is a great shout.
Gallagher was far, far cooler than our man Elsey.
I'm a tad piqued, I'll have you know. |
Tad Piqued … now there’s a player I know little about. | | | |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 15:08 - Sep 1 with 1036 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 14:47 - Sep 1 by DannyPaddox |
Tad Piqued … now there’s a player I know little about. |
Left-winger, no pace, balding at 22, with Terry Mancini/George Constanza hair horseshoe. | |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 15:12 - Sep 1 with 1016 views | kensalriser |
| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 15:08 - Sep 1 by BrianMcCarthy |
Left-winger, no pace, balding at 22, with Terry Mancini/George Constanza hair horseshoe. |
And Luxembourg international, let's not forget. |  |
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| Players You Loved But Knew Nothing About on 15:38 - Sep 1 with 962 views | DannyPaddox |
Failed trialist for Stoke City. 44 appearances for MSL also-rans Delaware Dalmatians. Unfortunate incident with club mascot. | | | |
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