Who was your childhood footballing idol?

[talkshowhost86]

To be honest, Bruce Grobelaar.

Sorry I have my reasons

Was he paying you?

 

[talkshowhost86]

My earliest memories of watching football properly were in 1990/91 when we had Italia 90 and then the Spurs FA Cup win, so Gazza and Lineker were the two obvious ones.

Outside of Spurs I used to love watching Italian football, and the year that AC Milan hammered Barca in the final I remember loving their midfield of Boban, Albertini, Donadoni etc.

 

[nailsy]

Early years - Ian Rush (Liverpool were the only side shown on TV a lot when I was a kid)

Middle Years - Steve Bull or Paul Allen

Now - Tim Sherwood.

 

[DuDe]

Hoddle

 

[Ribble]

Pavel Nedved, loved how he would bustle past opposition players with the ball and hammer it in.

 

[Syn_13]

Pavel Nedved, loved how he would bustle past opposition players with the ball and hammer it in.

What a legend. Some unbelievable strikes with either foot, from any angle. Just seen him play a charity game in Italy in the guy's still in great condition. Hasn't lost his touch either.

 

[michaelden]

Del Piero, George Weah, Vialli, Ravanelli, Van Basten, Patrick Kluivert, Pavel Nedved, Davids,

WC86 - Maradona, Andreas Brehme, Lothar Matthaus, Pierre Littbarski, Klaus Augenthaler,
Gullit

Batistuta & Rui Costa, Paulo Sousa, Sergio Conceicao, Figo, Ronaldo (ST), Redondo!!!!!, Stefan Effenberg

 

[knowlespurs]

Roberts for me

 

[Insomnia]

Roberts for me

Me too, modelled my game around him

 

[garryparkerschest]

Hoddle and then Gazza.

Internationally it was Maradona, Van Basten and Robbie Baggio.

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

Literally every Spurs player was a hero to me when I was growing up.

Before you realise some players are wankers or useless or a waste of space or before you really care about the running of a football club and other factors than just loving your team. I even cued up for hours to meet Colin bloody Calderwood. All of the Spurs players were idols. Those days of ignorant innocence, they were enjoyable. Now I talk to you pricks and i'm all cynical.

 

[Insomnia]

Maldini & Baresi were a bit tidy too

 

[JerryGarcia]

Roberto Baggio, Ronaldo, Gazza and Romario

 

[TaoistMonkey]

I will fight anyone who dislikes him

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Haha. Just watched Ronaldo vs Zidane all star match and Paulinho is playing



4:30

 

[danielneeds]

Paul Gascoigne
Gary Lineker
Diego Maradona

Pretty much this for me. Van Basten too. Also as I'm left footed, had a soft spot for Stuart Pearce and his thunderous freekicks.

 

[YiddoInPoland]

Roberto Baggio, stunning player.

 

[thinktank]

Hoddle, Maradonna, Zico

 

[Gassin's finest]

Roberto Baggio, Ronaldo, Gazza and Romario

Roberto Baggio, stunning player.

Thank goodness someone finally said it! The divine ponytail was fantastic. I also used to model my penalties on Beppe Signori for Lazio... by which I mean the one step stance, not the paying the goalkeeper off to let it in part.

Also used to pretend to be Matt Le Tiss, Teddy, and Hristo Stoichkov. I remember having a bit of a fascination with the Dutch team in the 90s as well... The De Boers, Bergkamp, Overmars, Davids etc etc

 

[Spurs 1961]

It was always Jimmy Greaves for me. There is nothing in the game more beautiful than endlessly scoring goals