I saw John Charles play at (would you believe) Boothferry Park. On that day he left my hero, Viggo Jensen, for dead. John had it all. Pace, head, either foot and enormous presence. When Juventus celebrated their Centenary in the late 90's John Charles was voted as best foreign player ever to play for them by the fans. When Leeds approached him at his home in Wales his Mother, God bless her, said, "He can't go, he hasn't got a passport"! Legend.
Typical of Leeds fans that they worship the likes of Revie, Bremner and Batty when they had such a great player as Charles.
My dad always recalled seeing the best two players he had ever seen on the pitch at the same time when City played Leeds with Carter and Charles playing. No one else could play equally well at centre half or centre forward.
Which explains why in their history Napoli had won nothing before the arrival of Maradona and have won nothing since his departure.
The award for the most amazing post of the year winner for mentioning Alf Wood and John Charles in the same breath. Presumably you can't say whether Pele was better than Andy Flounders as you didn't see Pele play.
That's not what I'm talking about at all. Each player had a career (if you like) at centre half and later switched to striker. You're let off as with your young age Alf Wood will be just someone you've heard of who once played for City.
Alf Wood was a crap player for us, I will never forget that night at Donny in the league cup when he missed two sitters and laughed, ****
Ian McKechnie took a penalty the same match and apologised to Alex Stepney before taking it - the crossbar was still rattling a week later from where he'd hit it.
