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The Allen '87 season is probably the most impressive, this was before I was old enough to watch football but my granddad had every match of the day highligh or live match taped on an old beta max player (long after beta max were discontinued) and I used to watch the highlights whenever I stayed there.
I remember a 5-0 win against West Ham that he got a hattrick.
What I will say is he had a lot of talent around him, Hoddle, Waddle etc and as such you could argue that any half decent striker would have scored alot of goals with such service (still he was very clinical)
What I will say though is the Gazza 91 season was more important and ended in a FA cup win (it seemed we would go out of business without the win and money from Lazio) Plus Gazza (Lineker aside) had very few quality players around him so I will say he is the more impressive.
I remember him dragging us to the final, the amazing freekick against Arsenal, a great winner against Pompey on a terrible picth. If only he had had his crowning moment in the final for us.
Can you imagion if he had not injuried himself but gone on to score the winner in normal time with a goal like he scored against Scotland? That would have been a perfect season.
Unfortunatley to my mind he never came back from his injury, his talent was such that even a reduced talent he was still one of the best but before that injury he was the best in the world in my opinion and would have only got better (at the very least that injury stunted his progression, who knows how could he could have become otherwise)
I remember a 5-0 win against West Ham that he got a hattrick.
What I will say is he had a lot of talent around him, Hoddle, Waddle etc and as such you could argue that any half decent striker would have scored alot of goals with such service (still he was very clinical)
What I will say though is the Gazza 91 season was more important and ended in a FA cup win (it seemed we would go out of business without the win and money from Lazio) Plus Gazza (Lineker aside) had very few quality players around him so I will say he is the more impressive.
I remember him dragging us to the final, the amazing freekick against Arsenal, a great winner against Pompey on a terrible picth. If only he had had his crowning moment in the final for us.
Can you imagion if he had not injuried himself but gone on to score the winner in normal time with a goal like he scored against Scotland? That would have been a perfect season.
Unfortunatley to my mind he never came back from his injury, his talent was such that even a reduced talent he was still one of the best but before that injury he was the best in the world in my opinion and would have only got better (at the very least that injury stunted his progression, who knows how could he could have become otherwise)