Stuart Pearce man, what a legend. I went to watch a Newcastle reserve match in the late 90s and it was snowing. A young Louis Saha was wearing every item of clothing he could fit and barely moved all game; Pearce walked out in short sleeves and proceeded to dominate everyone on the pitch.
QPR fan. Met him at a work event where he was a fairly poor guest speaker and was one of the few who wanted to chat after. The next year oddly we had the Northern Ireland manager, O’Neill, because one of the directors is Norn Irish and he was telling stories about his incredibly mediocre playing career to a crowd of mostly millennial women. I enjoyed it.
Guy was so unlucky with injuries. Until recently I'd have had him as our second best player I've seen play for us (behind Shearer) as he wasn't a defender he was an entire defence - he spent the entire game marshaling players like Titus Bramble around and when we finished 3rd under Bobby the stats were along the lines of us keeping clean sheets in 70-80% of the matches he played and in none of the matches he didn't play. Didn't play enough to justify this though, I'd put Ledley King in the same boat.
He and Bowyer beat up that Asian kid for a laugh. Simpler premier league times before the wokes took over.
Good point and in no way to defend Woodgate here but Bowyer was a proper wrong un. Was glad when we got rid of him at Newcastle and replaced him with... Joey Barton. OK full backs. Erm. Carragher? Feels like there's got to be some obvious ones.
Surely as a Liverpool fan you've got a plethora of good players who never won the title to call upon. At Newcastle we mostly had terrible players who never won the title. Fernando Torres and Suarez up top. We had Emiliano Riviere, who I'm not convinced was actually a footballer.
The QPR version of Chris Samba really had to be seen to be believed. Bought for £12.5m by Redknapp from that dodgy Russian club that appeared all of a sudden and shipped back for the same fee six months later. No back handers involved I’m certain. Still preferable to when Redknapp convinced shagger Rio to come out of retirement to play a year for us. Despise that ****. Oooh Ballon D’Or Ole’s at the wheel. Cheating behind his dying wife’s back lanky ****.
To weigh in for the old Chelsea teams.... GK - De Geoy CB - Desailly CM - Poyet FW - Zola ST - Hasselbaink I would say Le Saux, but he won the PL with Blackburn Hasselbaink was a beast, for Leeds and Chelsea, he often gets overlooked when talking about great strikers.
Hey Poyet was great for us, scored some important goals, even if he did eventually defect to the North London scummers!
