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Hardest (But Fairest) Player Ever Seen....
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longtimespur
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Can only be the magnificent Dave Mackay.
Truly immense player and a gentleman to boot
Truly immense player and a gentleman to boot
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Ok Mark, go ahead and diminish my fantastic memorable Davids moment. Thank bro.
You sir, are very welcome.
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Glenn Hoddle. Disco!
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Scott Parker a perfect answer.
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Yes, agreed.
However, Dave Mackay was different. He was more than a legend. Legends looked up to him. Sir Alex Ferguson called him "the bravest man in the world".
I've never seen any player with such an absolute determination to win. He MADE his teams win.
I've argued in another thread that Messi is the best player I've ever seen and probably the best of all time. Seriously, if I were able to pick an all-time team to play in a competitive match Messi would be the second on the team sheet. Dave Mackay would of course be the first. No hesitation.
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I'd love to have seen Dave Mackay play, he was way before my time but, the likes of my Dad & many on here who were lucky enough to have been around to see him play are so full of awe & admiration for the guy that he must of been a truly amazing player & sadly that's a player that I was born far too late to see.
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Terry Hurlock - used to watch Reading with my old man a few times and Hurlock scared the shit out of me and he was on our side.
A lot of the players namedropped in this thread were either active before I was born in 1990. Seems like quite the characters.
A name I'll drop is Olof Mellberg. The former Swedish national team and Aston Villa CB personifies this topic to me. Big bruiser of a player who commanded his defensive line like a warlord, but who was one of the biggest gents off the pitch.
He's now taking to commanding entire teams and are setting up a nice little coaching career for himself, leading a team to seemingly tear a big hole through the Swedish second tier on the way to the top tier.
Loved Olof as a kid. Reason I wanted to play as CB as a kid
A name I'll drop is Olof Mellberg. The former Swedish national team and Aston Villa CB personifies this topic to me. Big bruiser of a player who commanded his defensive line like a warlord, but who was one of the biggest gents off the pitch.
He's now taking to commanding entire teams and are setting up a nice little coaching career for himself, leading a team to seemingly tear a big hole through the Swedish second tier on the way to the top tier.
Loved Olof as a kid. Reason I wanted to play as CB as a kid
jamesinashby
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An interesting point for you youngsters. When we oldies started watching, there were no laws to protect the players. It really was a man's game 67 years ago when I first started following Spurs. The likes of Messi and Ronaldo would never have scored at will in those days. Every team had it's own 'stopper' centre half and, boy, if stopping you meant one or both of you being carried off on a stretcher, so what. The tackles still came in. Goalies especially took a real battering as it was fair game to smack them into the back of the net with the ball. Broken noses for centre forwards was an occupational hazard.
Injuries in the modern game are different and, oddly enough, there seem to be more players being injured playing this new way of playing the game.
You may not see the likes again, but what you do have is faster better football (discounting,of course, the boring 'park two buses' type of defending which regularly occurs).
COYS
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Saw him at Brentford a few times. Wouldn't class him as "fair" though, just another big unit who liked to put himself about. There were plenty about back in the day. Never saw Billy Whitehurst, who was meant to be the meanest gunslinger in town that even the Wimbledon Crazy Gang steered well clear of.
We had all that folklore back in the day; it was part of the game! A different time when the game and player profiles were different. Think a Vincent Company or Younis Kaboul would have eaten them for breakfast!
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Daniel Passerella. Hardest defender I've ever seen.
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One little hard French bastard was Manuel Amoros. I was in Paris in '84 with my gf at the time. Just happened to be at the same time as the Euros. Got tickets to see France Denmark in the group game, they also met in the final. Platini, Tigana, Giresse etc. Great team, but their little right back, Manuel Amoros, owned the show.
Cut off everything defensively, and had attacking pace and ball skills, which were causing Denmark all kinds of problems in defence. Fella was getting hacked, pulled backed etc., all game, and it was clear he was really about to lose his shit...which he did! Roll the video...
Cut off everything defensively, and had attacking pace and ball skills, which were causing Denmark all kinds of problems in defence. Fella was getting hacked, pulled backed etc., all game, and it was clear he was really about to lose his shit...which he did! Roll the video...
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Stuart Pearce was a player I had huge respect for. He was tough, loyal and fair. And he tried to run off a broken leg.
Terry Butcher must get a mention for being tough as well after that performance for England. I never really saw him play many club games, but who can forget those images of him drenched in blood.
I can't think of too many Tottenham players who fit the bill. I'd say our current lot are as tough and fair a group as I've ever seen at the club. If I had to choose one of them I'd pick Dier. He's usually pretty clean, but he's not afraid to go wading in to help out his team mates if needed.
Terry Butcher must get a mention for being tough as well after that performance for England. I never really saw him play many club games, but who can forget those images of him drenched in blood.
I can't think of too many Tottenham players who fit the bill. I'd say our current lot are as tough and fair a group as I've ever seen at the club. If I had to choose one of them I'd pick Dier. He's usually pretty clean, but he's not afraid to go wading in to help out his team mates if needed.
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