Yep. Its quite sad some 70 year old bloke is deliberately trying to be annoying on a City forum for attention.
Interesting. I though Waggy was the fastest player over 3 yards I ever saw...he scored a shed-load as a result.
I would say, technically, he was quick -- ridiculously quick -- rather than fast. Which is probably the same as you're saying. For me, his ability to completely and instantly control a ball pinged in from any direction, at any speed, was his key asset. Like many of us on here, I've had countless arguments with people who never had the privilege of seeing him in his heyday. I tell 'em he's the best player I ever saw, and they just don't believe it.
Same thing. His speed of thought, anticipation & mobility in tight situations was like lightening. Puskas was similar. When asked once why he didn't score many with his head, he said he didn't need to as Houghton & Chilton et al knew that if they put the ball in space on the ground a couple of yards away from a defender, he'd always get to it first.
I see a lot of similarities in Messi, and Messi would cost a few bob more than £20m. I think it was Clough (correct me if I'm wrong) who wanted Waggy and Chillo, but City turned the offer down; can't remember how much the offer was.
Cloughie did put in an offer for both. At the time I heard Waggy wanted to be a big fish in a small pond (he was having a ball), so told Britton he'd rather not move. It's a big shame in some ways, I believe both he & Chilton may well have become England players had they moved.
That makes sense. Waggy always looked like he was enjoying himself and, I believe, still lives in the same area -- enjoying free pints whenever he is recognized -- he actually hasn't changed much in appearance, and still has a similar gut. Also, his wishing to stay may well have been related to the fact that City at that time always looked absolute certainties for promotion ... plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. As for your last sentence ... ab-so-frickin-lutely YES. It would have made the aforesaid discussions with the young and unknowing so much more satisfying. Oh well.
When I insisted on calling our cat Wagstaff, my wife asked "Why would you want to name an animal after a Shakespearean character ?". She didn't quiz me at all when we named our dog Chilton. Funny that.
Wee John McSeveny - poor bugger got a fair bit of stick from the crowd at times. Should have called my budgies Nobby & Charlie - after Dougie Clarke and Charlie Crickmore. Where the hell as all that time gone to ?
Very, very scary, innit? That was certainly a team of characters! Ray Henderson featured a lot, also Simmo, Jarvis, Swanny, Kekkers, Dirty Jock, Milner, and others that I may remember when I'm asleep! Those were the days, my friend, I thought they'd never end ... Then I grew up ... or not.
Davide Santon has left Inter's pre-season training camp to fly for talks with Sunderland. Would be an interesting move - Inter, to Newcastle, to Inter, to Sunderland.
