Thread on Scouser’s board set me thinking about who was the hardest player ever to play for us. In my time I can remember players like John MacNamee and Mick Harford and Duncan Ferguson who must be in anybody’s top 5 of any team that they played for. But for me the winner would likely be Billy Whitehurst who really should have been a prize fighter. http://www.thedaisycutter.co.uk/2012/01/the-harder-they-come-big-billy-whitehurst/ Remember also a story told by Micky Horswill about BW going to the docks in Grimsby where he’d go to pubs and fight the dockers with the loser paying for the others drinks for the night. Some might call him a “character” but that would only be in the 1970’s and 1980’s version of the Oxford Dictionary. Not sure if he’d play many games today but, boy if he did, at least the Neymars of this World would be rolling around for real. Any other suggestions as to who was the hardest?
I remember Brian Kilcline being a bit of a brick ****house, wouldn't pick a fight with him. Also in recent times big Andy Carroll deserves a mention for breaking Saylor's jaw.
Forgot about Psycho, but to be fair we never experienced the full psycho that he wss at Forest. I always used to love Titus Bramble going into tackles too, as **** as he was, he had a style a bit like Juggernaut from X-Men.
Shearer deserves at least a mention too....particularly that match in 05 where we beat Arsenal 1-0 at SJP, and big Al spent the entire match kicking the **** out of the entire Arsenal team and only got one yellow card right at the end.
Going further back in time, possibly to when Jim was a boy, my Old Man used to say the likes of Scoular and Brennan were pretty special in the “hard” category.
****ing loved Killer Kilcline. Watched him play for Halifax when I was a kid (97?). He celebrated a goal he scored by running in zigzags from one end of the pitch to the other and looking like he would steam-train anyone who got in his way. Nobody did, even his teammates formed an orderly queue behind him.
Sure I read a story from Neil Ruddock that Paul Kitson was hard and battered Julian Dicks at West Ham
Tiote(rip) would have come into this category. David batty anyone? Lee bowyer was a bit of a crazy lad aswell. Don’t think he was hard though.
Remember a game against Leicester when we were getting run ragged by Julian Joachim - Pearce came on after about 60mins when Leicester had a throw in - ball went to Joachim and Pearce came through him from behind and launched Joachim and the ball into the old seats in front of the boxes in the East Stand. Don't think Joachim touched the ball again after that....
Killer was a monster of a bloke but Dunc was true Psychopath from Stirling the gateway to the highland. You don’t **** with blokes from up that neck.
